Director/Producer: Roy Cohen

Description:

Israeli filmmaker Roy Cohen revisits the memory of Aseel Aslih, his Palestinian friend and fellow activist, murdered by Israeli police in October 2000 at the age of seventeen. The two had met as teenagers at the Seeds of Peace camp in Maine, where they forged a friendship grounded in curiosity, humor and a shared belief in peace based on justice and equality–ideals that seem impossible today. Blending archival footage, personal reflection and present-day encounters, Cohen composes a letter to his lost friend, seeking moral guidance in the face of escalating violence and injustice. As past and present enter into conversation, the film becomes both an act of remembrance and a wider meditation on grief, accountability and belonging. 

Biography:

Roy Cohen is a filmmaker, writer and activist based in Tel Aviv. A Film Independent and Dok.Incubator fellow, he is the recipient of the Clayton-Goldrich Award. His previous film, Machine of Human Dreams, premiered at CPH:DOX and DOC NYC. Roy writes regularly for 972, an Israeli-Palestinian online publication. He has been published in The Guardian, Freitag and The Montreal Review. He has organized protests in Israel-Palestine against Israeli apartheid and the genocide in Gaza and against Israeli media's enabling of war crimes, among others.

Contact Information:

e: roybcohen@gmail.com 
w: farfrommaine.com