Post on 11-Oct-2020
Orna YarmutFounding Director
Zichrini Hatzor KatzChaya ZeltzerDocuShuk Editors & Producers
Premshay HermonExecutive Producer
Lee & Tamar StudioGraphic Design
Docushuk – Israel's 2014-2015 Documentary fIlm crop
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contentsGreetings 3
Index Categories 5-7
Index Directors 8-9
Index Sales Agents 10
Films with no Sales Agent 11-12
Alphabetical Index 13-14
DocumentarIesBetween Hope and Despair 16-25
Family Ties 27-45
Larger than Life 47-51
Portrayals of Other 53-58
Reflections of the Past 60-67
The Face of Her Reality 69-72
The Soul and Science 74-82
Towards Israeli Identity 106-110
Untold Stories 84-89
(Shorts) 91-104
CrossTalk (Combining Genres) 30 / 65
Docs & Cuts (Rough Cut Screening) 112-119
CoPro Campus (Student Films) 122-129
CoPro's Sponsors 130-131
Dear friends, old and new!
For many years now, I have had the honor of welcoming you – on behalf of CoPro – to sunny Tel-Aviv, and am pleased to do so once more. This will be my third time heading the DocuShuk section, where I proudly present you with more than 100 wonderful titles.
In this year’s crop we have several artist portraits, celebrating great Jewish and Israeli musicians, poets and actors – up close and personal. The story of David Perlov, a pioneer articulator of Israel's distinctive non-fiction cinematic language, is definitely not to be missed.
We have an international murder investigation, a Norwegian expedition to the North Pole, the beautiful people of Sri lanka. We also get involved in espionage (a true Mossad legend) and the heroic search of a man battling cancer, for a cure. In fact, the universal battle with cancer is a mini-theme.
Another CoPro mainstay is Israelis exploring their Identities from various angles: the Sabbath; the tradition of watching Arabic Movies on Friday nights; bicycles; hanging by the river ; the difficulties of immigration; the great Israeli export “start ups.”
But Family is still the greatest issue: father-daughter, mother-son, mother-daughter, a couple who wants to marry, but not before one of them becomes a woman.
The holocaust and the occupation continue to preoccupy Israeli makers, and the later never cease to find new angles and ways to tell these stories. Of the 100+ films, many films are by known, reputable makers, but lots of bold new directors are cropping up too.
My deep gratitude to my esteemed colleagues at CoPro, Chaya Zeltzer and the exceptional Orna Yarmut, CoPro's Founding Director.Just as making documentaries is a labor of love, so is promoting, marketing and distributing them.
Enjoy!Zichrini Hatzor KatzDocuShuk Editor & Producer
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The DocuShuk Films
LARGER THEN LIFEC1 Apollonia 47
C2 Clockwork Doll 48
C3 Mati Caspi – Confession 49
C4 Therefore Choose Life 50
C5 The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer 51
PoRTRAyALs oF oTHERD1 A Demonstration In The White City 53
D2 Bums, Go Home 54
D3 Hotline 55
D4 Mussa 56
D5 The Site Of The Great Being 57
D6 The Unwelcoming 58
Transfixed 44
REFLEcTIoNs oF THE PAsT E1 Guardians of Remembrance 60
E2 Josef Mengele Has Saved My Life
in Auschwitz 61
Kozalchik Affair 32
E3 Night Will Fall 62
E4 Shores of Light 63
E5 Soaps 64
E6 The Night of Fools 65
E7 There And Here 66
E8 Tunnel of Hope 67
THE FAcE oF HER REALITyF1 Alia 69
F2 Broke 70 F3 Etched In My Body 71
BETwEEN HoPE ANd dEsPAIRA1 East Jerusalem / West Jerusalem 16
A2 Flash and Blood Icon 17
A3 God’s Messengers 18
A4 Hadrian's Curse 19
A5 Healing Words 20
A6 Jewish Identity in France 21
A7 Partner With the Enemy 22
A8 Mirrors 23
A9 Thank God / No Casualties 24
A10 Truth, Nothing, But… 25
FAmILy TIEsB1 7 Days in St. Petersburg 27
B2 Against Your Will 28
B3 All That Remains 29
B4 Cardboard Boxes 30
B5 Family Matters 31
B6 Kozalchik Affair 32
B7 Marrying an Ice Cream Factory 33
B8 17 Beginnings Of Talia 34
B9 My Big Fat Cancer Wedding 35
B10 Nahche 36
B11 P.S. Jerusalem 37
B12 Saving Uncle Jacob 38
B13 Seed Of Life 39
B14 Spirals 40
B15 Strung Out 41
B16 The Bentwich Syndrome 42
B17 The Chaos Within 43
B18 Transfixed 44
B19 Twilight Of A Life 45
categorIes InDex / Some of the films are in more than one category
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Flash And Blood Icon 17
Partner With The Enemy 22
Spirals 40
F4 Third Person 72
THE souL ANd scIENcE G1 BackLight 74
Clockwork Doll 48G2 Freilauf 75 G3 David Perlov 76
G4 Into Truth: Into Truth: a Journey Into
the Heart of a Nation 77
G5 North Into the Mist 78 G6 Once Upon A Time There
Was A King 79
Nahche 36
Mati Caspi – Confession 49G7 Silicon Wadi 80
The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer 51
G8 Where is Elle Kari and What
Happened to Noriko-San? 81
G9 Wings of Change 82
uNToLd sToRIEs Apollonia 47
H1 A Closed Story 84
H2 Censored Voices 85
H3 Credit for Murder 86
H4 Defense Files 87
H5 Shapira & I 88
H6 Two Funurals 89
Where is Elle Kari and What
Happened to Noriko-San? 81
sHoRTsI1 3 Houses 91I2 A Lullaby for Ian 92I3 A Trip to the Other Planet 93I4 Dej Mi Sluka 94I5 Eden Rests 95I6 Hora 96I7 Ivan 97 I8 Long Distance Running 98 I9 Off Side 99I10 Quality Time 100I11 Restitution 101I12 Slight Chance of Rock 102I13 Thirteen 103I14 White Mist 104 cRossTALk Cardboard Boxes 30 The Night of Fools 65
TowARds IsRAELI IdENTITy J1 Arab Movie 106 God’s Messengers 18 Freilauf 75 David Perlov 76J2 My Shabbath 107J3 Nobody Home 108J4 Rock in the Red Zone 109 Silicon Wadi 80 Thank God / No Casualties 24 The Unwelcoming 58 Two Funurals 89J5 Winding 110
docs & cuTs (RouGH cuT scREENING)Ki Blend 112K2 Cafe Nagler 113K3 Just Kids 114K4 Mixed Feelings 115K5 Phantom Pain 116K6 Rabin in His Own Words 117K7 Silence Days 118K8 The Treasure of Kufrein 119K9 Vita Activa, The Spirit of
Hannah Arendt 120
coPRo cAmPus (sTudENT FILms) L1 1 Building and 40
People Dancing 122 A Trip to the Other Planet 93
L2 A-22103 – Aide Mémoire 123L3 Chekhov's 'Everyman' 124L4 Crossing 125 Eden Rests 95L5 I'll See You Again 126 Restitution 101L6 Sashka 127 L7 Seeds of Gum 128L8 True Colors 129 White Mist 104
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Abeer Zeibak Haddad 118
Achva Hershtik 129
Ada Ushpiz 120
Adia Pilo 57
Alice Korenyouk 97
Alon Kol 44
Amir Cohn 124
Amit Shalev 77
Amos Stempel 20
Anael Resnick, Laila Bettermann 101
Anat Goren 56, 36
André Singer 62
Assaf Banitt 28
Avi Belkin 110
Avida Livny 66
Avigail Sperber 31
Ayelet Albenda 129
Barak Rotem 30
Boris Maftsir 60
Claudia Levin 54
Danae Elon 37
Daniel Sivan, Yossi Bloch 80
Doron Braunshtein 61
Doron Djerassi 79
Doron Levene 92, 100
Dror H. Shwartz 67
Duki Dror, Chen Shelach 22
Dvorit Shargal 81
Erez Laufer 33, 117
Erez Miller, Henrique Cymerman 16
Eyal Ballas 64
Eyal Sagui Bizawe, Sara Tsifroni 106
Eytan Harris 25
Gilad Inbar 21
Gur Bentwich 42
Guy Davidi 115
Honi Hamehagel 17
Inbar Horesh 125
Isri Halpern 24
Itay Netzer 104
Itzik Lerner 18
Julie Shles 70
Kineret Hay Gillor 29
Micha Livne 84
Michal BenTovim 108
Miki Polonski 122
Miriam Baron 128
Moish Goldberg 87
Mor Kaplansky 113
Mor Loushy 85
Neil Weisbrod, Ariel Weisbrod 78
Nili Tal 71
Nir Toib, Gil Izackov 50
Nirit Aharoni 41
Noa Roth 31
Noam Edry 69
Noam Hamou 102
Noam Yavor 19
Ofer Kapota, Natalie Chen, Hadar Sitruk 95
Ofir Trainin 107, 47
Ohad Milstein 116
Omri Shenhar 91
DIrectors' InDex
Oran Magedish 74
Rachel Rusinek 112
Rami Kimchi 65
Ranni Midyan 33
Reuven Brodsky 27
Robby Elmaliah 58
Roni Ninio 32
Rotem Azulay 89
Ruth Walk 48, 76
Sharon Luzon 72
Shaul Betser, Asaf Galay 51
Shira Mekin 94
Silvina Landsmann 55
Sivan Mor Goldman 35
Sivan Shtivi 38
Sylvain Biegeleisen 45
Tal Haim Yoffe 35, 75
Tamar Tal 114
Tom Kless 93
Tsipi Karlik 98, 99, 103
Tuvi Arbel 82
Tzipi Baider 39
Vladi Antonevicz 86
Yael Aravah 23
Yael Gur 40
Yael Katzir 63
Yakov Yannai Lein 43
Yana Lerner 127
Yoav Brill 96
Yonatan Geron 123
Yoni Bentovim 34
Yoram Sabo 88
Zohar Sela 119
Laura Bialis 109
10 11
Go2Films ־ Hedva Goldschmidt
Cafe Nagler 113
Defense Files 87
Hotline 55
Silicon Wadi 80
Rock in the Red Zone 109
The Chaus Within 43
There And Here 66
Tunnel of Hope 67
Vita Activa, The Spirit of
Hannah Arendt 120
CAT&Docs Catherine LeClefTransfixed 44
First Hand Films ־ Esther Van MesselPartner With the Enemy 22
Cinephil ־ Philippa KowarskyMussa 56
Night Will Fall 62
The Muses Of Isaac Bashevis Singer 51
JMTFilms Distribution ־ Michael TraversDavid Perlov 76
The Night of Fools 65
InDex sales agents
Ruth Diskin Films LTD ־ Ruth DiskinApollonia 47
Blend 112
God’s Messengers 18
Guardians of Remembrance 60
Jewish Identity in France 21
Shapira & I 88
The Unwelcoming 58
1 Building and 40 People Dancing 122
17 Beginnings of Talia 34
3 Houses 91
7 Days In St. Petersburg 27
A Closed Story 84
A Demonstration In The White City 53
A Lullaby for Ian 92
A Trip to the Other Planet 93
A-22103 – Aide Mémoire 123
Against Your Will 28
Alia 69
All That Remains 29
Arab Movie 106
BackLight 74
Broke 70
Bums, Go Home 54
Cardboard Boxes 30
Censored Voices 85
Chekhov's 'Everyman' 124
Clockwork Doll 48
Credit For Murder 86
Crossing 125
Dej Mi Sluka 94
East Jerusalem / West Jerusalem 16
Eden Rests 95
Etched In My Body 71
Family Matters 31
Flash And Blood Icon 17
Freilauf 75
Hadrian's Curse 19
Healing Words 20
fIlms wIth no sales agent
Hora 96
I'll See You Again 126
Into Truth: A Journey Into The Heart
of A Nation 77
Ivan 97
Josef Mengele Has Saved My Life
in Auschwitz 61
Just Kids 114
Kozalchik Affair 32
Long Distance Running 98
Marrying an Ice Cream Factory 33
Mati Caspi – Confession 49
Mirrors 23
Mixed Feelings 115
My Big Fat Cancer Wedding 35
My Shabbath 107
Nahche 36
Nobody Home 108
North Into the Mist 78
Off Side 99
Once Upon a Time ThereWas a King 79
P.S. Jerusalem 37
Phantom Pain 116
Quality Time 100
Rabin In His Own Words 117
Restitution 101
Saving Uncle Jacob 38
Seeds of Gum 128
Shores of Light 63
Silence Days 118
Slight Chance of Rock 102
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Soaps 64
Spirals 40
Strung Out 41
Thank God / No Casualties 24
The Bentwich Syndrome 42
The Chaos Within 43
The Site Of The Great Being 57
The Treasure of Kufrein 119
Therefore Choose Life 50
Third Person 72
Thirteen 103
True Colors 129
Truth, Nothing, But… 25
Twilight Of A Life 45
Two Funerals 89
Where is Elle Kari and What Happened
to Noriko-San? 81
White Mist 104
Winding 110
Wings of Change 82
alphabetIcal InDex
1 Building and 40 People Dancing 122
3 Houses 91
17 Beginnings of Talia 34
7 Days in St. Petersburg 27
A Closed Story 84
A Demonstration In The White City 53
A Lullaby for Ian 92
A Trip to the Other Planet 93
A-22103 – Aide Mémoire 123
Against Your Will 28
Alia 69
All That Remains 29
Apollonia 47
Arab Movie 106
BackLight 74
Blend 112
Broke 70
Bums, Go Home 54
Cafe Nagler 113
Cardboard Boxes 30
Censored Voices 85
Chekhov's 'Everyman' 124
Clockwork Doll 48
Credit for Murder 86
Crossing 125
David Perlov 76
Defense Files 87
Dej Mi Sluka 94
East Jerusalem / west Jerusalem 16
Eden Rests 95
Etched In My Body 71
Family Matters 31
Flash and Blood Icon 17
Freilauf 75
God’s Messengers 18
Guardians of Remembrance 60
Hadrian's Curse 19
Healing Words 20
Hora 96
Hotline 55
I'll See You Again 126
Into Truth: A Journey Into the Heart
Of a Nation 77
Ivan 97
Jewish Identity In France 21
Josef Mengele Has Saved My Life
In Auschwitz 61
Just Kids 114
Kozalchik Affair 32
Long Distance Running 98
Marrying an Ice Cream Factory 33
Mati Caspi – Confession 49
Mirrors 23
Mixed Feelings 115
My Big Fat Cancer Wedding 35
Mussa 56
My Shabbath 107
Nahche 36
Night Will Fall 62
Nobody Home 108
North Into the Mist 78
Off Side 99
Once Upon a Time There was a King 79
P.S. Jerusalem 37
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Partner With the Enemy 22
Phantom Pain 116
Quality Time 100
Rabin in His Own Words 117
Restitution 101
Rock in the Red Zone 109
Sashka 127
Saving Uncle Jacob 38
Seed of Life 39
Seeds of Gum 128
Shapira & I 88
Shores of Light 63
Silence Days 118
Silicon Wadi 80
Slight Chance of Rock 102
Soaps 64
Spirals 40
Strung Out 41
Thank God / No Casualties 24
The Bentwich Syndrome 42
The Chaos Within 43
The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer 51
The Night of Fools 65
The Site of the Great Being 57
The Treasure of Kufrein 119
The Unwelcoming 58
There And Here 66
Therefore Choose Life 50
Third Person 72
Thirteen 103
Transfixed 44
True Colors 129
Truth, Nothing, But… 25
Tunnel of Hope 67
Twilight Of A Life 45
Two Funurals 89
Vita Activa, The Spirit of
Hannah Arendt 120
Where is Elle Kari and What Happened
to Noriko-San? 81
White Mist 104
Winding 110
Wings of Change 82
between hope & despair
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In early 2013 Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza went to a Palestinian studio in East Jerusalem, pursuing his dream to make music a bridge-builder between Palestinians and Israelis. 8 days and 8 nights of music, food, and camaraderie produce a groundbreaking album and a unique story. With: Steve Earle, Mira Awad, Muhammad Mughrabi, and Issa Freij.
A1east Jerusalem / west Jerusalemמזרח ירושלים /מערב ירושלים
contact Person: Gidi Avivimobile: +972 50 5287659Email: gidi@viceversa.co.ilwebsite: viceversa.co.il
DirectorsErez Miller, Henrique CymermanProducerGidi AviviCompanyVice Versa Films
Length – 80' Format – Hddate of Release – oct 2014original language – English, Arabic, Hebrewsubtitles – English
FestivalsWoodstock FF
BETwEEN HoPE & dEsPAIR
The creator Smadar Yaaron, an unearthly creature who knows no boundaries, has found refuge on the seam between the Holocaust and the Intifada. What makes Yaaron unique is inherent in the ways she chooses to treat and articulate the portrayed themes of her work and life. For more than 25 years, the artist, Honi HaMa'agel, has obsessively followed her life, her split identity and her work. This monumental commemoration project aims to stabilize the Jewish fear of persecution and the security-related paranoia of the Jewish people, in general, and of the State of Israel, in particular.
A2flash anD blooD Iconאייקון בשר ודם
contact Person: Rony Hermanmobile: +972 52 3251128Email: hermanstudio2@gmail.com
DirectorHoni HamehagelProducerCol Hamedia
Length – 67'Format – dV 16/9date of Release – 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-Israel
FestivalsEpos Festival
BETwEEN HoPE & dEsPAIR
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A powerful inside look at the group of Jewish settlers who inhabit the illegal outpost – Havat Gilad. As the pressures mount from international concerns, as well as the Israeli government and the more senior settler establishment, this group becomes more entrenched – and more committed to their mission. They believe that they are the connector to the narrative of Jewish history – and the essential link to a greater Israel. Religious devotion, and Zionist fervor propel this group towards violence and extremism.
A3goD’s messengers
שליחי האל
distributor: Ruth diskin Films Ltd.Tel: +972 2 672 4256Email: ruth@ruthfilms.comwebsite: ruthfilms.com
Director & ProducerItzik LernerCompanyPekada Films
Length – 76'Format – Hddate of Release – Jan 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsIsrael Television Channel 1
FestivalsDocAviv 2015
BETwEEN HoPE & dEsPAIR BETwEEN HoPE & dEsPAIR
On November 29, 2012 the Palestinians achieved a historic victory: the United Nations General Assembly decided to grant the Palestinian Authority observer status in the UN. The date was symbolic: precisely 65 years earlier the General Assembly had recommended partitioning Palestine-Eretz Israel into a Jewish and an Arab state, but the Arab state never materialized. Why did the Palestinians fail where the Jews – in realizing their national aspirations in Palestine-Eretz Israel – succeeded? It is this question for which answers are sought in Hadrian's Curse.
A4haDrIan's curseקללת אדריאנוס
contact Person: manes AvnyTel: +972 54 4665002Email: avnyma@gmail.com
DirectorNoam YavorProducerManes Avny, Ronen ZadokCompanyARTV Communications Ltd
Length – 2 episodes - 55' each Format – Hddate of Release – dec 2014original language – English, Hebrewsubtitles – English, Hebrew
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 1
presented atCoPro
20 21BETwEEN HoPE & dEsPAIR
Jewish and Arab youth return from England to perform 1001 Arabian Nights at a 5-day storytelling festival in the forest. There, Jewish, Arab and international participants share their experiences of conflict and bereavement through workshops of exchange and storytelling of universal drama. They experience the power of the healing words where bridges of compassion, understanding, tolerance and forgiveness are built, bringing a spark of hope to this troubled world. Healing Words takes you on a healing journey. Listen…
A5healIng worDsמילים מרפאות
contact Person: Amos stempelTel: +972 2 6722045mobile: +972 54 5290547Email: amosstempel1@gmail.comwebsite: amosstempel.info
Director & ProducerAmos StempelCompanyStempelland
Length – 52'Format – AVIdate of Release – 2015original language – English, Hebrew, Arabic (small amount)subtitles – English
FestivalsSheffield Doc/FestSundance FFBerlin FF
BETwEEN HoPE & dEsPAIR
As the reality for Jews in Europe is shifting, this film takes a look at the Jews of Paris today. In conversations with leading thinkers, artists and ordinary people we get an in-depth look at the range of Jewish life in France right now. Included in the film are religious and secular, Zionists and anti-Zionists who paint a picture of the complexity in the face of rising anti-Semitism. Among those interviewed are David Konopnicki, Mark Halter and Shmuel Trigano.
A6JewIsh IDentItyIn france זהות יהודית בצרפת
distributor: Ruth diskin Films Ltd.Tel: +972 2 6724256Email: ruth@ruthfilms.com website: ruthfilms.com
DirectorGilad InbarProducerAmitai AchimanCompanyBeit Hatuftsot – The Museumof the Jewish Diaspora
Length – 34'Format – Hdcamdate of Release – Feb 2014original language – Hebrew, Frenchsubtitles – English
22 23BETwEEN HoPE & dEsPAIR
Two women, an Israeli and a Palestinian, are trying to build a business partnership. Brought together by a shared business acumen and knowledge of the logistics industry, the two combine forces to help Palestinian businessmen navigate the everyday absurdities of Israeli control of the West Bank. But while they help their clients to overcome the obstacles of bureaucracy, who will help them overcome their own disputes?
A7partner wIththe enemyהאויבת שלי, השותפה שלי
distributor: Esther Van messel, First Hand FilmsTel: +41 44 3122060Email: esther.van.messel@firsthandfilms.comwebsite: firsthandfilms.com
DirectorsDuki Dror, Chen ShelachProducersDuki Dror, Anat VogmanCompanyZygote Films, Ltd.
Length – 60'Format – Hddate of Release – Jan 2014original language – Hebrew, Arabicsubtitles – Hebrew, English
Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel, The Second Authority for Television & Radio
Broadcasting PlatformsThe Second Authority for Television & Radio, Vlaamse Radio en Televisieomroep (Belgium), UR Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company (Sweden)
FestivalsHaifa FFSanta Barbara International Film Festival
pesented atCoPro
BETwEEN HoPE & dEsPAIR
The Director sets off on a journalistic journey, which ends up being a personal one. From the Declaration of Independence of Israel, to that of Palestine, between Jewish and Palestinian underground movements (i.e. Lehi, Hamas); between hope and despair, Yael meets characters of the local mosaic. The film passes through the conflict and becomes unsettling in Hebron, where the film crew almost gets lynched. "Mirrors" shows the similarities between people, despite their different narratives on the rights of this land.
A8mIrrorsמראות
contact Person: yael Aravamobile: +972 54 5671333Email: yaelarava@gmail.comwebsite: factsproductions.comyaelarava.com
Director & ProducerYael AravahCompanyFacts productions
Length – 90'Format – Hddate of Release – Nov 2013original language – Hebrew, Arabic, Englishsubtitles – English
24 25BETwEEN HoPE & dEsPAIR
The small amount of casualties crushed by rockets lunched from Gaza into Israel has left the stories of Israel’s southern residents – mostly religious and low income immigrants – out of the world's view. True to the eyes of the property insurance appraisers dealing with rockets victims on the Israel/ Gaza border, filmmaker Isri Halpern gives us a fresh, intimate and unique view of life under rocket fire.
A9thank goD / no casualtIesאין נפגעים בנפש
contact Person: Isri HalpernTel: +972 774 309060mobile: +972 52 2309090Email: halpern.films@gmail.com
Director & ProducerIsri HalpernCompanyHalpern Films
Length – 50'Format – Hddate of Release – oct 2014original language – Hebrew, Russiansubtitles – English
Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 2
BETwEEN HoPE & dEsPAIR
Who determines about false and truth in a documentary? Is a filmmaker legally responsible for what is said by the protagonists? Mohammad Bakri, an Israeli Arab famous actor who directed the controversial documentary “Jenin Jenin” fights in Israeli courts a libel suit made by five Israeli soldiers claiming that he portrays them as war criminals who committed a massacre and horrific war crimes in the refugee camp of Jenin The Israeli narrative confronts the Palestinian one and there is no hope.
A10truth, nothIng, but…אם לומר את האמת...
contact Person: Eytan Harrismobile: +972 52 2643525Email: harris@netvision.net.il
Director & ProducerEytan HarrisCompanyEytan Harris Productions Ltd.
Length – 70', 50' version is availableFormat – Hddate of Release – oct 2014original language – Hebrew, Arabic, Englishsubtitles – English
Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-IsraelThe Second Authority for Television & Radio
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 2
FestivalsHaifa FF
presented atCoPro
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Family Ties
FAmILy TIEs
Liza hasn’t seen her son Leonid, a deserter, for the past twelve years. Now she is flying to Russia to bring him back to Israel. During this short visit, she manages to overcome the sense of detachment and causes Leonid to long for his family, for Israel. What he refuses to accept is the price that he must pay for returning: a year and a half in military prison.
B17 Days In st. petersburg 7 ימים בסנט פטרסבורג
contact Person: Reuven Brodskymobile: +972 52 4244091Email: ruven.bro@gmail.com
Director & ProducerReuven BrodskyCompanyReuven Brodsky
Length – 60'Format – dVd date of Release – 2015original language – Hebrew, Russiansubtitles – Hebrew, English
Involved Film InstitutionThe Israeli lottery council for culture and arts
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu
FestivalsDocAviv 2015
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Gilles and Esther Alexander struggle with the loss of two sons to suicide during military service, and also with the condemnation of the religious kibbutz where they live. Suicide is regarded as a sin, as a source of shame, and expects the grieving parents to keep quiet. The Alexandres refuse to succumb: They launch a public campaign to reshape the Orthodox discourse on suicide.
B2agaInst your wIll על כורחך
contact Person: Assaf Banittmobile: +972 54 5390545Email: asbanitt@yahoo.comdistributor: Go2Films — Hedva GoldschmidtTel: +972 2 5831371 mobile: +972 54 6184547Email: office@go2films.comwebsite: go2films.com
Director & ProducerAssaf BanittCompanyAssaf Banitt
Length – 51'Format – PAL/Hddate of Release – may 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English, French
FAmILy TIEs
Once she realizes her death is imminent, Liora, a 54 years old woman, decides to organize her departure from life with no compromises. As a doctor of philosophy in Biology and a medical researcher, she treats her upcoming death as if it was a scientific project. She creates a "Finalize and Overlap" folder in her computer, in where she lists all the tasks she wants to accomplish before her approaching death. This 'project' would mostly affect her close-ones remaining in the following days, months and years after she's gone. A year after her passing away, we meet her family and reveal if her plan was successful. Is it possible to plan the unpredictable? Can facing death be also a vivid experience?
B3all that remaIns מה שנשאר
contact Person: ofer shemermobile: +972 54 2800139Email: ofer.mara@gmail.com
Director & ProducerKineret Hay GillorCompanyIndependent
Length – 59'Format – Hd camdate of Release – mar 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
Involved Film InstitutionZolkov Foundation
FestivalsPhilippines World Premieres FF
FAmILy TIEs
30 31
Barak Rotem (The director) always knew that his grandfather was a murderer. Only now he had the courage to ask why. A family journey between three continents and three generations of women, begins when dusty letters are discovered and make everyday situations become more conflicted. This is a portrait of a loving family leaving in the shadow of a tragedy. Between the search for an apartment in NY, fertility treatments, casual encounters and a first love, a story of memory and love is told.
B4carDboarD boxesאריזות
contact Person: Barak rotem mobile: +972 54 5468928Email: barakristal@gmail.com
Director & ProducerBarak Rotem
Length –57'Format – Hddate of Release – Jan 2015original language – Hebrew, Englishsubtitles – Hebrew, English
Involved Film InstitutionGesher multicultural Film Fund-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
FAmILy TIEs
The film tells the story of how the divorce of a woman, who went on to become a renowned author, and her husband, an esteemed rabbi, shook the religious city of Bnai Brak and affected the lives of their seven children, 30 years ago. It follows a family divided between two conflicting worlds of the Ultra-Orthodox and the secular. One of the daughters embarks on a journey among the ghosts of her childhood trying to reunite her family and build one of her own.
B5famIly mattersגרסא דיקונתא
distributor: Go2Films — Hedva GoldschmidtTel: +972 2 5831371 mobile: +972 54 6184547Email: office@go2films.comwebsite: go2films.com
DirectorNoa RothProducerAvigail SperberCompanyPardes Prodactions-Avigail Sperber
Length – 70'Format – Hd dcPdate of Release – may 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel The Avi Chai Foundation
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
FestivalsDocAviv 2015
FAmILy TIEs
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A documentary film, filmed both in Israel and in Auschwitz, with rare archive materials that accompanies the voyage of a Capo’s son to the awful truth. A film that reveals the horrifying survivor's testimonies regarding his father to the live character for the first time, at a place where the events occurred 70 years ago.
B6kozalchIk affaIrפרשת קוזלצ'יק
contact Person: Tuvi ArbelTel: +972 9 7680237mobile: +972 52 2683758Email: tuvi@arbeltelevison.comwebsite: arbeltelevision.com
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DirectorRoni NinioProducerTuvi ArbelCompanyArbel Television
Length – 50'Format – Hddate of Release – Apr 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – Hebrew, English
Broadcasting Platforms: Israel Television – Channel 1
Velvel, Ranni's father, was a rather poor orphan, who married Raya Strauss and began working in the family owned factory (which start as a small dairy farm and became one of the biggest food conglomerate in Israel). They divorced when Ranni was 10, and for him, his father remained this strict meticulous withdrawn man who tore the family apart. 8mm reels, discovered after his death arouse questions that lead Ranni to embark on a personal journey between his parents' very different worlds in an attempt to better understand his father and the complexities of family loyalty, trying to overcome years of alienation. Looking at his family from behind the camera, he is reshaping his memories.
B7marryIng anIce cream factoryלהתחתן עם בית חרושת לגלידה
contact Person: Erez Laufer Tel: +972 3 5248407mobile: +972 50 7927002Email: laufererez@gmail.com
DirectorRanni Midyan ProducerErez Laufer CompanyErez Laufer films
Length – 72'Format – Hd camdate of Release – may 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
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25 years after the death of actress Talia Shapira, her son begins a journey to recount her life. His starting point is a search through the vast belongings his mother left behind – diaries, stories, films, audio tapes – he peels those memories until arriving at the most significant moment in their relationship, Talia's last days. The unorthodox way in which the director has chosen to describe this process of deciphering Talia's life, 17 chapters of an observation, which constitute an abstract and emotional mosaic, this is an intense investigation into the essence and meaning of a dialogue between mother and son, a dialogue that transcends words and time.
B817 begInnIngs of talIa התחלות על טליה 17
contact Person: Anath kandellmobile: +972 52 8386968Email: kandell.anath@gmail.com
DirectorYoni BentovimProducerAnath KandellCompanyOne Light Productions
Length – 73'Format – prorezdate of Release – 2015original language – Hebrew, Englishsubtitles – English
Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 8, Israel
FestivalsDocAviv 2015
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While preparing for their wedding, Sivan Mor Goldman, a young 29 year old film director and her fiancé Ronen, discover that Sivan has a cancerous lump in her breast. With the help of a camera, family and good friends, they embark on a difficult and emotional journey, filled with challenges they meet with humor and optimism.
B9my bIg fat cancer weDDIng עד החתונה זה יעבור
contact Person: sivan mor Goldman mobile: +972 54 3185002Email: morsiva@gmail.comwebsite: facebook.com/cancerwedding
DirectorSivan Mor Goldman ProducersBaruch Ivcher, Sivan Mor Goldman, Osnat TrabelsiCompanyTrabelsi Productions
Length – 60'Format – Hddate of Release – Apr 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
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FestivalsDocAviv 2015
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Na'hche is a Duet between the legendary composer who won The Prize of Israel, Nachum Heiman, and his daughter - the rock singer Si Heiman. They sing in two different voices. Si is sentimental and Na'hche is restrained. Nah'che is the leading voice, and Si is waiting for his recognition, she is waiting for him to write her a song, and for him to be a father.
B10nahche נחצ'ה
contact Person: Anat Gorenmobile: +972 54 7950489Email: anatgoren10@gmail.com
Director & ProducerAnat GorenCompanyDrucker Goren production Ltd.
Length – 70'Format – dVdate of Release – mar 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
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Broadcasting Platforms: Yes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
FestivalsEPOS The International Art Film Festival
P.S. Jerusalem is the story of one family in search of a home. An intimate portrayal of the director's own family over the course of three years reveals a painful portrait of Jerusalem and Israel today. Daughter of acclaimed author Amos Elon, director Danae Elon decides to defy her father's last wishes and return to live in Jerusalem. Through her camera’s lens, she narrates her children’s and her husband’s experiences, bravely exposing all the complexities of life in Jerusalem, and one family’s challenge to find a “home.”
B11p.s. Jerusalemלא פה לא שם
contact Person: danae ElonTel: +1 5148131926Email: danaeelon@gmail.comwebsite: danaeelon-films.com
DirectorDanae ElonProducerPaul CadieuxCompanyAtria Films
Length – 87'Format – Hddate of Release – summer 2015original language – English, Hebrew, Arabicsubtitles – English
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 8, Israel
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Sivan – the Director sets out to quit smoking together with his Uncle Jacob, a heavy smoker whose life is in danger. The initial plan involves recruiting the entire addicted family, but rapidly twists and turns as it becomes a more complex and eventful story. Sivan, who is about to become a father, inevitably has to confront the painful memories of his father's suicide, while Jacob's health continues to deteriorate.This dark humored, smoke-filled film shares the story of a tight, loving, self-destructive family, as they reach out to smokers everywhere active or passive...
B12savIng uncle Jacob להציל את דוד יעקב
contact Person: david Noymobile: +972 50 7321555Email: noy.david@gmail.comwebsite: cinemax-prod.co.il
DirectorSivan ShtiviProducerDavid NoyCompanyCinemax Productions Ltd.
Length – 72'Format – Hddate of Release – may 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
Involved Film InstitutionGesher multicultural Film Fund-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
FestivalsDoc-Aviv 2015
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In August 2002, Israeli soldier Kayven Cohen was killed in Gaza. Moments after receiving the news, his parents made an unprecedented decision: to harvest sperm from his body to enable him to father a child. 11 years later, his mother launches a search for the woman who will become her grandchild's mother and raise him. 9 months of pregnancy turn into a long turbulent journey leading up to one incomprehensible moment.
dstributor: Go2Films — Hedva GoldschmidtTel: +972 2 5831371mobile: +972 54 6184547Email: office@go2films.comwebsite: go2films.com
DirectorTzipi BaiderProducersMor Tegger Delarya
Length – 77'Format – Hd date of Release – 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
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FestivalsIsraeli Film Festival of Philadelphia 2015
B13seeD of lIfeמשהו ממני
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Four beguiling Russian immigrants, only daughters, met at a theater workshop and became an alternative family. Two years on, through a spiral narrative of memory, they untie the bonds to their loaded pasts, hearken to their inner voices and choose the best for the present: Diana Golbi auditions for Israeli Idol. Marta, an uneducated street urchin, auditions for a prestigious acting school. Anna joins a combat unit and deals with her eating disorders and The Redhead realizes she's a flower...
contact Person: Itay ken-TorTel: +972 52 2834077Email: kentormi@hotmail.com
DirectorYael GurProducerItay Ken-TorCompanyItay Ken-Tor
Length – 80'Format – Hddate of Release – Jul 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
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Involved Film InstitutionGesher multicultural Film Fund-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsThe Second Authority for Television & Radio
Festivals Jerusalem FF
B14spIralsספירלות
This film tells the story of a group of young women living on the street, casualties of heroin and prostitution. Robbed of their childhood, they now find themselves trapped in a spiral of addiction that too often leads to death. These stories offer answers to questions about my own past, as a child who was taken from her drug-addled mother, a prostitute, but more than that, just a girl.
B15strung outבת זונה
contact Person: Lee shira- moviePlus ProductionsTel: +972 3 5164373mobile: +972 54 2804049Email: leelu@movieplus.info
DirectorNirit AharoniProducerDavid MandilCompanyMoviePlus Productions
Length – 110':29'Format – ProResdate of Release – 2015original language – Hebrew, Englishsubtitles – English
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Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
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The saga of a restless & relentless Anglo-Jewish Family which according to it's founding fathers, served as God's gift to Zionism, is exposed by the director, a member of the family himself, from an alternative humorous angle.
B16the bentwIch synDromeסינדרום בנטביץ'
contact Person: Gur Bentwich mobile: +972 54 6820211Email: gurumaya@gmail.comwebsite: planetgur.com
Director & ProducerGur BentwichCompanyGuruMaya Productions
Length – 69'Format – Prorez \ dcPdate of Release – may 2015original language – Hebrew, Englishsubtitles – English, Hebrew
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Involved Film InstitutionMakor Foudation for Gesher multicultural Film Fund-Israel The Avi Chai Foundation
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 8, Israel
FestivalsDocAviv 2015
A journey through Kabbalah, heroin, chaos & redemption. For 10 years, Yannai has filmed his and his Mother's lives changing dramatically. His mother, Faiga, is a holocaust survivor who at 45, married the Rabbi Ashlag when he was 85. He taught her the secrets of Kabbalah and then passed away. Since then, the Rebbetzin Faiga tries to save the world from self annihilation by teaching Kabbalah. At age of 14 Yannai ran away and became a heroin addict. Today he lives in Jerusalem, telling his life's story through film. This is a film that explore and strives for the concept of home.
B17the chaos wIthInמול התוהו שבה
contact Person: sylvain Biegeleisen mobile: +972 54 4920650Email: sylvainbig@gmail.com
DirectorYakov Yannai LeinProducerSylvain Biegeleisen CompanyZen Productions (Israel)
Length – 87'Format – sddate of Release – oct 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
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Involved Film InstitutionThe Israel Film FundThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-IsraelThe Avi Chai FoundationThe Second Authority for Television & Radio
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
FestivalsThe Haifa Film Festival 2014 – Special Mention Award
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Martine Stonehouse and John Gelmon are middle-aged underdogs, living with Asperger Syndrome. Despite their social limitations, both dream of getting married, but straight-identifying John refuses to tie the knot until transsexual Martine gets a real vagina. Will Martine and John find the happiness together that they deserve? Transfixed is a deeply human story about freedom, self-actualization and the quest for happiness – one that anyone who has ever longed for love and acceptance can empathize with and understand.
