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DocuShuk

CoPro 15
DocuShuk
Israel’s 2012-2013
Documentary Film Crop
TLV May 26th-June 2nd, 2013
DocuShuk Israel's 2012-2013 Documentary Film Crop
Orna Yarmut
Founding Director
Zichrini Hatzor Katz
DocuShuk Editor
Haim Burshtein
Operations Manager
Lee Edelist
DocuShuk Assistant
Israela Mishania
Graphic Design
Carmel Gottlieb Kimhi
Artical Author
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CONTENTS
Greetings
Article: ‘A Place to Include’
Index Categories
Index Directors
Index Sales Agents & Films
Films with no Sales Agent
Alphabetical Index
DOCUMENTARIES
Between Hope and Despair
Towards an Israeli Identity
Portrayals of the Other
The Face of Her Reality
Untold Stories
Family Ties
The Inner Tour
Larger Than Life
Reflections of the Past
The Soul and Science
Docs and Cuts (Rough Cut Screening)
CoPro Campus (Student Films)
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3
5-12
14-19
20-22
23
24-25
26-28
30-45
47-57
59-71
73-82
84-91
93-100
102-109
111-115
117-120
122
124-130
132-143
Dear old friends, new friends,
For the past 12 years I had the honor of welcoming you - emissaries from all ends of the world, arriving here
every
year to observe, give, learn, get acquainted and spread the word.
In Jewish tradition, an emissary, ‘shaliach’, is one who performs an action on behalf of another person or etity,
with the result of the action credited solely to the sender, not to the emissary.
I see us all as emissaries. Our senders are not just filmmakers, networks and countries. Our sender is documentary
cinema at large, yearning for us to distribute it with integrity, authenticity and excellence.
I welcome you, as an emissary of the recently market for completed Israeli documentary films, to the 2013 DocuShuk.
We have been working arduously in the last few months to curate for you the marvelous assortment of films
featured in these pages, all ready for watching. Some of them I had gotten to know over recent years in various
CoPro events, in their earlier stages of development. These are joined by dozens of additional titles of wonderful,
tightly crafted and well-packed cinema, wishing you to lend it your eyes and ears, but most of all your hearts.
As you are about to begin your journey into Israeli culture, I wish our country discloses to you its most captivating
qualities and turbulent energies, through a sober yet merciful prism, from a harsh and stubborn yet humane and
compassionate viewpoint, just as exquisite documentary cinema of the highest standards should.
I thank Carmel Gottlieb Kimhi for the article. The selected theme, “A Place to Include”, is a pristine example of the
challenges encountered by Israeli documentarists who are furiously tossed between the timeless and the
transient dimensions of our ‘here and now’.
Finally, I would like to end on a personal note. I have been with CoPro since its 3rd year, and today, in the festive
mark of 15 years of operation, I wish to thank Orna for affording me the privilege of marketing Israeli
documentaries. As I said in the beginning, it is not only an occupation, it is a vocation.
Enjoy every minute,
Yours,
Zichrini - DocuShuk Editor
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A Place to Include:
The Comprehensive
Discourse of Place in Israeli
Documentary Films
Carmel Gottlieb Kimhi
"Place always involves a corporeal and cultural struggle between groups acting in space and striving
for self-determination by means of spaces within they act."[1] Groups, be they large or small are the
actual protagonists of this year's crop of documentary films, supported by CoPro. The "Place", and
those who inhabit it, is these films' hero. The corpus of films creates a comprehensive and complex
discourse that accommodates for a variety of marginal groups in Israeli society.
Garden of Eden, by Ran Tal (2012)
Garden of Eden draws a portrait of Gan HaShlosha National Park-"the Sachne". A place designed as
a spatial manifestation of the Zionist vision. In 2012's reality, however, it serves people of all ethnic
groups and social sectors of Israeli society, and is the films' spatial anchor. It opens with a quote from
Lipa Yahalom, one of the architects who planned the park: "The fantasy of a landscape-architect is to
turn a piece of land into dreaming havens". Immediately afterwards, using a naturalistic cinematic
language, The film follows the park and its visitors throughout the year, giving presence to the
beauty of the seasonal transformations. Alongside the lyrical depiction of nature, the director
exposes the human mosaic attending the park. He shows daily life in the park with typically
Israeli scenes and human situations such as, Barbeque fanning and drooping bellies. The population of
the park includes Jews of both Ashkenazi and Mizrahi descent, Arabs, religious people, secular
people, singles, groups, kibbutz members, city residents, babies and what not. Almost every group in
society is represented here. In this sense, the film embodies the comprehensive discourse.
Several conclusions can be drawn from the film. I would like to focus on two. The first is the aftermath
of the architect's initial Zionist vision; though his original intent may have been to serve primarily
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the inhabitants of the surrounding kibbutzim, the site ends up serving all people living in the area
or touring it, namely all walks of Israeli society. The second connects with the voice Ran Tal gives to
individuals visiting or working in the Sachne Park, among them a man deserted by his wife and
children who never again found peace; a woman who managed to free herself from a battering
husband; a bereaved father who speaks about his dead son; and a young Arab man who feels
estranged in his original environment in Um El Fahem and dreams of immigrating. Tal brings us
a collage of figures, all bearing great pain. The only thing these figures have in common is their
humanity, the fact that their lives are far from perfect, and that they come to spend time and
somewhat relieve their misery at the Sachne Park. In many ways, this is but a casual and random
collection of people. However, the fact that what binds them together is a spatial context of such
a Zionist background turns these people into national assets, renders them voice and meaning
within the national space.
Cinema Jenin, by Marcus Vetter (2012)
Two things connect Garden of Eden and Cinema Jenin. One is a geographical fact: on their way to
the Sachne, the streams bringing water to the park cross the northern part of Samaria, across Jenin.
Another is the fact that both open with a dream: whereas in Garden of Eden, the architect Yahalom
dreams of turning a piece of land into dreaming havens, Cinema Jenin is subtitled "A Story of a Dream".
After all, cinema is 'the dream industry'. However, in contrast to the original expression, which implies
that cinema allows the audience to live for about two hours in a dream, documentary cinema may
serve as an activist tool and helps turn dreams into reality. This is precisely the case in Cinema Jenin.
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The film shows the restoration of a ruined movie- theater in Jenin, a city situated at the north Samaria
region, inhabited by 39,000 residents and serving as a regional center for another 250,000 people.
At its center is a refugee camp. Jenin became known as the capital of suicide bombers and a
stronghold of resistance against Israeli rule. It is currently governed by the Palestinian Authority.
The renewal of the movie-theater was initiated by Marcus Vetter, this film's director, Ismail Hatib,
a bereaved father and Fakhri Hammed, who started off as an interpreter and became the project's
manager. Vetter and Hammed live today in Germany and keep away from Jenin, mainly due to
the danger hovering over their heads after the murder of their friend and colleague Juliano Mer
Khamis in April 2011, an assassination that receives considerable mention in the film.[2]
In the eyes of its renovators, the movie-theater's space envisions an utopian space and normalization
of the area. Like Mer Khamis' Freedom Theater, their theater was supposed to provide positive
educational alternatives for the loads of free time at the disposal of the population in Jenin and
its surroundings, 54% of which is under 18. Inoccupation and lack of activity drove many youngsters
to negative activities, and – as in the case of Ismail Khatib's son – exposed the kids to involvement
in the war, and eventually to injuries and death. The film ends with a "happy ending": the reconstruction
is completed, and the place is starting to function as a cultural center.
Is the space in this film an Israeli space? The answer contains one of the main reasons that this film
was probably granted Israeli funding. The film presents a certain aspect of the Arab-Israeli conflict
that takes place at an extremely nearby inaccessible space. This is definitely not an Israeli space.
Although situated in a territory formerly under Israeli rule, it is now ruled by the Palestinian Authority.
Furthermore, the film speaks English, Arabic and German; Hebrew is seldom heard. None of the
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protagonists is Israeli, except for Mer-Khamis, who at a certain point proclaims "we are Arabs" and
thus determines where he chooses to belong. All in all the space in this film is an Arab, Palestinian
space, and its Israeli link is restricted to the scars left by the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, personified in
youngsters' funerals, barriers on passages and gateways, and in the ruined and abandoned
movie-theater – (a symptom of the ongoing war) and through the professionals who come to
contribute their skills and experience to the cinema's restoration. In fact, the Israeli space is present
only in the footprints left by the conflict.
Ponevezh Time, by Yehonatan Indursky (2012)
Cinema Jenin associates with Ponevezh Time-in that both are spaces to research. The latter, a space
that belongs to the radical group of orthodox Jews in Israel, known only to those who study in this
Yeshiva. Ponevezh was established about eighty years ago in the Lithuanian town of Ponevezh and is
renowned in the Jewish orthodox world. Yehonatan Indursky, the film's creator graduated from it.
Like the other places discussed in this article, the Yeshiva serves as the spatial anchor of the cinematic
treatment. For its students the yeshiva constitutes a home as well as a social framework. The events
in it take place away from the public's eye, hidden from the outside crowd – a fact that makes
the Yeshiva a fascinating object for documentary exploration.
The way it is depicted in the film Ponevezh Yeshiva somehow brings to mind Hogwarts – Harry Potter's
school of wizardry – a place secular readers are probably far better acquainted with than with an
ultra-orthodox Yeshiva. As in Harry Potter's movies, here too, the camera gives us access to a secret
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order's school. Without the camera, we would not be granted a chance to look into this place and meet
its inhabitants, nor would we have even the smallest chance to comprehend the kind of life they
lead. The students in this Yeshiva are considered the top of the orthodox world, the place where
future leaders come from. As in Hogwarts, the atmosphere here is one of "might is right", characterized
by intense human loneliness, harsh competitiveness and Spartan living and studying conditions.
It brings together both youngsters and young adults, all have difficulties coping with the Chavruta
issue, the search for studying partners. As in Hogwarts, here too we encounter terrified students
alongside thick-bearded teachers. However, In contrast with Hogwarts, in this film the director
follows only a few, very lonely students, who do not belong to a group. He accompanies them in
their daily struggle with the hardships of Yeshiva life.
The film observes the Yeshiva with a critical eye. It regards with a significant amount of empathy,
even condescension, these characters compelled to squeeze themselves within the walls of the Yeshiva,
settle for a life limited to the spiritual dimension, forever busy postponing their bodily and emotional
gratifications. In the film's final scene, the camera focuses on a young man who has joined the Yeshiva
this year and finds himself extremely lonely amidst a loudly jubilant crowd. The scene expresses the
director's attitude towards this crowd. His own identification with this young man and his loneliness.
This is probably one of the reasons why Indursky is now observing the Yeshiva from the outside, as a
filmmaker.
Is the space depicted in this film Israeli? Definitely. It is located in the city of Bnei Brak, its characters
speak Hebrew most of the time and manage their lives within a social milieu that is part of the Israeli
society; Despite the fact that they belong to the radical ultra-orthodox sector, they are nevertheless
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Jewish. The place’s accessibility to the camera represents the gradual opening of this world to secular
eyes, and every step towards acquaintance is an initial stage in the process of approximation and
opening up.
Life in Stills, by Tamar Tal (2011)
In Life in Stills too, the concept of "place" is at the very heart of the film. IT follows the owners of the
Pri Or photo shop and their wish to preserve their place and presence in Israeli space in general and in
Tel Aviv in particular. The photographer and founder of Pri Or, the late Rudi Wiessenstein, took pictures
of the greatest figures in Israel's history and of crucial moments and events in the establishment
of the country, including its declaration. The building in which the shop is located is about to be
demolished and replaced by a six-story building, forcing the shop to clear out. Rudi's widow Miriam
and their grandson Ben Peter struggle to keep the place alive and receive recognition as a cultural
asset. Their struggle is one family's battle against the capitalistic spirit of Israeli society today.
Capitalism and gentrification are not the only new forces at work here: the clash between the young
grandson's viewpoint vis-à-vis the archaic viewpoint of his 96 years old grandmother reflects another
level of struggle. The grandson strives to preserve the place, but he still wishes to create something new,
whereas his grandmother wishes to keep its old order intact. The grandson wants to display the
photographs in exhibitions around the world and sell "pictures of bygone times" for a small fee. His
grandmother sees most clients as naggers who should be sent away. She refrains from accepting her
grandson's ideas and doubts his judgment. We thus witness here two parallel struggles: between the
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forces of capitalism and the middle class on one hand, and between the older generation and that of
their grandchildren on the other.
Middleclass small entrepreneurs were the ones who built and inhabit the city of Tel Aviv and turned
it to what it currently is. The evacuation of the photo shop symbolizes the change the city is going
through, its transformation from a middleclass dwelling place to a place affordable only to global
capitalists, willing and able to pay fortunes for real estate and boutique hotels.
In this film, therefore, "place" is at the core of several struggles: the struggle for the preservation
of the actual place – the Pri Or photo shop; the struggle for preserving the place of the Wissensteins'
family heritage in the city and nationwide; the struggle between grandmother and grandson over the
character and the directions their photo shop should take; and the struggle between the middleclass
and the new capitalist forces.
