Column: Looking for the human cost of the Israel-Hamas war, through filmmakers’ lenses

Watched in tandem, the short films “The Boy” and “The Present” predate the current Israeli-Hamas carnage. Yet they’re full of portents.

I watched a brilliant and heartbreaking short film the other day, posted online by the New Yorker magazine as part of its story of filmmaker Yahav Winner, killed Oct. 7 in the Hamas extremists’ massacre of Israeli citizens.

7 Hamas massacre, Nabulsi’s first feature, “The Teacher,” a drama about a Palestinian educator’s crisis of political conscience, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. “The Boy” director Winner never got that far. The Times of Israel’s obituary noted that Winner’s debut feature project went unfinished at the time of his death at the hands of Hamas extremists.

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