Release Date: January 15, 2027
Running Time: 86 min
Director: John David Coles
Producers: John David Coles, Jason Orans, Pamela Ryan, Tamar Yoffe
Executive Producers: Veronica Leff, Miguel Leff, Rick Itzkowich, Marianne Engle, Rob Engle, Laurie M. Tisch, Cliff Chenfeld, Eduardo & Lily Margolis
Featuring: Dr. Edith Eger, Iris Haim, Sapir Cohen, Dr. Marianne Engle, Raviv Haim, Tuval Haim
Special Narration by Tovah Feldshuh
SYNOPSIS
"You can't change what happened, you can't change what you did or what was done to you. But you can choose how you live now. My precious, you can choose to be free."
That simple, searing idea sits at the heart of Dr. Edith Eger's life and work, and at the center of The Choice, a haunting and ultimately hopeful documentary about three women forever marked by war, captivity, genocide, and loss.
The Choice follows Dr. Edith "Edie" Eger, the renowned psychologist, Holocaust survivor, and author of the New York Times bestselling memoir The Choice: Embrace the Possible; Iris Haim, an Israeli mother who turns to Eger's book as a lifeline after the loss of her son, Yotam; and Sapir Cohen, a former hostage who, without having read Eger's work, discovers the very lesson that has defined Eger's life: that even when freedom is stripped away, no one can take away the power to choose how to live.
Poignant, devastating, and deeply human, The Choice asks a deceptively simple question: What remains within our control when everything else has been taken from us? The answer, in Edie's life and in the lives of the women whose journeys intersect with her wisdom, is not easy forgiveness or simple hope. It is the courage to face unimaginable pain without being defined by it, and to choose freedom, healing, and the possibility of a life beyond trauma.