New Releases
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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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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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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
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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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 saga of a legendary theatrical family, The Bursteins.
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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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Monumentum
Russia, Israel 2020, 35 min, Documentary ShorWritten & Directed by: Vladimir Nepevny
Produced by: Vladimir Nepevny
Editing: Vladimir Nepevny
Sound: Vladimir Nepevny
Language: Russian with English subtitles
In recent years, Russia has erected over 250 monuments. What lies behind this phenomenon? Why, in this post-socialist society, has a demand arisen for monumental symbols?
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Kingdoms
Israel 2020| 3x52'| 3 Part Documentary SeriesWritten & 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.