Architecture of Hope – For the Ruins of the Present

On October 7th, the reality of war comes crashing down on a group of students from Hamburg, Shaar HaNegev, and Rahat. Together, they had planned a joint theater project about tolerance and encounters in the city of Cordoba where Jews, Muslims, and Christians once enjoyed a golden era of coexistence.

But instead of bringing this idea into the present, everything comes to a halt on the day of their departure. While the Israeli students from Jewish and Arab families have to remain in bomb shelters as Hamas infiltrates their kibbutz, the German group chooses to express their sense of powerlessness and speechlessness through a visual poem—a quiet symbol of hope in the face of despair, sending a sign of hope from the ruins of the present.

Cast

Peer

Peer Petersen

Zeyneb

Zeyneb Azra Azak

Sude

Sude Erdim

Prolog

Gal Peleg Pfennig

Poem Voice

Nastaran Amiry