2015 catalogue

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2015 catalogue

Docushuk – Israel's 2014-2015 documentary film crop
Orna Yarmut
Founding Director
Zichrini Hatzor Katz
Chaya Zeltzer
DocuShuk Editors & Producers
Premshay Hermon
Executive Producer
Lee & Tamar Studio
Graphic Design
Dear friends, old and new!
CONTENTS
Greetings
Index Categories
Index Directors
Index Sales Agents
Films with no Sales Agent
Alphabetical Index
3
5-7
8-9
10
11-12
13-14
DOCUMENTARIES
Between Hope and Despair
16-25
Family Ties
27-45
Larger than Life
47-51
Portrayals of Other
53-58
Reflections of the Past
60-67
The Face of Her Reality
69-72
The Soul and Science
74-82
Towards Israeli Identity
106-110
Untold Stories
84-89
(Shorts)
91-104
CrossTalk (Combining Genres)
30 / 65
Docs & Cuts (Rough Cut Screening) 112-119
CoPro Campus (Student Films) 122-129
CoPro's Sponsors
130-131
For many years now, I have had the honor of welcoming you – on behalf of CoPro –
to sunny Tel-Aviv, and am pleased to do so once more. This will be my third time
heading the DocuShuk section, where I proudly present you with more than 100
wonderful titles.
In this year’s crop we have several artist portraits, celebrating great Jewish and Israeli
musicians, poets and actors – up close and personal. The story of David Perlov, a
pioneer articulator of Israel's distinctive non-fiction cinematic language, is definitely
not to be missed.
We have an international murder investigation, a Norwegian expedition to the
North Pole, the beautiful people of Sri lanka. We also get involved in espionage (a
true Mossad legend) and the heroic search of a man battling cancer, for a cure. In
fact, the universal battle with cancer is a mini-theme.
Another CoPro mainstay is Israelis exploring their Identities from various angles: the
Sabbath; the tradition of watching Arabic Movies on Friday nights; bicycles; hanging
by the river; the difficulties of immigration; the great Israeli export “start ups.”
But Family is still the greatest issue: father-daughter, mother-son, mother-daughter, a
couple who wants to marry, but not before one of them becomes a woman.
The holocaust and the occupation continue to preoccupy Israeli makers, and the
later never cease to find new angles and ways to tell these stories. Of the 100+
films, many films are by known, reputable makers, but lots of bold new directors are
cropping up too.
My deep gratitude to my esteemed colleagues at CoPro, Chaya Zeltzer and the
exceptional Orna Yarmut, CoPro's Founding Director.
Just as making documentaries is a labor of love, so is promoting, marketing and
distributing them.
Enjoy!
Zichrini Hatzor Katz
DocuShuk Editor & Producer
3
Categories Index
/ Some of the films are in more than one category
A1
The DocuShuk Films
Between Hope and Despair
East Jerusalem / West Jerusalem
A2 Flash and Blood Icon
A3 God’s Messengers
A4 Hadrian's Curse
A5 Healing Words
A6 Jewish Identity in France
A7 Partner With the Enemy
A8Mirrors
A9 Thank God / No Casualties
A10 Truth, Nothing, But…
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
LARGER THEN LIFE
C1Apollonia
47
C2 Clockwork Doll
48
C3 Mati Caspi – Confession
49
C4 Therefore Choose Life
50
C5 The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer 51
Portrayals of Other
D1 A Demonstration In The White City 53
D2 Bums, Go Home
D3Hotline
D4Mussa
B1
Family Ties
7 Days in St. Petersburg
B2 Against Your Will
B3 All That Remains
B4 Cardboard Boxes
B5 Family Matters
B6 Kozalchik Affair
B7 Marrying an Ice Cream Factory
B8 17 Beginnings Of Talia
B9 My Big Fat Cancer Wedding
B10Nahche
B11 P.S. Jerusalem
B12 Saving Uncle Jacob
B13 Seed Of Life
B14Spirals
B15 Strung Out
B16 The Bentwich Syndrome
B17 The Chaos Within
B18 Transfixed
B19 Twilight Of A Life
D5
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
The Site Of The Great Being
D6 The Unwelcoming
Transfixed
54
55
56
57
58
44
E1
E8
Guardians of Remembrance
60
Josef Mengele Has Saved My Life
in Auschwitz
61
Kozalchik Affair
32
Night Will Fall
62
Shores of Light
63
Soaps
64
The Night of Fools
65
There And Here
66
Tunnel of Hope
67
F1
Alia
Broke
Etched In My Body
E2
E3
E4
E5
E6
E7
F2
F3
69
70
71
5
F4
Flash And Blood Icon
Partner With The Enemy
Spirals
Third Person
17
22
40
72
G1BackLight
G2
G3
G4
G5
G6
G7
G8
G9
74
Clockwork Doll
48
Freilauf
75
David Perlov
76
Into Truth: Into Truth: a Journey Into the Heart of a Nation
77
North Into the Mist
78
Once Upon A Time There
Was A King
79
Nahche
36
Mati Caspi – Confession
49
Silicon Wadi
80
The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer 51
Where is Elle Kari and What 81
Happened to Noriko-San?
Wings of Change
82
Untold Stories
H1
H2
H3
H4
H5
H6
6
Apollonia
A Closed Story
Censored Voices
Credit for Murder
Defense Files
Shapira & I
Two Funurals
Where is Elle Kari and What Happened to Noriko-San?
I1
I2 I3
I4
47
84
85
86
87
88
89
81
Docs & Cuts (Rough cut Screening)
Shorts
I5
I6
I7
I8
I9
I10
I11
I12
I13
I14
3 Houses
A Lullaby for Ian
A Trip to the Other Planet
Dej Mi Sluka
Eden Rests
Hora
Ivan
Long Distance Running
Off Side
Quality Time
Restitution
Slight Chance of Rock
Thirteen
White Mist
Cardboard Boxes
The Night of Fools
Towards Israeli identity
J1
Arab Movie
God’s Messengers
Freilauf
David Perlov
My Shabbath
Nobody Home
Rock in the Red Zone
Silicon Wadi
Thank God / No Casualties
The Unwelcoming
Two Funurals
Winding
J2
J3
J4
J5
Ki
Blend
Cafe Nagler
Just Kids
Mixed Feelings
Phantom Pain
Rabin in His Own Words
Silence Days
The Treasure of Kufrein
Vita Activa, The Spirit of
Hannah Arendt
CoPro Campus (Student Films)
L1
1 Building and 40 People Dancing
A-22103 – Aide Mémoire
Chekhov's 'Everyman'
Crossing
Eden Rests
I'll See You Again
Restitution
Sashka
Seeds of Gum
True Colors
White Mist
K2
K3
K4
K5
K6
K7
K8
K9
L2
Crosstalk
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
30
65
L3
L4
L5
106
18
75
76
107
108
109
80
24
58
89
110
L6
L7
L8
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
122
93
123
124
125
95
126
101
127
128
129
104
7
Directors' Index
Abeer Zeibak Haddad
118
Achva Hershtik
129
Ada Ushpiz
120
Adia Pilo
57
Alice Korenyouk
97
Alon Kol
44
Amir Cohn
124
Amit Shalev
77
Amos Stempel
20
Anael Resnick, Laila Bettermann
101
Anat Goren
56, 36
André Singer
62
Assaf Banitt
28
Avi Belkin
110
Avida Livny
66
Avigail Sperber
31
Ayelet Albenda
129
Barak Rotem
30
Boris Maftsir
60
Claudia Levin
54
Danae Elon
37
Daniel Sivan, Yossi Bloch
80
Doron Braunshtein
61
Doron Djerassi
79
Doron Levene
92, 100
Dror H. Shwartz
67
22
Duki Dror, Chen Shelach
Dvorit Shargal
81
Erez Laufer
33, 117
Erez Miller, Henrique Cymerman
16
64
Eyal Ballas
8
Eyal Sagui Bizawe, Sara Tsifroni
106
Eytan Harris
25
Gilad Inbar
21
Gur Bentwich
42
Guy Davidi
115
Honi Hamehagel
17
Inbar Horesh
125
Isri Halpern
24
Itay Netzer
104
Itzik Lerner
18
Julie Shles
70
Kineret Hay Gillor
29
Micha Livne
84
Michal BenTovim
108
Miki Polonski
122
Miriam Baron
128
Moish Goldberg
87
Mor Kaplansky
113
Mor Loushy
85
Neil Weisbrod, Ariel Weisbrod
78
Nili Tal
71
Nir Toib, Gil Izackov
50
Nirit Aharoni
41
Noa Roth
31
Noam Edry
69
Noam Hamou
102
19
Noam Yavor
Ofer Kapota, Natalie Chen, Hadar Sitruk 95
Ofir Trainin
107, 47
Ohad Milstein
116
91
Omri Shenhar
Oran Magedish
Rachel Rusinek
Rami Kimchi
Ranni Midyan
Reuven Brodsky
Robby Elmaliah
Roni Ninio
Rotem Azulay
Ruth Walk
Sharon Luzon
Shaul Betser, Asaf Galay
Shira Mekin
Silvina Landsmann
Sivan Mor Goldman
Sivan Shtivi
Sylvain Biegeleisen
Tal Haim Yoffe
Tamar Tal
Tom Kless
Tsipi Karlik
Tuvi Arbel
Tzipi Baider
Vladi Antonevicz
Yael Aravah
Yael Gur
Yael Katzir
Yakov Yannai Lein
Yana Lerner
Yoav Brill
Yonatan Geron
Yoni Bentovim
74
112
65
33
27
58
32
89
48, 76
72
51
94
55
35
38
45
35, 75
114
93
98, 99, 103
82
39
86
23
40
63
43
127
96
123
34
Yoram Sabo
Zohar Sela
Laura Bialis
88
119
109
9
Films with no Sales Agent
Index Sales Agents
Go2Films ‫ ־‬Hedva Goldschmidt
Cafe Nagler
113
Defense Files
87
Hotline
55
Silicon Wadi
80
109
The Chaus Within
43
There And Here
66
Tunnel of Hope
67
Hannah Arendt
120
CAT&Docs Catherine LeClef
Transfixed
44
First Hand Films ‫ ־‬Esther Van Messel
Partner With the Enemy
22
Cinephil ‫ ־‬Philippa Kowarsky
Mussa
Night Will Fall
The Muses Of Isaac Bashevis Singer
56
62
51
JMTFilms Distribution ‫ ־‬Michael Travers
David Perlov
76
The Night of Fools
65
10
Ruth Diskin Films LTD ‫ ־‬Ruth Diskin
Apollonia
47
Blend
112
God’s Messengers
18
60
Jewish Identity in France
21
Shapira & I
88
The Unwelcoming
58
1 Building and 40 People Dancing 122
34
17 Beginnings of Talia
3 Houses
91
7 Days In St. Petersburg
27
A Closed Story
84
A Demonstration In The White City 53
A Lullaby for Ian
92
93
123
Against Your Will
28
Alia
69
All That Remains
29
Arab Movie
106
BackLight
74
Broke
70
Bums, Go Home
54
Cardboard Boxes
30
Censored Voices
85
Clockwork Doll
Credit For Murder
Crossing
Dej Mi Sluka
East Jerusalem / West Jerusalem
Eden Rests
Etched In My Body
Family Matters
Flash And Blood Icon
Freilauf
Hadrian's Curse
Healing Words
124
48
86
125
94
16
95
71
31
17
75
19
20
Hora
96
I'll See You Again
126
Into Truth: A Journey Into The Heart
of A Nation
77
Ivan
97
in Auschwitz
61
Just Kids
114
Kozalchik Affair
32
98
Marrying an Ice Cream Factory
33
49
Mirrors
23
Mixed Feelings
115
My Big Fat Cancer Wedding
35
My Shabbath
107
Nahche
36
Nobody Home
108
North Into the Mist
78
Off Side
99
Once Upon a Time ThereWas a King 79
P.S. Jerusalem
37
Phantom Pain
116
Quality Time
100
Rabin In His Own Words
117
Restitution
101
38
Saving Uncle Jacob
Seeds of Gum
128
Shores of Light
63
Silence Days
118
102
11
Soaps
64
Spirals
40
41
Strung Out
24
The Bentwich Syndrome
42
The Chaos Within
43
The Site Of The Great Being
57
119
Therefore Choose Life
50
Third Person
72
Thirteen
103
True Colors
129
Truth, Nothing, But…
25
Twilight Of A Life
45
Two Funerals
89
Where is Elle Kari and What Happened
to Noriko-San?
