
A Year of War: Israelis and Palestinians
Frontline follows the twelve months after October 7 through the people living inside them, moving between Israeli families of hostages and survivors and Palestinian families in Gaza under bombardment. An Israeli mother describes the morning her community was attacked; a doctor in Gaza describes treating patients as hospitals lose power and supplies. The film cuts between funerals, protest marches in Tel Aviv demanding a hostage deal, and the rubble of Gaza neighborhoods where families search for relatives after airstrikes. Interviews run first-person and mostly unmediated, letting each subject narrate their own year rather than filtering it through a single correspondent's framing. Archival news footage anchors the timeline, from the initial attack through the ground invasion and the mounting civilian death toll, while the interviews supply the texture the news coverage skipped. The film does not resolve the political argument underneath the war; it stays with the people who have to keep living through it, on both sides of a border that keeps producing funerals.