In
A Slim Peace, director Yael Luttwak finds a distinctive way to bring together a group of Israeli, Bedouin and Palestinian women – their shared desire to lose weight.
When the peace process broke down in 2000, Luttwak was working with Palestinians and Jews in Israel, and trying to lose weight herself.
Yael Luttwak joins Amanda Palmer for a Q&A and explains that, "something in my head just connected the two."
She had noticed how women created strong and intimate bonds while trying to reduce the width of their waists, and decided it was the ideal way to create common ground between normally hostile groups.
The idea took her three years to bring to fruition – but the resulting documentary is a fascinating, insightful and at times funny picture of how politics interacts with personal friendship, and weight loss.
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