No Safe Place: Six Lives Forever Changed

This deeply effecting film explores the psychological and emotional damage suffered by six Israeli citizens whose lives were forever altered by terrorism. Each of the film's six segments includes extensive interviews with the subjects and their family members, as well as media footage of the event and, most effectively, home video footage of the subject with his (or her) family and friends prior to the tragedy. Particularly riveting is the first segment about a woman who survived a suicide bomb attack in 2002, but lost both her mother and five-year-old daughter (home footage of her happiness prior to the attack is contrasted with her present life, haunted now by those very same memories). Other segments follow the emotional journey of a seven-year-old boy who lost his father in a terrorist attack that occurred during a public Passover event they were both attending, a young woman who lost both legs and her best friend in a bombing attack at an Israeli nightclub, an Israeli bus driver and his family who live in fear that his bus will be the next target, the rehabilitation of a young woman with over 55% of her body burned after a suicide attack on a bus, and a 19-year-old young man whose father was ambushed and shot point-blank in his car on his way to pick up his son from a vacation. No Safe Place, narrated by Kelsey Grammer, offers a moving, personalized chronicle of terrorism's human toll that also feels universal. Highly recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (A. Cantú)