CPH:DOX 2026 - Collapse / Effondrement

Shortly after the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, Israeli documentary filmmaker Anat Even returns to the kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel. The place that suffered the greatest losses during the attack, and which was once her home. Anat Even's house and neighbourhood have been changed beyond recognition and now stand dusty and empty. Behind the fence, Gaza has been destroyed.

With her camera, Anat Even wanders through the burnt landscape of the north-western Negev, while war rages on the other side. Over the next two years, she films the borderland along the fence that has cut off the Gaza Strip since the mid-1990s. On her side, tanks are scattered across the fields; on the other, bombs fall on Gaza. They can be heard loud and clear everywhere. Through an essayistic voiceover and conversations with friends, critics and witnesses, ‘Collapse’ explores anger, grief and dehumanisation. A film about war, powerlessness and watching the world collapse without being able to look away.