| Yahav Winner’s final work, “The Boy,” captures the dissonance of life along the Israel-Gaza border.  On the morning of October 7th, the filmmaker Yahav Winner was waking up to his newborn daughter, Shaya, in his family’s home. Winner and his wife, Shaylee Atary, both filmmakers, lived in the Kfar Aza kibbutz, a village of some seven hundred residents, just a few kilometres from the border that separates Israel and Gaza. That morning, seventy Hamas militants surrounded Winner’s home. When a Hamas fighter’s arm burst through their bedroom window, Winner seemed to grasp that his entire family couldn’t survive. He fought off the intruders and signalled to his wife to flee with their daughter. Later, Atary found out while being interviewed on live TV that her husband had been killed. The violence of the Israel-Palestine conflict marked Winner’s life, and trauma was the preoccupation of his work. It’s at the center of his final film, “The Boy,” released today by The New Yorker. The film’s main character, Barak, is unable to ignore the reality of life for his Palestinian neighbors, and is “heartbroken about the fact that he knows people are like him on the other side of the fence.” Atary, reflecting on her decade creating art with Winner, said, “I hope I will see the light. We always, always in life try to look for the little light.” | 
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