Jewish Life
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Jews of the Wild West
US 2022, 2023 International release | 82’ | Feature documentaryProduced by: Amanda Kinsey, Electric Yolk Productions
Directed by: Amanda Kinsey
Editing: Molly Paul
Cinematography: Joe Friedman, Bill Stengel, Domingo Lamarre, Dan Anderson, Corey Leavitt, James Chance, Dan Edblom
Sound: Kwan Ki Chau, Corey Leavitt
Colorist: Daniel Goldberg
Supported by: Colorado Forum Fund, Rosalind P Walter Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Heitler Fund
Language: Original English version
Widening the historical lens, this documentary focuses on an under-explored aspect of Jewish history: the role that Jews played in Western American expansion, both in real life and in the movies.
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Lost Lines, Last Traces
Germany 2022 |2x52` | 2part documentaryWritten and directed by: Martin Gressmann
Produced by: Martin Gressmann
Language: German with English Subtitles, French and Spanish version available (2023)
More than seven decades later, director Martin Gressmann ("Das Gelände- The Grounds 2014“) follows the main routes of the death marches through Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where some 200 memorial plaques now stand.
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What If? Ehud Barak on War and Peace
Israel 2021, 85 min, Feature DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Ran Tal
Produced by: Lama Films - Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait; Ran Tal
Editing: Nili Feller
Cinematography: Giora Bejach
Visual researcher: Hagit Ben Yaakov
Research and artistic consulting: Shira Perry
Design and animation: Dovev Alperson, Design Ninjas
Music: Haim Frank Ilfman
Sound Design and Mix: Aviv Aldema
Sound recording: Tully Chen
Color grading: Yoav Raz
North American Distributor: Film Movement
Line producers: Matan Gaida, Karin Etedgi
Poster design: Lahav halevy
Supported by: Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project, The Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports, Other Israel Film Fund, The Israel Film Council, Keshet Broadcasting
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
Ehud Barak is one of the most controversial figures in Israeli politics. It seems there are two kinds of Israelis: those who venerate him, and those who loathe him. Admired for his analytic abilities, but criticized for the tremendous military and diplomatic risks he took, such as the attempt to assassinate Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, or the failed effort to put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this new Ran Tal's film, Barak observes with disillusioned clarity his own history and the history of the State Israel.
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In Secret
Israel 2020, 56 min, Mid-Length DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Lina Chaplin
Produced by: Daniela Reiss Razon
Script: Lina Chaplin, Bracha Zisman Cohen
Editing: Bracha Zisman Cohen
Cinematography: Itzik Portal, Tulik Galon
Music: Didi Erez
Sound Design: Rotem Dror
Supported by: Kan - The Israeli Public Broadcasting, The Film & Media Collaborative, Gesher Multicultural Film Fund and AVI CHAI Foundation
"Anusim" - They are everywhere - Ultra-Orthodox Jews. They cannot be identified. Within them there is a struggle between the inner truth and the outside world.
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Red Scarf
Israel 2020, 60 min, Feature DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Peter Mostovoy
Produced by: Peter Mostovoy
Script: Peter Mostovoy, Vladimir Beider
Editing: Grim Trainin
Cinematography: Israel Fridman
Music: Alex Goldshtain
Sound design: Eva Spitkovsky
Actors: Vitaly Voskoboinikov, Ilya Domanov, Roman Indik, Vitaly Novik, Oleg Rodovilsky, Sergei Rudenya
Supported by: KAN - Israeli Public Broadcasting, The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
Language: Russian with English subtitles
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Tacheles - The Heart of the Matter
Germany 2020, 104 min, Feature DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Jana Matthes & Andrea Schramm
Produced by: Gunter Hanfgarn (HANFGARN & UFER) Jana Matthes & Andrea Schramm (SCHRAMM MATTHES FILM)
Coproducers: ZDF/3sat; WDR
Script: Jana Matthes & Andrea Schramm
Collaboration script and direction: Yaar Harell
Editing: Julia Wiedwald
Cinematography: Lars Barthel Andrej Johannes Thieme
Original Sound: Timo Selengia Nic Nagel Yishai Ilan
Drawings: Sarah Heitz Jonas Greulich
Music: The Notwist Bernd Jestram
Color grading: Matthias Behrens
Supported by: Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
Language: German, Hebrew, English with English and German subtitles
Reconciliation with a Computer Game? Yaar is a young Israeli living in Berlin, refusing being a Jew.
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In His Image
Netherlands 2020, 72 min / 55 min, Feature DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Tami Ravid
Produced by: Iris Lammertsma, Boudewijn Koole
Executive producer: Femke de Wild, Yasmin Van Dorp - Witfilm
Cinematography: Philippe Bellaiche
Editing: Yael Perlov
Sound: Amos Zipori, Tully Chen, Ravid Dvir
Sound design: Taco Drijfhout
Music: Jesse Koolhaas
Supported by: EOdocs, NPO Fund, Dutch Cultural Media Funds
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
Can we create life after death? Should we allow it? A first-time documentary approach, raising ethical and philosophical questions about postmortem preproduction.
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The Optimists
Israel, Netherlands, Jordan 2019 / 55 min / Mid-Length DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Eliezer Yaari
Produced by: Irit Ambar
Narrated by: Mandy Patinkin
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
A story of a Palestinian chemist from the village of Sur Baher who decides to move from his village to the Jewish Kibbutz Ketura in the South of Israel, in pursuit of a dream of peace in the Middle East. Utopia or optimism?
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Woman
Israel 2019| 62'| Feature documentaryWritten & Directed by: Israela Shaer Meoded
Edited by: Oron Adar
Produced by: Marker Films, Elad Gavish
Music: Ishai Adar
Narration: Reymond Amslamen, Ella Armony
With the support of: The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts - Cinema Project, Leon Recanati Foundation, Israel Ministry of Culture and Sport, Mifal Hapais Israel Lottery - Council for Cultural & Art, The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
Who is this woman? How have dozens of female directors imagined and portrayed her in Israeli cinema over the years?
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