It is a pleasure to close this article with a film created by a woman, that portrays a grandson who
belongs to the homosexual community, his grandmother who is in her nineties and their gradually
developing close relationship. Choosing these protagonists the film applies the comprehensive
discourse of documentary cinema to its margins (in this case, older women and gays).
The place presented in all four films is an inclusive place, one that accommodates for "the other" in
Israeli society. In each of these films, place is the film's main anchor, and the filmmaker regards it
with a complex look. In Garden of Eden, Ran Tal's embodies both a poetic exhilaration induced by the
natural setting and a kind of repulsion of the daily atmosphere of barbecues and drooping bellies; in
Cinema Jenin, the changes the movie-theater might bring about arouse hope and astonishment, bu
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also a critical outlook of the Palestinian space; in Ponevezh Time, the place's sanctity is regarded
with appreciation combined with disapproval regarding the interpersonal relationships; and in Life
in Stills the film's standpoint favors free enterprise and the middleclass' role in Tel Aviv's life, yet
criticizes the grandmother's anachronistic attempt to maintain the old order intact where this is no
longer possible. This complex look creates diversity, stimulates spectators' curiosity and reinforces
bonds of trust between the spectators and filmmakers, whose look introduces the spectators into
unfamiliar and inaccessible worlds and offers a fascinating outlook at the Israeli place and at the
spaces abutting it and affected by it.
Carmel Gottlieb Kimhi, specializes in documentary cinema, in the relations between cinema
and art, and in issues concerning postmodern representations in culture. Her book, "The Poetics
of Home – Representations of Home and Nation in Israeli Documentary Films" was published in
2010. She curates video art exhibitions, teaches and works as a producer and artistic manager
of the Multicultural Ethnic center Inbal, at the Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater.
[1] From the chapter "Place", in Place, Representation, Body by Rachel Kaloush and Tali Hatukah,
Resling Publishing House, Tel Aviv 2005.
[2] Juliano Mer Khamis, son of a Jewish mother and a an Israeli Arab father, an actor, filmmaker,
peace activist and a well-known figure in the Israeli cultural arena, directed the Freedom Theater in
Jenin.
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The DocuShuk’s Films
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Index Categories
*some of the films are in more than one category
A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
A6
A7
A8
A9
A10
A11
A12
A13
A14
A15
A16
14
Between Hope and Despair
Amos and Tahini
Art / Violence
Before the Revolution
Between Two Moms
Dancing for Hope
Dancing in Jaffa
Dove’s Cry
Free Improvisation
Gilad Schalit – the Interview
Good Garbage
Home is You
Let’s Assume,for a moment,
that God Exists
Ponevezh Time
Sumud
To Be Like Avi
Lod-Between hope and despair
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
B6
B7
A Home Movie
Fringes
Hanan Porat: Settled in Faith
House of Fun
Kaparot Sababa C’est Tout
Leibowitz: Man, Faith, Country
Moekey Katz: A Freedom Fighter
or a Terrorist?
B8 Not in Our Neighborhood
B9 On the Left
B10 Powder
B11 Seekers
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
Index Categories
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8
C9
C10
C11
C12
C13
Dancing for Hope
Dancing in Jaffa
Enlistment Days
Gamers
House of Fun
Ichilov the Healers
Inside Envelopes
Models Made in Russia
Soldier on the Roof
Someone Will Die Today
State 194
The Egg Donors
The Lab
The Lesson
The New Anti-Semitism
To Be Like Avi
Uranium-To Die For
34
35
59
60
50
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
44
71
D1
D2
Between Home and Homeland
Dirty Laundry
Dove’s Cry
Home is You
D3 Lola
D4 Mom, Dad, I’m Muslim
D5 Neighborhood (Shkhuna)
D6 Pole, Woman, Movie
D7 Superwomen
D8 That’s Gila, That’s me
The Egg Donors
The Lesson
D9 The Women/Pioneer
D10 White Night
73
74
36
40
75
63
76
77
78
79
80
67
69
81
82
15
Index Categories
Untold Stories
E1
E2
E3
E4
E5
E6
E7
E8
F1
F2
F3
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Bureau 06
Chasing The Shadow
Damascus Captor
Live or Die in Entebbe
My Herzl
Ponevezh Time
Pushing Back the Clock
The Gatekeepers
The Lab
The new anti-Semitism
Tze’elim
State 194
84
85
86
87
88
42
89
90
68
70
91
66
Family ties
Couple or Kids
Daughter and Mother
Dirty Laundry
Family Time
93
94
74
95
F4
F5
F6
F7
F8
G1
G2
G3
Inside Envelopes
Moekey Katz: A Freedom Fighter or
a Terrorist?
Mom, Dad, I’m Muslim
My German Children
Neighborhood (Shkhuna)
Photonovela
Skornik- In the Name of the Father
The Hungarian Cube: A Voyage
with Andre Hadju
The Sun Glows over the Mountains
62
53
76
96
77
97
98
99
100
The Inner Tour
10%
Benzion Netanyahu –
His Life and Legacy
Chasing the Shadow
Dancing for Hope
Garden of Eden
102
103
85
34
104
Index Categories
G4
G5
G6
G7
G8
Gilad Schalit –
the Interview
Good Garbage
Honi Hameagel:
After me the Deluge
Inside Envelopes
Lyrics by Rothblitt
Off Season
On the Left
Powder
Seekers
Soldier on the Roof
The Gatekeepers.
The Honorable Ambassador
The Israeli Code
The Sun Glows over
the Mountains
38
39
105
62
106
107
55
56
89
57
64
90
108
109
100
Larger then life
H1 Final Stages
H2 Guard Hut
Ichilov the Healers
H3 Kusturica Dream
My Herzl
H4 Rita Jahan-Foruz
H5 Special Interview
That’s Gila, That’s me
111
112
61
113
52
88
114
115
80
A Home Movie
Amos and Tahini
I1 Back to Casablanca
Before the revolution
Bureau 06
Damascus Captor
47
30
117
32
73
84
86
17
Index Categories
I2
I3
I4
Hunting time
My German Children
Photonovela
Skornik - In the Name of
the Father
The End
The Escape
The Women/Pioneer
Tze’elim
10%
Art / Violence
His Life and Legacy
Free Improvisation
Fringes
Gamers
18
118
87
96
97
98
119
120
81
91
Garden of Eden
Guard Hut
The Hungarian Cube:
A Voyage with Andre Hadju
The Israeli Code
J1 Water
104
112
49
51
52
99
109
122
Docs and Cuts (Rough Cut Screenings)
102
31
103
37
48
60
K1
K2
K3
K4
K5
K6
K7
Angelica, the Daughter of Boris Schatz
Baitel
Caught in the Net
Hebron Wild West
Life Sentences
Mister Gaga
Neve Tirza
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
Index Categories
Copro Campus (Student Films)
L1 As Yesterday
L2 Dark Shades of Shadow
L3 Demeter’s spring
L4 Nyosha
L5 One picture and a song
L6 Single Player
L7 Slippers
L8 Vegetative Love
L9 Violeta Mi Vida
L10 Waiting for Sunrise
Water
L11 White Mist
L12 Your Sweet Light
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
122
142
143
19
Index Directors
Ada Ushpiz
Adi Barash
Adin Weiner
Ahmad Bargouthi
Alon Levi
Alon Weinstock
Anat Tel Mendelovich
Anat Yuta Zuria
Avishai Shabtai
Aya Shwed
Ayal Goldberg
Ayelet Dekel
Batoul Taleb
Chen Shelach
Dan Peer
Dan Setton
Dan Shadur
Daphna Mero
Deva Oz Melman
Doron Djerassi
20
39
61
37
122
120
30,80
76
69
138
40
56,114
43, 109
31
97
124
66
32
134
106
37
Dror Moreh
Dror Shohet
Ehud Segev
Eli Tal-El
Eliav Lilti
Ella Zaharano
Eran Barak
Esther Hertog
Eyal Balachsan
Eyal Boers
Eyal Sibi
Eytan Harris
Gal Fridman
Ganit Ilouz
Gideon Latzman
Gil Mezuman
Gilad Inbar
Gilad Reichenbaum
Hans-Peter Luebke
Harel Ben-Nun
90
139
51
88
47
54
118
64
45
87
113
75
60
36
112
49
99
136
73
133
Index Directors
Hilla Medalia
Honi Hameagel
Ido Haar
Ilan Yagoda
Ilana Dayan
Inbal Shprinzak
Irit Gal
Isri Halpern
Itamar Alcalay
Itay Berkowitz
Itay Livne
Itay Netzer
Jacob Eilon
Jonathan Paz
Liat Mer
Lilach Naishtat Bornstein
Linoy Bar Gefen
Liran Kapel
Mariam Abu Khaled
Maya Sarfaty
35,126
119
59
77
65,89
44
82
78
107,125
93
98
142
70
108
130
73
86
135
31
122
Michal Aviad
Mohammad Bakri
Mohammad Fuad
Mordechai Vardi
Moshe Levinson
Natan Adler
Nir Sa’ar
Nissim Mossek
Nitzan Gilady
Nitzan Rozenberg
Noam Keidar
Noga Bash
Nurit Keidar
Nurit Sharett
Ofra Haimovich
Omri Assenheim
Or Sinai
Ori Bahat
Paula Weiman-Kelman
Pini Tavger
81
122
122
85
103
63,67
122
127
95
115
143
137
128
100
132
91
140
111
48
122
21
Index Directors
Rafi Abulafia
Ram Loevy
Ran Tal
Ron Cahlili
Ronen Zaretzky
Roni Kuban
Ruthie Shatz
Shany Haziza
Shelly Kling
Shosh Shlam
Sigalit Banai
Tal Goren
Tal Haring
Tom Tamar Pauer
Tomer Heymann
Udi Aloni
Uri Rosenwaks
Uzi Yahav
Vered Argaman
Vitali Krivich
22
70
41
104
55
79
33
61
71
62
39,126
117
38
122
96
129
31
45,52
105
141
50
Yael Dekel
Yael Kipper
Yael Sherer
Yaelle Shwed
Yaron Shani
Yehonatan Indursky
Yehuda Yaniv
Yishai Oren
Yoav Halevy
Yoav Shamir
Yona Rozenkie
Yotam Feldman
Yuval Ben Yehuda
Zevik Zelikoivutch
135
79
74
40
128
42
53
57
84
102
122
68
34
94
Index Sales Agents & Films
Cinephil
First Hand Films
Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2Films
JMT Films Distribution - M. Treves
Ruth Diskin Films Ltd
31, 50, 66, 68, 90, 102, 140
56
37, 38, 39, 42, 47, 49, 57, 69, 82, 96, 97, 103
40, 55, 62, 84, 87, 117, 132, 135, 139, 141
45, 48, 52, 64, 71, 78, 88, 93, 99, 106, 115, 120, 127
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Amos and tahini
Baitel
Before The Revolution
Between two moms
Caught in the Net
Chasing The Shadow
Damascus captor
Dancing for hope
Dancing in Jaffa
Dark Shades of Shadow
Daughter and Mother
Demeter's Spring
Dirty Laundry
Dove's Cry
Enlistment Days
Family Time
Final Stages
Gamers
24
30
124
125
32
73
33
126
85
86
34
35
133
94
134
74
36
59
95
111
60
Garden of Eden
Guard Hut
Home is You
Honi Hameagel: After me the Deluge
Hunting Time
Ichilov the Healers
Kaparot Sababa C'est Tout
Kusturica Dream
Let’s assume, for a moment,
that God exists
Life Sentences
Lola
Mister Gaga
Models made in Russia
Moekey Katz:
A Freedom Fighter or a Terrorist?
Mom, Dad, I'm Muslim
Neve Tirza
Not in our neighborhood
104
112
40
105
118
61
51
113
41
128
75
129
63
53
76
77
130
54
Off Season
One Picture and a Song
Rita Jahan-Foruz
Single Player
Slippers
Sumud
Superwomen
That’s Gila, That’s me
The Egg Donors
The End
The Israeli Code
The Women Pioneer
To Be Like Avi
Tze’elim
107
136
89
114
137
98
138
65
43
79
80
67
119
108
109
70
100
81
44
91
Water
White Mist
Your Sweet Light
122
142
143
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Alphabetical Index
10%
A Home Movie
Amos and Tahini
Art / Violence
As Yesterday
Back to Casablanca
Baitel
Before the Revolution
Benzion Netanyahu – His Life and Legacy
Between Two Moms
Bureau 06
Caught in the Net
Chasing the Shadow
Couple or Kids
Damascus Captor
Dancing for Hope
Dancing in Jaffa
26
102
47
30
124
31
132
117
125
32
103
73
33
84
126
85
93
86
34
35
133
Daughter and Mother
Demeter’s Spring
Dirty Laundry
Dove’s Cry
Enlistment Days
Family Time
Final Stages
Free Improvisation
Fringes
Gamers
Garden of Eden
Gilad Schalit – the Interview
Good Garbage
Guard Hut
Hebron Wild West
Home is You
Honi Hameagel: After me the Deluge
House of Fun
Hunting Time
94
134
74
36
59
95
111
37
48
60
104
38
39
112
49
127
40
105
50
118
Alphabetical Index
Ichilov the Healers
Inside Envelopes
Kusturica Dream
Let’s Assume, for a moment,
that God Exists
Life Sentences
Lod: Between Hope and Despair
Lola
Lyrics by Rothblitt
Mister Gaga
Moekey Katz: A Freedom Fighter or
a Terrorist?
Mom, Dad, I’m Muslim
My German Children
My Herzl
61
62
51
113
52
41
128
87
45
75
106
129
63
53
76
96
88
77
Neve Tirza
Not in Our Neighborhood
Nyosha
Off Season
On the Left
Photonovela
Pole, Woman, Movie
Ponevezh Time
Powder
Rita Jahan-Foruz
Seekers
Single Player
Slippers
Soldier on the Roof
Special Interview
State 194
130
54
135
107
55
136
97
78
42
56
89
114
57
137
98
138
64
65
115
66
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Alphabetical Index
Sumud
Superwomen
That’s Gila, That’s Me
The Egg Donors
The End
The Escape
The Gatekeepers
The Hungarian Cube:
The Israeli Code
The Lab
The Lesson
The Women/Pioneer
To Be Like Avi
Tze’elim
Uranium-To Die For
Vegetative Love
28
43
79
80
67
119
120
90
108
99
109
68
69
70
100
81
44
91
71
139
Violeta Mi Vida
Waiting for Sunrise
Water
White Mist
White Night
Your Sweet Light
140
141
122
142
82
143
Between
hope and despair
A1
Amos and Tahini
Director: Alon Weinstock
Year of production: 2004-2011
Date of Release: 2012
Format: DV
Length: 73 min
Original language: Hebrew
Subtitles: English
“Amos & tahini” mix together the life story of Amos Gotlib in downtown Netanya with one
of the most heroic and controversial battle of Israeli navy in Yom Kippur war. Amos took
part in this battle and his life had changed forever since. Amos and 4 soldiers who got a
medal of owners for their part in the battle are reconstructed the battle as Amos tries to
rehabilitate from his drugs issue.
Distributor: Alon Weinstock
Broadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
10 Mapu st. Tel Aviv 63577 IsraelFestivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 54 5553379 Fax: +972 54 5553379Producer: Alon Weinstock
w_alon@netvision.net.ilProduction Company: Kerem Meniv ltd
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Between hope and despair
A2
Art / Violence
Directors: Batoul Taleb, Mariam Abu Khaled, Udi Aloni
Year of production: 2013
Date of Release: Feb 2013
Format: Video
Length: 75 min
Original language: Arabic, English, Hebrew
Subtitles: English
Inspired by characters from “Alice in Wonderland”, “Waiting for Godot” and “Antigone”, young
Palestenian actresses deal with the military occupation and gender oppression, violence and grief on
stage and in life. Following the lead of their beloved director and peace activist Juliano Mer-Khamis
who was murdered on April 4th, 2011 outside the Freedom Theater in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the
West Bank, they use their imagination in an unpredictably brutal environment creating an artistic
rebellion; a vivid and brave portrayal of a young, active generation of Palestinians.
Distributor: Cinephil Broadcasting Platforms: None Yet
18 Levontin St. Tel Aviv 65112 Israel
Festivals: Winner Cinema Fairbindet Prize – Berlinale 2013
Tel: +972 3 5664129Producer: Udi Aloni
info@cinephil.co.il Production Company: Dig the Movie LLC
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A3
Before The Revolution
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Dan Shadur
Date of Release: April 2013
Format: HD
Length: 56 min
Subtitles: English
The untold story of the Israelis living in Iran on the eve of the 1979 revolution, told by the
director who was there as a baby. Tied to the corrupt and oppressive regime of the Shah, the
Israelis are enjoying a life of luxury and wealth, as their Iranian paradise turns into hell.
Distributor: Heymann Brothers Films
Broadcasting Platforms: Yes Docu Israel, ITVS
2 Barzilai st. Tel Aviv IsraelFestivals: Hot Docs, DocAviv
Tel: +972 3 5602701Producer: Barak Heymann
barak@heymannfilms.com
Production Company: Heymann Brothers Films
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A4
Between Two Moms
Director: Roni Kuban
Date of Release: 07/01/13
Format: 16/9 DVD
Length: 28:17”
Subtitles: English
Abraham’s mother, a refugee from Sudan, deserted him in an Israeli hospital. Sharon,
an Israeli woman, picked him from the orphanage and fell in love with him. She was the
only mother he ever knew. But just before the adoption became official – his biological
grandmother showed up at the airport.
Distributor: Keshet Broadcasting Ltd
Broadcasting Platforms: Keshet Channel 2 Israel
12th Raoul Wallenberg St. Tel Aviv Israel Festivals: None Yet
Raoul Wallenberg Street 12 Tel Aviv Israel Producer: Ruthy Steinberg
Tel: +972 54 7950306 Fax: +972 3 7676007
Production Company: Uvda I.D LTD
adi.garti@Keshet-tv.com
33
A5
Dancing for Hope
Director: Yuval Ben Yehuda
Date of Release: Aug 2013
Format: Mini DV
Length: 40 min
Original language: Hebrew, Arabic
Subtitles: English, Hebrew, Arabic
A youth group from the Arab village Ein Mahel in Northen Israel joins to a professional
theatre youth group from Haifa in order to create a new musical, dealing with the Jewish
Arab conflict. After an acclaimed premier they join to a joint tour in Europe. The opening
goes well and the comments are impressive. While the members are pleased and the
relationships among them are going great, a crack appears at the Holocaust moment of
silence, crack that threatens to rip the group apart and puts the rest of the tour in shadow.
Distributor: Yuval Ben YehudaBroadcasting Platforms: None Yet
8 Hela St. Ora IsraelFestivals: Jerusalem FF, Haifa FF, DocAviv FF
Tel: +972 50 6688244Producer: Yuval Ben Yehuda
artishockster@gmail.comProduction Company: ARTISHOCK
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A6
Dancing in Jaffa
Director: Hilla Medalia
Date of Release: 20th of April 2013
Format: DCP, HDCam
Length: 89min (and 52min version)
Original language: Hebrew, Arabic, English
Subtitles: English, Hebrew, Arabic
Renowned ballroom dancer, Pierre Dulaine, takes his belief that dance can overcome political
and cultural differences and applies it to 11 year old Jewish and Palestinian Israelis.
What occurs is magical and transformative.
Distributor: Daniel Baur- K5 International
Munich 81543 GermanyFestivals: Traibeca FF, DocAviv FF 2013 opening night,
Tel: +49 89 37 5055905 Fax: +49 89 37 5055905 Best Edit Award
daniel@k5mediagroup.comProducer: Diane Nabatoff, Neta Zwebner-Zaibert, Hilla Medalia
Production Company: Tiarra Blue & kNow Productions
35
A7
Dove’s Cry
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Ganit Ilouz
Date of Release: May 2013
Format: Beta
Length: 53 min
Subtitles: Hebrew, English
Hadeel, a charismatic Arab teacher, teaches Arabic in a Jewish elementary school. Her
relationships with the pupils and staff enable both parties to have a unique glance at one
another’s cultures, refute prejudices and dissolve fears. Yet, due to the complex Israeli
reality, the meeting of these two cultures inevitably causes clashes. Back home, being 27
and a religious Muslim woman, Hadeel is being pressured to get married this year.
Distributor: Osnat Handelsman-Keren
Broadcasting Platforms: : The Israeli Second Authority for
18 Yosef Karo st. Tel-Aviv Israel
Television and Radio
Tel: +972 3 6352802 +972 54 5963015 Festivals: DocAviv 2013
Osnat@piefilms.co.il
Producer: Osnat Handelsman-Keren, Talia Kleinhendler
Production Company: Pie Films LTD
36
A8
Free Improvisation
Director: Doron Djerassi, Adin Weiner
Format: Beta Digital
Length: 50 min
Original language: Hebrew, English
Subtitles: English
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An intimate portrait of a 60 year old avant-garde double bass player who is fighting an
incurable illness by sharing his passion for music with his 11 year-old prodigy student.
Distributor: Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2Films Broadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
37/8 Issar Natanzon St.Jerusalem 97787 IsraelFestivals: DocAviv – 2nd Prize Award
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Fax: +972 2 5835450Producer: Adin Weiner
hedva@go2films.com
Production Company: Shushu Productions
37
A9
Gilad Schalit –
the Interview
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Tal Goren
Date of Release:
Format: HD
Length: 42 min
Subtitles: English
An in-depth look at more than five years of Hamas captivity, through the eyes of
Gilad Shalit.
Distributor: Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2Films
37/8 Issar Natanzon St. Jerusalem 97787 IsraelFestivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Fax: +972 2 5835450Producer: Tamar Pross, Tal Goren
hedva@go2films.com
Production Company: Goren Pross Productions
38
A10
Good Garbage
Director: Ada Ushpiz, Shosh Shlam
Format: HD
Length: 55/91 min
Original language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
The Hebron Hills dump serves the Israeli settlements in the area and is a source of
livelihood for Palestinian families from the nearby village. The daily struggle for scraps
of metal in the dump distracts the men from their everyday pains.
Distributor: Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2Films Broadcasting Platforms: The Second Authority for 37/8 Issar Natanzon St. Jerusalem 97787 Israel Radio and Television Channel 2 Israel
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Fax: +972 2 5835450Festivals: Jerusalem FF 2012
hedva@go2films.com
Producer: Shosh Shlam, Ada Ushpiz
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A11
Home is You
Director: Aya & Yaelle Shwed
Date of Release: June 2012
Format: DVD
Length: 57 min
Original language: French, Hebrew, English
Subtitles: English, Hebrew
Aya meets Yaelle, a new immigrant to Israel from a conservative French family.
Their encounter develops into a story of true love, and Yaelle makes the difficult decision
to reveal her homosexuality to her parents. Hope turns to despair as Yaelle is forced to
sever her relationship with her family who refuse to accept her.
Distributor: Michael Treves
Broadcasting Platforms: None Yet
J.M.T. Films Distribution & Worldwide SalesFestivals: None Yet
20 Bialik st. 63324 Tel Aviv Israel Producer: Yaelle & Aya Shwed
Tel: +972 3 5254782 Mob: +972 52 3633398
Production Company: Coming Out Production
michael@jmtfilms.com
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A12
Let’s Assume, for a
moment, that God Exists
Director: Ram Loevy
Format: HD
Length: 75 min
Original language: Hebrew, Russian, Arabic
A grocer, tango dancers, sheep, a murderess, a furious prophet and many more. A film about
warm people in the center of Ramat Gan, “real”, “staged”, “fragmentary” – like life itself.
At the end of the film a question is raised:
If we assume for a moment that God exists is he counting us again?
Distributor: Maya WeinbergBroadcasting Platforms: Channel 8
22 Sderot Hachmei Israel Tel Aviv Israel
Festivals: DocAviv
Tel: +972 52 6412200 Producer: Ram Loevy
mayula.weinberg@gmail.comProduction Company: Ram Loevy
41
A13
Ponevezh Time
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Yehonatan Indursky
Format: HD
Length: 53 min
Subtitles: English
For the first time, the world largest Ultra-Orthodox yeshiva opens its doors to a camera
crew. The filmmaker, former student of the Yeshiva, captures moments of hopes and
loneliness amidst the constant prayer and study in a place where an individual can be
swept away by the massive crowd.
Distributor: Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2Films Natanzon St. Jerusalem 97787 Israel Tel: +972 2 5831371 Fax: +972 2 5835450
hedva@go2films.com
42
Broadcasting Platforms: Reshet Channel 2 Israel 37/8 Issar
Festivals: Haifa FF 2012
Producer: Einat Pinsky – Goldschmidt, Talia Kleinhendler
Production Company: PIE FILMS, Pinsky Productions
A14
Sumud
Director: Ayelet Dekel
Format: Video
Length: 60 min
Subtitles: English
An unique and extraordinary 20-year-long chronicle of the lives of four Palestinian
children growing up in the Dheisheh Palestinian Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. They
were four when film maker Ayelet Dekel first came to their Kindergarten to talk to them
about their life.
They were twenty-four the last time around. The result is a riveting account of the lives
of youngsters growing up under occupation, from 1987 up until 2006.
Distributor: Ayelet DekelBroadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel, Reshet Channel 2 Israel
Yosef Eliyahoo 4 apt #3 Tel-aviv Israel
Festivals: DocAviv FF- best film, Israeli Oscar for best Tel: +972 54 2146744
documentary, Berlin FF, New York Film Forum.
dklayelet@gmail.com
Producer: Ayelet Dekel
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A15
To Be Like Avi
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Inbal Shprinzak
Date of Release: October 2012
Format: DCP, ProRes, HDe
Length: 50 min
Subtitles: English
The coming of age story of three friends, teen refugees who fled Africa, learn today
in Israel and dream of following Avi (Formally Ibrahim) - the only refugee who obtained
Israeli citizenship and joined the IDF.
Distributor: Tal Moneta Broadcasting Platforms: Yes Docu Israel
17 Ba’aley Melacha St. Tel Aviv Israel
Festivals: Haifa FF 2012, DocAviv Galil 2012
Tel: +972 52 8381382Producer: Noam Pinchas
monetatal@gmail.comProduction Company: Noam Pinchas
44
A16
Lod - Between Hope
and Despair
at
Pitched
CoPro
Directors: Uri Rosenwaks, Eyal Balachsan
Date of Release: February 2013
Format: HDCam
Length: 52 minx 6/90 min
Original language: Hebrew and Arabic
Subtitles: English
A ten minute drive from the bustling and satiated metropolitan Tel-Aviv, is a place of
failure and fear, teeming with crime, violence and drugs. A neglected back yard in the
heart of Israel. We follow the attempts to save Lod through the stories of a number of
protagonists, Jews and Arabs, whose lives and professions personify the contrasting
faces of the city.
Distributor: Ruth Diskin Films Broadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
P.O.Box 7153 Jerusalem 91071 Israel
Festivals: None Yet
Tel: 972 2 6724256 Fax: 972 2 6724210 Producer: Uri Rosenwaks
ruth@ruthfilms.com
Production Company: Uri Rosenwaks
45
Towards an
Israeli Identity
B1
A Home Movie
Director: Eliav Lilti
Date of Release: July 6, 2012
Format: Digibeta, Beta, DCP or MOV File
Length: 90 min
Subtitles: English
e
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o
H
A
Movie
“Israel: A Home Movie” weaves together rare home movie clips from the early years of
Israel to offer a stunning look at the history of the Jewish state and Israeli society. The
revealed images are at times uplifting, endearing, and disturbing, exposing a collage of
personal moments which comprise Israel’s tangled past.
Distributor: Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2Films Broadcasting Platforms: The Second Authority for
37/8 Issar Natanzon St. Jerusalem 97787 Israel Television and Radio
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Fax: +972 2 5835450Festivals: Jerusalem FF 2012
hedva@go2films.com
Producer: Arik Bernstein
Production Company: Alma Films
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B2
Fringes
Director: Paula Weiman-Kelman
Format: DVD/digibeta PAL
Length: 72 min
Original language: English, Hebrew
Subtitles: English
In this new documentary Paula Weiman-Kelman follows three stories; in Israel, Canada
and in the US. These stories - vibrant, quirky, moving – are braided together, like the
fringes of a tallit, to create a communal portrait of young Jews at the beginning of the
21st century.
Distributor: Ruth Diskin Films Broadcasting Platforms: None Yet
PO Box 7153 Jerusalem 91071 Israel
Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 2 6724256 Fax: +972 2 6724210
Producer: Jonathan Lopatin
ruth@ruthfilms.com Production Company: not so simple productions
48
B3
Hanan Porat:
Settled in Faith
Director: Gil Mezuman
Format: HD
Length: 63 min
Subtitles: English
Hanan Porat, the leader and symbol of the Israeli settler movement, is diagnosed with
cancer and set off on a soul-searching journey. Was it a right choice to dedicate his life
to public activity instead of Torah study and spirituality? Did the political path which he
chose prove itself? What was the price exacted by the settlement enterprise?
Distributor: Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2Films Broadcasting Platforms: IBA Channel 1 Israel
37/8 Issar Natanzon St. Jerusalem 97787IsraelFestivals: Jerusalem Jewish FF 2012
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Fax: +972 2 5835450Producer: Gil Mezuman
hedva@go2films.com
Production Company: Gil Mezuman Productions
49
House of Fun
B4
(previously: Step by Step)
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Vitali Krivich
Format: Video
Length: 54 min
Original language: Russian, Hebrew
Subtitles: English
About a hundred adolescents immigrate to Israel all alone from the former USSR. Within 9 months,
in a reckless atmosphere, they are supposed to transform from “Russians” to “Israelis”. They live a
happy-go-lucky life, despite the rigid structure all around them, surrounded by a wall, protected by
surveillance cameras and a locked gate. Filmmaker Vitali Krivich followed a group of these young
immigrants aged 17-21, over the course of a year. This film follows their changing lives, and sees
them in moments of joy and sorrow, camaraderie and loneliness, hope and disillusion.
Distributor: CINEPHILBroadcasting Platforms: YES Docu Israel
Festivals: DocAviv 2013
Tel: +972 3 5664129 Fax: +972 3 5601436Producer: Estee Yacov-Mecklberg, Haim Mecklberg
info@cinephil.co.ilProduction Company: 2Team Productions
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B5
Director: Ehud Segev
Date of Release: September 2012
Format: Video
Length: 48 min
Subtitles: English
For 10 years Segev has documented Yom Kippur - the Jewish holy day of Atonement and
one of the most fascinating phenomena of the Jewish culture. He found Yom Kippur’s
points of similarity with Israelism, and opposite that stand trance parties, Ehud Segev
presents a fresh look at one of the greatest taboos of our culture while exposing points
of similarity with his own personal story.
Distributor: Ehud SegevBroadcasting Platforms: None Yet
4th Harabi Mikotov St. Jaffa 68085 Israel
Festivals: : Jewish Eye, Ashkelon 2012 – Honorable Mention
Tel: +972 52 3260878 Fax: +972 3 6438212
Producer: Ehud Segev
segevehud@yahoo.com
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B6
Leibowitz:
Man, Faith, Country
Director: Uri Rosenwaks
Length: 3 x 60 min
Subtitles: English
Raging prophet, iconoclastic philosopher, scientist, social critic - and orthodox Jew,
Yeshayahu Leibowitz confronted Israeli society with both moral and social courage. And
20 years after his death at the age of 91, his words are still alive, provocative and
ever-so relevant to the fate of Israel. In this three part series three essential aspects of the
man – and of his condition, are explored in a significant way as we delve into questions
of faith, country and the man himself.
Distributor: Ruth Diskin Films Broadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
PO Box 7153 Jerusalem 91071 Festivals: Jerusalem FF
Tel: +972 2 6724256Producer: Dana Cohen
ruth@ruthfilms.com
Production Company: Dana Cohen Productions
52
B7
Moekey Katz: A Freedom
Fighter or a Terrorist?
Director: Yehuda Yaniv
Date of Release: not yet
Format: Digital Beta
Length: 58 min
Subtitles: English
Shmuel (Moekey) Katz died recently at age 90 after life-long fighting for Jewish identity,
culture and statehood. 10 years follow up interwoven with archival Jewish history
throughout the 20th century. Juxtaposed with human interest story of a 40 year old man.
Both only recently discovered they were father and son.
Distributor: Yaniv ProductionsBroadcasting Platforms: None Yet
9 Yasmin St. Karmey Yosef 99797 Israel
Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 8 9287639Producer: Yehuda Yaniv
yaniv711@bezeqint.netProduction Company: Yaniv Productions
53
B8
Not in Our Neighborhood
Director: Ella Zaharano
Format: 16:9”
Length: 64 min
Sean, Valeria, Odel and Asael are teenagers who are trapped in the stereotypes
ordained for them by Israeli society. A major educational project allows them to show
a play that is based on their personal lives and attempts the provide them a gateway and
a stage.
Distributor: Ella Zaharano
Tel: +972 050 4554687 Festivals: None Yet
ellazaharano@gmail.comProducer: Ella Zaharano
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On The Left -
B9
The History of the Israeli Left 1948-2012
Director: Ron Cahlili
Date of Release: Jan 2013
Format: SD
Length: 4 x 59 min (one offs available
+ potential for a 90 minutes version)
Subtitles: English
A 4 chapters’ documentary series that tells the story of the Israeli left (Zionist and non-Zionist,
Marxist and non-Marxist), from the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 until present time. The
series investigates, among other things, how Israel evolved from a nation that at least rhetorically
was built from a leftist majority into a proud right wing majority nation and how the compliment
“Leftist” turned into a curse word. The narrative of the series is chronological, and it reflects the
Israeli narrative and the Palestinian narrative; it conveys the changes, upheavals, and dramatic turn
points along the years.
20 Bialik St. 63324 Tel Aviv Israel
Tel: +972 52 3633398
Festivals: None Yet
ron@docudrama.co.il
Producer: Ron Cahlili
Michael@JMTFilms.com
Production Company: Docudrama Productions
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B10
Powder
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Ayal Goldberg
Length: 56 min
Subtitles: English
It’s the story of a man trying to be who he is, in a reality that never lets you forget
where you came from. Four generations, three funerals, two wars and boyfriend waiting
in Tel-Aviv: in tragic- comic clash between the filmmaker and the habit of obedience,
Ayal is repeatedly called for reserve duty as a Tank Commander in the Israeli army.
Distributor: First Hand FilmsBroadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
Neunbrnnenstrsse 50 Zurich Switzerland Festivals: Docaviv FF 2012 – Winner Debut Film Award and Tel: +41 44 3122060 Fax: +41 44 3122080
winner Best Editing Award
esther.van.messel@firsthandfilms.com Producer: Osnat Trabelsi Production Company: Trabelsi Productions
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B11
Seekers
Director: Yishai Oren
Format: HD
Length: 60 min
Subtitles: English
Growing up in a kibbutz, life seemed perfect. Yet, the youth rebelled against the sociaist
kibbutz of old longing for some other truth. Wild partying and drugs seemed like a way
to go, until one of them found redemption in an ultra-religious way of life.
Will his felow seekers join him?
Distributor: Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2Films Broadcasting Platforms: Yes Docu Israel
37/8 Issar Natanzon St. Jerusalem 97787 IsraelFestivals: Jerusalem Jewish FF 2012
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Fax: +972 2 5835450Producer: Duki Dror
hedva@go2films.com
Production Company: Zygote Films
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Portrayals of
the Other
C1
Enlistment Days
Director: Ido Haar
Date of Release: Oct 2012
Format: HD
Length: 54 min
Original language: English, French, Hebrew,
Russian, Tatar
Subtitles: English
Four young men from four different countries (the USA, Russia, France and Israel) are on the eve
of their army enlistment. The film follows the four recruits through the various farewell ceremonies
to the transition, creating a poetic and intimate dialogue between those who have chosen to serve
and those for whom the decision is made by others. The individual stories unveil charged personal
emotions that accompany the young men on their path to the army, played out against the social,
economic and political systems that affect their readiness for personal sacrifice.
Distributor: Ido Haar Broadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
10A Hayarden st. Tel Aviv IsraelFestivals: Haifa FF 2012
Tel: +972 544 260123 Fax: +972 76 5411534
Producers: Ido Haar, Sthephen Apkon
idohaar@gmail.com
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C2
Gamers
Director: Gal Fridman
Format: Blu-Ray
Length: 40 min
Immersion is the loss of feeling of self in the real world and its reestablishment in the game
world. Two of my flat mates are immersed in the virtual world to such a degree that they avoid
participating in life as much as possible. They spend the majority of their time in front of a
computer screen and rarely leave the house. The conflict arising between the virtual world and
the real one is depicted in this film, which is an intriguing and humorous look at an alternative
lifestyle which raises questions concerning our understanding of what we consider real.
Distributor: Gal FridmanBroadcasting Platforms: None Yet
54/2 Haeshel st. Givat Ram Kiryat Ata IsraelFestivals: DocAviv FF 2013
Tel: +972 55 6667117Producer: Gal Fridman
galf33@gmail.com
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C3
Ichilov the Healers
Directors: Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash
Date of Release: Apr 2013
Format: HD
Length: 5X48 min
Subtitles: English
Five young Doctors walking on a thin line of life and death.
Distributor: Adi Barash Ruthie Shatz
Broadcasting Platforms: Yes Docu Israel
3 Simtat Haetrog Rishpon IsraelFestivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 54 3121355Producers: Adi Barash Ruthie Shatz
info@yularifilms.com
Production Company: Fig Films and Yulari Films
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C4
Inside Envelopes
Director: Shelly Kling
Date of Release: Mar 2013
Format: 16/9
Length: 49 min
Subtitles: English
An intimate documentation of the creative process of “Envelopes”, a dance concert which
was created in Holland by the Israeli choreographer Keren Levi and her former pair, the
British musician Tom Parkinson, in collaboration with their siblings- Reut Levi, Israeli dancer,
and Alex Parkinson, British musician. By revealing the unique relationships between the
participants through the prism of creating dance and music, the film tells the story of four
artists in their search for identity, a home and a family within the studio and the stage.
Distributor: JMT Michael TreversBroadcasting Platforms: None yet
20 Bialik St. Tel Aviv 63324 IsraelFestivals: Epos4 Art FF TLV 2013, Best Film Award,
Tel: +972 3 5254782 Fax: +972 3 5254782
Cinedans Amsterdam, San Francisco JFF
Michael @ JMTFilms.com Producer: Shelly Kling
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C5
Director: Yifat Kedar
Format: video-DVD
Length: 56 min
Original language: Hebrew, Russian, English
The film tells the story of the Russian modeling industry. All over Russia tens of schools were
established to teach young girls (6-18), most of them from a tough social background, to
become the next top models in the fashion capitals of the world. Through these years the
girls face hope, every day competitions, hard auditions, meets agents and suffers from abuse,
humiliation, loneliness and dangerous experience with drugs and eating disorders. The young
girls are willing to do everything for the chance to gain a better life for their families.
