Far From Maine

Section: What's Up, Doc?
Director: Roy Cohen
Cast: Aseel Asleh, Roy Cohen
Duration: 1h 40m
Country: France, Italy, Hungary
Language: fr
Year: 2026

Roy Cohen, an Israeli filmmaker of Arab-Jewish descent, addresses his Palestinian friend Aseel Asleh, killed by Israeli police in their youth, through an intimate cinematic dialogue across time. Revisiting their shared past at a peace camp in Maine, he confronts memory, friendship and the ongoing violence shaping the present, using letters, archives and conversations to explore loss, moral responsibility and the collapse of a once-possible future of coexistence.