Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's film is drawing fierce responses from both the Israeli and the Palestinian sides. One can only hope they survive the assault"We cried out in private and were not answered; we will therefore disgrace ourselves in public" – this sentence from the Babylonian Talmud, written as an explanation for the public fast to be held after repeated prayers for rain have gone unanswered (a fast that involves carrying the Torah ark out into the streets, donning sackcloth and casting ashes on the heads of the community and on the ark), echoed in my mind when I saw the faces of Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor during the rapturous applause they received at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday.