In Know Hope, director Omer Shamir shapes a layered cinematic dialogue with an artist whose long-standing practice unfolds against the escalating fracture of life in Israel-Palestine. The film observes his deceptively simple public gestures, such as a painted line on a wall overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, reading “THE STORIES WE TELL” on one side and “THE STORIES THEY TELL” on the other, revealing how these quiet yet politically charged acts reclaim contested spaces as arenas of shared reflection and civil resistance.
Moving fluidly between urban walls, open hillsides, and intimate close-ups, the film reveals how chronic illness renders the artist’s physical fragility inseparable from the collective wounds that permeate the landscape.
In a gesture of cinematic solidarity, Shamir’s visual language aligns with the artist’s own ethic of presence and care, shaping a work that stands as a testament to empathetic resistance and an insistence on human connection in times of rupture. Winner of the Best Film Award at Docaviv.
Text: Naomi Levari
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