In the Space Between

This is In the Space Between , a series of conversations produced by the FIFDH, International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva. In March 2025, the Festival hosted for the first time a workshop led by mental health professionals from both sides of a long-lasting divide, the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. Every year, the Festival gives a prominent space to this conflict, denouncing...

Pierre is a journalist, a mediator, and an expert in transitional justice. He has spent decades working in some of the most difficult places in the world, Rwanda, the Balkans, the sale and beyond, helping societies confront violence and find path. Towards reconciliation. He's also the person who initiated the workshop that inspired this podcast. At the FIFDH, Pierre brought together Israeli an...

Tuly Flint is one of the psychologists who facilitated the workshop in Geneva. He has walked through more than one kind of battlefields, physical, psychological, and moral, an Israeli therapist, a former officer, a peace activist, and perhaps most importantly, a listener. His story invites us to pause in the space between trauma and transformation and to listen. Direction & editing: Direction...

In this episode we meet Leila, a woman of many identities: Palestinian, Lebanese, Italian, Swiss, a peace advocate, and a longtime voice within B8 of Hope. Her family history shaped by displacement echoes through her commitment to dialogue and healing. We begin, as she does with where she comes from. Direction & editing: Direction & editing: The interviews and production were done by Gianl...

Jeremy is a mediator and lawyer based in Geneva, who brings decades of experience resolving conflicts that cross borders, identities, and ideologies. Born with four passports, raised across continents, Jeremy understands what it means to navigate complexity, not just professionally, but personally. Direction & editing: Direction & editing: The interviews and production were done by Gianluc...

In this episode, we meet Ahmad, a Palestinian psychologist based in East Jerusalem. He is one of the therapists who led the EMDR Trauma Healing Workshop during the Festival in March 2025. Ahmad is a member of EMDR for peace, a network that brings together Palestinian and Israeli professionals working across borders to heal trauma and to hold space for stories that are often silenced. His journey i...

Mehra is a peace activist and founder of B8 of Hope. Her journey takes us through memory, loss and ultimately connection. Her story begins in Iran in the 1970s… Direction & editing: Direction & editing: The interviews and production were done by Gianluca Allaria from The Omen Collective. You can check out his work at  ⁠⁠The Omen Collective⁠⁠ . Music: Matthieu Hardouin Introduction: Laura L...

Dorit is one of the therapists who led the EMDR Trauma Healing Workshop during the Festival in March 2025. She is a social worker and EMDR specialist, as well as a member of Women Wage Peace. Her story begins not from theory, but from experience, from the deep impacts of war displacement and hope Direction & editing: Direction & editing: The interviews and production were done by Gianluca...

In this episode, we meet Fiuna, a woman shaped by many cultures, many countries, and one deep commitment to dialogue. Her story begins not at a border, but somewhere in between. For someone who has lived across continents, languages, and traditions, the idea of otherness was never far away, but it was through coexistence, a peace building organization that Fiuna found her place, not as an outsider...

Today we are in Gaza. Not through the lens of war, but through the eyes of someone who meets its aftermath every single day. A psychologist, a father, a quiet witness to resilience. His name is Dr Salem Alarjani, and he is a member of EMDR for peace. Direction & editing: Direction & editing: The interviews and production were done by Gianluca Allaria from The Omen Collective. You can check...