New Releases
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The Museum
Israel 2017, 72 min, Feature DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Ran Tal
Produced by: Lama Films - Ayelet Kait, Amir Harel, Ran Tal
Editing: Nili Feller
Photography: Daniel Kedem, Itay Marom, Uriel Sinai, Ziv Berkovitch, Zvi Lanzman
Music: Asher Goldschmidt
With the support of: Yes Docu, The new fund for cinema and TV, Mifal Hpis, The Leir Charitable Foundations
Language: Hebrew, English, Yiddish, Arabic with English subtitles
"A masterful look at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, and the world itself."
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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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Standby Painter
Belgium/Israel 2018, 52 min, DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Amir Yatziv, Guy Slabinnck
Produced by: Kaat Camerlynck - Czar Film, Belgium
Script, Editing & Research: Amir Yatziv
Cinematography: Hyun De Grande, Łukasz Konopa
Soundtrack: Nati Zeidenstadt
Music: Uriel Herman
Language: Polish, English with English and French subtitles
An almost deserted museum, a guard wearing high heels, a cinephile thief and a Monet painting.
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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
Can we create life after death? Should we allow it? A first-time documentary approach, raising ethical and philosophical questions about postmortem preproduction.
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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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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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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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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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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