# @cinemadetroit on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPPNoyXD2aD
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35134946-cinemadetroit-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-30T19:13:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Cinema Detroit (@CinemaDetroit) — https://gondola.cc/CinemaDetroit

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77 STEPS screens TONIGHT with filmmaker Ibtisam Mara’ana IN PERSON. Her film is an intimate account of an Arab-Israeli relationship happening during the 2009 Gaza war. More info & tix at the link in our bio. 

New to Tel Aviv, Mara’ana meets Jonathan, a Jewish immigrant from Montreal, and their romance becomes the heart of the story. What begins as a tender cross-cultural love affair quickly collides with larger realities, unfolding against the backdrop of the 2009 Gaza war. Quiet dinners at home shift into anti-war activism, tense family encounters, and a fraught visit to Jonathan’s grandfather’s kibbutz, where personal memory sparks political confrontation.

Part of the At the Edge of Hope series presented with U of M-Dearborn Journalism and Media Production, the Michigan Arts Initiative, and the Center for Arab American Studies at University of Michigan-Dearborn. At The Edge of Hope brings together urgent, intimate, and deeply human films from Israel, Palestine, and beyond.T hrough stories that are both intimate and political, the films trace how personal lives are upended by war, how families and communities wrestle with grief and division, and how questions of identity and belonging are refracted through borders, histories, and everyday encounters. Even amid devastation, the works gesture toward fragile possibilities: glimpses of connection, resilience, and the stubborn persistence of hope. More than chronicles of conflict, these films demand that we sit with complexity, listen across divides, and ask what it means to imagine a different future in a time of war.

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