There Is Another Way (2025)
- Fri, Mar 28
Director: Stephen Apkon Run Time: 67 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2025
Country: Israel, Gaza, Palestine
Language: English, Arabic, and Hebrew
About the film:
In the midst of darkness, we discover who we truly are. There is Another Way tells the story of a group of visionaries who refuse to surrender to violence and injustice, and in doing so show that another path is possible – for them, for us, and for all humanity. As we are all faced with essential questions about who we are, will we choose collective liberation, where the needs, rights, and safety of all are prioritized – in which our humanity comes first, knowing that no one is free until everyone is free.
Combatants for Peace, nominated for two Nobel Peace Prizes, is an extraordinary bi-national group of former enemy combatants – Israelis and Palestinians – working together during an ongoing armed conflict. Confronted with the devastation and escalating violence of October 7th and the war in Gaza, the very core of the movement faces great challenges in showing that there is another way. The first question they must answer relates to their own beliefs…is this possible?
A follow up to the award-winning documentary Disturbing the Peace (2016), which is about questioning the narrative we are born into, There is Another Way is about choosing our future. It takes courage to walk a path even when you yourself feel overwhelmed and afraid—a path where you don’t know the final answer, only that it will emerge from standing in the grief of what we, as humanity, have experienced and created and find yourself unable to turn away.
About the filmmaker:
Stephen Apkon (Director and Producer) is a filmmaker and social entrepreneur. He is a Producer of I’m Carolyn Parker, directed by Jonathan Demme and Enlistment Days, directed by Ido Haar, as well as the co-producer of the soon to be released Presenting Princess Shaw, also directed by Ido Haar. He is also the Executive Producer of Planetary, released in 2015. He is the Founder and former Executive Director of the Jacob Burns Film Center, a non-profit film and education center located in Pleasantville, NY.
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