New Releases
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Truus Children
Netherlands 2022 | 90 min, | Feature Documentary - New ReleaseWritten and directed by: Pamela Sturhoofd and Jessica van Tijn
Produced by: Special Eyes Film Productions
Script: Pamela Sturhoofd and Jessica van Tijn
Editing: Rogier van der Voort
Photography: Freek Zonderland
Sound Recording: Joost Kelderman
Sound Design: Hugo Dijkstal
Music: Lavinia Meijer and Arthur Antoine Theunissen
Animation: May Kindred Boothby
Supported by: Prins Bernard Culture Fund, Foundation ‘Democratie en Media’, Lerak Foundation
Broadcaster: NPO/Omroep Max
Language: Dutch and English with English subtitles
In this powerfully moving documentary, Dutch resistance hero, Truus Wijsmuller, is presented on the world-historic stage. Her story was almost completely hidden for 75 years but is now brought to life by the memories of the courageous survivors who were saved with her help.
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Moving On
Israel 2022, 72 min, Feature Documentary - New ReleaseWritten & Directed by: Maya Mcmanus Ronen
Produced by: Maya Mcmanus Ronen
Cinematography: Shai Mizrahi
Editing: Maya Mcmanus Ronen
Sound: Niv Groner, Yonatan Shalev
Original Music: Mordi Corcos
Graphics: Lia Keren
Coloring: Peleg Levi
Supported by: Gesher Multicultural Film Fund – The Arava Film Fund
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
In a remote desert area of Israel, every couple of years everybody switches houses. Nobody knows in advance to where he will move. A unique community is getting into a personal and shaking journey, where packing the house and renovating is arousing a questioning about existential aspects of life. -
The Certainty Of Probabilities
Romania 2021, 89 min, Aspect ratio: 1:1:85 / 1, 1:33 - New ReleaseWritten & Directed by: Raluca Durbacă
Produced by: Velvet Moraru - ICON production
Archive material: filmed on 35 mm and scanned in 2K
Printed film format: DCP
Color: black and white/color
Sound: Mono
Editing: Letitia Ștefănescu
Sound processing: Alex Dragomir
Graphics: Cristian Călin
Cinematography consultant: Marius Panduru
Supported by: The National Film Center - Romania, Publicis Groupe, Zenith Media and the Romanian National Television
Language: Romanian, French, Spanish with English subtitles
Comprised of archival footage produced during one of the most optimistic years in the history of socialist Romania, this essay film surveys the efforts undertaken by the state in order to ensure social stability in a society claiming to have quashed all exploitative and alienating labour relations.
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What If? Ehud Barak on War and Peace
Israel 2021, 85 min, Feature Documentary - New ReleaseWritten & 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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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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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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My War Hero Uncle
Israel 2018, 52 min, DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Shaked Goren
Production: Ayelet Kait, Amir Harel – Lama Films
Cinematography: Nadav Ben Zur
Editing: Danel Elpeleg
Sound Design: Erez Eyni
Music: Ophir Leibovich
With the support of: Yes Docu, NFCT
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
Ami was killed in the 1967 War. Fifty years after his death, a shocking truth is unveiled
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The King of Börek
Israel 2018, 74 min, Feature DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Orit Ofir Ronell
Production: Yoram Ivry, David Noy - Cinemax Prod
Editing: Tor Ben-mayor
Cinematography: David Zarif
Soundtrack: Itzik Cohen- Jungle Sound
Music: Kobi Vitman
With the support of: Reshet Channel 13, The new Foundation for Cinema & TV
Language: Hebrew and Bulgarian with English Subtitles
Rise and fall of a proud Bulgarian family of bakers that immigrated to the newborn state of Israel.
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In The Desert - A Documentary Diptych
Israel/ Canada 2018, 220 min, (Omar's Dream’ 115 min, Avidan's Dream 105 min, TV Version 120 min, Documentary DiptychWritten & Directed & Cinematography by: Avner Faingulernt
Produced by: Hagar Saad Shalom, Paul Cadieux, Shlomi Elkabetz, Danae Elon, Galit Bachlon; Skene Border Films (IL), Filmoption International (CAN), Deux Beaux Garcons Films (IL), Entre Deux Mondes Productions
Editing: Myriam Magassouba (CAN)
Music: Peter Venne (CAN)
With the support of: The Israel Film Council – Ministry of Culture and Sport, Quebec Crédit d’impôt cinema et television - Gestion SODEC, The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit
Language: Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles
A profound journey trying to defy what is commonly known about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.