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How will change come to the painful stalemate in Israel/Palestine? Khaled Mahameed, a Palestinian activist, recently opened the first Holocaust museum in the Arab world (in Nazareth, an Arab town in northern Israel).

Armed with large photos of the Holocaust, Mahameed also fearlessly lectures in refugee camps and villages in the West Bank, confronting Arab denial. But he takes on the Other Side too: dodging tear gas and rubber bullets, he also brings the photos and faces off with Israeli soldiers guarding the Separation Wall, asking: “How can you who have consciousness full of the six million – your grandfathers – not let these people today cultivate their olives?” With an almost mystical obsession with these grainy photos, Mahameed challenges all sides with Gandhi’s satyagraha: “truth power.”

We follow Mahameed as he tests his ideas in the volatile world of the Middle East. The cinematic language is sometimes verite, sometimes poetic – and gives the viewer an unforgettable ground level view of this courageous “intellectual in action,” and the many Palestinians and Jews who are influenced by his vision.

Read Director Harvey Stein’s post about the film here.