The family had taken refuge in their safe room, but when militants looked to smash through a window, Winner had held it tightly shut, giving time for Atary and Shaya to flee. Five weeks after his death, "The Boy" is being screened to audiences in Tel Aviv as a tribute to Winner. Atary and Winner, who had studied together in film school, were an artistic power couple in Kfar Aza, one of a number of small Israeli communities built along the border with Gaza. In the movie, both Winner and Atary, who was pregnant at the time, act as the leads, and the supporting cast were all friends and family from Kfar Aza. Many of the cast members were also killed in the Gaza militant rampage on Oct. 7.

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Persons: Atary, Yahav, Winner’s, ”, Shaylee, Winner, Aza, Shaylee Atary, Shaya, Jimi Kdoshim, Joseph Campbell, Crispian Balmer, Crispian Balmer amd Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Reuters, Gaza, Crispian Balmer amd, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Kibbutz Kfar Aza, “, Kfar Aza, Israel, TEL AVIV, Tel Aviv