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Beyond Belief • 59m

Directed by Nitzan Ophir • Documentary • 2014 • 58 minutes

Two girls meet in the “cloud”. 

Samar, 12, lives in Lod, a mixed city marred by poverty and crime. She has an Arab Israeli mother and a Palestinian father from the Occupied Territories.

Linor, 11, lives in Tlamim, a religious Jewish settlement.

There are only 67 km between Lod and Tlamim, but the girls are separated by a vast national, cultural and ideological abyss. As participants in an education and technology program, their relationship starts from online correspondence. Meeting face-to-face adds an intense component to the two girls’ lives, sweeping them and their families into a profound and complex experience.

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2014, almost friends, arab, barak heymann, co-existence, doc, documentary, expository, family issues, film, first hand films, friendship, heyman brothers films, israel, israel / palestine, jew, jewish, jewish studies, middle east, middle east studies, multicultural studies, nitzan ophir, occupation, occupied territories, online, ovid, palestine, palestinian, politics, relationship, religion, social distance, sociology of the family, teenagers, women, youth issues

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