Jewish Life
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A mí
Italy/ Germany/ France 2017, 67 min, Feature DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Caterina Klusemann
Produced by: Caterina Klusemann Filmproduktion, ZDF, ARTE
Filming locations: Germany, Israel, Italy, Mongolia, Ukraine, Venezuela
Language: Italian, English, German with English subtitles
The same maternal bond that binds four generations of women carries on the trauma of the war, but gives the weapons to heal it in the end.
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Conventional Sins
Israel 2017, 70 min, Feature DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Anat Yuta Zuria & Shira Clara Winther
Produced by: David Mandil - MoviePlus Productions
Photography: Dror Lebendiger
Supported by: Yes Docu, Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project, Israel Lottery Council for Culture & Arts
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
Through an original narrative strategy, Conventional Sins touches on issues of pedophilia, victimhood and the redemptive potential of cinema.
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The Komediant
Israel, USA 1999, 82 min, Feature Documentary – RESTORED COPY – RE-RELEASE Mono | Aspect Ratio: 4:3Directed by: Arnon Goldfinger
Script: Oshra Schwartz-Reim
Produced by: Arnon Goldfinger, Amir Harel, Oshra Schwartz-Reim
Cinematography: Yoram Millo
Editing: Einat Glaser-Zarhin
Sound: Tomer Ilan
Supported by: New Fund for Cinema and Television, TV Keshet – The Film project, National Authority of Yiddish Culture, National Council for Culture and Arts, The Avraham Y. Lerner Foundation, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
Language: English, Yiddish, Hebrew with English subtitles
The glory days of the Yiddish stage are brought to life in this funny-sad saga of a legendary theatrical family, The Bursteins.
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Decryption
Israel 2024 | 12:26' | Short documentary - New ReleaseWritten & Directed by: Maya Zack
Produced by: Maya Zack
Script: Maya Zack, Amos Ponger
Cinematography: Stanislav Levor
Editing: Amos Ponger
Music: Ophir Leibovitch
Set design & Drawing: Maya Zack
Sound design: Neil Gibbs
Supported by: Ostrovsky Family Fund, Israel Festival
Languages: Hebrew with English subtitles
When memories of her mother begin to fade, artist Maya Zack returns to the morbid poem her mother used to recite to her as a child to lull her to sleep.
In the mesmerizing cinematic poem "Decryption," Zack deconstructs, weaves, and reassembles the poem and attempts, through it, to revive the memory of the body of her mother, who died prematurely.
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Still Waters
Israel 2023 | 17’ | Short Feature - New ReleaseWritten & Directed by: Tsivia Barkai Yacov
Produced by: Laila Films - Itai Tamir
Executive Producer: Ami Livne
Cinematography: Boaz Yehonatan Yacov
Editing: Tsivia Barkai Yacov
Art Design: Ehud Gutterman
Cast: Gloria Bess, Liron Ben Shlush, Itamar Rotschild
Sound Recording: Asher Milo, Ranso Vargas
Music: Ophir Leibovitch
Supported by: Gesher Film Foundation, New Fund for Cinema and Television, Ministry of culture and sport – The Israel Film Council
Languages: Hebrew with English subtitles
Desperate to flee an abusive relationship, Rona sneaks out during a lockdown and enters a women’s Mikvah. Naked and exposed, she faces the truth.
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Shadows
Israel 2017, 52 min, DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Noa Aharoni
Produced by: David Noy, Yoram Ivry – Cinemax Productions
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
For the first time on screen, second-generation children of Holocaust Survivors open up about their abused childhood suffering.
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Haymatloz – Exile in Turkey
Doc, 75/90 min, 2016Written and Directed by: Eren Önsöz
Produced by: Erik Winker, Martin Roelly, Andreas Brauer
Sponsored by: A HUPE Film production in co-production with Mamoko Entertainment, funded by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and BKM
Language: German and Turkish with English subtitles
Recollections and stories of the children of German Jews who were brought to Turkey before the Second World War, at the invitation of Atatürk, and went on to definitively shape Turkish culture.
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Bring the Jews Home
Doc 56 min 2016Written and Directed by: Eefje Blankevoort and Arnold van Bruggen
Produced by: Iris Lammertsma & Boudewijn Koole – Witilfilm
Language: Dutch, Ukrainian and English with English subtitles
Flemish Christian activist Koen Carlier is on a mission to return all the Jews to their homeland in an effort to speed up the return of Jesus Christ to this world.
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Gezoindelach
Doc 28 min, 2015Written and Directed by: Efrat Berger
Supported by: YES Docu, Gesher Multicultural Foundation, The Jerusalem Film Fund
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
The challenges of breaking free from a closed society and touchingly brought to life in this documentary where “the cord” is literally cut.DVD - For Home Use Only :$29.90