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This heart-wrenching film by the psychoanalyst Ofra Bloch is about listening to those whose voices are rarely heard- the Palestinians. Ms. Bloch, an Israeli living in the U.S. for 40 years, begins her journey in Germany where she interviews second and third generation non-Jewish Germans whose family members lived through the Holocaust. She is concerned with the intergenerational transmission of trauma and the process of "othering." This leads her to reflect on her own birth country's treatment of its "other"- Palestinians. It is a moral and psychological reckoning for Bloch . She does not flinch from revealing her conscious and unconscious biases before the making of the film but the film is her confrontation with them. Through multiple interviews with Palestinian activists,, professors, artists and a psychiatrist her own ears open hearing, and ultimately empathizing with,the other. In doing so she provides us a beginning step in resolving this intractable conflict -through genuine dialogue hope is seeded.