1948 – Creation and Catastrophe

With the help of gripping and moving personal memories - from both Palestinians and Israelis - 1948: CREATION & CATASTROPHE shows the shocking events of the most important year in a conflict that keeps the world on tenterhooks.
The film tells the stories of Israelis and Palestinians who personally experienced the events in Haifa, Jaffa, Dayr Yasin, Akko, Jerusalem, Ramla, Lydda .... These shocking and dramatic events reveal the core of what drives the conflict to this day.
For many of its Israeli and Palestinian protagonists, this film was a last opportunity to tell the story of the creation of a state and the expulsion of a people. Without an understanding of the events of 1948, it is not possible to understand what is going on in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today.