Watch the Australian premiere of Human Animals, a new doco from internationally acclaimed producer Mhamad Babai and director David Wachsmann.
While Gaza experiences an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe with over 73,000 casualties, including more than 21,000 children, relatively normal life continues for Jewish Israelis. Human Animals moves between these two worlds.
Through raw and powerful footage, the film explores the reality of life in the Strip, and of life in an Israeli city just kilometres away. In a series of remarkable interviews, the film exposes deep-seated mechanisms of denial and normalisation by which ordinary citizens live in close proximity to mass murder, with responses ranging from forced emotional detachment to active endorsement. Ultimately it invites an honest reckoning with the question of how any of us come to look away.
After the screening, hear from producer Mhamad Babai about what it took to get this footage, in a Q&A.