81
White Mist
104
Winding
110
Wings of Change
82
12
Alphabetical Index
1 Building and 40 People Dancing 122
91
3 Houses
34
27
A Closed Story
84
A Demonstration In The White City 53
A Lullaby for Ian
92
93
123
Against Your Will
28
Alia
69
All That Remains
29
Apollonia
47
Arab Movie
106
BackLight
74
Blend
112
Broke
70
Bums, Go Home
54
Cafe Nagler
113
Cardboard Boxes
30
Censored Voices
85
124
Clockwork Doll
48
Credit for Murder
86
Crossing
125
David Perlov
76
Defense Files
87
94
Dej Mi Sluka
East Jerusalem / west Jerusalem
16
Eden Rests
95
Etched In My Body
71
Family Matters
31
Flash and Blood Icon
17
75
18
60
19
20
96
55
126
Freilauf
God’s Messengers
Hadrian's Curse
Healing Words
Hora
Hotline
I'll See You Again
Into Truth: A Journey Into the Heart
Of a Nation
77
Ivan
97
Jewish Identity In France
21
In Auschwitz
61
Just Kids
114
Kozalchik Affair
32
98
Marrying an Ice Cream Factory
33
49
Mirrors
23
Mixed Feelings
115
My Big Fat Cancer Wedding
35
Mussa
56
My Shabbath
107
Nahche
36
Night Will Fall
62
108
Nobody Home
North Into the Mist
78
Off Side
99
Once Upon a Time There was a King 79
P.S. Jerusalem
37
13
Partner With the Enemy
Phantom Pain
Quality Time
Rabin in His Own Words
Restitution
Sashka
Saving Uncle Jacob
Seed of Life
Seeds of Gum
Shapira & I
Shores of Light
Silence Days
Silicon Wadi
Soaps
Spirals
Strung Out
The Bentwich Syndrome
The Chaos Within
The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Night of Fools
The Site of the Great Being
The Unwelcoming
There And Here
Therefore Choose Life
Third Person
Thirteen
Transfixed
True Colors
Tunnel of Hope
14
22
116
100
117
101
109
127
38
39
128
88
63
118
80
102
64
40
41
24
42
43
51
65
57
119
58
66
50
72
103
44
129
25
67
45
Twilight Of A Life
Two Funurals
89
120
Hannah Arendt
Where is Elle Kari and What Happened
to Noriko-San?
81
White Mist
104
Winding
110
Wings of Change
82
between hope & despair
A1
A2
East Jerusalem / West
Jerusalem
FLASH AND BLOOD ICON
‫אייקון בשר ודם‬
/ ‫מזרח ירושלים‬
‫מערב ירושלים‬
Directors
Erez Miller, Henrique Cymerman
Producer
Gidi Avivi
Company
Vice Versa Films
Length – 80'
Format – HD
Date of Release – Oct 2014
Original language – English,
Arabic, Hebrew
Subtitles – English
Contact Person: Gidi Avivi
Mobile: +972 50 5287659
Email: [email protected]
Website: viceversa.co.il
16 between hope & despair
In early 2013 Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza
went to a Palestinian studio in East Jerusalem,
pursuing his dream to make music a bridge-builder
between Palestinians and Israelis. 8 days and 8
nights of music, food, and camaraderie produce a
groundbreaking album and a unique story. With:
Steve Earle, Mira Awad, Muhammad Mughrabi, and
Issa Freij.
Director
Honi Hamehagel
Producer
Col Hamedia
Length – 67'
Format – DV 16/9
Date of Release – 2015
Original language – Hebrew
Festivals
Woodstock FF
Contact Person: Rony Herman
Mobile: +972 52 3251128
The creator Smadar Yaaron, an unearthly creature
who knows no boundaries, has found refuge on
the seam between the Holocaust and the Intifada.
What makes Yaaron unique is inherent in the ways
she chooses to treat and articulate the portrayed
themes of her work and life. For more than 25
years, the artist, Honi HaMa'agel, has obsessively
followed her life, her split identity and her work.
This monumental commemoration project aims
to stabilize the Jewish fear of persecution and the
security-related paranoia of the Jewish people, in
general, and of the State of Israel, in particular.
Involved Film Institution
Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts-Israel
Festivals
Epos Festival
between hope & despair 17
A3
God’s Messengers
‫שליחי האל‬
Director & Producer
Itzik Lerner
Company
Pekada Films
Length – 76'
Format – HD
Date of Release – Jan 2015
Distributor: Ruth Diskin Films Ltd.
Tel: +972 2 672 4256
Website: ruthfilms.com
presented at
CoPro
A4
Hadrian's Curse
‫קללת אדריאנוס‬
A powerful inside look at the group of Jewish settlers
who inhabit the illegal outpost – Havat Gilad. As the
pressures mount from international concerns, as
well as the Israeli government and the more senior
settler establishment, this group becomes more
entrenched – and more committed to their mission.
