There Is Another Way

Plot

Combatants for Peace, nominated for two Nobel Peace Prizes, is an extraordinary bi-national group of former enemy combatants—Israelis and Palestinians—working together during an ongoing armed conflict. Faced with escalating devastation and violence, the very core of the movement must face great challenges and show that there is another way. The first question they have to face is their own belief…is this possible?

About There Is Another Way

There is Another Way is a 2025 documentary film that follows Combatants for Peace after the October 7 attacks and during the Gaza war. Director Stephen Apkon, who embedded with Combatants for Peace for three years when making his first film Disturbing the Peace (2016), interweaves graphic footage of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict since October 7, 2023, with testimonies from group members, showing how they confront both internal doubts and external hostility in increasingly polarized societies. The film emphasizes that people are born into narratives, Israeli or Palestinian, and that true transformation begins when one recognizes the humanity in the other side. Members interviewed include Palestinians Sulaiman Khatib, who after serving prison time for stabbing Israeli soldiers renounced violence, and Jamil Qassas and Mai Shahin, who shared their personal stories of choosing nonviolent resistance and Israelis Iris Gur, who described the struggle to resist anger and calls for revenge after the events of October 7, 2023, and Elie Avidor who fought in the Yom Kippur War but came to realize that he could not be free if Palestinians were not also free. Acknowledging the asymmetry of occupier and occupied, There Is Another Way argues for collective liberation: freedom and justice for Palestinians, and liberation from fear for Israelis. By situating the story in the aftermath of…

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