New Releases
-
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.
-
Woman
Israel 2020| 62'| Feature documentary - New ReleaseWritten & 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?
-
Underground Ballet
Israel 2019| 53'| Mid-Length documentary - New ReleaseWritten & 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.
-
Resonance
Germany/Israel 2019| 56'| Mid-Length documentary - New ReleaseWritten & Directed by: Itay Marom
Edited by: Sunjha Kim, Itay Marom
Produced by: Itay Marom
Cinematography: Itay Marom
Sound: Rotem Dror
Language: German and English with English subtitles
While working on the physical aspect of the voice, a sensuous closeness is being created between the teacher and the student.
-
Kuya Noy
Israel 2019| 52'| Documentary debut - New ReleaseWritten & Directed by: Daniel Binsted
Created by: Daniel Binsted, Dori Pri-Or, Gili Melnitcki
Edited by: Daniel Binsted
Produced by: Efrat Cohen, Gaudeamus Productions, Tel Aviv University
Cinematography: Daniel Binsted, Klil Leon
Music: ASIN, Noy Pillora
With the support of: Yes Docu, Makor Foundation, Tel Aviv University
Language: Hebrew, English and Tagalog with English subtitles
A Story of Noy, a Filipino rock legend who found himself living in the slums of Tel-Aviv.
-
Best Unkept Secret
Israel 2019 | 57'| Mid-Length Documentary - New ReleaseWritten & Directed by: Ilan Mizrahi
Edited by: Nadav Harel, Deborah Cherki
Produced by: Nimrod Shanit – Blimey Production
Cinematography: Ilan Mizrahi, Deborah Cherki
Music: Kat Tolokovsky
With the support of: Yes Doco, Rabinovich Foundation, The Israel Film Council
Language: Hebrew and English with English subtitles
A 15-year-long documentation follows the gut wrenching story of an adolescent boy who discovers one day that he had been manipulated and used throughout his life by fanatic organizations seeking to promote their ideology of fighting Jewish assimilation.
-
We Were The Others
Israel 2019 | 54'| Mid-Length Documentary - New ReleaseWritten & 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.
-
La Potière
Italy 2019 | 43' | Mid-Length Documentary - New ReleaseWrittend & 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.
-
The Optimists
Israel, Netherlands, Jordan 2019 / 55 min / Mid-Length Documentary - New ReleaseWritten & 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?