THE OSLO DIARIES A film by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan

Runtime: 94 minutes Country of Origin: Israel/Canada

Language: English and Hebrew/Arabic Genre: Documentary

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SYNOPSIS In 1992, with Israeli-Palestinian relations at an all-time low and any communication punishable with jail time, a small group of Israelis and Palestinians gathered in Oslo – secretly and against the law. Although the meetings that came to be known as The Oslo Accords changed the Middle East forever, they were never officially sanctioned and were chronicled only by the negotiators' diaries. In The Oslo Diaries, directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan (Censored Voices, Sundance 2015) bring us a riveting account of 1100 days of secret talks as told by the people who were there at the table. The participants’ detailed and often emotional entries recount the political intrigue, fiery rhetoric, unlikely friendships, and overwhelming desire for peace that were the heart of the negotiations. Featuring never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews with key players - including the last on-camera conversation with former Israeli president Shimon Peres - the film recounts a geopolitical story, with a narrative voice that is personal and philosophical. Although politics ultimately doomed The Oslo Accords, the story’s end for the people of Israel and Palestine remains unwritten.

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DIRECTORS’ STATEMENT

BY MOR LOUSHY AND DANIEL SIVAN When a child is born in Israel, even before he's given a name, he already has a destiny which is set in stone: when he grows up he will become a soldier. This destiny is known to all, as most parents have been soldiers themselves. When we were born, back in the early 80s, our parents told us the same lie all Israeli parents give their children: "When you grow up you won't go to the army" they said, "There will be no need for an army, as we will have peace with our neighbors." Now that we are parents ourselves, we find ourselves telling our children the exact same lie. For generations Israelis have been dreaming of peace and failing to achieve it. Our question is "why?" The Oslo Diaries is our personal journey, back to the one decisive moment that almost changed our history. A tipping point in which two sworn enemies had taken a leap of faith that seems unimaginable nowadays. Striving to understand why we keep failing in peacemaking, we have uncovered a passionate story of the people who didn't fail, but have created bridges and friendships where only bullets and hatred were previously exchanged. This is not a fantasy tale and like all tales in the Middle East, it is complex: The Israelis were not equals to the Palestinians, but an occupying nation; Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin did not become soul mates and kept distrusting each other until their last days; and these years of hope and prosperity were also filled with violence and oppression - and yet there was hope. Hope like never before. You could feel in the air the ground was changing, that we were transitioning into a new Middle East, to a life of true co-existence. Sadly, this sense of change did not escape the extremists who had fought peace on both sides like never before - and won. The tragic ending of this story is known to us all too well, as peace has not come to our region. And yet, we wish that the audience will see past the tragedy and into that moment of hope, as peace was in the making and enemies had become partners. Despite all the complexities the answer is so simple: we are all human, we all want to live good lives and raise our children on this small piece of land, we all deserve to live together in equality, without walls and hatred, without lying to our children about the future - but fighting side by side for a life in which no Israeli child is destined to become a soldier and no Palestinian child is destined to fear him. It is our duty as filmmakers, as Israelis and Palestinians, but most of all as parents, to fight for a different reality and to never give up, as peace between Israel and Palestine is not a dream, but our future.

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CREW BIOGRAPHIES MOR LOUSHY (Director/Co-Producer/ Editor) Mor Loushy is an award-winning Israeli director. Her debut film, Israel Ltd (2009), premiered at IDFA and was broadcast worldwide. Her latest documentary, Censored Voices (2015), won an Ophir Award for best documentary. Censored Voices premiered at Sundance Film Festival and screened at BFI London and IDFA and released theatrically worldwide. DANIEL SIVAN (Director/Co-Producer/Editor) Daniel Sivan is an award-winning Israeli director/producer known for his critical social-political documentaries. His works include Censored Voices (Sundance, Berlinale, BFI), Offside (Tribeca, IDFA), and The Patriot. He recently edited Death in the Terminal (executive produced by Mark Boal and Megan Ellison)—winner of an Ophir Award and a Hot Docs best mid-length documentary award. HILLA MEDALIA (Producer) Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Hilla Medalia has received three Emmy® nominations. Her projects have garnered critical acclaim and screened internationally in theaters and on television, including HBO, MTV, BBC, and ARTE. Her range of titles include To Die in Jerusalem 2007 (HBO), After the Storm 2009 (MTV), Numbered 2012 (ARTE), Dancing in Jaffa 2013 (Tribeca, IFC Sundance selects), Web Junkie 2014 (Sundance Film Festival, POV (PBS), BBC), The Go Go Boys 2014 (Cannes Film Festival), Censored Voices 2015 (Sundance Film Festival, Berlinale), Muhi – Generally Temporary 2017 (SF Film Festival, HotDocs, IDFA), and The Oslo Diaries 2018 (Sundance Film Festival). Hilla is a mentor for the NFCT’s Business Card Program for Emerging Filmmakers, where she acts as lector and judge at film festivals and forums. She is also a member of The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Israeli Academy of Film and Television, and a board member of The Israeli Director's Guild. Medalia holds a Master of Arts from Southern Illinois University.