They believe that they are the connector to the
narrative of Jewish history – and the essential link to
a greater Israel. Religious devotion, and Zionist fervor
propel this group towards violence and extremism.
Director
Noam Yavor
Producer
Manes Avny, Ronen Zadok
Company
ARTV Communications Ltd
The New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel
Contact Person: Manes Avny
Tel: +972 54 4665002
Broadcasting Platforms
Israel Television Channel 1
Length – 2 episodes - 55' each
Format – HD
Date of Release – Dec 2014
Original language – English, Hebrew
Subtitles – English, Hebrew
On November 29, 2012 the Palestinians achieved
a historic victory: the United Nations General
Assembly decided to grant the Palestinian Authority
observer status in the UN. The date was symbolic:
precisely 65 years earlier the General Assembly
had recommended partitioning Palestine-Eretz
Israel into a Jewish and an Arab state, but the Arab
state never materialized. Why did the Palestinians
fail where the Jews – in realizing their national
aspirations in Palestine-Eretz Israel – succeeded?
It is this question for which answers are sought in
Hadrian's Curse.
Channel 1
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
A5
A6
Healing Words
Jewish Identity
in France
‫מילים מרפאות‬
‫זהות יהודית בצרפת‬
Director & Producer
Amos Stempel
Company
Stempelland
Length – 52'
Format – AVI
Original language – English, Hebrew,
Arabic (small amount)
Contact Person: Amos Stempel
Tel: +972 2 6722045
Mobile: +972 54 5290547
Website: amosstempel.info
Jewish and Arab youth return from England to
perform 1001 Arabian Nights at a 5-day storytelling
festival in the forest. There, Jewish, Arab and
international participants share their experiences
of conflict and bereavement through workshops of
exchange and storytelling of universal drama. They
experience the power of the healing words where
bridges of compassion, understanding, tolerance
and forgiveness are built, bringing a spark of hope
to this troubled world. Healing Words takes you on
a healing journey. Listen…
Director
Gilad Inbar
Producer
Amitai Achiman
Company
Beit Hatuftsot – The Museum
of the Jewish Diaspora
Festivals
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Sundance FF
Berlin FF
Tel: +972 2 6724256
Length – 34'
Format – HDCam
Date of Release – Feb 2014
Original language – Hebrew, French
As the reality for Jews in Europe is shifting, this
film takes a look at the Jews of Paris today. In
conversations with leading thinkers, artists and
ordinary people we get an in-depth look at the
range of Jewish life in France right now. Included
in the film are religious and secular, Zionists and
anti-Zionists who paint a picture of the complexity
in the face of rising anti-Semitism. Among those
interviewed are David Konopnicki, Mark Halter and
Shmuel Trigano.
A7
A8
Partner with
the Enemy
MIRRORS
‫מראות‬
‫ השותפה שלי‬,‫האויבת שלי‬
pesented at
CoPro
Directors
Duki Dror, Chen Shelach
Producers
Duki Dror, Anat Vogman
Company
Zygote Films, Ltd.
Length – 60'
Format – HD
Original language – Hebrew, Arabic
Subtitles – Hebrew, English
Distributor: Esther Van Messel,
First Hand Films
Tel: +41 44 3122060
Website: firsthandfilms.com
Two women, an Israeli and a Palestinian, are trying
to build a business partnership. Brought together
by a shared business acumen and knowledge of
the logistics industry, the two combine forces to
help Palestinian businessmen navigate the everyday
absurdities of Israeli control of the West Bank.
But while they help their clients to overcome
the obstacles of bureaucracy, who will help them
overcome their own disputes?
Director & Producer
Yael Aravah
Company
Facts productions
The New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel,
The Second Authority for Television & Radio
Contact Person: Yael Arava
Mobile: +972 54 5671333
Website: factsproductions.com
yaelarava.com
The Second Authority for Television & Radio,Vlaamse
Radio en Televisieomroep (Belgium), UR Swedish
Educational Broadcasting Company (Sweden)
Length – 90'
Format – HD
Date of Release – Nov 2013
Original language – Hebrew, Arabic, English
The Director sets off on a journalistic journey,
which ends up being a personal one. From the
Declaration of Independence of Israel, to that
of Palestine, between Jewish and Palestinian
underground movements (i.e. Lehi, Hamas);
between hope and despair, Yael meets characters
of the local mosaic. The film passes through the
conflict and becomes unsettling in Hebron, where
the film crew almost gets lynched. "Mirrors" shows
the similarities between people, despite their
different narratives on the rights of this land.
Festivals
Haifa FF
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
A9
A10
Thank God /
No Casualties
...‫אם לומר את האמת‬
‫אין נפגעים בנפש‬
Director & Producer
Isri Halpern
Company
Halpern Films
The small amount of casualties crushed by rockets
lunched from Gaza into Israel has left the stories
of Israel’s southern residents – mostly religious
and low income immigrants – out of the world's
view. True to the eyes of the property insurance
appraisers dealing with rockets victims on the Israel/
Gaza border, filmmaker Isri Halpern gives us a fresh,
intimate and unique view of life under rocket fire.
Length – 50'
Format – HD
Original language – Hebrew, Russian
Contact Person: Isri Halpern
Tel: +972 774 309060
Mobile: +972 52 2309090
Director & Producer
Eytan Harris
Company
Eytan Harris Productions Ltd.