Distributor: Galit BenglasBroadcasting Platforms: Reshet Channel 2 Israel
22 Harakevet St. Tel-Aviv 66183 Israel Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 3 5661123 Fax: +972 3 5661124
Producers: Galit Benglas, Eado Zuckerman
pro@buzztv.co.ilProduction Company: Buzz Television LTD
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C6
Soldier on the Roof
Director: Esther Hertog
Length: 53/80 min
Subtitles: English
Hebron, only a dot on the world map, but a place that is known and recognized worldwide as the center of many conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians. In this holy place
some 800 extremist Jewish settlers live in the midst of a Palestinian population of over
120,000. For three years, Esther Hertog filmed from within the settler community, capturing unique scenes of their real, sometimes even surreal daily life.
Distributor: Ruth Diskin Films Broadcasting Platforms: None Yet
Festivals: IDFA, DocAviv
Tel: +972 2 6724256 Producer: Erica Reijmerink
ruth@ruthfilms.com Production Company: Sarphati Media
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C7
Director: Ilana Dayan
Format: 16/9 DVD
Length: 49:56”
Subtitles: English
Imagine living in a city with ten and sometimes even twenty murders a day, every day.
Someone Will Die Today – a Week in Ciudad Juarez takes you to that city, where daily life
exceeds all imagination –the war torn city of Ciudad Juarez.
Distributor: Keshet Broadcasting Ltd Broadcasting Platforms: Keshet Channel 2 Israel
Tel: +972 54 7950306 Fax: +972 3 7676007 Producer: Ruthy Steinberg
adi.garti@Keshet-tv.comProduction Company: Keshet Broadcasting Ltd
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C8
State 194
Director: Dan Setton
Date of Release: Sept 2012
Format: Video
Length: 98 min
Original language: Arabic, English
Subtitles: English
Filmmaker Dan Setton gained unprecedented access to the highest circles of the
Palestinian leadership as he chronicles Prime Minister Salam Fayaad’s quest to have
Palestine recognized by the United Nations as an independent state.
Distributor: CinephilBroadcasting Platforms: None Yet
Festivals: Toronto IFF, Berlinale 2013
Tel: +972 3 5664129Producer: Dan Setton, Elise Pearlstein
info@cinephil.co.il Production Company: Set Films, Perticipant Media
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C9
The Egg Donors
Director: Natan Adler
Format: video-DVD
Length: 56 min
Original language: Hebrew, English,
Georgian, Russian
The film follows the women in East Europe who sell their eggs to barren women from Israel
and West Europe, where eggs donation is forbidden by the law. Many times they do not aware
of the risks that involve in the medical routine. Is there any danger to their health? Do they do
it for the money, to survive, or because they want to help others who can not conceive?
Distributor: Galit Benglas
Broadcasting Platforms: Reshet Channel 2 Israel
22 Harakevet St. Tel-Aviv 66183 Israel Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 3 5661123 Fax: +972 3 5661124Producers: Galit Benglas, Eado Zuckerman
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C10
The Lab
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Yotam Feldman
Date of Release: Sept 2013
Format: Video
Length: 60 min
Subtitles: English
Israel has one of the most unique weapon industries in the world. Countries all over the world
are increasingly interested in the ways the Israeli army controls and deals with weapons, terror
and guerrilla tactics. This film follows two private Israeli weapons businessmen, allowing the
director to accompany them in their dealings. Both sides - seller and buyer - become partners
in the creation of a future war(s); a war which creates new weapons and devices, defines new
enemies and constructs a unique combination between profitable and lethal.
Distributor: CinephilBroadcasting Platforms: Channel 8, RTBF, France TV
Festivals: DocAviv TT 2013: Major’s Award For Best Debut
Tel: +972 3 5664129Film, Visions du Reel
info@cinephil.co.ilProducer: Yoav Roeh, Aurit Zamir
Production Company: Gum Films
68
C11
The Lesson
Director: Anat Yuta Zuria
Format: HD
Length: 90 min
Original language: Arabic, Hebrew
Subtitles: English
After numerous failed tests, Layla, an Egyptian born woman, is about to give up her
dream to drive. An encounter with Nimar, a Palestinian driving teacher in Jerusalem,
rekindles her hopes. Two strangers embark upon a journey and gradually the car turns
into a “confessional” as Layla shares her secret life story.
Distributor: Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2Films Broadcasting Platforms: Yes Docu Israel
37/8 Issar Natanzon St. Jerusalem 97787 Israel
Festivals: Haifa FF 2012-Best Documentary Award
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Fax: +972 2 5835450 Producer: Anat Yuta Zuria, Sigal Landesberg
hedva@go2films.com
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C12
Director: Jacob Eilon, Rafi Abulafia
Format: DVD
Length: 45 min
Subtitles: English
The New
Anti-Semitism
Using investigative journalism and hidden cameras, we reveal Anti-Semitism as it has
never been done before. Our goal is to experience this hatred, to understand its toxicity,
instilling motivation to limit the scope of Anti-Semitism. In this movie we will reveal
the method of using the internet to spread Anti-Semitic ideas and expose web sites and
online forums that expose extreme racial hatred.
Distributor: Keshet Broadcasting Ltd Broadcasting Platforms:
Keshet Broadcasting Ltd,Festivals:
Raoul Wallenberg Street 12 Tel Aviv IsraelProducer: Adi Moses
Tel: +972 54 7950306 Fax: +972 3 7676007
Production Company:
adi.garti@Keshet-tv.com
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C13
Uranium-To Die For
Director: Shany Haziza
Length: 54 min
Original language: English and Hebrew
Subtitles: English
A journalist goes behind the scenes of one of the most dangerous black markets in the
world, in an attempt to unravel some of the mystery behind the uranium trade.
Distributor: Ruth Diskin Films Broadcasting Platforms: IBA Channel 1 Israel
Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 2 6724256Producer: Sasha Klein
ruth@ruthfilms.com
Production Company: Sasha Klein Productions
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The Face
of Her Reality
D1
Between Home and
Homeland
Directors: Hans-Peter Luebke,
Lilach Naishtat Bornstein
Format: DVD
Length: 30 min
Original language: Hebrew, German
Subtitles: English
After her whole family had perished in the Holocaust, Karla left Germany and built a new life
in Israel. For 40 years she hadn’t spoken about her Holocaust memories even with her sons,
until a letter from her hometown changed her life.
Distributor: Lilach Naishtat
7 Hagefen St. 46665 Herzliya Israel Festivals: IDFA, Sundance FF, Hot Docs
Tel: +972 54 5260235Producer: Lilach Naishtat Bornstein
yourstorygroup@gmail.comProduction Company: Luepro films (Germany), Your Story Group (Israel)
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D2
Dirty Laundry
Director: Yael Sherer
Format: HD
Length: 51 min
Subtitles: English
Yael could not forgive and forget. She filed an unprecedented civil lawsuit in Israel, suing
damages from her father who was imprisoned for sexual abuse of his daughter.
Committed to resisting the victim stereotype, she decides to document her struggle, confront
her torn family, and reveal the price she pays.
Distributor: Cinemax Productions
Broadcasting Platforms: The Israeli Second Authority for
2 Hata’as St. Givatayim 53397 Israel
TV & Radio, Gesher MultiCultural Film Fund, Cinema Project Tel: +972 3 7311267 Fax: +972 3 7311267
The Yehoshua Rabinovich Fund for Arts Israel
info@cinemax-prod.co.il Festivals: DocAviv FF 2012, Rehovot IWFF 2012
cinemax@zahav.net.ilProducers: David Noy, Yoram Ivry
Production Company: Cinemax Productions
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D3
Lola
Director: Eytan Harris
Date of Release: 0ct 2012
Format: HD
Length: 54 min
Subtitles: English
Galia a brave housewife and the local florist of a tiny provincial town, opens a sex shop
against all odds. Can it work? Will the locals accept it? How about her children?
This humoristic documentary might give you a new perspective about sex shops and
especially about its owners.
Distributor: Eytan HarrisBroadcasting Platforms: None Yet
15 Yair St. Zikhron Ya’akov 30900 Israel
Festivals: Israel Film Center New York, Berlin Jewish FF
Tel: +972 52 2643525Producer: Eytan Harris
harris@netvision.net.ilProduction Company: Eytan Harris Productions Ltd.
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D4
Director: Anat Tel Mendelovich Year of production: 2012
Format: HD
Length: 59 min
Subtitles: English
Maor, 22 years old, became a religious Muslim 4 years ago. Her life is in danger in Karmiel.
Maor’s Mother is a religious Jew; her father thinks the Arabs should not leave in Israel.
Maor looking for a religious Muslim guy, her parents prays not to lose their daughter.
Distributor: Sasha Klein Broadcasting Platforms: Yes Docu Israel
32-B Petachia St. Tel-Aviv 69549 Israel Festivals: Haifa FF
Tel: +972 54 2256211Producer: Sasha Klein
klein.sasha@gmail.com Production Company: Sasha Klein Productions Ltd
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D5
Director: Ilan Yagoda
Format: Bsp
Length: 60 min
Subtitles: English
A small bench near their home is the daily meeting place of four women who live in a
modest, traditional neighborhood. The women conduct their lives based on old-world codes
and values. The film allows us to enter their lives which contain endless giving and human
warmth as well as frustrations and disappointments, an ever-growing sense of “missing out”
in a world changing before their eyes.
Distributor: Ilan YagodaBroadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
P.O.B. 6021 Hod Hasharon 45246 Israel
Festivals: DocAviv FF 2013: Best Israeli Fim Award
Tel: +972 2 733769 Fax: +972 9 7403882
Producer: Ilan Yagoda
yagodail@netvision.net.ilProduction Company: Ilan Yagoda Production
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D6
Pole, Woman, Movie
Director: Isri Halpern
Date of release : May 2013
Format: HDCam
Length: 55 min
Subtitles: English
Pole dancing may have started in strip clubs, but over the past few years it has won
international recognition as an art form, a sport and a means of empowering women.
In this dynamic documentary, director Isri Halpern follows, the founder of Israel’s first
pole dancing studio as she competes for the European title championship.
Distributor: Ruth Diskin Films Broadcasting Platforms: Yes Docu Israel
Festivals: DocAviv FF 2013: Best Israeli Film Award
Tel: +972 2 6724256 Fax: +972 2 6724210
Producer: Isri Halpern
ruth@ruthfilms.com
Production Company: Halpern Films
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D7
Superwomen
Directors: Yael Kipper, Ronen Zaretzky
Date of Release: During 2013
Format: HD
Length: 80 min
Original language: Russian, Hebrew
Lives of 5 women, companies shift cashiers at the supermarket. Our heroes came to Israel
from the former Soviet Union. The film addresses the cohesion between them and solidarity
in an attempt to change their fate.
Distributor: Yael KipperBroadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
Harashim 24954 IsraelFestivals: DocAviv FF 2013, Honorary Best Cinematography Awards
Tel: +972 52 8870538
Producer: Yael Kipper
kippery@walla.comProduction Company: Turtles Films
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D8
That’s Gila, That’s Me
Director: Alon Weinstock
Format: DV
Length: 73 min
Subtitles: English
The fascinating life story of Gila Goldstein, one of the first Israeli transgender and a
Tel-Aviv icon turned living legend. In 2003 she was proclaimed the LGBT community’s
darling for her contribution and continued fight for social justice. The film, shot between
1997- 2010, described the world of a woman who is, despite fleeting years and many
strugles, still happy, optimistic and feeling forever young.
Distributor: Alon WeinstockBroadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
10 Mapu st. Tel Aviv 63577 IsraelFestivals: Tlvfilmfestival, Berlin Pornfilm Festival
Tel: +972 54 5553379 Fax: +972 54 5553379 Producer: Alon Weinstock
w_alon@netvision.net.ilProduction Company: Kerem Meniv ltd
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D9
The Women/Pioneer
Director: Michal Aviad
Date of Release: April 2013
Length: 50 min
Subtitles: English
A hundred years ago women pioneers came to Palestine to realize their dream of creating
a new woman in a new world, a woman as independent as men. The film uncovers their
passionate battles and painful disappointments, until they were defeated, giving up their
liberation for the national struggle. Their powerful diaries shed new light on the archival
footage of the time.
Distributor: Eden ProductionsBroadcasting Platforms: The Second Au thority
146 Haeshel St. Herzliya Pituach Israel
for Television & Radio, Channel 2 Israel
Tel: +972 50 5305155 Fax: +972 9 9552376Festivals: DocAviv FF 2013: Best Research Award
edna@edenproductions.co.ilProducer: Edna Kowarsky, Elinor Kowarsky
Production Company: Eden Productions
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D10
White Night
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Irit Gal
Format: HDV
Length: 48 min
Subtitles: English
The film follows a group of Palestinian women on their journey across the Israeli
separation wall and the walls of their conservative society in order to provide for their
children. Night after night they risk capture and arrest to work as cleaning ladies in
Jerusalem.
