Find Me, Okay?
The 80-minute documentary that refuses to look away
Find Me, Okay? opens on something almost unbearably ordinary — two best friends, Eden Yerushalmi and Arbel, dancing together at the Nova music festival on a Saturday morning in 2023. Within hours, Eden is taken to Gaza. Her sisters listen helplessly on a phone call. What follows is the documentary that Medalia Productions spent two years making: a portrait of what happens when hope collapses, and how people try to rebuild a life around an absence that can't be filled.
This is a 2026 release, so it's still new. But it's already the kind of film people keep thinking about long after the credits roll — not because it's easy to watch, but because it refuses to let you look away.
Why Eden's story matters more than the headlines
The October 7, 2023 Nova Festival attack killed hundreds and took hostages. You've probably seen the news coverage. What you haven't seen — what most people haven't — is what two years of that grief actually looks like when you're living inside it, when it's your sister, your best friend, your daughter.
The film doesn't treat Eden as a symbol or a cause. She's a person who danced, who had a best friend, who was loved in specific and particular ways. That's a genuine craft achievement — and it's what separates this from the news cycle you've already encountered.
I keep coming back to the phone call. The moment Eden's sisters are listening, unable to do anything. The filmmakers don't dramatize it or reconstruct it. They just sit with what that moment means. Honest and devastating in equal measure.
How the film actually works
Here's what strikes me about the structure: it moves through phases. Hope, then public struggle, then collapse, then the tentative, painful attempt at rebuilding. Each phase has its own emotional register — the filmmakers clearly understood that resilience isn't a triumph. It's just what people do because they have no other option.
The runtime is 80 minutes. That might sound brief for a two-year story, but there's no padding here — no filler interview, nothing that feels like it's there to fill time rather than to say something true. Every cut earns its place.
Access like this doesn't happen by accident. It takes trust, patience, and a willingness on the filmmakers' part to follow a story even when its destination becomes clear and heartbreaking. Eden's mother, her sisters, and Arbel (the best friend who was dancing beside her that morning and survived) all open their lives to the camera. That's not something people do lightly.
Where to actually watch it right now
Find Me, Okay? is available on major streaming platforms as a 2026 release. But which one? That depends on where you live, and licensing deals shift constantly.
Movie OTT's Where-to-Watch widget pulls live, region-specific availability data — so you're not clicking through to Netflix only to find it's not there yet. The tracker updates in real time, which matters for a new release rolling out across different regions on different timelines.
Here's what you need to know:
- Runtime: 80 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Release year: 2026
- Production company: Medalia Productions
- Where to check availability: Movie OTT has current streaming data for your region
Questions you're probably asking
Is this based on a true story?
Entirely. Every person shown — Eden's family, Arbel — is real. They're speaking from their own experience about something that actually happened to them.
What actually happened to Eden?
Eden was taken to Gaza during the October 7, 2023 attack. The documentary follows her family's two-year fight to bring her home, the moment hope collapses, and the aftermath. This isn't a film with a rescue at the end.
Who made it?
Medalia Productions produced the film. Director attribution from official sources wasn't confirmed at time of publication, but the production company has been the primary name attached across early coverage.
Is it family-friendly?
No. It's a grief documentary about a real hostage situation and loss. It's not designed for casual viewing or younger audiences. Watch it when you have the emotional space for it.
How does it compare to other documentaries?
If you've watched films like The Tunnel or Waltz with Bashir — documentaries that build intimate, character-driven narratives around Israeli-Palestinian conflict — this operates in that same register. But it's more recent, more personal, and narrowly focused on one family rather than a broader historical arc.
Why this matters right now
Find Me, Okay? is among the first documentary features to build a sustained, character-driven narrative around a single family's experience of the October 7 attacks. That's not a small thing. The film arrived in 2026 — nearly three years after the event — which gave the filmmakers time to move beyond the immediate news cycle and sit with what actually happens in the long aftermath.
The thing nobody mentions about grief documentaries is how often they flatten the people at their center into symbols. This one doesn't. You'll see Eden remain a person — someone with a best friend, someone who danced, someone who mattered to specific people in specific ways — rather than being reduced to a case or a statistic.
Movie OTT lists it among the most significant documentary releases of 2026, and for good reason. It's the kind of film that lands differently depending on when and how you encounter it — and differently again depending on what you bring to it.
Should you watch it?
If you want to understand what the human cost of October 7 actually looks like — not the political argument, not the news cycle, but the texture of grief and the impossible work of rebuilding — then yes. Watch it.
It's not easy. It's not supposed to be. But it's one of those rare documentaries where the difficulty is the point, where sitting with discomfort is the most honest thing a film can ask of an audience. Hard to imagine anyone coming away from this unchanged.