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INA FICHMAN (Producer) For twenty-five years, veteran producer/ executive producer Ina Fichman has been producing award-winning documentary and fiction films for Intuitive Pictures, a Montreal-based company specializing in international co-productions that is dedicated to producing quality film, television, and interactive productions. Some critically acclaimed features produced by Intuitive Pictures in the recent years included Mabul (The Flood), Monsoon, The Wanted 18, and Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt. Interactive productions include the web project 100% TShirt, the interactive graphic novel The Wanted 18, and Space Advisor: a Guide to Space Tourism. Intuitive Pictures recently completed the documentary Game Fever and the company’s current productions include Laila at the Bridge, The Oslo Diaries, The Patriot, Shekinah 2, and Gift. Ina currently sits on the boards of the CMPA, Canada’s producers’ association and DOC Quebec. She is a founder of FCTNM (Montreal Women in Film) and WIFTI ( Women in Film and TV International).

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CREDITS

Directed by Mor Loushy Daniel Sivan

Produced by Hilla Medalia Ina Fichman

Co-Producers Daniel Sivan Mor Loushy

Kristian Mosvold

Executive Producers Guy Lavie

Koby Gal Raday Danna Stern

Dagmar Mielke Barbara Dobkin

Jean Tsien

Edited by Daniel Sivan Mor Loushy

Directors of Photography

Avner Shahaf Alex Margineanu

Original Music François Jolin

Sound Design

Sylvain Bellemare

Re-recording Mixer Michel Gauvin

Written by Mor Loushy Daniel Sivan

Consulting Editor Jean Tsien, ACE

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Participants

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi Dr. Yossi Beilin Maher el-Kurd

Dr. Saeb Erekat Avi GIl

Dr. Yair Hirschfeld Mona Juul

Dr. Daniel Kurtzer Dr. Aaron Miller Shimon Peres

Dr. Ron Pundak Ahmed Qurei (Abu Ala)

Terje Rød-Larsen Dennis Ross

Uri Savir Nabil Shaath Joel Singer

Narrators

Yussef Abu Warda Omer Barnea

Dr. Yossi Beilin Gil Frank

Bobby Lax Samira Saraya

Senior Producer Ronny Merdinger

Production Managers

Mariel Ostrower Christine Rocheleau

Research

Mor Loushy

Sound Ashi Milo

Amos Zipory Tully Chen

End Song

Think of Others Poem by Mahmoud Darwish.

Music by Mira Awad Arrangement and musical production by Mira Awad and Ayal Yishay

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Additional Archive Research

Lily Yudinsky Nancy Marcotte

Additional Photography

Daniel Sivan Mor Loushy

Daniella Nowitz Hanna Abu Saada

Daniel Kedem

Additional Sound Maximilian Bloching

Shiraz Rishmawy

Assistant Camera Issa Qomseya

Lighting

Boaz Simcha Gali Reshef Irmi Kabiat

US Crew

Philippe Lavalette - Camera Operator Michael Boyle - Sound

Michael Kohlbr - Assistant Camera Trevor Stafford - Production Assistant

Smokestack - Production Services

Paris Crew Emmanuel Simon - Camera Operator

Ellie Mittelman - Sound Yael Vidan - Production Manager

London Crew

Daniel Gaal - Camera Operator Oki Harris- Sound

Emanuel Silva - Swing

Book Rights Coordination Yael Nahlieli

Books

Dr. Ron Pundak Secret Channel - Oslo - The Real Story Books in the Attic & Yedioth Books, 2001

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Uri Savir

The Process Vintage Books (New York: Random House), 1998

Dr. Yossi Beilin

Touching Peace: From the Oslo Accord to a Final Agreement London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi

This Side of Peace / A personal Account Simon & Schuster, 1995

Ahmed Qurei (Abu Ala)

From Oslo to Jerusalem: The Palestinian Story of the Secret Negotiation I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd, Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd., 2006

Production Coordinator Canada

Michael Czemerys

Palestinian Line Producer Taher Kosa

Palestinian Coordinator

Marwa Jbara-Tibi

Production Assistants Aviv Meseznik Tomer Preis

Make Up

Neta Sharoni

Post House - OPUS Gil Mitrany Ido Karilla

Ben Lelchuk Idan Liber

Ayelet Sella Dori Bashan Oded Cohen

Post-production Supervisor

Gary Evans Julien Tremblay

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Video Post-production - POST-MODERNE Post-production coordinator

Annie Dionne Colorist

Charles Boileau Assistant Colorist

Stéphanie Vaillancourt Online Editor

Etienne Beaupré Annaël Beauchemin

Graphic Design - Buck Créatifs

Motion design producer Stéphane Olivier

Motion design coordinator Valérie Lefebvre

Illustrator and motion designer Amandine Laguinier

Title and Poster Design

Chargefield John Godfrey

Sound Design Studio - Film Sly

Dialogue Editor Valéry Dufort-Boucher

Additional sound effects editor Francis Gauthier

Rerecording Facility- Beebop Studios

Re-recording Mixer Michel Gauvin

Project Manager Alban Berg Accounting Nathalie Arel

Technical Director Charles- Étienne Viau

Post House - D.B. STUDIOS

Ronit Shalvi Moshiko Moshe

Foley Artist Nin Hazan

Voice Over Recording Avi Mizrahi

Dolev Refaeli

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Foley Recorder Andres Rapaporte

Post Representative

Noa Assido

Additional Voice Over Ishai Golan Adam Helin

Eldad Prywes

Reenactments Reenactments Producer

Ronny Merdinger Reenactments Cast

Victor Braun Omri Stark

Elchanan Even Chen Yigael Filler Milad Mattar

Hussein Nakhleh Afif Shlewet

Hair & Makeup Rinat Alony

Wigs Rivka Zahavi Wigs

Additional Hair & Makeup Yael Levitan

Assistant Director Dina Zilberg Wardrobe

Gal Bonnette Wardrobe Assist

Mikki Eisman Location Manager

Idan Bardach Casting Director

Rutie Blum Art

Merav Zmora Tomer Roth Vered Kalish

Production Assistants

Ayelet Sack Asaf Rotem

Refael Havivi Reenactments Camera Rental

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Utopia Equipment Rental Locations

Dan Panorama Hotel, Haifa Sara Meltzer

Johara Hinawi Kiev Crew

Production Services Company - 23/32 films Sasha Cherniavskyi - Kiev Executive Producer

Jenia Bilous - Kiev Line Producer Arthur Vizenkov - Production Assistant

Julia Dubitska - Props Master Yaroslav Grischenko - Location Manager

Translation Adnan Taha

Suzy De Lowe Aryeh Naftaly Daniela Abadi Shelly Yosha

Nadine Nashef

Transcript Zachary Adu-Fleurant

Archive Coordinator

Nittany Manson

Camera Equipment Fitussy Equipment Rental

Additional Camera Equipment

Available Light, USA Cinema Vision, USA

DC Camera, USA Decode, UK

Kamera LLC, USA PhotoCine Rent, France

Ricardo Ostrower

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Subtitling capNsub

Ran Cohen Oren Yardeni

Financial Institution Canada

National Bank of Canada

Bookkeeping Efi Grinfeld

Hanan Grinfeld

Accounting Shmuel Shtainmetz

Accounting Canada

Rouge Cayenne Nathalie Arel

Business Affairs Canada

Sylvie Krasker

Legal Services Daniel Ilan

Michelle Elsner Lilia Stantcheva Michelle Butler

Additional Legal Services

Cristina Caroppo Elisabeth Macher

Legal Services Canada

Randy Kirshenbaum Lussier & Khouzam

Insurance

David Shani Globalex

Member of Front Row Insurance Brokers

Travel Services Good Directions Ltd.

