Architecture of Hope - For The Ruins of The Present

On October 7th, the reality of war comes crashing down on a group of students from Hamburg, Shaar Ha Negev, and Rahat. Together, they had planned a joint theater project about tolerance and encountering in the city of Cordoba where Jews, Muslims, and Christians once enjoyed a golden era of coexistence.

But instead of bringing this idea into the present, everything comes to a halt on the day of their departure. While the Israeli students from Jewish and Arab families have to remain in bomb shelters as the Hamas infiltrates their kibbutz, the German group chooses to express their sense of powerlessness and speechlessness through a visual poem – a quiet symbol of hope in the face of despair, sending a sign of hope for the ruins of the present.

Source: 58. Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2024