Length – 70', 50' version is available
Format – HD
Original language – Hebrew, Arabic, English
Channel 2
Contact Person: Eytan Harris
Mobile: +972 52 2643525
presented at
CoPro
Who determines about false and truth in a
documentary? Is a filmmaker legally responsible for
what is said by the protagonists? Mohammad Bakri,
an Israeli Arab famous actor who directed the
controversial documentary “Jenin Jenin” fights in
Israeli courts a libel suit made by five Israeli soldiers
claiming that he portrays them as war criminals
who committed a massacre and horrific war crimes
in the refugee camp of Jenin The Israeli narrative
confronts the Palestinian one and there is no hope.
Channel 2
Festivals
Haifa FF
B1
‫ ימים בסנט פטרסבורג‬7
Family Ties
Director & Producer
Reuven Brodsky
Company
Reuven Brodsky
Liza hasn’t seen her son Leonid, a deserter, for the
past twelve years. Now she is flying to Russia to
bring him back to Israel. During this short visit, she
manages to overcome the sense of detachment
and causes Leonid to long for his family, for Israel.
What he refuses to accept is the price that he must
pay for returning: a year and a half in military prison.
Length – 60'
Format – DVD
Contact Person: Reuven Brodsky
Mobile: +972 52 4244091
The Israeli lottery council for culture and arts
Yes Docu
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
Family Ties 27
B2
B3
Against Your Will
All That Remains
‫על כורחך‬
‫מה שנשאר‬
Director & Producer
Assaf Banitt
Company
Assaf Banitt
Gilles and Esther Alexander struggle with the loss
of two sons to suicide during military service, and
also with the condemnation of the religious kibbutz
where they live. Suicide is regarded as a sin, as a
source of shame, and expects the grieving parents
to keep quiet. The Alexandres refuse to succumb:
They launch a public campaign to reshape the
Orthodox discourse on suicide.
Director & Producer
Kineret Hay Gillor
Company
Independent
Length – 51'
Format – PAL/HD
Date of Release – May 2015
Subtitles – English, French
Length – 59'
Format – HD Cam
Date of Release – Mar 2015
Contact Person: Assaf Banitt
Mobile: +972 54 5390545
Distributor: Go2Films — Hedva Goldschmidt
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Mobile: +972 54 6184547
Website: go2films.com
Contact Person: Ofer Shemer
Mobile: +972 54 2800139
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Once she realizes her death is imminent, Liora, a 54
years old woman, decides to organize her departure
from life with no compromises. As a doctor of
philosophy in Biology and a medical researcher, she
treats her upcoming death as if it was a scientific
project. She creates a "Finalize and Overlap" folder
in her computer, in where she lists all the tasks she
wants to accomplish before her approaching death.
This 'project' would mostly affect her close-ones
remaining in the following days, months and years
after she's gone. A year after her passing away, we
meet her family and reveal if her plan was successful.
Is it possible to plan the unpredictable? Can facing
death be also a vivid experience?
Zolkov Foundation
Festivals
Philippines World Premieres FF
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B4
B5
Cardboard Boxes
Family Matters
‫אריזות‬
‫גרסא דיקונתא‬
Director & Producer
Barak Rotem
Length –57'
Format – HD
Original language – Hebrew, English
Contact Person: Barak rotem
Mobile: +972 54 5468928
Barak Rotem (The director) always knew that
his grandfather was a murderer. Only now he had
the courage to ask why. A family journey between
three continents and three generations of women,
begins when dusty letters are discovered and make
everyday situations become more conflicted. This is
a portrait of a loving family leaving in the shadow of
a tragedy. Between the search for an apartment in
NY, fertility treatments, casual encounters and a first
love, a story of memory and love is told.
Director
Noa Roth
Producer
Avigail Sperber
Company
Pardes Prodactions-Avigail Sperber
Gesher multicultural Film Fund-Israel
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Mobile: +972 54 6184547
Yes Docu – DBS Satellite Service
Length – 70'
Format – HD DCP
The film tells the story of how the divorce of a
woman, who went on to become a renowned
author, and her husband, an esteemed rabbi, shook
the religious city of Bnai Brak and affected the lives
of their seven children, 30 years ago. It follows a
family divided between two conflicting worlds of
the Ultra-Orthodox and the secular. One of the
daughters embarks on a journey among the ghosts
of her childhood trying to reunite her family and
build one of her own.
The Avi Chai Foundation
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
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B6
B7
Kozalchik Affair
Marrying an
Ice cream factory
‫פרשת קוזלצ'יק‬
‫להתחתן עם בית חרושת לגלידה‬
Director
Roni Ninio
Producer
Tuvi Arbel
Company
Arbel Television
A documentary film, filmed both in Israel and
in Auschwitz, with rare archive materials that
accompanies the voyage of a Capo’s son to the
awful truth. A film that reveals the horrifying
survivor's testimonies regarding his father to the
live character for the first time, at a place where
the events occurred 70 years ago.
Length – 50'
Format – HD
Date of Release – Apr 2015
Contact Person: Tuvi Arbel
Tel: +972 9 7680237
Mobile: +972 52 2683758
Website: arbeltelevision.com
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Director
Ranni Midyan
Producer
Erez Laufer
Company
Erez Laufer films
Length – 72'
Format – HD Cam
Broadcasting Platforms:
Israel Television – Channel 1
Contact Person: Erez Laufer
Tel: +972 3 5248407
Mobile: +972 50 7927002
Velvel, Ranni's father, was a rather poor orphan,
who married Raya Strauss and began working in
the family owned factory (which start as a small
dairy farm and became one of the biggest food
conglomerate in Israel). They divorced when Ranni
was 10, and for him, his father remained this strict
meticulous withdrawn man who tore the family
apart. 8mm reels, discovered after his death arouse
questions that lead Ranni to embark on a personal
journey between his parents' very different worlds
in an attempt to better understand his father and
the complexities of family loyalty, trying to overcome
years of alienation. Looking at his family from behind
the camera, he is reshaping his memories.