Shlomi Huminer Klara Zeigman Voyages GPS

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Archival Footage Yigal Goren, Goren Productions Ltd. || Galex Foundation / Julie Gal || Channel 1 Film Archive, Kan - IPBC- Shaul Bessor, Billy Segal || CNN - Jeanine Armstrong || ABC - Ric Dispinseri || AP Archive - James Kearney || TV 2 DANMARK A/S || France Télévision – Jerusalem Bureau/France 2 - Anne-Catherine Franco, Carole Gozlan, Franck Genauzeau || Getty Images / BBC Motion Gallery || Novalux Multimedia || HUMAN - Rita Stegeman-Kartopawiro || The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation - Dr. Neli Oren || Rabin Center Archive - Dorit Ben- Ami || Israel Educational Television || SCREENOCEAN/REUTERS || Multimedia Novalux ||Rabin Assassination Shot by Roni Kempler || Yedioth Ahronoth || Channel 2 News - Ella Gadasi

We have made an honest effort to identify the copyright holders of the archive material.

We apologize profoundly for possible mistakes and omissions and will correct them after their announcement for later screenings of the film.

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Thanks

David Abadi Yoav Abramovich

Mika Almog Yoss Appelbaum

Tula Amir Adi Arbel

Shaul Arieli Jennifer Battat Daniela Beilin Arik Bernstein Lisa Chanoff Dan Cogan

Bonni Cohen Benedikte Danielsen - Creative Europe,

Norway Geralyn W. Dreyfous

Yonat Dror Economic Cooperation Foundation

Giora Einy Singer Family

Hirshfeld Family Issa Freij

Megan Gelstein Franck Genauzeau

Avi Gil Carole Gozlan

Barak Heymann Nachman Ingber

Aluma Kasher Boaz Karni

Aviva Kempner Ronit Kenan Maya Klar

Erez Laufer Efraim Lavie

Avishag Leibovich Micha Levinson

Orly Malessa Mitch McCabe

Ora and Avraham Medalia Kobi Meidan

Dr. Yehuda Melzer Ilai Melzer

Robin Mirsky Sarah Mohr Peace Now Hagit Ofran Eva Orner

Yaara Ozery Jean Pelletier Arie Raichman

Alon Sahar Anat Saragusti

Mia Savir Aliza Savir Pini Schatz

Ibtisam Shamma Philip Shane Uria Shaviv

Hana Shaviv Tali Shemesh Renen Shor

Yael Simhony Asaf Sodri

The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University

Alice Tillet Eran Torbiner

Gil Toren Iikka Vehkalahti

Michal Weits Nathalie Windhorst Nehama Wohlberg

Orna Yarmut Abir Zainab

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Special Thanks James Lecesne

Adnan Taha Julie Parker-Benello

Gary and Tami Weiss Muhammad Babay

Irit Elkabez Loushy Family Sivan Family

Michael and Ellie Loushy Sivan

Produced in association with

Executive Producer

Guy Lavie Executive Producers

Koby Gal Raday Danna Stern

Commissioning Editor Adi Tal

Docu Producer Lion Valer PR Israel

Shlomi Bidani

RBB Production Manager

Rainer Baumert RBB/ARTE Editorial Staff

Dagmar Mielke Commissioning Editors

Dagmar Mielke (RBB/ARTE) Rolf Bergmann (RBB)

Carlos Gerstenhauer (BR) Matthias Leybrand (BR)

Sabine Mieder (HR)

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Senior Director, TV Information, French Services

Jean Pelletier , Senior Director, Content Planning and Schedule Management, Programming

News, French Services Pierre Tremblay

Senior Director, Documentary

Sandra Kleinfeld Production Executive, documentary Channel

Jordana Ross

Kristian Mosvold

This film was produced with the support of The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts - Cinema Project

with the participation of the Leon Recanati Foundation Supported by the Cultural Administration, Israel Ministry of Culture and Sport

The Israel Film Council

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Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit

This film was supported by a grant from

Catapult Film Fund

Jenerosity Foundation

RTS Radio Télévision Suisse – Unité des Films Documentaires – Irène Challand &

Gaspard Lamunière

in association with VPRO

in association with Yle Erkko Lyytinen

DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) Commissioning Editors: Mette Hoffmann

Meyer and Anders Bruus

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Fiscal Sponsor

Rough Cut Services

With support from

The film was produced with the endorsement of CoPro-

Documentary Marketing Foundation RA

Distribution Canada B.in Media

Distribution Advisor

Submarine Entertainment Josh Braun Dan Braun Ben Braun

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