TO two years after Hamas’s attack in Israel, Tonight at 9.15 pm on Rai 3 The film will be broadcast on TV Of dogs and mena story of survival, pain and hope beyond the border of war. Presented at the Venice Festival in 2024, the film has for The protagonist is a teenager who returns to the places where the massacre took place to which he survived. The film will be preceded by an introductory graphics By the drafting of the Monica Maggioni program In half an hour.
Of dogs and men: the plot of the film tonight 7 October on Rai 3
Set in Kibbutz Nir Oz, on the border with Gazaimmediately after the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023, the film tells The story of Dar (Ori Avinoam), a 16 -year -old girl who survived the massacre. After days of forced evacuation, give He decides to return to Kibbutz alone to look for his shula dog, who fled to the chaos of the assault. The landscape it crosses is unrecognizable: Burn houses, silences interrupted only by the noise of the wind and from the echoes of violence. Each family place is now full of death and absence also because Dar’s mother was kidnapped and brought beyond the border; The father, on the other hand, was hospitalized elsewhere.
The girl moves between destruction, meeting other survivors who are back in search of something to save. Fragments of memories mix with reality, revealing glimpses of life before the attack. Thus give vague between empty rooms, dusty toys, traces of a broken everyday life. Every step approaches her not only to her dog, but also to comparison with what she has experienced. His research slowly transforms into An emotional path between mourning, anger and resistance.
Ori Avinoam in a scene of “of dogs and men”. (Rai)
A touching film, necessary and that does not seek easy answers
Intense story of survival, pain and resistance, Of dogs and men It is a film that winds beyond the visible border of the war, in a land marked by destruction But still capable of telling the fragile beat of humanity. Set among the ruins of the Kibbutz Nir Oz, the film Mix fiction and reality with a raw and visceral stylecapturing not only the physical wounds of the devastated places, but above all The signs of horror impressed in the faces of the survivors.
However, the film is not limited to documenting the cruelty of the conflict But, through attention to daily details, it opens to a wider reflection on the human condition, on collective trauma And on the possibility of rediscovering a common language even among those who have been separated from hatred.
Shot in “extreme” conditions, often in the same places affected by the fightingand interpreted by the young Ori Avinoam together with true inhabitants of the devastated community, Of dogs and men sortthe distinguishes for its authenticity and courage. It is not just a chronicle of the trauma, but a visual and human testimonywhere every shot is an act of resistance and every silence is a prayer for peace. A work that does not seek easy answers, but that It asks deep and universal questions about what it means to remain human in the middle of horror.
Rai appointments for October 7th
On the occasion of the anniversary of 7 October 2023, i Today’s schedules of the three Rai networks will dedicate ample space to the anniversary with insights, debates and testimonies. On Rai 1, in the late evening, Door to door With Bruno Vespa he will propose a special episode focused on the Hamas attack, with guests in the studio and connections from Israel.
On Rai 3, at 20.30, Marco Damilano will face the theme of conflict in its program The horse and the toweroffering a political and historical reflection on the current context. Rai 2 will also dedicate ample space to the memory in the episode of TG2 Postbroadcast at 9.00 pmwhere the debate will focus on the consequences of the conflict in the Middle East and on future prospects.
The anniversary will also be at the center of services in national news, on Rainews.it and in the specials of the various editorial officeswith testimonies, reportage and analysis that will reconstruct the events of that day and their political, social and human heritage.