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B8
B9
My Big Fat Cancer
Wedding
17 ‫התחלות על טליה‬
‫עד החתונה זה יעבור‬
Director
Yoni Bentovim
Producer
Anath Kandell
Company
One Light Productions
Length – 73'
Format – prorez
Contact Person: Anath Kandell
Mobile: +972 52 8386968
25 years after the death of actress Talia Shapira, her
son begins a journey to recount her life. His starting
point is a search through the vast belongings his
mother left behind – diaries, stories, films, audio
tapes – he peels those memories until arriving at the
most significant moment in their relationship, Talia's
last days.The unorthodox way in which the director
has chosen to describe this process of deciphering
Talia's life, 17 chapters of an observation, which
constitute an abstract and emotional mosaic, this
is an intense investigation into the essence and
meaning of a dialogue between mother and son, a
dialogue that transcends words and time.
Director
Sivan Mor Goldman
Producers
Baruch Ivcher, Sivan Mor Goldman,
Osnat Trabelsi
Company
Trabelsi Productions
Contact Person: Sivan Mor Goldman
Mobile: +972 54 3185002
Website: facebook.com/Cancerwedding
Channel 8, Israel
While preparing for their wedding, Sivan Mor
Goldman, a young 29 year old film director and her
fiancé Ronen, discover that Sivan has a cancerous
lump in her breast. With the help of a camera,
family and good friends, they embark on a difficult
and emotional journey, filled with challenges they
meet with humor and optimism.
Length – 60'
Format – HD
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
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B10
B11
Nahche
P.S. Jerusalem
‫נחצ'ה‬
‫לא פה לא שם‬
Director & Producer
Anat Goren
Company
Drucker Goren production Ltd.
Na'hche is a Duet between the legendary composer
who won The Prize of Israel, Nachum Heiman, and
his daughter - the rock singer Si Heiman. They sing
in two different voices. Si is sentimental and Na'hche
is restrained. Nah'che is the leading voice, and Si is
waiting for his recognition, she is waiting for him to
write her a song, and for him to be a father.
Length – 70'
Format – DV
Contact Person: Anat Goren
Mobile: +972 54 7950489
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Director
Danae Elon
Producer
Paul Cadieux
Company
Atria Films
Length – 87'
Format – HD
Date of Release – Summer 2015
Original language – English, Hebrew, Arabic
Festivals
EPOS The International Art Film Festival
Contact Person: Danae Elon
Tel: +1 5148131926
Website: danaeelon-films.com
presented at
CoPro
P.S. Jerusalem is the story of one family in search
of a home. An intimate portrayal of the director's
own family over the course of three years reveals
a painful portrait of Jerusalem and Israel today.
Daughter of acclaimed author Amos Elon, director
Danae Elon decides to defy her father's last wishes
and return to live in Jerusalem.Through her camera’s
lens, she narrates her children’s and her husband’s
experiences, bravely exposing all the complexities
of life in Jerusalem, and one family’s challenge to
find a “home.”
Channel 8, Israel
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B12
presented at
CoPro
saving Uncle Jacob
‫להציל את דוד יעקב‬
Director
Sivan Shtivi
Producer
David Noy
Company
Cinemax Productions Ltd.
Length – 72'
Format – HD
Contact Person: David Noy
Mobile: +972 50 7321555
Website: cinemax-prod.co.il
B13
Seed of Life
‫משהו ממני‬
Sivan – the Director sets out to quit smoking
together with his Uncle Jacob, a heavy smoker
whose life is in danger. The initial plan involves
recruiting the entire addicted family, but rapidly
twists and turns as it becomes a more complex
and eventful story. Sivan, who is about to become
a father, inevitably has to confront the painful
memories of his father's suicide, while Jacob's
health continues to deteriorate.This dark humored,
smoke-filled film shares the story of a tight, loving,
self-destructive family, as they reach out to smokers
everywhere active or passive...
Director
Tzipi Baider
Producers
Mor Tegger Delarya
Dstributor: Go2Films — Hedva Goldschmidt
Tel: +972 2 5831371
Mobile: +972 54 6184547
Length – 77'
Format – HD
In August 2002, Israeli soldier Kayven Cohen was
killed in Gaza. Moments after receiving the news,
his parents made an unprecedented decision: to
harvest sperm from his body to enable him to father
a child. 11 years later, his mother launches a search
for the woman who will become her grandchild's
mother and raise him. 9 months of pregnancy turn
into a long turbulent journey leading up to one
incomprehensible moment.
Festivals
Israeli Film Festival of Philadelphia 2015
Festivals
Doc-Aviv 2015
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B14
B15
Spirals
Strung Out
‫ספירלות‬
‫בת זונה‬
Director
Yael Gur
Producer
Itay Ken-Tor
Company
Itay Ken-Tor
Length – 80'
Format – HD
Date of Release – Jul 2014
Contact Person: Itay Ken-Tor
Tel: +972 52 2834077
Four beguiling Russian immigrants, only daughters,
met at a theater workshop and became an alternative
family. Two years on, through a spiral narrative of
memory, they untie the bonds to their loaded pasts,
hearken to their inner voices and choose the best
for the present: Diana Golbi auditions for Israeli Idol.
Marta, an uneducated street urchin, auditions for a
prestigious acting school. Anna joins a combat unit
and deals with her eating disorders and The Redhead
realizes she's a flower...
Director
Nirit Aharoni
Producer
David Mandil
Company
MoviePlus Productions
Contact Person: Lee ShiraMoviePlus Productions
Tel: +972 3 5164373
Mobile: +972 54 2804049
This film tells the story of a group of young
women living on the street, casualties of heroin
and prostitution. Robbed of their childhood, they
now find themselves trapped in a spiral of addiction
that too often leads to death. These stories offer
answers to questions about my own past, as a child
who was taken from her drug-addled mother, a
prostitute, but more than that, just a girl.
