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Telluride documentary puts you in the room for a decade of Middle East peace talks

It all started with an overheard conversation.

In the U.S. to interview Henry Kissinger, gifted Israeli documentarian Dror Moreh (Oscar-nominated for "The Gatekeepers") was asked to wait a moment while Kissinger conferred with diplomat Dennis Ross, the key State Department player in America's decades-long search for peace in the Middle East.

"It was right before the Iran nuclear deal in 2015, and I was a fly on the wall as they candidly discussed a lot of different scenarios," Moreh says on the telephone from his home in Israel. "I felt for the first

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