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Synopsis

Twenty four hours in the lives of eleven people living in Shderot and Gaza whose fates have been bound together by a day in 2007.
blind, a powerful woman dealing with the loss of her husband. Miriam is finding it difficult to forgive Shalom the postman who has left her to deal with his traumatic memory of a road accident he was involved in. Yuval, Boaz’s younger brother, wants to succeed in the music world as his way out of the Shderot circle of life. Keren, a single mom, is raising her nine year old daughter Aviv and wants to find a partner, a father for Aviv. Hassan is a former Palestinian journalist photographer from Gaza. He was forced to cooperate with the IDF so that he could save Rallia his daughter and treat her for her illness. Nadra is Hassan’s wife, she keeps in close touch with Hassan’s sister, Annan, who is married to Asraf a wanted terrorist from Gaza.

This culturally heterogeneous assortment of characters comes to terms with issues of forgiveness; longing; the fear of loneliness; the power of faith and feelings of powerlessness. This narrative film attempts to portray a reality in which forgiveness is difficult, conflict is pervasive, and the need for communication between people is paramount.
Boaz, an army officer is longing for a wife and family. Miriam, his mother, is half
All my life I’ve lived in Qiriyat Gat, a development town with an “authentic” mix of different ethnic communities and their cultures. When I moved to Sderot to begin studying in Sapir, I easily made contact with the town’s residents and after three years came to know the owner of the falafel stand; the usher at Cinemateque; an officer serving at station 106 where, through him and with the residents of Sderot I made the transition to “Shahar Adom”; the trauma and the daily difficulties , a grieving family; a truck driver who had a terrible accident; a frustrated woman who felt that the films in the Cineateque don’t have anything to do with their lives.

For four years I stewed, working on doing short films. These films addressed the people of Sderot and the things that concerned them. The work on these films brought e to the point at which I felt I could begin writing and producing 18 Kilometers.