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world dstributor: cAT&docs (catherine Leclef)Tel: +33 1 44 617748mobile: +33 6 33648602Email: cat@catndocs.comwebsite: catndocs.com
North American distributor:Filmoption International-Andrew NobleTel: +1 514 9316180 x 2657Email: anoble@filmoption.comwebsite: filmoption.com
Director & ProducerAlon KolCompanyTransficedFilms INC
Length – 74' and 52'Format – Hddate of Release – mar 2015original language – Englishsubtitles – None
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Involved Film InstitutionThe Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Art Council, Ontario Art Council.
Broadcasting PlatformsIsrael Television Channel 8
FestivalsThessaloniki International Film Festival 2015
When the doctor tells him that his mother, in her nineties, does not have long left, Sylvain Biegeleisen visits her every day. Against all the odds, she seems to “decide” to hang around for a while... A luminous film on tenderness as a possible source of youth. An optimistic approach to Ageing full of humor and hope !
B19twIlIght of a lIfe עד קצה הזריחה
dstributor: cAT&docs catherine LeclefTel: +33 144 617748mobile: +33 633 648602Email: cat@catndocs.comwebsite: catndocs.com
DirectorSylvain BiegeleisenProducersSylvain Biegeleisen, Gregory Zalcman, Alon KnolCompanyZen Productions (Israel),Take Five (Belgium)
Length – 70' (Festivals-Film Theaters),52' (TV version)Format – Hddate of Release – Apr 2015original language – Frenchsubtitles – English, Hebrew, Flemish, French (for hard of hearing & sand-blind)
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Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-IsraelThe Jewish Foundation (Belgium), The Belgian Tax Shelter
Broadcasting PlatformsThe Second Authority for Television (Channels 2 & 10)
FestivalsDocAviv"Visions du Réel" NyonDokFest MunchenDocville Belgium
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Larger than Life Victor Grayevsky entered the pantheon of Israeli intelligence thanks to courageous and heroic actions. As a journalist in Poland and at great personal risk, Grayevsky smuggled out a secret document – the speech of Nikita Horstzov, which first revealed Stalin's crimes. Just before his death in 2007, it turned out that Grayevsky had kept another great secret – he secretly worked as a spy, ostensibly in the service of USSR but in fact, he worked for the State of Israel.
C1apollonIaאפולוניה
distributor: Ruth diskin Films Ltd.Tel: +972 2 6724256Email: ruth@ruthfilms.com website: ruthfilms.com
LARGER THAN LIFE
Broadcasting PlatformsIsrael Television – Channel 1
FestivalsHaifa FF
DirectorOfir TraininProducersMicha Shagrir, Tal BardaCompanyTapuz Productions Ltd.
Length – 64'Format – Hddate of Release – Feb 2015original language – Hebrew, Polish, Englishsubtitles – English
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Ravikovitch struggled with depression and fluctuated between intense vitality and eagerness to partake in any moral and political discussion and deep loneliness that led to her attempted suicide, all of which is reflected clearly in her work. The film weaves her poetry and biography into an intricate story, attempting to solve the riddle of her life through people who knew her intimately and through rare archive material.
C2clockwork Dollבובה ממוכנת
contact Person: Liran Atzmormobile: +972 52 8003362Email: liranatzmor@hotmail.comwebsite: thelawfilm.com
distributor: Go2Films — Hedva GoldschmidtTel: +972 2 5831371 mobile: +972 54 6184547Email: office@go2films.comwebsite: go2films.com
LARGER THAN LIFE
Involved Film InstitutionMakor Foundation for Israeli Films
Broadcasting PlatformsIsrael Television Channel 1
FestivalsDocAviv 2015
DirectorRuth WalkProducersLiran Atzmor, Yael PerlovCompanyAtzmor productions
Length – 53'Format – Hddate of Release – may 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
A confession-film in which Matti Caspi, a leading Israeli musician, reveals a lifetime of struggle. A musically gifted child who suffered from Polio, was raised in a family without love in a kibbutz in the 1950's, through the days of military band, musical hits, stardom after which came an endless downfall. The film ends with Matti's return to center stage after years of struggle.
C3matI caspI ־ confessIon מתי כספי - וידוי
contact Person: shemi shoenfeldTel: +972 3 5049440mobile: +972 50 5478927Email: comebackf@gmail.com
distributor: Go2Films — Hedva GoldschmidtTel: +972 2 5831371 mobile: +972 54 6184547Email: office@go2films.comwebsite: go2films.com
LARGER THAN LIFE
Involved Film InstitutionMakor Foundation for Israeli Films
Broadcasting PlatformsIsrael Television – Channel 1
FestivalsDocAviv 2015
DirectorsDalia Mevorach, Dani DothanProducersShemi Shoenfeld, Uri Borreda, Amitan MenelzonCompanyComeBack Films
Length – 85'Format – dcP, proress, dVddate of Release – may 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
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With cancer racing through his body, documentary film director Nir Toib, is set out to save his own life.Just like any other film he directed, Nir fought for the wisdom of the unseen and for the truth. In the last film he ever made, Nir manages his disease in such an outstanding way that he reaches a scientific breakthrough that is already changing lives of many lung cancer patients around the world. The sky is the limit, as long as you choose life.
C4therefore choose lIfe ובחרת בחיים
contact Person: Galit Lieber-Toibmobile: +972 54 4868669Email: galit@lieber-bakara.comgn@gn-com.com
LARGER THAN LIFE
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu – DBS Satellite ServiceReshet – Channel 2
DirectorsNir Toib, Gil IzackovProducerG.N.Communication Nir Toib Ltd
Length – 94'Format – Hddate of Release – Feb 2015original language – Hebrew, Englishsubtitles – Hebrew, English
Isaac Bashevis Singer, the famous Yiddish writer and Nobel Prize winner wrote with a 'harem' of dozens of translators behind him. Beyond simple translation, these women were a vital source of his creativity. The inspiration he drew from them came in many forms, often mixing romance with professional aspirations. Today nine remain to tell his story. Intimate, poignant interviews and exclusive archival footage combine to portray the unknown story of an author who charmed and enchanted his audiences, just like he charmed and enchanted his translators. A film about both the vary art of translation and one of the great figures of the twentieth century literature.
C5the muses of Isaac bashevIs sIngerהמוזות של בשביס זינגר
distributor: cinephilTel: +972 3 5664129Email: info@cinephil.co.il website: cinephil.co.il
LARGER THAN LIFE
Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-Israel Leon Recanati FoundationThe Israel Film Council
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
FestivalsHaifa FF 2014, Miami International FF 2015New York Jewish Film Festival 2015: Opening night
DirectorsShaul Betser, Asaf GalayProducersShaul Betser, Keren Michael, Asaf GalayCompanyAntenna Productions
Length – 72'Format – dcP date of Release – oct 2014original language – English, Hebrew, yiddishsubtitles – English
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Portrayals of Other On Christmas Eve 2013, some 10,000 asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan gathered at Levinsky Park. From there they marched in an orderly fashion to Ha’Aliya Street, and continued across downtown Tel Aviv, until they reached Rabin Square, where they gathered around Yigal Tomarkin’s looming statue, “Holocaust and Rebirth.” It seemed as if every monument along the way, the names of every street and building added meaning to the demonstration, and transformed these hapless refugees into yet another link in the chain of Tel Aviv’s history.
D1a DemonstratIon Inthe whIte cItyהפגנה בעיר הלבנה
contact Person: Tal Haim yoffemobile: +972 54 8188853Email: Thyoffe@Gmail.com
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Directors & ProducerTal Haim Yoffe
Length – 48'Format – PRoREsdate of Release – may 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
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During the protest of summer 2011, we met the homeless – some suffering from PTSD, others victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, mental illnesses, sex workers and drug addicts – people who had nowhere to go when their tent camp was destroyed. When it was dissolved, a few found themselves in rehab but most had to fend for themselves.
D2bums, go home נשמות לוינסקי
contact Person: claudia Levinmobile: +972 52 2385334 Email: claudia.levin@claudiusfilms.com website: claudiusfilms.com
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Involved Film InstitutionMakor Foundation for Israeli Films
Broadcasting PlatformsIsrael Television – Channel 1Yes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
FestivalsDocAvivCinema South Festival
Directors & ProducerClaudia LevinCompanyClauduis films. LTD
Length – 57'Format – dcPdate of Release – may 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – Hebrew, English
Hotline, the film, gets to the heart of this association and observes how an NGO functions in the democratic arena. In following the Hotline's volunteers and employees in their daily activities in public information meetings, at the Knesset, Supreme Court, etc., “Hotline” explores, beyond the complexity of the Israeli case, the universal topic of immigration and refugees.
D3hotlIneהוטליין
distributor: Go2Films — Hedva GoldschmidtTel: +972 2 5831371 mobile: +972 54 6184547Email: office@go2films.comwebsite: go2films.com
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Involved Film InstitutionCinema project – Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
DirectorSilvina LandsmannProducersSilvina Landsmann,Pierre-Olivier BardetCompanyComino Films, Idéale Audience
Length – 99'Format – dcPdate of Release – Feb 2015(Berlinale Forum, Berlin)original language – Hebrew, English, Frenchsubtitles – English
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Mussa, a 12 years old African refugee, lives in a tiny apartment in the slums of Tel Aviv but studies with wealthy kids. He connects with his teachers and friends through hand gestures and facial expressions, he refuses to speak, and no one knows why. His teacher, Anna loves him and provides for all his needs, her son is Mussa's best friend, but they never heard his voice. Mussa's life will change forever when his mother is told she has to leave the country in one week, leaving him devastated, and compelled to leave his father behind.
D4mussaמוסא
distributor: cinephilTel: +972 3 5664129 Email: info@cinephil.co.il website: cinephil.co.il
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Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel The Second Authority for Television & Radio
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 2
FestivalsHot Docs
DirectorAnat GorenProducersAnat Goren, Daniela Rachminov SidiCompanyDrucker & Goren Media ltd
Length – aprox 60'Format – dVdate of Release – Apr 2015original language – Hebrew, Arabic,English, Amharicsubtitles – Hebrew, English
Length – 106'Format – mini dv-Profesional camera date of Release – 2015original language – Englishsubtitles – Hebrew, English
See the beauty Sri Lanka, the land of the smiling people that live daily life in nature that didn’t change for hundreds of years. They teach us their traditional arts, we have happy moments of music with their children, we feel their spirit while they offer to expose us to their festivals and health treatments and we watch from the side the lives of us all. What is necessary for every kind of life to be and flourish is "The Sight “, the sight of the great being.youtube.com/watch?v=RkB0Po6Clq0youtube.com/watch?v=vd8Zv83Uw-A
D5the sIte of thegreat beIngנתיב ההויה הטובה
distributor: Adia pilomobile: +972 54 9941897Email: adayapilo@gmail.com
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Director & ProducerAdia Pilo
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The challenges of immigration are exposed as we follow a family who moves to Israel in 2006 from the Tunisian Island of Djerba. Though the community to which they arrive seems like the most natural place for them to set up their new home, tensions soon arise between the wider community and the Uzan family – and within the family as well. The realities of his new country are at odds with the father’s desire to earn an honest living.
D6the unwelcomIng
זית על מא
distributor: Ruth diskin Films Ltd.Tel: +972 2 672 4256Email: ruth@ruthfilms.com website: ruthfilms.com
DirectorRobby ElmaliahProducersRuthie Shatz, Adi BarashCompanyYulari Films & Fig Films
Length – 73'Format – Hddate of Release – Jul 2014original language – Hebrew, Tunisian Arabicsubtitles – English
Involved Film InstitutionMakor Foundation for Israeli FilmsThe Israeli lottery council for culture and arts
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 8, Israel
FestivalsJerusalem FF
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Reflections of the Past
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The Holocaust of the Jews in the former Soviet Union has remained a mystery many decades after the war. In a journey never before seen on screen, Boris Maftsir sets out to restore the memory of a Holocaust all but forgotten. The work of a lifetime, this is the first film in a multi-part series project about how the Holocaust was all but hidden from official Soviet history – and about those who will not let the memory be erased.
E1guarDIans of remembrance שומרי הזיכרון
distributor: Ruth diskin Films Ltd.Tel: +972 2 6724256Email: ruth@ruthfilms.com website: ruthfilms.com
REFLEcTIoNs oF THE PAsT
Involved Film InstitutionThe Israeli lottery council for culture and artsThe second Authority for Television & RadioClaims Conference, The Joint
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 8, Israel
FestivalsHaifa FF
DirectorBoris MaftsirProducerZvi ShefyCompanyZvi Shefy Productions
Length – 107'Format – Hddate of Release – oct 2014original language – Hebrew, Russiansubtitles – English
This film tells the story of Hedva Rat, who came to Auschwitz in 1944 with her grandparents, and little sister. When they arrived, Josef Mengele sent her family to the left side (their death) and Hedva joined them – although he sent her the right side. Mengele pointed at her again and she was taken away from her family – to live. In all the seven months she was in Auschwitz, Mengele, as she is saying, protected her " A kind, handsome and a true gentleman". Although knowing what he did to her beloved family and to the Jewish people – at large.
