The Heart of Jenin Asia Pacific Premiere Das Herz von Jenin Germany, Israel 2008 / 89min. / Arabic, Hebrew, English with English subtitles. Directors Leon Geller, Marcus Vetter. Producers Ernst Ludwig Ganzert, Ulli Pfau. The long standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict has made many of us complacent and unresponsive; it takes an extraordinary story to jolt us out of the status quo. The Heart of Jenin is one such story. In November 2005, Ahmed Khatib, a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy, was playing with a plastic gun in the Jenin refugee camp on the West Bank when an Israeli soldier, mistaking the toy for a weapon, shot and killed him. In the midst of his grief, his father Ismael had a moment of clarity and consented to donate his son’s organs to six Israelis, who would otherwise have no chance of survival. Thanks to this act of humanity, four of those children, each from a different part of Israeli society, are alive today. With great sensitivity, Academy Award winning