Festivals: DocAviv 2012, Dok Leipzig, DocPoint
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Fax: +972 2 5835450 Helsinki, Thessaloniki Int’l Doc FF
hedva@go2films.com
Producer: Nurit Kedar, Mosh Danon
Production Company: Inosan productions
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Untold Stories
BUREAU 06 -
E1
the architects of the Eichmann Trial
Director: Yoav Halevy
Date of Release: 07/2013 (July 2013)
Format: HD
Length: 58 min
Original language: Hebrew, German
Subtitles: English
“The dramatic story of “Bureau 06”, the team of police investigators formed for the intent
purpose of investigating and preparing the grave charges brought up by the Jewish people
against Adolf Eichmann. This film will tell the unique personal and group stories of this team
of investigators, their hardships, their confessions and the emotional turmoil they experienced,
together and alone. Among them the story of Avner Less the personal interrogator of Adolf
Eichmann who left Israel after the trial and took back his Germany Identity card.
Distributor: JMT Films Distribution
co-productions and world sales Festivals: Jerusalem Film Festival 20 Bialik st. 63324 Tel Aviv Israel
Producer: Yoav Halevy
Tel: +972 52 3633398
Production Company: Open Doors Films/
info@opendoorsfilms.com Tmuna Communication Ltd.
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Untold Stories
E2
Chasing The Shadow
Director: Mordechai Vardi
Format: video
Length: 53 min
Subtitles: English
This is a personal film that deals with relations between the rabbi and scholar. The director
goes on a journey to explore his unresolved relationship with the Rabbi that affected him
the most. Why wouldn’t the rabbi let him get close to him? The journey also reveals the
problematic dependencies between the rabbi and the student.
Distributor: Mordechai Vardi Broadcasting Platforms: Channel 2 Israel, Channel 10 Israel
Kibutz Rosh Tzurim 90938 Israel Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 54 6700704Producer: Noam Demsky
vardi@maale.co.il
Untold Stories
85
E3
Damascus Captor
Director: Linoy Bar Gefen
Date of Release: 9.8.12
Format: video-DVD
Length: 56 min
Three combat pilots and one Armor officer that were captured during Yom Kippur and the
Lebanon War, now back in those nightmare days when they meet Ahmed Naamna. Ahmed
served for 20 years as interpreter for the Syrian intelligence. He was present in the
horrific torture they have experience throughout the investigations. The emotionally
charged encounter raises many questions that haven’t been answered.
Distributor: Galit Benglas
Broadcasting Platforms: Reshet Channel 2 Israel
22nd Harakevet St. Tel Aviv 66183 Israel Festival: None Yet
Tel: +972 3 5661123 Fax: +972 3 5661124
Producer: Galit Benglas, Eado Zuckerman
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Untold Stories
E4
Director: Eyal Boers
Date of Release: Dec 2012
Format: HDCam
Length: 52 min
Original language: Hebrew, French, English
Subtitles: English (available also with French narration)
‘’Operation Entebbe’’ is considered as one of the most brilliant military rescue operations in
military history. Four hijacked persons did not survive the raid, among them Jean-Jacques
Mimouni, a 19 year-old French-Israeli hostage, Israel’s most heroic myth is the Mimouni family’s
greatest tragedy. In “Live or Die in Entebbe,” Eyal Boers examines the rescue operation from a
new angle and accompanies Mimouni’s nephew, Yonathan Khayat, on a personal journey of
reconstruction that is complemented by many eyewitness testimonies.
Distributor: JMT Films Distribution, Broadcasting Platforms: Télévision Radio-Canada (SRC/RDI:
co-productions and world sales
Jean Pelletier), IBA Channel 1 Israel (Itay Landsberg)
20 Bialik St. 63324 Tel Aviv Israel Festivals: Israeli FF of Paris, Israeli FF of Montréal, Toronto Jewish FF
Tel: +972 52 3633398
Producer: Eyal Boers, Associate Producer: Michael Treves
Michael@JMTFilms.com eyal.boers@gmail.com Production Company: Dynamic Flash Ltd.
Untold Stories
87
E5
My Herzl
Director: Eli Tal-El
Length: 52 min
Original language: English, Hebrew
Subtitles: English
An intimate and unexpected documentary about the private life of Theodor Herzl.
An unconventional documentary which is also a personal look at the man who inspired so
many – and his legacy which is still under debate.
Distributor: Ruth Diskin FilmsBroadcasting Platforms: None Yet
PO Box 7153 Jerusalem 91071Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 2 6724256Producer: David Matlow
ruth@ruthfilms.com
Production Company: Willit Productions
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Untold Stories
E6
Director: Ilana Dayan
Format: 16/9 DVD
Length: 34:13”
Subtitles: English
The clock is ticking. We are on the verge of an attack against Iran. Uvda - Israel’s
top-rated documentary program – presents an exclusive, investigative report on the
‘secret war’ against Iran’s nuclear program, and reveals how the debate over bombing
Iran has caused an unprecedented rift within Israel’s highest ranks.
Distributor: Keshet Broadcasting Ltd
12th Raoul Wallenberg St. Tel Aviv Israel
Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 54 7950306 Fax: +972 3 7676007Producer: Ruthy Steinberg
adi.garti@Keshet-tv.comProduction Company: Uvda I.D LTD
Untold Stories
89
E7
The Gatekeepers
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Dror Moreh
Format: HD
Length: 96 min
Subtitles: English
For the first time ever, six former heads of the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret service agency, agree
to share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions.
Intimately interviewed, they shed light on the controversy surrounding the occupation in the
aftermath of the Six Day War.
Distributor: Cinephil
Broadcasting Platforms: IBA Channel 1 Israel
Festivals: Jerusalem FF, Toronto IFF, New York FF,
Tel: +972 3 5664129
IDFA, Sundance FF, 3013 Oscar Nomimee
info@cinephil.co.il Producers: Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky, Estelle Fialon
Production Company: Dror Moreh Productions, Cinephil, Les Films du Poisson
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Untold Stories
E8
Tze’elim
Director: Omri Assenheim
Date of Release: November 2012
Format: 16/9 DVD
Length: 01:23:02”
Subtitles: English
In 1992, Israel’s elite commando unit was preparing for an unprecedented operation:
Assassinating the Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein. On the last simulation training, a terrible
accident occurred, five soldiers died and a legal war began within Israel’s military ranks.
The whole affair was kept top-secret for two decades – until now.
Distributor: Keshet Broadcasting Ltd Broadcasting Platforms: Keshet Channel 2 Israel
Tel: +972 54 7950306 Fax: +972 3 7676007Producer: Ruthy Steinberg
adi.garti@Keshet-tv.comProduction Company: Uvda I.D LTD
Untold Stories
91
Family Ties
F1
Couple or Kids
Director: Itay Berkowitz
Format: DVD/HDCam
Length: 57 min
Subtitles: English
Two married journalists expose their traumatic experience as they go through fertility
treatments.
Distributor: Ruth Diskin FilmsBroadcasting Platforms: Channel 10 Israel
Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 2 6724256Producer: Orly Vilnai, Guy Meroz, Roni Livneh
ruth@ruthfilms.com
Production Company: Orly&Guy
Family Ties
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F2
Daughter and Mother
Director: Zevik Zelikoivutch
Format: HD
Length: 45 min
Subtitles: English
After Rachel’s death, her daughter, Bracha returns to her childhood home to pack and
distribute the ramains of the house. As she works, amdist the piles and boxes, Rachel
appears. A farewell story between mother and daughter is revealed.
Distributor: Shlomi Elkabetz Broadcasting Platforms: None Yet
4 Hashfela St. Tel-Aviv Israel Festivals: Cinema South Festival 2013
Tel: +972 54 3174755 Fax: +972 3 5600286
Producer: Shlomi Elkabetz
shlomi.elkabetz@gmail.comProduction Company: DEUX BEAUX GARÇONS
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Family Ties
F3
Family Time
Director: Nitzan Gilady
Format: DVCAM/HD Transfer
Length: 60/72 min
Subtitles: English
An Israeli Yemenite father takes his three sons; the gay one, the one that suffers from
PTSD, and the one who emigrated from Israel to the US, to a journey to the Grand
Canyon, in a crowded RV, while in the background the mother tries to keep the family
together.
Distributor: Nitzan GiladyBroadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
5 Hamehoga St. Tel Aviv 66849 Israel
Festivals: DokFest- Munich Documentary FF,
Tel: +972 52 2319289
Documentary Edge –New Zealand , Jerusalem FF
nitzangilady@gmail.comProducer: Nitzan Gilady
Production Company: Yona Productions
Family Ties
95
F4
My German Children
Director: Tom Tamar Pauer
Year of production: long-term documentary
2006-2012
Format: SD 16:9 Anamorphic
Length: 82 min
Original language: German,Hebrew
Subtitles: English
Roots, conflict, tolerance and inheritance presented without make-up in “camera-stylo”
style. Four generations wandering between Israel and Germany in an attempt to find an
individual solution for an historical drama. Through every word and picture the spectator
is invited to reflect his own identity and roots and recognize their importance.
Distribution: Broadcasting Platforms: Yes Docu Israel
Tom Pauer and Hedva Goldschmidt
Festivals: JFF Jerusalem, Dokfest Munich, 22 Hasharon St. Ra’anana 43352 Israel Aliza Shagrir Award 2012
Tel: +972 54 2384701 tompauerh@gmail.com Producer: Tom Tamar Pauer
Tel: +972 2 5831371 hedva@go2films.com
Production Company: TomPauerProductions
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Family Ties
F5
Photonovela
Director: Chen Shelach
Date of Release: 12/12/12 (sneak-release)
Format: HD
Length: 52 min
Subtitles: English
A 12 year old girl must complete family history assignment for school. The boring task
slowly becomes a sweeping drama embodying many secrets during three generations of
one family, beginning before the World War II, continuing as Holocaust refugees and ending with the fall of the collective kibbutz idealism.
Festivals: Jerusalem Jewish FF 2012
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Fax: +972 2 5835450 Producer: Duki Dror
hedva@go2films.com
Production Company: Zygote Films
Family Ties
97
F6
Skornik- in the Name
of the Father
Director: Itay Livne
Year of production: 2010 - 2013
Format: dv
Length: 52 min
Idan has no choice but to become a martial arts champion, trained by his father in a
method developed by his holocaust surviving grandfather. The film follows his extraordinary
childhood of rigorous training fraught by intricate family relationships in the arena that is
shadowed by the past. Filmed in: Israel, France, Poland.
Distributor: Itay LivneBroadcasting Platforms: The second authority
P.O.Box 14408 Tel-Aviv 61143 Israel
for Television and Radio
Tel: +972 54 5956646 Fax: +972 774339501 Festivals: None Yet
info@filmsforachange.com
Producer: Itay Livne
Production Company: Films for a Change
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Family Ties
F7
The Hungarian Cube:
Director: Gilad Inbar
Length: 57/72 min
Original language: Hebrew, Hungarian, English
Subtitles: English
Composer Andre Hajdu has six sons: religious and atheists, left and right wing,
intellectuals and businessmen, and himself, a complete piece torn apart, containing the
source of all those contradictions which exist between his sons, managing to channel
them into his troubled musical work.
PO Box 7153 Jerusalem 91071 IsraelFestivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 2 6724256 Fax: +972 2672 4210 Producer: Micha Shagrir
ruth@ruthfilms.com Production Company: Sheeba Productions
Family Ties
99
F8
The Sun Glows Over
the Mountains
Director: Nurit Sharett
Format: HDV
Length: 53 min
Subtitles: English
A wistful film on love of homeland.
Video artist Nurit Sharett recounts her childhood memories and converses with her
Palestine-born parents, who grew up in the British Mandate years. Nurit, a granddaughter of
Moshe Sharett, retells the story of the aliya of her great-grandfather in 1882, and reviews the
political philosophy of her grandfather, who as an Israeli leader championing peace was
ousted from his position of foreign minister because of his opposition to the initiation of the
1956 Sinai War.
Distributor: Nurit SharettBroadcasting Platforms: None Yet
5 Tiomkin St. 65783 Tel Aviv Israel Festivals: Videobrazil 2013
Tel: +972 52 8810998 +972 52 6412200 Producer: Nurit Sharett
nsharett@gmail.com
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Family Ties
The Inner Tour
G1
Director: Yoav Shamir
Format: Video
Length: 90 min
Subtitles: English
What is a true hero? What compels one to maintain their integrity and go against the
grain to fight for what is just? The film is an insightful journey into understanding what
makes a person choose “good” over “evil”. Against all odds, some people will always
fight for what is just.
Distributor: CinephilBroadcasting Platforms: Yes Docu Israel, BR/Arte
18 Levontin St. Tel Aviv 6511207 Israel Festivals: Visions du Reel
Tel: +972 3 5664129 Fax: +972 3 5601436
Producer: Yoav Shamir
info@cinephil.co.ilProduction Company: Yoav Shamir Films
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The Inner Tour
G2
His Life and Legacy
Director: Moshe Levinson
Format: HD
Length: 53 min
Subtitles: English
The film traces the turbulent story of Benzion Netanyahu, a Zionist intellectual and
world renowned historian whose life has been marked by the fall of his oldest son in
the famed hostage rescue at Entebbe and the election of his middle son as Prime
Minister of Israel.
Distributor: Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2Films Broadcasting Platforms: IBA - Israeli Channel 1
Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Fax: +972 2 5835450 Producer: Moshe Levinson
hedva@go2films.com
Production Company: Profile Productions Ltd.
