Grossman

lullaby

• Adi Arbel
• 2004

More than 60 babies were killed during the last Intifada in Israel and in the Palestinian Authority territories.“My daughter was born on the day the Intifada set off, when she turned 6 month an Israeli baby was shot in the head, a month later a Palestinian baby was shot. This for me was quite intolerable” (Director Adi Arbel). 11 Israeli and Palestinian Mothers talk about the essence of motherhood that had taken a fatal blow, and the unbearable lightness of killing of children in the region.Intimate confessions turn into one conversation about motherhood, bereavement, new pregnancies. Hebrew, Arabic, and heart-beats merger into one voice, full of hope of mothers, the hope from which new babies are born.…