Colliding Dreams

Colliding Dreams examines the history of perhaps the most controversial and relevant political ideology of our time: Zionism. Using rare archival footage and the voices of Jews and Palestinians living in the Middle East past and present, the filmmakers explore the Zionist dream of Jews for a homeland and the years of conflict that followed the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the 1948 founding of Israel—from the Nakba, the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the Independence War, and beyond. Codirector Oren Rudavsky joins us to introduce the film, which deftly captures the collision of ideas and desires among Jews, and between Jews and Palestinians, up until the present day. (135 mins., DCP)

Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Melton Center for Jewish Studies.