E2Josef mengele has saveD my lIfe In auschwItzג'וזף מנגלה הציל את חיי באושוויץ
contact Person: doron BraunshteinTel: +972 3 5335835mobile: +972 50 7815765Email: apollomusik@yahoo.comwebsite: apollobraun.com
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Director & ProducerDoron BraunshteinCompanyDoron Braunshtein
Length – 95'Format – dVddate of Release – dec 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
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Night Will Fall tells the story of the liberation of the Nazi Concentration camps. Using remarkable archive footage and testimony from survivors and liberators, it tells of the efforts made to document the almost unbelievable scenes that the allies encountered on Liberation. The film explores how a team of top filmmakers, including Sidney Bernstein, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock came together to make a film to provide undeniable evidence of what the allies found. Each new generation deserves access to this evidence.
E3nIght wIll fall ירד הלילה
distributor: cinephilTel: +972 3 5664129Email: info@cinephil.co.ilwebsite: cinephil.co.il
REFLEcTIoNs oF THE PAsT
DirectorAndré SingerProducersSally Angel, Brett RatnerCompanyAngel TV, Spring Films
Length – 75'Format – dcPdate of Release – Jun 2014 (sheffield world Premiere)original language – English, Russian, Hebrewsubtitles – English
Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 8Keshet – Channel 2
Festivals2014 World Premiere (7 June): Special Jury Honourable Mention, Jerusalem FF 2014 (15 July): Special MentionIDFA 2014
This is a poignant untold story of warmth and compassion after the horrible WW2. Thousands of Jewish survivors landed in Southern Italy on their way to Israel, and were warmly welcomed by the poor locals. In this time of psychological and physical healing, hundreds of children were born. The film follows the story of three Israeli women who were born then, in Santa-Maria-di-Leuca. It weaves rare historical footage with unique current testimonials capturing a ray of light after great darkness.
E4shores of lIghtאור בקצה המגף
contact Person: yael katzirTel: +972 3 6421648mobile: +972 52 2207949Email: katziry@gmail.com
REFLEcTIoNs oF THE PAsT
DirectorYael KatzirProducersGady Castel, Yael KatzirCompanyKatzir Productions
Length – 57'Format – dcPdate of Release – Jan 2015 original language – Italian, Hebrewsubtitles – English, Hebrew
Broadcasting PlatformsMediaset Italia, Rete 4
FestivalsDocAviv 2015Valdarno FF Italy
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Human soaps in the Holocaust – truth, commemoration and memory. The film depicts the theme of manufacturing soap from the bodies of Jews during the Holocaust from historical, social and cultural aspects, and explains its disappearance from the Israeli narrative over the years. Throughout the film Holocaust researchers claim it is a myth while survivors convinced that it occurred even to their relatives.
E5soapsסבונים
contact Person: Eyal BallasTel: +972 54 4944171mobile: +972 54 494171Email: eyal@ballas-eng.co.il
REFLEcTIoNs oF THE PAsT
Director & ProducerEyal Ballas
Length – aprox 56'Format – Pal widescreendate of Release – mar 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – Hebrew, English
A Docu-Drama. The story of an Algerian – republican anti-Nazi resistance, which – on November 8th 1942 – succeeded, with only 400 volunteers, in capturing the city of Algiers thus dramatically affecting the outcome of Operation Torch – the Allies’ first victory on the Western front in World War II.
E6 the nIght of fools ליל הפתאים
distributor: michael Treves − JmT Films distribution, co-productions & world salesmobile: +972 52 3633398Email: jmtfilms.com/201353/about-uswebsite: jmtfilms.com/201353/about-us
Director & ProducerRami Kimchi CompanySheder Productions
Length –57'Format – Hddate of Release – dec 2014original language – Hebrew, Frenchsubtitles – French, English
Involved Film InstitutionGesher multicultural Film Fund-IsraelThe Avi Chai FoundationIsrael National channel 1
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 1 – The national TV channel of Israel
FestivalsJerusalem FF
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The story of 3 ex-pilots and a navigator in the Israeli Airforce all in their eighties, who decide to come clean about their true identities as holocaust survivors and venture out on a journey throughout their lost childhoods, their silent youth and their glory days as pilots.
E7there anD here שם וכאן
distributor: Go2Films — Hedva GoldschmidtTel: +972 2 5831371 mobile: +972 54 6184547Email: office@go2films.comwebsite: go2films.com
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 10
DirectorAvida LivnyProducerOmer tv
Length – aprox 58'Format – dcPdate of Release – Jul 2015(Jerusalem film festival)original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
REFLEcTIoNs oF THE PAsT
In 1943, 250 Jewish Salaverry Workers, successfully escaped from a Nazi labor camp in Novogrudok, Belarus, via a tunnel they dug. The film follows the remaining escapees alive today, accompanied by their descendants, in an attempt to find the tunnel. The archaeological excavations dug up not only piles of dirt and some physical remnants, but also dredged up the memories, pain and hope of 3 generations which merge to become one story.
E8tunnel of hopeבריחה
distributor: Go2Films — Hedva GoldschmidtTel: +972 2 5831371 mobile: +972 54 6184547Email: office@go2films.comwebsite: go2films.com
Director & ProducerDror H. Shwartz
Length – aprox 88'Format – dcPdate of Release – 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
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The Face of Her Reality Alia fought for an entire decade to obtain a small council flat in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat-Shmona. 50 years on it has become her prison, due to her deteriorating health. Documented by her granddaughter in a continuous visual journey spanning a decade, Alia transforms her narrowing world through a variety of artistic activities. Her own memoirs encompass the collective stories of the Moroccan community in Israel and of all women at the fringes of society.
F1alIaעליה
contact Person : Noam EdryTel: +972 52 3662325Email: noam.edry@gmail.comwebsite: noamedry.com
THE FAcE oF HER REALITy
Director & ProducerNoam Edry
Length – 47'Format – Hddate of Release – 2014 original language – Hebrew, spanishsubtitles – Hebrew, English
FestivalsLibi Bamizrach (My Heart is in the East)June 2015 – Tel Aviv Cinematheque
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The film focuses on women that are defined as "the collapsing middle class" and reveals naked, brave lives. The film's heroines are four 45-50 years old women that excelled in their fields, believed in education and hard work – and were still kicked out of the work force, and into the circle of poverty. The four women fight to survive financially, but also to preserve their sense of self. Against all odds, they fight to overcome the void and re-invent themselves.
F2brokeמרוששות
contact Person : shula spiegelTel: +972 3 5610120mobile: +972 50 5209349Email: office@spiegelmovies.com
THE FAcE oF HER REALITy
DirectorJulie ShlesProducersShula Spiegel, Dana EdenCompanyShula Spiegel Ltd. &Donna Productions TV and Movies (2001) Ltd.
Length – 50'Format – Hddate of Release – may 2015 original language – Hebrewsubtitles – Hebrew, English
Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 8, Israel
FestivalsDocAviv 2015
Shuli Arbib was divorced with three daughters when she met Goel Razon, who presented himself as a Hiller. He had then 6 wives soon they became also his wives and part of the cult. For more then 10 years they videotaped and photographed the life in the sect. The footage is rare and priceless
F3etcheD In my boDyחרות בגופי
contact Person : Nili TalTel: +972 3 6410805mobile: +972 50 623293Email: ntp@netvision.net.ilwebsite: nilital.com
THE FAcE oF HER REALITy
Director & ProducerNili TalCompanyNili Tal Productions
Length – 73'Format – Hddate of Release – Jan 2015 original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
FestivalsDocAviv FF 2015
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Susan was born with both male and female sex-organs. At age of five months, her parents decided she would be female. At 35 she discovers this. The medical establishment asserts that everyone must be either male or female. Susan dares to question this axiom. This film follows two compelling storylines. One is the story of Susan and her social-activism. The other is the story of Ofer, another intersex individual, whose story is an inspiring mirror image of hers.
F4thIrD person גוף שלישי
contact Person: Aurit ZamirTel: 972 52 6010403Email: aurit@gumfilms.comwebsite: gumfilms.com
THE FAcE oF HER REALITy
DirectorSharon LuzonProducersAurit Zamir, Yoav RoehCompanyGum Films
Length – 58'Format – dcP, dVd-PAL, Pro REsdate of Release – may 2015 original language – Hebrew, Arabic, spanishsubtitles – English, Hebrew
Involved Film InstitutionGesher multicultural Film Fund-IsraelThe Israeli lottery council for culture and arts
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu –DBS Satellite Service
FestivalsDocAviv 15
The Soul and Science
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BackLight deals with elusive gap between dreams and reality. The film documents the life of three backstage crew members, living within touching distance of their dreams: Ilan is a talented singer-songwriter working as a sound technician; Simon is a circus artist working as a high-tower lighting rigger ; and Amiram is an actor working as a lighting technician on film sets. All three are in the shadows of their artistic dreams, as they try to fulfill their personal ambitions and cross the hidden line that separates the backstage from the spotlight.
G1backlIghtפנסים
contact Person: david Noy mobile: +972 50 7321555Email: noy.david@gmail.comwebsite: cinemax-prod.co.il
THE souL ANd scIENcE
Involved Film InstitutionThe Second Authority for Television & Radio
Broadcasting PlatformsIsrael Reshet – Channel 2
FestivalsHaifa FF
DirectorOran MagedishProducersDavid Noy, Yoram IvryCompanyCinemax Productions Ltd.
Length – 65'Format – Hddate of Release – oct 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
The director decides to build himself a bicycle to his particular specifications. To learn how to, he sets out on a journey in search of people whose great love is the bicycle. He meets a former dancer with the Batsheva Dance Troupe, who builds bike frames professionally, a welder from Florentin neighborhood who builds crazy bikes, a musician who performs at his shows on his “Fixie” bike, a farmer who cleared an entire chicken coop just to store the hundreds of bicycles he has collected, and more... This is a movie that begins with an accident, turns into a love story and ends with a big crash.
G2freIlaufפריילופ
contact Person: Tal Haim yoffemobile: +972 54 8188853Email: thyoffe@gmail.com
Director & ProducerTal Haim Yoffe
Length – 48'Format – PRoREsdate of Release – may 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
FestivalsDocAviv 2014
THE souL ANd scIENcE
presented atCoPro
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David Perlov (1930-2003) an Israeli filmmaker. In 1958 immigrated from Brazil to Israel, where he was considered as one of the most important filmmakers in the country and the leading force of the Israeli documentary cinema. In 1973 Perlov had begun to film the "Perlov Diaries" an endeavor that lasted 10 years. He was one of founders of the first and prestigious film school at Tel Aviv University. The film "Perlov – Portrait" tells the life story of Perlov, his art, and his influence of filmmakers in Israel and abroad. A major part of the film deals with Pelov's early days in Brazil.
G3DavID perlov
דוד פרלוב
distributor: michael Treves ־ JmT Films distribution, co-productions & world sales mobile: +972 52 3633398Email: michael@JmTFilms.comwebsite: JmTFilms.com
THE souL ANd scIENcE
DirectorRuth WalkProducerYouval OrrCompanyEilat Media
Length – 67'Format – Hddate of Release – Nov 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 8, Israel
FestivalsHaifa FF
As the world plunges into uncertainty – with multi-faceted crises erupting everywhere and antisemitism at an all-time high – one global thinker offers an unlikely solution that ties it all together while fearlessly shattering our current world view. “Into Truth” is a rare portrait of the controversial Kabbalist, and teacher of millions, Dr. Michael Laitman in his tireless quest for world peace which is calling on Jews to re-examine everything they know and believe to be true.
G4Into truth: a Journey Into the heart of a natIonבדרך לאמת:מסע אל לב האומה
contact Person: Amit shlev mobile: +972 54 30 60 277Email: shalevlev@gmail.comTrailer: vimeo.com/limiko/intotruthtrailer password: intotruthtrailer
THE souL ANd scIENcE
DirectorAmit ShalevProducerOded (Lio) SpieglerCompanyLimiko Films
Length – 48'Format – full Hddate of Release – TBdoriginal language – Hebrew, Englishsubtitles – English
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'North into the Mist' is a documentary which follows 72 year old, Yngve Kristoffersen, a Norwegian scientist who sets out on a dangerous three month expedition in a small hovercraft to remote areas of the Arctic. He intends to fulfill his lifelong dream and prove a theory about an asteroid hitting the Arctic Ocean millions of years ago, affecting the planet till this day. He encounters Extreme weather, hungry Polar Bears, and mechanical difficulties along the way. The theory which inspired the expedition was based on data collected by John Hall on US Ice Station T3 in the late 1960's.
G5north Into the mIstצפונים בקוטב
contact Person: Neil weisbrod, Ariel weisbrod mobile: +972 52 2674697mobile: + 972 52 3805553Email: arielw@gmail.comneil1w@yahoo.com
THE souL ANd scIENcE
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 1
FestivalsChagrin Falls International Film Festival, Cleavland USAWorld Film Festival, Tartu, EstoniaNew York City International Film Festival, Times Square, New YorkRiverside International Film Festival, Riverside, California
Directors & ProducersNeil Weisbrod, Ariel WeisbrodCompanyIndependent
Length – 50'Format – Hd camdate of Release – 2014original language – Englishsubtitles – English
Nissim Aloni was a king of the Hebrew theater. The magical realm he brought to the stage brimmed with imagination and poetry, giving voice and vision to the loftiest dreams. But in a world dominated by mundane democracy and controlled by functionaries, Aloni was an exile king, without a kingdom, without an audience, without critics, and without theater managers to share his whimsical musings with the public.
