New Releases
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Counterlight
Israel 2017, 24 min, Short experimental fictionWritten & Directed by: Maya Zack
Produced by: Maya Zack
With the support of: the Ostrovsky Family Fund; the Israel Lottery Council for Culture & Arts; Artis Grant Program; Outset Contemporary Art Fund; a grant from the Claims Conference; and Kronos Aerial Photography
Language: German with English subtitles
Hypnotic journey into the depths of consciousness that follows the traces of poet Paul Celan.