Filmmaker Guy Nativ

Poland during World War II, where much of her family perished. That unresolved historical trauma may explain perhaps, why she seeks spiritual solace in a cult. Guy Nativ gave me more details on the story. She's hunted by her past, and she embarked on a new life for her that hopefully will save her from her agony and from her mental state that is deteriorating. Director Guy Nativ has built up an impressive body of work. Snakes are many predators. He won an Oscar for his short film Skin in 2019, which looks at how racism and bigotry can be passed from one generation to another. As the grandson of Holocaust survivors, he believes the Holocaust has really shaped his filmmaking. It's affected me tremendously. You rescue these boys. In 2023, Guy Nativ directed Dame Helen Mirren in his film Golda, in which she plays Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir at the time of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Nativ has been a vocal critic of the current Israel Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. He believes there are parallels in his film Golda with the Israeli leadership today, which he sees as having arrogance or hubris. I'm heartbroken about what I left behind because I don't recognize the country that I left, and I'm horrified by what's happening right now in the filmmaking community. There are a lot of kind of strong voices which have been very critical of Israeli actions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. When you're in Los Angeles, you sometimes feel a bit like a social pariah. I'm very clear about what's happening. Parties are a weapon. I'm trying to find those bridges. But this one is a very personal film to me about my grandmother. It's a not political film, but the liberation is resonating politically because with a story rooted in historical trauma, it feeds into topical heated political debates around issues such as slavery, reparations and the regional conflicts in the Middle East. So in that respect, Guy Nativ can be seen as a filmmaker trying to tackle some of the more challenging issues of our times. Tom Brook with that report still to come in this podcast, it's only so many times as an archaeologist that you get to drug test a person that's been dead for almost 3,000 years. Were a group of nomadic people from Siberia smoking cannabis nearly 3,000 years ago?