In the summer of 2008, thirty Palestinian, Israeli, and Canadian teen-agers gathered in and around Vancouver, British Columbia to participate in an extraordinary dialogue and filmmaking experience. Based on the successful 2006 program, and building on our inaugural program in 2004, the youths lived and learned together for three weeks, discovered their personal strengths and created the following inspiring short films.

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Inspired (10:31) [Documentary]
Palestinian, Israeli and Canadian participants discuss the inspiration they found in each other during the Peace it Together summer program. They reveal what they learned from the experience and how they hope to make a difference when they go back to their own communities.

Heaven Forbid (4:09) [Drama]
Two girls, one Israeli and the other Palestinian meet on a deserted island. They have no memory of their past, but as their friendship blossoms they start to remember how they got there.

Listen to This (2:14) [Animation]
Two musicians living on either side of a wall compete to see whose music can be the loudest. When the noise breaks the wall between them they realize that by playing together they can make something beautiful.

Burdened (7:05) [Drama]
A young boy carries an unusually heavy load: a basket of stones. One by one, people from all walks of life come and take a stone from the basket while revealing their personal burden.

Turning the Lens (9:26) [Documentary]
Participants explore how the mass media has contributed to their personal mis-impressions and stereotypes. They discover the power of engaging with their own experiences to shift paradigms through media.

Checkpoint of Humanity ( 3:48) [Drama]
An Israeli and a Palestinian meet at a checkpoint. Flashbacks reveal the tragic circumstances in which they had met before and which now threaten both of their lives. Something changes for both of them when they are able to see the humanity in each other.

Freedom (2:25) [Animation]
Hand-drawn paintings and meticulously rendered rotoscope images blend to create a poetic meditation on individual freedom and hope.

My Enemy (11:32) [Docu-Drama]
Mohammad and Tom, two teenagers from Palestine and Israel, discuss the difficult issues that come between them. The more they talk, the more their friendship grows.