2023 | USA | 73 MIN
From the director of Dancing in Jaffa, MOURNING IN LOD follows the fates of three families that are inextricably intertwined in a vicious cycle of violence in the city of Lod, Israel, where Israelis and Palestinians live side by side.
The outpouring of love, anger and forgiveness that follows offers a glimpse of morning light to offset a collective state of seemingly endless mourning.
"There is a Jewish-Arab shared destiny, but that doesn't alleviate the pain on either side. In 'Mourning in Lod,' Hilla Medalia focuses on three people whose lives were derailed by riots in the mixed city of Lod. She documents with great sensitivity this difficult story, which is far from being over. The film emphasizes that although men are mostly the ones who pay for the violent situation with their lives, women are the ones who are left behind to pick up the pieces.”— Shanti Litman, Haaretz.