G6once upon a tIme there was a kIng היה היה מלך ־ נסים אלוני בשלוש מערכות, שתי תמונות ביניים ואפילוג
contact Person: doron djerassi mobile: +972 50 7699465Email: dorondjerassi@yahoo.com
THE souL ANd scIENcE
Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-IsraelThe Israeli lottery council for culture and arts
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 8, Israel
FestivalsDocAviv 2015
DirectorDoron DjerassiProducersLevi Zini, Avishai Peretz,Doron DjerassiCompanyDoc. Films
Length – 80'Format – Hd (dcp) date of Release – 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
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Israel is known in the world as a start-up nation. There are actually more startups in Tel-Aviv than in the whole of Europe and more Venture Capital is invested per person than anywhere else in the world. 4 startup teams are accompanied for 2 years, from having an idea on a napkin and until they hit the jackpot or go bust. Throughout their personal rollercoaster of voyage we catch an intimate and exciting glance on how the 'High-Tech Nation' really works.
G7sIlIcon waDIסיליקון ואדי
distributor:Hadar Porubanova/Go2FilmsTel: +972 2 5831371mobile: +972 54 6184547Email: office@go2films.comwebsite: go2films.com
DirectorsDaniel Sivan, Yossi Bloch Producer Ronen Ben-Tal for Plan B Productions
Length – 82'Format – Hddate of Release – Jan 2015original language – Hebrew, Englishsubtitles – English
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Duco
THE souL ANd scIENcE
A nostalgic, fascinating and heart-breaking journey into a very popular photographed children's books in black & white from the mid-20th century (they were photographed by Anna Riwkin-Brick and most of them were written by Astrid Lindgren).An unbelievable detective story, which follows the missing heroes of the books: Were they real children? Where are they now?
G8where Is elle karIanD what happeneDto norIko-san?איפה אלה קריומה קרה לנוריקו-סאן?
contact Person: dvorit shargal Tel: +972 3 5270185mobile: +972 52 3512025Email: dvoritsh@gmail.com website: dvoritshargal.com
THE souL ANd scIENcE
FestivalsIndian Cine Film Festival, Mumbai 2014. Winner of the Best Documentary – Jury.Filmmakers of the Year Film Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia Nov. 2014DOCfeed festival in Eindhoven, Holland, Feb 2015In BigMuddy FF Carbondale, Illinois, in FebWomen director festival in New Delhi in 2015,Women in media FF in Newark in MarchUniverse Multicultural Film Festival in California, AprilTupelo FF Ms in AprilSaint Tropez & Nice FF in MayCarmarthen Bay Film Festival, Wales, MayCms,International Chilren's Film Festival, Lucknow, India, May
DirectorDvorit ShargalProducersYael Leshem, Dvorit ShargalCompanyKastina Communications LTD
Length – 49':30'Format – HdVdate of Release – sep 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
presented atCoPro
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This is a film about one billion birds and one rare bird. About an unusual species that simultaneously conducts dozens of projects with the determination of a bulldozer. “Mr. Birdman” Prof. Yossi Leshem, a lightly religious, tall, authoritative man with a rugged Israeli charm and the persuasion skills of a salesman who doesn’t take no for an answer.
G9wIngs of change
ללא גבולות
contact Person: Tuvi ArbelTel: +972 9 7680237mobile: +972 52 2683758Email: tuvi@arbeltelevision.comwebsite: arbeltelevision.com
THE souL ANd scIENcE
Broadcasting PlatformsIsrael Television – Channel 1
FestivalsJerusalem FF
Director & ProducerTuvi ArbelCompanyArbel Television
Length – 50'Format – HdVdate of Release – Apr 2015original language – Hebrew,English, Arabicsubtitles – Hebrew, English, Arabic
Untold Stories
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After 30 years of suppressing, forgetting and denying the events at the traumatic battle of Sultan Yaakub that took place In the first Lebanon war, I am compelled to choose between loyalty to my comrades, my unit's officers, and looking at the mirror – to uncover a new and painful truth about manhood, fear and resourcefulness.
H1a closeD story
סיפור סגור
contact Person: micha Livne Tel: +972 4 9909044mobile: +972 54 4388538Email: micha.livne@gmail.com
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Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsIsrael Television Channel 1
FestivalsDocAviv 2015
Director & ProducerMicha Livne CompanyI Docu
Length – 90'Format – dcPdate of Release – Apr 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
One week after the 1967's 'Six-Day War', a group of young kibbutzinks, led by renowned author Amos Oz and Editor Avraham Shapira, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The Israeli army censored the recordings, allowing only a fragment of the conversations to be published. Censored Voices reveals these original recordings for the first time.
H2 censoreD voIcesשיח לוחמים
contact Person: Hilla medaliamobile: +972 54 4791124Email: hilla@knowproductions.netwebsite: censoredvoices.com
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Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-IsraelGesher multicultural Film Fund-IsraelThe Israeli lottery council for culture and arts
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
FestivalsSundance FFHot DocsBerlin FF
DirectorMor LoushyProducersDaniel Sivan, Hilla Medalia,Neta ZwebnerCompanyOne Man Show, kNow Productions
Length – 84'Format – Hddate of Release – Jan 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
presented atCoPro
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A documentary thriller. Two friends discover the tumultuous secrets behind a real double murder video that was posted online by Russian Neo Nazis. As more and more details are revealed, the immediate consequences of the investigation start to endanger their own lives
H3creDIt for murDer
קרדיט לרצח
contact Person: Vladi AntoneviczTel: +972 3 5476335Email: antonevichi@gmail.com
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Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel Tribeca Film Institution
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 8
FestivalsDocAviv 2015
Director & ProducerVladi AntoneviczCompanyMockofiction
Length – 104'Format – Hddate of Release – may 2015original language – Hebrew, Russiansubtitles – English
An unrepentant glimpse at public defenders and the criminals they represent. Attorney client privilege has been lifted for the first time in Israel to present the criminal justice system in a hyper-realistic way. Here are the stories of a racist soccer fan who attacks Arabs, an African nanny accused of causing a baby's death, a customs inspector charged with accepting a bribe, and more. This series focuses on the complexity of the human spirit and the crises facing society today.
H4Defense fIlesתיקים מהסנגוריה
distributor: Hadar Porubanova / Go2FilmsTel: +972 2 5831371 mobile: +972 54 6184547Email: office@go2films.comwebsite: go2films.com
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Involved Film InstitutionMakor Foundation
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu
FestivalsBest Documentary Series, Israeli Documentary Film Forum, 2014Awards: Best Documentary Series, Israeli Documentary Film Forum, 2014
DirectorMoish Goldberg Producer Liran Atzmor
Length – 6 Episodes / 35 minFormat – dcPdate of Release – Jul 2014(Jerusalem Film Festival)original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
presented atCoPro
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70 years before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jerusalem antiques dealer Moses Shapira traveled to London with what he hoped to present to the British Museum as the original version of the Book of Deuteronomy. But the assessment that the scrolls were fake, devastated him and Moses Shapira put an end to his life. For more than 30 years filmmaker Yoram Sabo has been obsessed with clearing Shapira’s name and finding out the fate of the scrolls.
H5shapIra & I
שפירא ואני
contact Person: Ruth diskin Films Ltd.Tel: +972 2 6724256Email: ruth@ruthfilms.comwebsite: ruthfilms.com
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Involved Film InstitutionGesher multicultural Film Fund-IsraelThe Avi Chai FoundationMarc Rich Foundation
Broadcasting Platforms
Reshet – Channel 2
Director & ProducerYoram Sabo
Length – 57'Format – Hddate of Release – Jul 2014original language – Hebrew, Englishsubtitles – English
Tel Aviv during The 1930's. Yehoshua Steinbock emigrates with a group of architects from Europe to Israel. Together, they build internationally styled buildings, which would later be known as part of The White City, the historic center of Tel Aviv. Steinbock died an intellect, a Zionist hero and a great family man. However, shortly after his funeral, another funeral was held in his honor. The second funeral made it apparent that Steinbock had secretly been conducting two separate lives with two different families, each of which had a young girl named Aya.
H6two funeralsשתי לוויות
contact Person: Rotem AzulayTel: +972 2 9942484mobile: +972 50 9942484Email: Rotem_a9@walla.com
uNToLd sToRIEs
Broadcasting Platforms:Yes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
DirectoRotem AzulayProducersYaron Bar, Rotem AzulayCompanyMoked production
Length – 57'Format – Full Hddate of Release – Jul 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
presented atCoPro
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ShortsSince the establishment of the separation barrier, the Jerusalem neighborhoods Ras Hamis and Ras Shahada have been cut off from the rest of the city. The authorities stopped providing services and recently announced about their plan to destroy dozens of buildings in the area. The film tells the story of 3 families struggling with this hard reality.
I13 houses3 בתים
contact Person: omri shenharmobile: +972 54 4906073Email: omrishenhar.wix.com/omrish
FestivalsViewster Online Film FestCulture Unplugged Festival
DirectorOmri ShenharProducersRonit Sela, Marc GreyCompanyThe Association for Civil Rightsin Israel (ACRI)
Length – 9':42'Format – Hddate of Release – may 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English, Arabic
sHoRTs
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Shortly after the birth of my daughter, Eli, our dog, Ian, was diagnosed with cancer. This film documents the last day in Ian’s life where my partner and 6-month year old daughter accompany me on the way to the vet where Ian was put to sleep. Ian's lullaby is a lullaby to death and new life. A silent voyage of fifteen years that despite the pain leaves space for optimism and hope.
I2a lullaby for Ian
שיר ערש לאיאן
contact Person: Asaf yecheskel Tel: +972 3 9302351mobile: +972 52 8386492Email: costanzafilms@gmail.comwebsite: facebook.com/costanzaFilms
Director & ProducerDoron LeveneCompanyKino Kitchen Studio
Length – 10':31'Format – 25 fps 1920 \ 1080 Full Hddate of Release – Jan 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
An animated portrait of the hallucinatory journey of consciousness experienced by Jewish writer Yechiel De-Nur ("KaTzetnik 135633"), during a psychiatric treatment with the hallucinate drug LSD, in the Netherlands, 1976. The treatment guides De-Nur through a re-visit of the "Other Planet" of Auschwitz, during which, he sees himself as the Nazi officer who sent him to burn in the crematorium. This life-altering experience releases De-Nur from his repressed traumas of the past, and engulfs him with new prophecies of a dark possible future.
I3a trIp to theother planetמסע אל הפלנטה האחרת
DirectorTom KlessProducerEyal KeilaCompanySapir College
Length – 15' Format – Full Hd 16:9date of Release – Jun 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
contact details: sapir collegeTel: +972 77 9802787mobile: +972 54 3060819Email: orianab@sapir.ac.il
Involved Film InstitutionDavid Perlov FundRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-IsraelGesher multicultural Film Fund-IsraelSnunit Fund – The Second Authority for Television & Radio
Broadcasting PlatformsKeshet – Channel 2
FestivalsJerusalem FFCinema South Festival
sHoRTs sHoRTs
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This film is based on the ghetto-picture diaries of Erich Lichtblau-Leskly who was sent to Theresienstadt Ghetto at 1942, and during his time there, secretly painted caricatures depicting the day to day life of the Ghetto. The film depicts Yossef's journey through the crowded Ghetto
I4DeJ mI sluka
דיג' מי סלוקה
contact Person:michelle Pose, ofir Goldman Tel: +972 3 5166868mobile: +972 54 2106387+972 54 4999949Email: dist@greenproductions.co.ilmrishona@gmail.comwebsite: firstcourse.net
FestivalsJerusalem Film Festival, 2014
Director & ProducerShira Mekin
Length – 04':38'Format – classic Animation, Hddate of Release – 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
A number of events of Tel-Aviv’s early days are intertwined and poured into the story of a movie premier at Tel-Aviv’s first ever cinema: Eden.
I5eDen restsמנוחת עדן
contact Person: michelle Pose,ofir Goldman Tel: +972 3 5166868mobile: +972 54 2106387+972 54 4999949Email: dist@greenproductions.co.il mrishona@gmail.comwebsite: firstcourse.net
FestivalsMaine Jewish Film Festival, Toronto Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco Jewish, Film festival, Seret Film Festival, Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Jewish Interntional Film Festival
Directors & ProducersOfer Kapota, Natalie Chen,Hadar SitrukCompanyMinshar for Art
Length – 6'Format – Hddate of Release – 2013original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
sHoRTs sHoRTs
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Two men are walking down the street holding each other's hands. Using interviews held by the director with men of his hometown Tel Aviv, this animated short investigates an intimate yet very public gesture. Who's into it? Who avoids at all costs? And how come a public admission of your sexual nature can mean a whole different thing in another culture.
