Film Making
In 1996, Aloni began making films. His documentary, Local Angel (2002), and his first feature-length fiction, Forgiveness (2006), are both radical interpretations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that have stirred controversy in the Middle East and internationally. Aloni also directed Kashmir: Journey to Freedom(2008), a documentary about the nonviolent movement for liberation and freedom in Jammu and Kashmir that opened in the Berlin International Film Festival.
Aloni was the head cinema coach in the Freedom Theatre of the Jenin Refugee Camp. After the 2011 murder of Juliano Mer Khamis, the founder and head of The Freedom Theater, Aloni directed an Arabic adaptation of “Waiting for Godot” with the Freedom Theatre's graduate students, a production that toured to New York. He is a member of the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace, a Jewish organization based in the United States that advocates for a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
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