Women and Gender
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Ginette
France 2017, 61 min, DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Nathan J. Minsberg
Based on: The life and writings of Ginette Yana
Produced by: Nathan J. Minsberg, Pia Minsberg, Marc Minsberg
Sound: Wong Chun Hoi
Language: French with English subtitles
This is the story of Ginette, from her native Tunisia to her adoptive city of Marseille, in her role as the Sephardic matriarch she has become.
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In His Image
Netherlands 2020, 72 min / 55 min, Feature Documentary - New ReleaseWritten & 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
Does a dead man have the right to become a father? Do parents, who lost their son, have the right to become grandparents after his death? In Israel, the desire for offspring has taken on an extra dimension. In His Image follows three mothers who lost a son during his military service and are now trying to have something of him live on in a posthumous grandchild, using semen taken immediately after his death.
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In Secret
Israel 2020, 56 min, Mid-Length Documentary - New ReleaseWritten & 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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Underground Ballet
Israel 2019| 53'| Mid-Length documentaryWritten & Directed by: Lina Chaplin
Script: Lina Chaplin and Bracha Zisman Cohen
Edited by: Bracha Zisman Cohen
Produced by: Daniela Reiss Razon
Cinematography: Itzik Portal
Music: A. Glaznov, Ludwig Minkus, Adolf Adam, Tomazo Albinoni, dmitri shostakovich, A. Krane, Claude Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Boris Asspaiev,Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Cezar Antonowicz Cui, Giuseppe Verdi, Edvard Grieg, Phillip Glass, Alfred Snitke, Bock Jerry, Kirill Molchanov
With the support of: Hot 8, the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv
Language: Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles
A decade ago Nadia and her mother, Nina Timofeyeva, a prima ballerina at the Bolshoi Ballet, left Moscow for Jerusalem and set up the studio. It was a professional suicide. Ballet and football make for a surrealistic combination.
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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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Kingdoms
Israel 2020| 3x52'| 3 Part Documentary Series - New ReleaseWritten & Directed by: Uri Rosenwaks
Edited by: Boaz Lion
Produced by: Uri Rosenwaks, David Dekelboim, Itzhak Alchmister
Cinematography: Michael Dal, Shachar Jerusalmi
Music: Avi Belleli
With the support of: Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, Avi Chai Foundation, The Maimonides Fund, Kan the Israeli Public Broadcast Corporation (IPBC)
Language: Hebrew and English with English subtitles
An intimate look at the Hassidic world through the eyes of its members. Kingdoms try’s to shutter the stereotypes, overcome mutual suspicions, and portray the inner story of Hasidism.
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We Were The Others
Israel 2019 | 54'| Mid-Length DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Hadas Ayalon
Edited by: Ron Goldman, Maya Klar
Produced by: Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait – Lama Films
Cinematography: Tulik Galon
Music: Eran Weitz
With the support of: Kaan, Rabbinovich Foundation
Language: Hebrew and English with English subtitles
A story of six Gay men that were born in the days of the establishment of the State of Israel.
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La Potière
Italy 2019 | 43' | Mid-Length DocumentaryWrittend & Directed by: Andrea Serafini
Produced by: Andrea Serafini (Italy)
Language: French with English subtitles
La Potière is a film on how the meeting with the artefacts from a faraway culture originated ten centuries earlier can spark off the inspiration of a life long pursue of that elusive spirit that inhabits some pieces of ceramics and allows them to reach people's soul.
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Reinvestigation
Israel 2019 / 72 min / Feature DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Anat Yuta Zuria, Shira Clara Winther
Produced by: Sigal Landesberg, Anat Yuta Zuria
An investigative documentary on the hidden reality of tens of thousands of fathers who deny their children child support, while the system turns a blind eye to the situation.