The Inner Tour
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G3
Garden of Eden
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Ran Tal
Format: HDCAM/DCP
Length: 75 min
Original language: Hebrew, Arabic,
Russian, Portuguese
Subtitles: English
The Sahkne, is one of the most popular National Parks in Israel. It attracts all the elements
of Israeli society – kibbutz members, Arab families, religious people, Former Soviet Union
immigrants and tourists. The Garden of Eden is the story of this wondrous, magical site that
is resplendent with contradictions. A follow up of the changes in the park throughout the
year, enables a critical, empathic observation, of Israeli society’s culture in 2010.
Distributor: Lama Films Broadcasting Platforms: Yes Docu Israel
17th Bar-Ilan St. Tel-Aviv IsraelFestivals: IDFA, Hot Docs, Jerusalem FF
Tel: +972 3 6850430 Fax: +972 3 6869793
Producer: Amir Harel
amir@lamafilms.com
Production Company: Lama Films
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The Inner Tour
G4
Honi Hameagel:After
me the Deluge
Director: Uzi Yahav
Date of Release: September 2012
Format: PAL
Length: 60 min
Subtitles: English
Docu-Fringe movie about the oeuvre and death of the interdisciplinary artist,
Honi Hamagel. Honi functions interstitially between the real and the surreal, blurring the
boundaries that distinguish life from art. He converts the marginal, lust, hedonism and
the squalor of life into artistic creativity in accordance with his credo: That which is good
in life – is filthy.
Distributor: Yahav Video Productions Broadcasting Platforms: None Yet
13 Hacabaim st. Ramat Gan IsraelFestivals: EPOS 2013
Tel: +972 3 6775922 Mob: +972 54 7745440 Producer: Uzi Yahav
Yahav.Video@gmail.comProduction Company: Yahav Video Productions
The Inner Tour
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G5
Lyrics by Rothblitt
Director: Deva Oz Melman
Format: DVCam
Length: 74 min
Subtitles: English
The lyrics that Yankeleh Rothblitt produced during the last 33 years, tell the story of a
double life. In this film we take a look at the dialogue between the lyricist and the daily
reality of Israeli society - along with the personal development of an artist.
Distributor: Ruth Diskin Film
P.O.Box 7153 Jerusalem 91071 IsraelFestivals: Haifa FF
Tel: +972 2 6724256 Producer: Ruth Diskin
Fax: +972 2 6724210
Production Company: YBitton Productions
ruth@ruthfilms.com 106
The Inner Tour
G6
Off Season
Director: Itamar Alcalay
Date of Release: Oct 2012
Format: HD
Length: 3 episodes – 150 min total
Subtitles: English
There is only one city in Israel where it’s possible to feel “far away”- Eilat, Israel’s
official resort city, cut off from the rest of the country by miles of desert. Tourists from
all over the world come there. But few really know the locals- for whom this dream has
become a dangerous trap.
Distributor: Dorit HesselBroadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
8 Harutz st. Tel Aviv Israel
Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 77 5161040 Fax: +972 7 5161020Producer: Ram Landes
koda@koda.co.il Production Company: Koda Communication
The Inner Tour
107
G7
Director: Jonathan Paz
Format: HD
Length: 60 min
Original language: Hebrew, English, French
Subtitles: English, French
Miky Arbel the Israeli ambassador to Cameroon, goes into the deep jungles and arid
deserts, to introduce the dripping irrigation system to the farmers, trying to resolve
severe irrigation problems the country suffers. But no less – it’s the inner journey of the
ambassador deep into himself and his past.
Distributor: Jonathan PazBroadcasting Platforms: Yes Docu Israel
20 Zamenhof St. Netanya 42309 Israel
Festivals: FF Jerusalem
Tel: +972 52 4499592Producer: Jonathan Paz
pazjon1@gmail.comProduction Company: The Valley Train Productions Ltd.
108
The Inner Tour
G8
The Israeli Code
Director: Ayelet Dekel
Format: HD
Length: 51 min
Subtitles: English
Alex Levak - press photographer, Ayelet Dekel - director and Prof. Gad Yair - sociologist,
head out on a journey to check all that’s so unique and special in the Israeli street scene.
A fun yet profound cinematic ride into the heart of the public zone in Israel.
Distributor: Ayelet DekelBroadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
Address: Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 50 5555877Producer: Hagit Segal
dklayelet@ @gmail.comProduction Company: Channel 8 Israel
The Inner Tour
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larger Then Life
H1
Final Stages
Director: Ori Bahat
Format: DVD
Length: 52 min
Original language: English
Subtitles: The final days and stages of Asaf Avidan & the Mojos, Israel’s rock-folk sensation.
4 years, 15 countries, 300 shows, 1 camera.
Final Stages meshes the countless performances, backstage, airports, hotel rooms,
tour buses, interviews and all that’s between into a stunning and seemingly seamless
audio-visual montage.
Distributor: Roie AvidanBroadcasting Platforms: IBA Channel 1 Israel
3 Peretz Hayut St. Tel Aviv Israel
Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 54 4629840Producer: Roie Avidan
roie@telmavar.com
Larger Then Life
111
H2
Guard Hut
Director: Gideon Latzman
Date of Release: 08/2012
Format: HD
Length: 17 min
Original language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Leonid Pekarovsky is a parking lot security guard who immigrated to Israel from the
Ukraine. Out of his dull and hopeless daily existence, he managed to reinvent himself as
one of the most extraordinary and original writers in Israel today.
Distributor: Gideon LatzmanBroadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
73 Hakishon st. Tel-Aviv Israel Festivals: Tel-Aviv Int. Student Film Festival, Tbilisi Int.
Tel: +972 54 4692093 Student Film Festival
gidlatz@gmail.com Producer: Gideon Latzman
Production Company: Gideon Latzman
112
Larger Then Life
H3
Kusturica Dream
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Eyal Sibi
Format: Beta, ProRes 422 file
Length: 63 min
Subtitles: English
Eyal has been in love with Hila for 3 years, but never told her that.
He decides to go on a surreal trip to the Balkans to learn free spirit from his admired
director, Emir Kusturica. He find Kusturica and ask him to play a role in a film Eyal’s
directing; perhaps this will help him to summon the courage to tell Hila how he felt.
Distributor: Elad Peleg Broadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
116 HaDekel st. Festivals: None Yet
Moshav Kochav Michael Israel Producer: Elad Peleg, Haggai Arad
Tel: +972 57 7555805 Production Company: Daroma Productions
daromap@gmail.com
Larger Then Life
113
H4
Rita Jahan-Foruz
Director: Ayal Goldberg
Format: DVD
Length: 85 min
Original language: Hebrew, English, Persian
On her 49th Birthday, while the tension between Teheran and Israel is escalating, Rita, who
came to Israel from Iran when she was 8 years old, is recording her first album in Farsi.
Through this journey we discover an intimate family portrait, with close ties between Rita,
her sisters and their parents along with yearning to their unapproachable homeland. The
strong international welcoming of the album along with huge Iranian admirers prove us
again the power of music in connecting people.
Distributor: Orly Topel Broadcasting Platforms: Keshet Channel 2 Israel
15 Kineret st. Bney-Brak Israel Festivals: DocAviv FF
Tel: +972 50 5304401Producer: Vivi Halpern, Orly Topel
orly@kol-miney.comProduction Company: Kol-miney Productions
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Larger Then Life
H5
Special Interview
Director: Nitzan Rozenberg
Length: 55 min
Subtitles: English
Two young people with disabilities become star reporters in this uplifting documentary.
They have interviewed many well-known personalities but their dream is to interview
President Barak Obama. A journey where they pursue their dream and allow us a peek
into their unique world.
Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 2 6724256Producer: Asaf Finkelstein
ruth@ruthfilms.com
Production Company: SHALVA
Larger Then Life
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Reflections
of the Past
I1
Back to Casablanca
Director: Sigalit Banai
Format: SD
Length: 50 min
Original language: Hebrew, French, Arabic
Subtitles: English
Israeli actor and director Ze’ev Revach was born in Morocco in 1940. He sets out on a journey
back to Casablanca, in search of a Moroccan actor to star alongside him in his next film, which
he dreams that he’ll be able to distribute around the Arab world. but his mission is not a simple one. Revach’s heart sways between Diaspora and Homeland, between authentic and imagined Moroccan belonging and between the script of the dream and the reality.
Distributor: JMT Films Distribution,
Broadcasting Platforms: YES Docu Israel
co-productions and world sales
Festivals: Cinema South Festival, FCIM Israeli Film Festival of Montréal
20 Bialik St. 63324 Tel Aviv IsraelProducer: Ron Cahlili
Tel: +972 52 3633398
Production Company: Docudrama Productions
117
I2
Hunting Time
Director: Eran Barak
Format: HDV
Length: 53 Min
Subtitles: English
A lonely Nazi Hunter collects hundreds of photographs, and seeks recognition. A photograph
of two adolescents, eternally smiling at the camera taped on a small monument. Three
high-rise apartment buildings are under construction in a quite Haifa neighborhood, Israel.
A Journey between memories and remembrance.
Distributor: Eran Barak Broadcasting Platforms: None Yet
Hof Carmel Post 30890 IsraelFestivals: Haifa FF, Cinema South Festival, Anthology Film
Tel: +972 54 6620004 Fax: +972 4 6760063
Archives New York
eranbara@gmail.comProducers: Eran Barak & Yael Shavit
Production Company: Medenine Films
118
I3
The End
Director: Honi Hameagel
Format: PAL
Length: 70 min
Subtitles: English
Tel Aviv – Jaffa with a history of 100 years of cinema, represents the world last process,
from establishing Israel’s first cinema hall, Eden Cinema (1974-1914), to 60 theaters in
the 60th, so-called local cinema period, and four houses Cinema today, all multi-coplexes.
The End movie represents an existential essence cinema halls and films – basic cultural
life of the city of Tel Aviv, during the last 100 years.
Distributor: Yahav Video Productions
13th Hacabaim St. Ramat Gan Israel Festivals: DocAviv 2013
Tel: +972 3 6775922 Fax: +972 3 6775922Producer: Uzi Yahav
Yahav.Video@gmail.comProduction Company: Yahav Video Productions
119
I4
The Escape
Director: Alon Levi
Format: DVCam
Length: 74 min
Original language: Hebrew, German,
Italian, English
Subtitles: English
“Ha Bricha” is first of all a “Road Movie”. Ten Israeli teenagers from different
backgrounds set out on a personal and fascinating adventure which follows the “Bricha
Movement”. Using today’s Europe as the set, the journey is led by a guide, a mentor, who
will use acting, reconstruction, psychodrama and group dynamic techniques in order to
restore selected scenes from the “Bricha”.
Distributor: Ruth Diskin FilmBroadcasting Platforms: None Yet
P.O.Box 7153 Jerusalem 91071 Israel Festivals: None Yet
Tel: +972 2 6724256 Fax: +972 2 6724210
Producer: Micha Shagrir
ruth@ruthfilms.com
Production Company: Sheeba Productions
120
J1
WATER
Directors: Sa’ar and Maya Sarfaty,
Mohammad Fuad, Yona Rozenkier,
Mohammad Bakri, Ahmad Bargouthi,
Pini Tavger, Tal Haring
Date of Release: Aug 2012
Format: HD Length: 120 min
Subtitles: English, French, Italian
The project WATER is a cinematic cooperation created within the Department of Film and
Television at Tel Aviv University. In 2012 a small group of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers
directed a feature film with total artistic freedom, exploring a strongly unifying subject WATER.
WATER exemplifies cinema’s ability to penetrate forbidden zones. This movie makes us, Israeli
and Palestinians, realize that we all yearn for a solution.
Distributor: Tu Vas Voir Broadcasting Platforms: None Yet
5 Passage Piver 75011 Paris France Festivals: Venice Critics Week, Busan FF, Clermont Ferrand FF
Tel: +33 1 75439391 +972 52 5785388 Producer: Kobi Mizrahi and Yael Perlov
info@tuvasvoir.fr waterproject2012@gmail.com Production Company: Tel-Aviv University Film & TV Dept
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Docs and Cuts
(Rough cut Screening)
K1
Director: Dan peer
Format: Beta HD
Length: 60 min
Subtitles: English
The revelation of Angelica Schatz, the lost and forgotten daughter of Boris Schatz, founder
of the Modern Israeli Art. Dan Peer, the great grandson of Angelica, embarks on a worldwide
excavation, unveiling her true story returning Angelica to the history books, where from she
was erased.
Distributor: Shlomi Elkabetz 4 Hashfela St. Tel-Aviv Israel Tel: +972 54 3174755 Fax: +972 3 5600286
shlomi.elkabetz@gmail.com
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Producer: Shlomi Elkabetz
Production Company: DEUX BEAUX GARÇONS
Docs and Cuts (Rough cut Screening)
K2
Baitel
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Itamar Alkalay
Format: HD
Length: 52 min
Original language: English, French,
Sweedish, Hebrew
Subtitles: English
Esaias Baitel, renowned photographer and son of Holocaust survivors, documented
Neo-Nazi gang members in Paris. When the Neo-Nazi gang discovered Baitel’s true
identity, he and his family had to flee for their lives.