I6horaהורה
contact Person: yoav Brill mobile: +972 54 7918443Email: yoavbrill@gmail.comwebsite: cargocollective.com/yoavbrill
Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-Israel
FestivalsTLVfest, Tel AvivITFS, Stuttgart Kashish, Mumbai
Director & ProducerYoav BrillCompanyTLVfest
Length – 9':23'Format – digital. 16:9date of Release – Feb 2015(First commercial screening)original language – Hebrew, Englishsubtitles – English
Three years ago my brother Ivan passed away. Ivan and I were close, he was an important role model in my life and I thought I knew him as well as he knew me. After his death I realized I was wrong. My brother had many hidden sides and I started feeling like I didn't know him at all. I went on a search to find out who he was. During my search I found his blog. The blog opened up a whole new world and tons of information about Ivan. I created my project from Ivan's blog.
I7Ivanאיוון
contact Person, distributor: michelle Pose, ofir Goldman Tel: +972 3 5166868mobile: +972 54 2106387+972 54 4999949Email: dist@greenproductions.co.il mrishona@gmail.comwebsite: firstcourse.net
FestivalsTel Aviv International Student Film Festival
Director & ProducerAlice Korenyouk CompanyTLVfest
Length – 7':43'Format – Xd-cAmdate of Release – 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
sHoRTs sHoRTs
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Dostories365 is a social documentary & business enterprise with a unique model that raises awareness of social issues by short documentary movies. The personal story of Remy Yulzari, who experienced PTSD in the army, The film depicts the daily journey Remy PTSD, his familiarity with his wife and family while daily coping with PTSD. About five years ago, Rami formed a group, 'Run with Rami', which he helps other PTSDs through the run, the film will show the various relationships of Remy in his life, and the desire to win the PTSD.
I8long DIstance runnIngלרוץ למרחקים ארוכים
contact Person, distributor: Tsipi karlik, dostories365Tel/fax: +972 3 6966321mobile: +972 54 2400960Email: cpkarlik@gmail.comwebsite: site442513.44.webydo.com
Involved Film InstitutionIsraeli Cinemateques
Broadcasting PlatformsYnet internet – Tv onlineSport Channel
FestivalsFive Israeli Cinemateques2 Germany festival, Medimed
Director & ProducerTsipi KarlikCompanydostories365
Length – 13'Format – dVdate of Release – 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
Dostories365 is a social documentary & business enterprise, around the year, with a unique model that raises awareness of social issues – by short documentary movies. The film presents the personal story of Ben, 16 year-old boy, Beitar Jerusalem's goal keeper. A snapshot of contemporary youth in Israel, Ben, is a distressed neighborhood boy, who is trying to fulfill his dream and come out from where he grew up. Using a football frame film presents the contest and his will to succeed, despite the bad starting life.
contact Person, distributor: Tsipi karlik, dostories365Tel/fax: +972 3 6966321mobile: +972 54 2400960Email: cpkarlik@gmail.comwebsite: site442513.44.webydo.com
Involved Film InstitutionIsraeli Cinemateques
Broadcasting PlatformsYnet internet – Tv onlineSport Channel
FestivalsFive Israeli Cinemateques2 Germany festival, Medimed
Director & ProducerTsipi KarlikCompanydostories365
Length – 9'Format – dVdate of Release – 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
I9off sIDeאופסייד
sHoRTs sHoRTs
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In 1978, my brother Amnon (Ami), age 9, and I, age 5, caught the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, a disease spread by ticks. My brother passed away from this disease while I survived. This film follows my father as he makes a trip back to the grave of his son after a 30 years absence. In this process he confronts the grief and loving memory that has remained buried for decades.
I10QualIty tImeזמן איכות
contact Person: Asaf yecheskel Tel: +972 3 9302351mobile: +972 52 8386492Email: costanzafilms@gmail.comwebsite: facebook.com/costanzaFilms
FestivalsOberhausen film festivalSarajevo film festivalSao Paulo international Film festivalHot springs Documentary film festival
Director & ProducerDoron LeveneCompanyKino Kitchen Studio
Length – 10':57'Format – 16:9 (1.78:1) 1920 / 1080p 25date of Release – oct 2013original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
Two tenants. A Palestinian house. A Jewish landlady. We, the two Israeli tenants are intrigued. Who is the actual owner of this house? Furious and scared by our questions, our landlady forbids us to continue the documentary movie we started to shoot. So we create a world of found-objects, a restitution, through which we manage to tell the stories of the house and the aborted movie, between revealing and covering up, between telling and silencing.
I11restItutIonכל הזכויות שמורות
Directors & ProducersAnael Resnick, Laila BettermannCompanyMinshar School for Arts
Length – 11':42' Format – Hd 16:9date of Release – mar 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
contact details:minshar school of Artcontact Person: maya ZaydmanTel: +972 3 6378119mobile: +972 54 2218000Email: production@minshar.org.ilAddress: david Hachmi 18Tel Aviv-yafo 6777818
Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-IsraelZochrot organization
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I12slIght chance of rock
יש מצב להופעה
Director & ProducerNoam Hamou
Anywhere else, the process is simple: a band goes on tour, and sooner or later it comes to a city near you, you get a ticket and go see them live. Not in Israel. Musical performances and rock concerts are typically a routine business, but in our small country, far from the international music scene, where inner dynamics are so irregular and bizarre, things can get complicated. The clip "Slight Chance of Rock" analyzes this complex process and all of its unique causes and variables.
Length – 04':24'Format – Hddate of Release – 2010original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
contact Person:michelle Pose, ofir Goldman Tel: +972 3 5166868mobile: +972 54 2106387+972 54 4999949Email: dist@greenproductions.co.il mrishona@gmail.comwebsite: firstcourse.net
Director & ProducerTsipi KarlikCompanydostories365
I13thIrteenשלוש עשרה
Dostories365 is a social documentary & business enterprise, around the year, with a unique model, that raises awareness of social issues by short documentary movies. Child and family in the preview bar mitzvah ceremony, the documentation describes the family's economic distress in the face of the desire to hold the Bar Mitzvah ceremony. The film shows the options that organizations such as the Line of Grace give the family the possibility to hold the ceremony.
Involved Film InstitutionIsraeli Cinemateques
Broadcasting PlatformsYnet internet – Tv onlineSport Channel
FestivalsFive Israeli Cinemateques2 Germany festivalMedimed
Length – 9'Format – dVdate of Release – 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
contact Person:Tsipi karlik, dostories365 Tel/fax: +972 3 6966321mobile: +972 54 2400960Email: cpkarlik@gmail.comwebsite: site442513.44.webydo.com
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Isaac, a long-time Soviet immigrant, and Brut the dog live together in a dark, memory – filled apartment.Brut’s hind leg has a tumor. Up early, they visit the vet. Isaac anticipates an amputation. Brut is ecstatic to be out.
I14whIte mIstכתמים לבנים
contact Person:michelle Pose, ofir Goldman Tel: +972 3 5166868mobile: + 972 54 2106387+ 972 54 4999949Email: dist@greenproductions.co.ilmrishona@gmail.comwebsite: firstcourse.net
Director & ProducerItay NetzerCompanyMaale School
Length – 04':24'Format – Hddate of Release – 2010original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
FestivalsJerusalem FFDocAvivHot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Towards an Israeli Identity
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So many people still wax nostalgic about that old Friday night ritual when everyone would watch the Arabic-language Movie of the Week. But did anybody ever wonder why Israel’s official TV station, insisted on showing movies made by “The Enemy”? The films let us peek out from our “Villa in the Jungle” and catch a glimpse at our neighbors across the border. But most of us didn’t really want to see those people, whose culture, anguish, and aspirations flickered on our screens.
J1arab movIe
סרט ערבית
contact Person: Trabelsi Productions Tel: +972 3 5660398mobile: +972 50 2266413 Email: Info@trabelsiproductions.com
DirectorsEyal Sagui Bizawe, Sara TsifroniProducerOsnat TrabelsiCompanyTrabelsi Productions
Length – 60'Format – Hddate of Release – may 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – Hebrew, Arbic, English
TowARds AN IsRAELI IdENTITy
Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-IsraelGesher Multicultural Film Fund-IsraelThe Avi Chai Foundation
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 8, Israel
FestivalsDocAvivCinema South Festival
J2 my shabbathהשבת שלי
contact Person: ofir Traininmobile: +972 50 7527054Email: ofirtra74@gmail.com
DirectorOfir TraininProducerNir FinkelsteinCompanyPrometheus
Length – 46'Format – Hddate of Release – Feb 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
TowARds AN IsRAELI IdENTITy
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
An ex orthodox visits the beach in Shabbat for the first time; A DJ awaiting all week for the big weekend party; Sabbath gentile (Muslim Arab) that serves the orthodox Jewish community; Three generations of one family preparing a special dish for Friday's dinner on their roof top "My Sabbath" is an innovative experiment comprised of short smartphone videos, which were filmed and sent from hundreds of people around Israel. The movie focuses on a few central stories that occur during the weekend and are composed into a montage of dozens of personal viewpoints. Through this unique style the movie gives the viewer a distinctive view of the meaning and sense of the Israeli weekend.
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Between life and death on the mountain of olives – A portrait of a holy mountain, weaving together the prophecies, myth, history and 3 human – beings from different faiths who live there in the present, searching for meaning, faith and redemption.
J3noboDy home לא בבית
contact Person: michal BenTovimTel: +972 54 4284076Email: michal.bentovim@gmail.com
Directors & ProducerMichal BenTovim
Length – 58'Format – Hddate of Release – 2015original language – Hebrew, Arabicsubtitles – English
TowARds AN IsRAELI IdENTITy
Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel, The Israeli lottery council for culture and arts
Sderot, Israel: a city of factory workers and rock musicians, the children of Middle Eastern refugees. Despite feeling forgotten by their country as rockets pummel them, Sderot’s citizens persevere. In underground bomb shelters, they create unique rhythms that have transformed Israeli music. Searching for a story about music, filmmaker Laura Bialis stumbles into a world she never imagined. Crossing the line between observer and participant, she presents a tale of music and romance on the frontlines of a never-ending war.
J4rock In the reD zoneרוק בצבע אדום
distributor: Hedva Goldschmidt / Go 2 FilmsTel: +972 2 5831371mobile: 0 52 3321732Email: hedva@go2films.comwebsite: go2films.com
Directors Laura BialisProducersLaura Bialis, Elana Horwich,Ravit Markus, Korelan MattesonCompanyFoundation for Documentary Projects
Length – 90'Format – Hd: dcP/HdcAm/Blu Raydate of Release – oct 2014original language – English, Hebrewsubtitles – English
TowARds AN IsRAELI IdENTITy
FestivalsHaifa Film Festival: World Premiere
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"Winding" tells the untold story of the most infamous river in Israel, the Yarkon. The film places the landscape in the forefront, portraying it as the hero, in that way and by the use of rare archival materials, social and personal stories, the Yarkon River reflects the Israeli narrative in a completely new way and reveals the primary importance in the connection between a society and its land. It is a tale about nature and man.
J5wInDIngפתלתל
contact Person: Avi Levimobile: +972 54 76060366Email: ahalanavi@gmail.com
DirectorAvi BelkinProducerAvi LeviCompanyPtaltal
Length – 61'Format – Hddate of Release – oct 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
TowARds AN IsRAELI IdENTITy
Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
FestivalsHaifa FF – WINNER- Best Israeli Documentary Film
Docs & cuts(Rough cut Screening)
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The documentary film Blend is about the mixture created in the West Bank between wine and conflict, the political and private. By following the process of wine production in three wineries in the West Bank, the film explores the lives of Jewish settler families trying to appropriate the land through the vine roots. Documenting their farm work and wine production provides an unusual look into the mechanism of the occupation.
K1blenDבלנד
distributor: Ruth diskin FilmsTel: +972 2 6724256mobile: +972 50 5400024Email: ruth@ruthfilms.comwebsite: ruthfilms.com
DirectorRachel RusinekProducersEyal Ben Moshe, Rachel
Length – 75'/55' Format – Hddate of Release – Jul 2015original language – Hebrew, Englishsubtitles – English
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Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel
Café Nagler is the story of a family-owned café in Berlin in the beginning of the 20th century. The director embarks on a journey to reveal what she believes is the true story behind the café, her family legacy but discovers that historical truths can sometimes be overrated.
K2cafe naglerקפה נגלר
DirectorMor KaplanskyProducersLiran Atzmor, Yariv Barel,Mor KaplanskyCompanyAtzmor Films
Length – 80' documentary featureFormat – Hddate of Release – End of 2015original language – English, Hebrew, Germansubtitles – English, Hebrew
docs & cuTs
Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-IsraelMakor Foundation for Israeli FilmsGesher multicultural Film Fund-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsKeshet – Channel 2
distributor: Go2Films ־ Hedva Goldschmidtmobile: +972 52 3321732Email: hedva@go2films.comwebsite: go2films.com
presented atCoPro
presented atCoPro
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Just Kids is the story of three brothers, (ages 73, 82 and 84) who set off on a journey to find a cave in the woods of Tuscany, the place where, as children, they hid to escape the Nazis. But more than a search to find a geographical location, the brothers are on their way to locate the common ground of memory, the nexus where the conflicting versions of their stories can come to rest.
