One Day After Peace

Name: One Day After Peace
Director: Erez Laufer,Miri Laufer
Released: 2012

Erez Laufer Miri Laufer 2012

Can the means used to resolve the conflict in South Africa be applied to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? As someone who experienced both conflicts firsthand, Robi Damelin wonders about this. Born in South Africa during the apartheid era, she later lost her son, who was serving with the Israeli Army reserve in the Occupied Territories. At first she attempted to initiate a dialogue with the Palestinian who killed her child. When her overtures were rejected, she embarked on a journey back to South Africa to learn more about the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee’s efforts in overcoming years of enmity. Robi’s thought-provoking journey leads from a place of deep personal pain to a belief that a better future is possible.

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Running Time:

86 / 60 min.

Spoken Languages:

Arabic, English, Hebrew

Subtitles:

English

Directors:

Erez Laufer Miri Laufer

Producers:

Steven Markovitz

Cinematographers:

Erez Laufer

Editors:

Miri Laufer

Production Companies:

Erez Laufer Films

Human Rights

Investigative Journalism

Israeli-Palestinian Co..

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Urban Times London

Peace may be difficult to imagine, but this brave and inspiring film puts the process in a global, historical context that helps us glimpse what might be possible…
Toronto.com

This film is jam-packed with raw emotion and complex geopolitical issues … a powerful and moving testament to a woman's courage and the potential for healing in one of the world's most intractable conflict zones…
The Jewish Week

The great strength of "One Day After Peace" is that neither Robi Damelin nor the filmmakers pretend that those questions have easy or definitive answers. The resulting work is one that nags at the conscience long after the end credits have rolled…
Daily Maverick

Most extraordinary of all, however, is the footage of former Apartheid Law & Order Minister Adriaan Vlok interacting with the families of his victims in South Africa. There's one particular scene where a woman in Soweto unexpectedly recognises Vlok, which will haunt you long after the screening…
What's On! Johannesburg

This powerful and beautifully made film features, among others, APLA military director Letlapa Mphahlele, who ordered the Heidelberg Tavern bombing, Ginn Fourie, the mother of one of the victims and, most powerful of all, an apparently contrite Adriaan Vlok, Apartheid's last Minister of Law and Order…
Haaretz

When did you last cry at a movie? It happened to me two days ago: Three times the tears flowed during one film… Watching Miri and Erez Laufer's documentary "One Day After Peace" on Damelin's journey to the country of her birth, South Africa, is not only emotionally moving; it also reflects sadly on the abyss between Israel and South Africa. Just imagine Ehud Barak kneeling one day in the Jenin refugee camp to wash the feet of a bereaved Palestinian father …

Gideon Levy
DOX Magazine

After seeing One Day After Peace I reached out my hand to the row behind and took hold of the hand of the old woman sitting behind me. I had realised she was the protagonist of the film and I was moved, and wanted to show it. Robi Damelin squeezes my hand before the light comes back on in the theatre, where a packed audience is giving the film a standing ovation. What is special about Damelin is that she has chosen to reconcile with the Palestinians who killed her son, an Israeli soldier.

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Festival Participation

Movies that Matter Festival , The Netherlands
The Vera Audience Award
A Matter of Act Competition ,The Netherlands
Special mention Jury Award
Endouvers Doc Film Festival, Singapore
Winner Best Documentary
Films For Peace- Windcloak-Media Film Festival, Italy
First Prize, Feature Film Category
Kimera International Film Festival, Italy
Jury & Audience Award
Show me Justice Film Festival, Warrensburg MO USA
The George and Leah Wilson Jury Award for Feature Film
The 11th Paris International. Film Festival on Human Rights, France
Grand Prix Jury Etudiant
Docaviv, Israel
Best Research Award
Israel Academy Award
Nominated for Best Documentary
Auroville Film Festival (Auroville India)
Jury Award Best Feature

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