Length – 110':29'
Format – ProRes
Festivals
Jerusalem FF
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B16
B17
The Bentwich
Syndrome
THE CHAOS WITHIN
‫מול התוהו שבה‬
'‫סינדרום בנטביץ‬
Director & Producer
Gur Bentwich
Company
GuruMaya Productions
The saga of a restless & relentless Anglo-Jewish Family
which according to it's founding fathers, served as
God's gift to Zionism, is exposed by the director,
a member of the family himself, from an alternative
humorous angle.
Length – 69'
Format – Prorez \ DCP
Contact Person: Gur Bentwich
Mobile: +972 54 6820211
Website: planetgur.com
Director
Yakov Yannai Lein
Producer
Sylvain Biegeleisen
Company
Zen Productions (Israel)
Length – 87'
Format – SD
Makor Foudation for Gesher multicultural Film Fund-Israel
Channel 8, Israel
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
Contact Person: Sylvain Biegeleisen
Mobile: +972 54 4920650
A journey through Kabbalah, heroin, chaos &
redemption. For 10 years, Yannai has filmed his and
his Mother's lives changing dramatically. His mother,
Faiga, is a holocaust survivor who at 45, married the
Rabbi Ashlag when he was 85. He taught her the
secrets of Kabbalah and then passed away. Since
then, the Rebbetzin Faiga tries to save the world
from self annihilation by teaching Kabbalah. At age
of 14 Yannai ran away and became a heroin addict.
Today he lives in Jerusalem, telling his life's story
through film. This is a film that explore and strives
for the concept of home.
The Israel Film Fund
Festivals
The Haifa Film Festival 2014 – Special Mention Award
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B18
Transfixed
Director & Producer
Alon Kol
Company
TransficedFilms INC
Length – 74' and 52'
Format – HD
Original language – English
Subtitles – None
World Dstributor: CAT&Docs (Catherine LeClef)
Tel: +33 1 44 617748
Mobile: +33 6 33648602
Website: catndocs.com
North American distributor:
Filmoption International-Andrew Noble
Tel: +1 514 9316180 x 2657
Website: filmoption.com
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presented at
CoPro
Martine Stonehouse and John Gelmon are middleaged underdogs, living with Asperger Syndrome.
Despite their social limitations, both dream of
getting married, but straight-identifying John refuses
to tie the knot until transsexual Martine gets a real
vagina. Will Martine and John find the happiness
together that they deserve? Transfixed is a deeply
human story about freedom, self-actualization and
the quest for happiness – one that anyone who has
ever longed for love and acceptance can empathize
with and understand.
The Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Art
Council, Ontario Art Council.
Festivals
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2015
B19
TWILIGHT OF A LIFE
‫עד קצה הזריחה‬
Director
Sylvain Biegeleisen
Producers
Sylvain Biegeleisen,
Gregory Zalcman, Alon Knol
Company
Zen Productions (Israel),
Take Five (Belgium)
Length – 70' (Festivals-Film Theaters),
52' (TV version)
Format – HD
Original language – French
Subtitles – English, Hebrew, Flemish,
French (for hard of hearing & sand-blind)
Dstributor: CAT&Docs Catherine LeClef
Tel: +33 144 617748
Mobile: +33 633 648602
Website: catndocs.com
presented at
CoPro
When the doctor tells him that his mother, in her
nineties, does not have long left, Sylvain Biegeleisen
visits her every day. Against all the odds, she seems
to “decide” to hang around for a while... A luminous
film on tenderness as a possible source of youth. An
optimistic approach to Ageing full of humor and
hope !
The Jewish Foundation (Belgium),The Belgian Tax Shelter
The Second Authority for Television (Channels 2 & 10)
Festivals
DocAviv
"Visions du Réel" Nyon
DokFest Munchen
Docville Belgium
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C1
Apollonia
‫אפולוניה‬
Larger than Life
Director
Ofir Trainin
Producers
Micha Shagrir, Tal Barda
Company
Tapuz Productions Ltd.
Length – 64'
Format – HD
Original language – Hebrew, Polish, English
Tel: +972 2 6724256
Victor Grayevsky entered the pantheon of Israeli
intelligence thanks to courageous and heroic
actions. As a journalist in Poland and at great
personal risk, Grayevsky smuggled out a secret
document – the speech of Nikita Horstzov, which
first revealed Stalin's crimes. Just before his death
in 2007, it turned out that Grayevsky had kept
another great secret – he secretly worked as a spy,
ostensibly in the service of USSR but in fact, he
worked for the State of Israel.
Festivals
Haifa FF
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C2
C3
Mati Caspi ‫ ־‬Confession
Clockwork doll
‫בובה ממוכנת‬
Director
Ruth Walk
Producers
Liran Atzmor, Yael Perlov
Company
Atzmor productions
Length – 53'
Format – HD
Contact Person: Liran Atzmor
Mobile: +972 52 8003362
Website: thelawfilm.com
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Mobile: +972 54 6184547
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‫ וידוי‬- ‫מתי כספי‬
Ravikovitch struggled with depression and
fluctuated between intense vitality and eagerness
to partake in any moral and political discussion
and deep loneliness that led to her attempted
suicide, all of which is reflected clearly in her work.
The film weaves her poetry and biography into an
intricate story, attempting to solve the riddle of her
life through people who knew her intimately and
through rare archive material.
Directors
Dalia Mevorach, Dani Dothan
Producers
Shemi Shoenfeld, Uri Borreda,
Amitan Menelzon
Company
ComeBack Films
Makor Foundation for Israeli Films
Contact Person: Shemi Shoenfeld
Tel: +972 3 5049440
Mobile: +972 50 5478927
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
A confession-film in which Matti Caspi, a leading
Israeli musician, reveals a lifetime of struggle. A
musically gifted child who suffered from Polio, was
raised in a family without love in a kibbutz in the
1950's, through the days of military band, musical
hits, stardom after which came an endless downfall.