K3Just kIDsשלושה אחים ומערה
DirectorTamar Tal ProducersTamar Tal, Hilla MedaliaCo producersTina Leeb & Jurgen KleinigCompanyTamar Tal Films & Know ProductionsIn co-productionCelluloid Fabrik
Length – 75' Format – Hddate of Release – oct 2015original language – Italian, Hebrewsubtitles – English, German
Involved Film InstitutionMakor Foundation IsraelMDM Leipzig, Germany
Broadcasting PlatformsYes Docu – DBS Satellite Service Arte NDR Germany
contact Person: Tamar TalTel: +972 3 6205672mobile: +972 52 3879377Email: tamar@tamartal.comwebsite: tamartal.com
From the theater in his house, Israeli acting teacher Amir Orian is determined to create change in times of war. "Mixed Feelings" is a story about cultural resistance through theater and about the ungrateful mission of political education. The film starts in one war and ends 5 years later with another; the process captured through the relation between Amir and his students reveals the process of Israeli society in between the wars.
K4mIxeD feelIngsרגשות מעורבים
DirectorGuy DavidiProducersAnna Somershaf, Guy DavidiCompanyGuyDVD Films
Length – 82' Format – Hddate of Release – Jul 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
Involved Film InstitutionGesher multicultural Film Fund-Israel Alter Cine foundation (Canada)Frittord (Norway)
Broadcasting PlatformsNRK (Norway)
contact Person: Guy davidimobile: +972 54 4949831Email: guydvd@gmail.com
presented atCoPro
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"Phantom pain" follows the battle of Rahel, the daughter of Swiss Bishop Patrick Strife, through a high-risk identical twin pregnancy. At the fourth month of the pregnancy, Rahel was informed that one of the fetuses lost pulse and is lying dead alongside to his living twin brother. Due to the high risk for physical disability & brain damage for the surviving fetus, all doctors, without exception, recommended the termination of Rahel's pregnancy; In other words – killing the living fetus.
K5phantom paIn כאב רפאים
Director & ProducerOhad MilsteinCompanyOhad Milstein
Length – 52' \ 72' Format – Hddate of Release – may 2016original language – Hebrew, German, swiss-German, Englishsubtitles – English, Hebrew
Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel
contact Person: ohad milsteinmobile: +972 54 4614262Email: omilstein1@gmail.com
Rabin in His Own Words is an “autobiography” of sorts, since the story is told entirely in his own voice. Thus, the film offers a heretofore unseen perspective on Rabin – his own. The film will relay the personal and political life of the man and the myth – as he lived it. Like any good protagonist, his narrative is well rounded: sacrifice, sacrilege, heroism, hubris, humor and heartache. Rabin in His Own Words brings the man – flesh and blood – back to life, if only momentarily.
K6rabIn In hIsown worDsרבין על רבין
DirectorErez LauferProducersOrly Topel, Vivi HalpernCompanyKol-Miney Productions Ltd.
Length – 90' Format – Hddate of Release – sep 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
contact Person: orly TopelTel: +972 3 6480220mobile: +972 50 5304401Email: orly@kol-miney.com
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Tracing an "honor killing" of a young woman that took place in my hometown Nazareth 40 years ago. This documentary journey aims to unravel the social and political circumstances that had let to her murder and to that of many other Palestinian women. So I trace other stories of "honor killings", meet the families and sometimes also the killers, who have expressed remorse. In order to investigate the causes for this enduring phenomenon and the term "honor killing"
K7sIlence Days
ימים של שתיקה
DirectorAbeer Zeibak HaddadProducersSuheil Haddad, Abeer HaddadCompanyAbeer Productions
Length – 75' Format – Hddate of Release – Nov 2015original language – Arabicsubtitles – English, Hebrew
Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel
Broadcasting Platforms:Yes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
contact Person: Abeer Haddadmobile: +972 50 6382522Email: abeerh.48@gmail.com
In war, atrocities are carried out by the military forces. Soldiers murder, rape and plunder – in the name of war. The village of Kufrein is abandoned in 1948, during the war. Soldiers ransack the village, taking coins and jewelry. The following day, the treasures are given out to the children of the neighboring settlement. Realizing that the treasure is spoils of war from Kufrein, it is quickly gathered up again and buried deep in the earth, until peace returns.
K8 the treasure ofkufreInהמטמון של כפריין
DirectorZohar SelaProducersZohar Sela, Sharon ErezCompanySELA-V
Length – 52' Format – dVcAmdate of Release – End of 2015original language – Hebrew, Arabicsubtitles – English
contact Person: Zohar selaTel: +972 4 6396133mobile: +972 50 5765208Email: zoharsela@netvision.net.il
presented atCoPro
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Hannah Arendt, a well-known and most influential Jewish-German philosopher, caused a great uproar in the 1960s by coining the subversive concept of "banality of evil" when referring to the Nazi evil. Today she evokes renewed interest around the world, especially among youngsters. This film is a personal and spiritual Biography of her in her own voice, so to speak, using rare archives, personal letters and selected quotes.
K9 vIta actIva, the spIrItof hannah arenDtויטה אקטיבה, ביוגרפיהרוחנית של חנה ארנדט
DirectorAda UshpizProducersIna Fishman, Ada UshpizCompanyIntuitive picture, AUfilms
Length – 124' Format – Hddate of Release – 2016original language – English, Hebrew,German, Frenchsubtitles – English, Hebrew
distributor: Hedva Goldschmidt/Go2FilmsTel: +972 2 5831371+972 2 5831371mobile:+972 54 6184547Email: office@go2films.comwebsite: go2films.com
Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-IsraelThe Israeli lottery council for culture and artsSodec Quebec CanadaRogers Documentary Fund Canada
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 8, Israel
CoPro Campus
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Across from the municipal Music Hall in Bat-Yam, there is a large, rundown concrete building. It was part of the public housing project in the 50’s, and most of its lodgers have been there forever… The gap between the two buildings is much larger than their distance.
L11 buIlDIng anD 40 people DancIngבניין אחדוארבעים אנשים רוקדים
Director & ProducerMiki PolonskiCompanyMinshar School of Art
Length – 48' Format – 2kdate of Release – Feb 2015original language – Russian, Hebrewsubtitles – English, Hebrew
contact details: minshar school of Artcontact Person: maya ZaydmanTel: +972 3 6378119mobile: +972 54 2218000Email: production@minshar.org.il
distributor: Go2Films — Hedva GoldschmidtTel: +972 2 5831371 mobile: +972 54 6184547Email: office@go2films.comwebsite: go2films.com
Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-IsraelSnunit Fund – The Second Authority forTelevision & RadioThe David Perlov fund: Keshet Broadcasting ltd
Broadcasting Platforms Channel 2
FestivalsDocAviv 2015
coPRo cAmPus
A 22 yrs. old Holocaust video testimony by Yudith Arnon, a past choreographer and one of the first pioneers of the Israeli Dance, constitute a starting point to a nonlinear and unusual story line and explores new findings and personal artistic commentary by the director and the main characters in her private and professional life in order to preserve, understand and spread her life story. The movie combins both documentary and experimental aspects and style.
L2a-22103 - aIDe mémoIreA-22103 - זיכרון דברים
Director & ProducerYonatan GeronCompanyBezalel Academy of Art and Design
Length – 26' Format – Hddate of Release – Jul 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English, Hebrew
coPRo cAmPus
contact details: Bezalel Academy of Arts and designcontact Person: Raffi yanigerTel: +972 2 5893340Email: festivals-liaison@bezalel.ac.ilAddress: mt. scopus campus,PoB 24046 Jerusalem 9124001
Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 8, Israel
FestivalsDocAviv 2015 (submitted by Bezalel, Selections yet to be made), Krakow FF 2015 (Submitted, Selection made by April 2015), Hot Docs 2015 (Submitted, Selections yet to be made)
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The film follows 83 year old Albert Cohen as he attempts to host and direct the play “Chekov’s Little People” in his home. Albert’s persistent and uncompromising struggle provides a glimpse into the life of one of the most respected actors in Israeli theater. His journey raises questions about the connection between actor and character, stage and home, creation and life.
L3chekhov's 'everyman'
איש קטן של צ'כוב
contact Person: Amir cohnmobile: +972 54 6999441Email: amircohn9@gmail.com
Director & ProducerAmir CohnCompanyTel-Aviv University Film & TV Department
Length – 28':10'Format – Hd-1920:1080date of Release – mar 2015original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
Involved Film InstitutionGesher multicultural Film Fund-Israel
FestivalsEpos the international art film festivalDocAviv 2015
coPRo cAmPus
Three sons as three drag queens portraying their three mothers. This drag queen trio performs at underground queer parties in Jerusalem. After a year performing together, they are facing their final appearance. Following them in the days leading to their last show they reveal the various facets of their lives in a political-comic documentary which exposes the tensions between drag performance and real life.
L4crossIngחוצות
DirectorInbar HoreshProducersInbar Horesh, Antoinette CompanyMinshar school of art
Length – 43' Format – Hddate of Release – may 2015original language – Hebrew, Arabicsubtitles – English
contact Person: Inbar Horeshmobile: +972 54 8191163Email: inbaresh@gmail.com
Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-Israel
FestivalsDocAviv 2015
coPRo cAmPus
presented atCoPro
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Grandma Rebecca must finally leave her home and memories and move in with her children and grandchildren. The separation from her home and her life is unbearably hard. Her family guides her with love and sensitivity to a new future that also has room for her memories. A social documentary that takes an honest look at re-housing parents when they are old and the freedoms and rights that they sacrifice as a result.
L5I'll see you agaInאני אראה אותך בית
Director & ProducerAchva HershtikCompanyThe Ma'aleh School of Television,Film & the Arts
Length – 25' Format – Hddate of Release – Jan 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English
contact details: The ma’aleh school of Television, Film & The Artscontact Person: katie GreenTel: +972 2 6277366mobile: +972 54 4839706Email: festivals@maale.co.ilAddress: 20 shivtei Israel streetJerusalem 9510541
Involved Film InstitutionThe New Foundation for Cinema & TV-IsraelSnunit Fund – The Second Authority for Television & Radio;other
FestivalsDocAviv 2014
coPRo cAmPus
Sashka is a sweet 13 year-old-boy. His family emigrated from Russia to Sderot, a small town in southern Israel, next to Gaza strip. Though they struggled to adjust, Sashka's unique perception of reality kept him going. But at some point the ground beneath him starts to shake and confront his childish optimism with the confusing reality. We follow Sashka's sudden and rapid maturation while he is trying to figure his own way around.
L6sashkaסאשקה
Director & ProducerYana LernerCompanySapir Academic College
Length – 35' Format – Hd date of Release – 2015original language – Hebrew, Russiansubtitles – English, Hebrew
contact Person: yana Lernermobile: +972 54 6346046Email: yana.lerner@gmail.com
Involved Film InstitutionGesher multicultural Film Fund-Israel
festivalsCinema South
coPRo cAmPus
presented atCoPro
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While visiting the Trumpledor Cemetery, I discovered my name engraved in a tombstone. This led me on a quest for my father, who was anything but a “father” to me. My father passed away several years ago and left me with only endless questions and complaints. After speaking with the women of the family, I discovered my father and the movie was my closure.
L7seeDs of gumזרעים של מסטיק
Director & ProducerMiriam BaronCompanyKibbutzim College
Length – 32' Format – Hddate of Release – sep 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – Hebrew
contact Person: Ruth Lev Arimobile: +972 52 2789226Email: ruthlevari@gmail.com
Involved Film InstitutionGesher multicultural Film Fund-Israel - music copyright
coPRo cAmPus
True Colors provides a glance into the world of girls who create makeup video tutorials. It presents teenagers in the age of the Selfie, the searching of femininity in its early stages and sheds light on the power cosmetic companies have in forming these girls’ world. The film raises questions about the definition of knowledge, work, community and success, and is part of a constantly evolving portrait of a generation, that never stops documenting itself and the powers surrounding it.
L8true colorsטרו קאלרז
contact details: Tel Aviv universitycontact Person: Amir TausingerTel: +972 3 6409008mobile: +972 54 5997426Email: amirt@tauex.tau.ac.ilAddress: P.o.B 39040 Tel Aviv – yafo 6907801
Involved Film InstitutionRabinovich Foundation for the Arts-Israel
Broadcasting PlatformsChannel 8
FestivalsSarasota Film Festival Tel Aviv Student Film Festival
DirectorAyelet AlbendaProducersHilla Shitrit, Amir Tausinger, Efrat CohenCompanyGaudeamus Productions
Length – 18'Format – Hddate of Release – Jun 2014original language – Hebrewsubtitles – English, Russian
coPRo cAmPus
presented atCoPro