Distributor: Claudia Levin Produced with the support of: Yes Docu Israel, Cinema 7 A Ben Atar St. Tel Aviv 66087 Israel
Project -The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts Tel: +972 52 2385334 Fax: +972 3 6294665
Israel, Gesher Multicultural Film Fund Israel
claudia.levin@claudiusfilms.com
Producer: Claudia Levin
Production Company: Claudius Films Ltd.
125
K3
Caught in the Net
at
Pitched
CoPro
Directors: Shosh Shlam &Hilla Medalia
Format: HD
Length: 82 min
Original language: Chinese Subtitles:
English, Hebrew
China is the first country in the world to classify Internet addiction as a clinical disorder.
“Caught in the Net” features a Beijing treatment center where Chinese teenagers are
being “deprogrammed”, and follows the
Distributor: Neta Zwebner-Zaibert Produced with the support of: The New Fund for Cinema 61/1 Bareket St. Mevaseret Zion Israel
and Television Israel, YES Docu Israel, Gucci Tribeca Docu Tel: +972 54 4778595Fund, Chicken & Egg, Impact Partners
Neta@knowproductions.net
Producer: Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam, Neta Zwebner-Zaibert
Production Company: kNow Productions and Shosh Shlam
126
K4
Hebron Wild West
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Nissim Mosek
Format: miniDV
Length: 52/90 min
Subtitles: English
The situation in the “Wild West” of the West Bank is told in by a non-objective filmmaker
who puts himself – and the reality of life under occupation - on the line in this hard-hitting
documentary.
Distributor: Ruth Diskin Films
Produced with the support of: The New Fund for Cinema
and Television Israel
Tel: +972 2 6724256 Fax: +972 2 6724210
Producer: Sharon Shavit
ruth@ruthfilms.com Production Company: Blue Rose Productions
127
K5
Life Sentences
at
Pitched
CoPro
Directors: Nurit Kedar, Yaron Shani
Format: HD
Length: 90 min
Subtitles: English
In our film we will look at a life that doesn’t kneel to the harsh frameworks that
dictate our destiny. Under the kind and smiling appearance of a delightful couple,
devotedly raising their children, hides an incredible story.
Distributor: Nurit Kedar
Produced with the support of: Channel 8 Israel, Makor Foundation
23 Mohaliver St. Yahud Israel for Israeli Films
Tel: +972 52 3541542 Fax: +972 3 5367101
Producer: Nurit Kedar
kedar.nurit@gmail.com
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K6
Mister Gaga
Director: Tomer Heymann
Format: HD
Length: 52/70 min
Subtitles: English
Ohad Naharin is one of the most prominent and innovative choreographers in the world.
The film follows Naharin between Japan, Holland, Sweden and Israel - and draws a rare
portrait of the now 60-year old artist at the most critical point of his personal life.
Distributor: Heymann Brothers Films
2 Barzilai St. 65113 Tel-Aviv Israel
Tel: +972 3 5602701 Fax: +972 3 5604082
barak@heymannfilms.com
Produced with the support of: Channel 8 Israel
Producer: Barak Heymann & Tomer Heymann
Production Company: Heymann Brothers Films
129
K7
Neve Tirza
at
Pitched
CoPro
Director: Liat Mer
Format: Video dv, HD
Length: 60 min
Subtitles: English
Israel’s only women’s prison, as seen through the eyes of three inmates: one Jew, one
Muslim and one Christian, where Israel’s ethnic diversity is confined to a stifling existence
in tiny cells for what seems an eternity. A rare look at the relationships between inmates
and warders over one year.
Distributor: Anath Kandell Produced with the support of: Channel 8 Israel,
16 Huberman St. Tel Aviv Israel Makor Foundation for Israeli Films, Mifal Hapais
Tel: +972 52 8386968 +972 3 6851007
Producer: Anath Kandell
Kandell.anath@gmail.comProduction Company: One Light Production
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Copro Campus
(Student films)
L1
As Yesterday
Director: Ofra Haimovich
Date of Release: The final version hasn’t
premiered yet
Length: 40 min
Original language: Hebrew, Spanish
A collection of her grandparents’ love letters and old movies, lead Ofra into an
enchanted world of romance. Her close connection with her grandfather enables
her to release the fears, view her relationships with her family and give herself a
chance to fall in love.
Distributor: Michael TrevesBroadcasting Platforms: None Yet
J.M.T. Films Distribution & Worldwide Sales
Festivals: Special Mention, Cinema South Festival, Sderot, 20 Bialik st. 63324 Tel Aviv Israel
Israel, 2012
Tel: +972 3 5254782 Mob: +972 52 3633398Producer: Vered Argaman
Production Company: Sapir College
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L2
Director: Harel Ben-Nun
Date of Release: 7/2012
Format: HD 1080p
Length: 21:07 min
‘Dark Shades of Shadow’ is a movie about a son who tries to understand the influence of the
relationship with his father (an Israeli myth), and how those affect his life. “Born into the
‘Air-force family’, I’m trying to understand an unspoken expectation power is, confronting
my dad and my brother by showing my love”.
Distributor: Sharon BalabanBroadcasting Platforms: None Yet
Mount Scopus P.O Box 24046 Festivals: None Yet
Jerusalem 91240 Israel Producer: Shira Yitzahki
Tel: +972 54 7607034 Fax: +972 2 5893335
Production Company: Bezalel Art & Design Academy,
sharonbalaban@gmail.com Jerusalem
133
L3
Demeter’s Spring
Director: Daphna Mero
Format: HD
Length: 18 min
Subtitles: English
Demeter’s Spring is a poetic essay documentary, depicting the portrait of a civil
cemetery in Israel. It follows the stirring transformation of life over a one-year cycle
of seasons, from decay into full bloom.
Distributor: Minshar Art SchoolBroadcasting Platforms: None Yet
18 David Chachmi St. Tel Aviv Israel Festivals: DocAviv FF 2013:3rd Best student Film Award
Tel: +972 3 6887090 Fax: +972 3 5373643
Production Company: Minshar Art School
Yuvalgr@minshar.org.il
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L4
Nyosha
Directors: Liran Kapel, Yael Dekel
Length: 15 min
Original language: Hebrew, German, Yiddish
A true story based on a testimony of Holocaust survivor, the late Nomi Kapel.
Nyosha is a ten year old girl. She dreams of buying a pair of shoes during the reality of a
pitiless war. A range of animation techniques brings together the dream and the reality
and tells Nyosha’s story.
Distributor: Michael TrevesBroadcasting Platforms: Channel 2
J.M.T. Films Distribution & Worldwide SalesFestivals: Dok-Leipzig, Germany 2012
20 Bialik st. 63324 Tel Aviv Israel
Best Animation Film, Haifa International Film Festival 2012
Tel: +972 3 5254782 Mob: +972 52 3633398
Leeds International Film Festival UK 2012
Producer: Liran Kapel, Yael Dekel
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L5
Director: Gilad Reichenbaum
Date of Release: Apr 2013
Format: HD
Length: 30 min
Subtitles: English
My father, Yitzhak, survived the Holocaust as a child after passing selections and death
marches. My wife says I live my life like him, like a survivor. He doesn’t need anyone and
believes that his orphanhood prevented him from fulfilling his musical potential, expressed
in whistling tunes to himself. In honor of his eightieth birthday I decide to take one whistle
and turn it into a complete song, just to get some love.
Distributor: The Neri Bloomfield School Broadcasting Platforms: None Yet
of Design and EducationFestivals: The International Student Film Festival, Tel-Aviv 2013
21 Haganim St. Haifa Israel Porducer: Gilad Reichenbaum
Tel: +972 4 8562580 +972 50 3073072
Production Company: The Neri Bloomfield School of
kolnoa@wizodzn.ac.il giladrei@gmail.com
Design and Education
136
L6
Single Player
Director: Noga Bash
Format: Digital
Length: 22 min
Subtitles: English
“Single Player” is a recorded diary of 26 year old gamer who lives in his mother’s house
and hardly leaves his room. His consistent struggle to get up in morning time and find a
job fails but his online affair with an American gamer who lives in Saudi Arabia keeps his
spirit up.
Distributor: Noga Bash Broadcasting Platforms: Channel 8 Israel
72nd Ben Gurion Blvd Tel Aviv 64514 Israel
Festivals: The Tel Aviv International Student Film
Tel: +972 54 305888
Festival Israel 2012
nogabash@gmail.comProducer: Noga Bash
Production Company: Tel-Aviv University Film & TV Dept
137
L7
Slippers
Director: Avishai Shabtai
Date of Release: Feb 2013
Format: HD
Length: 26 min
Subtitles: English
At our Kibbutz, my dad is known as Shaul the Shoemaker.
As time goes by, both my father and his occupation are being pushed aside.
However, my entrepreneur step-brother Moshiko wants to renovate the old workshop as a
viable heritage site. The two face the conflict of a growing generation gap, as well as the
changing structure of the modern Kibbutz.
Distributor: Yuval Granot
Broadcasting Platforms: The Israeli Second Authority for
18 David Chachmi St. Tel-Aviv Israel
TV & Radio
Tel: +972 3 6887090 Fax: +972 3 5373643Festivals: None Yet
Yuvalgr@minshar.org.ilProduction Company: Minshar Art School
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L8
Vegetative Love
Director: Dror Shohet
Length: 35:25 min
The tree plays an important role in the lives of five characters in Israel-Palestine:
A source of income, part of the native landscape, nature to be preserved, a consumer
product and a nuisance to be removed. Our attitudes to trees and the range of
significances we assign to them constitute a mirror reflecting human society itself.
J.M.T. Films Distribution & Worldwide SalesFestivals: Best Film award, Cinema South Festival,
20 Bialik st. 63324 Tel Aviv Israel Sderot, Israel, 2012
Tel: +972 3 5254782 Mob: +972 52 3633398Producer: Dror Shohet
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L9
Violeta Mi Vida
Director: Or Sinai
Date of Release: July 2012
Format: HD
Length: 50 min
Original language: Hebrew, Spanish
Subtitles: English
Debora will do anything to make her daughter’s Violeta Bat Mitzvah as happy and glamorous
as possible. The final preparations for the Bat Mitzvah raise many conflicts for Debora and
her daughter; Debora’s financial hardship, Violeta’s rare bone disease, coping with
fragmented family, as her two older sons stayed in Argentina, and alienation in a foreign
country. Still, against all odds, they create their own world full of humor, imagination and
love, and together they make their way to the Bat Mitzvah they longed for.
Distributor: Cinwphil Broadcasting Platforms: None Yet
Festivals: Jerusalem FF
Tel: +972 3 5664129Producer: Or Sinai
Fax: +972 3 5601436 Production Company: The Sam Spiegel Film &
ori@cinephil.co.ilTV School - Jerusalem (JSFS)
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L10
Waiting for Sunrise
Director: Vered Argaman
Length: 57 min
A deep and sensitive look into the story of a boy as he grows up who insists to follow the
wishes of his heart. Yuval is an 11 year old boy lives with his family in a working class
neighborhood in Beer Sheva and deals with the limits of reality with the help of his mother
who envelops him with warmth, love and unconditional acceptance.
Will Yuval have to wear a mask in order to fit into a society that finds it difficult to accept
the unknown?
J.M.T. Films Distribution & Worldwide SalesFestivals: Challenging Film Award, Cinema South Festival,
20 Bialik st. 63324 Tel Aviv Israel Sderot, 2012, DocAviv FF 2013: Best student Film Award
Tel: +972 3 5254782 Mob: +972 52 3633398Producer: Vered Argaman
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L11
White Mist
Director: Itay Netzer
Date of Release: Jan 2013
Format: HD
Length: 14:22 min
Original language: Hebrew & Russian
Subtitles: Hebrew, French, English
Isaac, a long-time Soviet immigrant, and Brut the dog live together in a dark,
memory –filled apartment. Brut’s hind leg has a growth. Up early, they visit the vet.
Isaac anticipates an amputation. Brut is ecstatic to be out.
Distributor: The Ma’aleh Film SchoolBroadcasting Platforms: None Yet
20 Shivtey Yisrael St. Jerusalem 95105 Israel
Festivals: DocAviv FF 2013: 2nd Best Student Film Tel: +972 2 6277366 +972 54 7409713
Award, The International Student Film Festival,
itaay.n@gmail.com Tel-Aviv 2013
Producer: The Ma’aleh Film School
Production Company: The Ma’aleh Film School
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L12
Your Sweet Light
Director: Noam Keidar
Format: DV
Length: 45 min
Subtitles: English
Shalti (24) and Tzipi (25), an idealistic couple from Gush Etzion with 2 children, head off
to India to establish a “Jewish House” as a cultural and religious center for Israeli
backpackers. Problems ensue. Tensions and resentments snowball until they reach the
steps of the Office of the Chief Rabbi seeking a divorce.
Distributor: The Ma’aleh Film School Broadcasting Platforms: Yes Docu Israel
20 Shivtey Yisrael St. Jerusalem 95105 Israel
Festivals: DocAviv 2013
Tel: +972 2 6277366 +972 54 4860004
Producer:
Fax: +972 2 6277331Production Company: The Ma’aleh Film School
NoamKeidar82@gmail.com
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