The film ends with Matti's return to center stage
after years of struggle.
Length – 85'
Format – DCP, proress, DVD
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Mobile: +972 54 6184547
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
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C4
C5
Therefore choose life
The Muses of Isaac
Bashevis Singer
‫ובחרת בחיים‬
‫המוזות של בשביס זינגר‬
presented at
CoPro
Directors
Nir Toib, Gil Izackov
Producer
G.N.Communication Nir Toib Ltd
Length – 94'
Format – HD
Contact Person: Galit Lieber-Toib
Mobile: +972 54 4868669
[email protected]
With cancer racing through his body, documentary
film director Nir Toib, is set out to save his own life.
Just like any other film he directed, Nir fought for
the wisdom of the unseen and for the truth. In the
last film he ever made, Nir manages his disease in
such an outstanding way that he reaches a scientific
breakthrough that is already changing lives of many
lung cancer patients around the world. The sky is
the limit, as long as you choose life.
Directors
Shaul Betser, Asaf Galay
Producers
Shaul Betser, Keren Michael,
Asaf Galay
Company
Antenna Productions
Reshet – Channel 2
Distributor: Cinephil
Tel: +972 3 5664129
Website: cinephil.co.il
Length – 72'
Format – DCP
Original language – English,
Hebrew, Yiddish
Isaac Bashevis Singer, the famous Yiddish writer and
Nobel Prize winner wrote with a 'harem' of dozens
of translators behind him. Beyond simple translation,
these women were a vital source of his creativity.The
inspiration he drew from them came in many forms,
often mixing romance with professional aspirations.
Today nine remain to tell his story. Intimate, poignant
interviews and exclusive archival footage combine
to portray the unknown story of an author who
charmed and enchanted his audiences, just like he
charmed and enchanted his translators. A film about
both the vary art of translation and one of the great
figures of the twentieth century literature.
Leon Recanati Foundation
The Israel Film Council
Festivals
Haifa FF 2014, Miami International FF 2015
New York Jewish Film Festival 2015: Opening night
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D1
A DEMONSTRATION IN
THE WHITE CITY
‫הפגנה בעיר הלבנה‬
Portrayals of Other
Directors & Producer
Tal Haim Yoffe
Length – 48'
Format – PRORES
On Christmas Eve 2013, some 10,000 asylum
seekers from Eritrea and Sudan gathered at
Levinsky Park. From there they marched in an
orderly fashion to Ha’Aliya Street, and continued
across downtown Tel Aviv, until they reached
Rabin Square, where they gathered around
Yigal Tomarkin’s looming statue, “Holocaust and
Rebirth.” It seemed as if every monument along the
way, the names of every street and building added
meaning to the demonstration, and transformed
these hapless refugees into yet another link in the
chain of Tel Aviv’s history.
Contact Person: Tal Haim Yoffe
Mobile: +972 54 8188853
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D2
D3
BUMS, GO HOME
Hotline
‫נשמות לוינסקי‬
‫הוטליין‬
Claudia Levin
Company
Clauduis films. LTD
During the protest of summer 2011, we met the
homeless – some suffering from PTSD, others
victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, mental
illnesses, sex workers and drug addicts – people
who had nowhere to go when their tent camp
was destroyed. When it was dissolved, a few found
themselves in rehab but most had to fend for
themselves.
Director
Silvina Landsmann
Producers
Silvina Landsmann,
Pierre-Olivier Bardet
Company
Comino Films, Idéale Audience
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Mobile: +972 54 6184547
Length – 57'
Format – DCP
Contact Person: Claudia Levin
Mobile: +972 52 2385334
Website: claudiusfilms.com
Hotline, the film, gets to the heart of this
association and observes how an NGO functions
in the democratic arena. In following the Hotline's
volunteers and employees in their daily activities
in public information meetings, at the Knesset,
Supreme Court, etc., “Hotline” explores, beyond
the complexity of the Israeli case, the universal
topic of immigration and refugees.
Length – 99'
Format – DCP
(Berlinale Forum, Berlin)
Original language – Hebrew, English, French
Cinema project – Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
Festivals
DocAviv
Cinema South Festival
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D4
D5
Mussa
The site of the
great being
‫מוסא‬
‫נתיב ההויה הטובה‬
presented at
CoPro
Director
Anat Goren
Producers
Anat Goren, Daniela Rachminov Sidi
Company
Drucker & Goren Media ltd
Length – aprox 60'
Format – DV
Original language – Hebrew, Arabic,
English, Amharic
Tel: +972 3 5664129
Website: Cinephil.co.il
Mussa, a 12 years old African refugee, lives in a
tiny apartment in the slums of Tel Aviv but studies
with wealthy kids. He connects with his teachers
and friends through hand gestures and facial
expressions, he refuses to speak, and no one knows
why. His teacher, Anna loves him and provides for
all his needs, her son is Mussa's best friend, but
they never heard his voice. Mussa's life will change
forever when his mother is told she has to leave
the country in one week, leaving him devastated,
and compelled to leave his father behind.
Director & Producer
Adia Pilo
Distributor: Adia pilo
Mobile: +972 54 9941897
Length – 106'
Format – Mini Dv-Profesional Camera
See the beauty Sri Lanka, the land of the smiling
people that live daily life in nature that didn’t change
for hundreds of years. They teach us their traditional
arts, we have happy moments of music with their
children, we feel their spirit while they offer to
expose us to their festivals and health treatments
and we watch from the side the lives of us all. What
is necessary for every kind of life to be and flourish
is "The Sight “, the sight of the great being.
youtube.com/watch?v=RkB0Po6Clq0
youtube.com/watch?v=vd8Zv83Uw-A
Channel 2
Festivals
Hot Docs
D6
The Unwelcoming
‫זית על מא‬
presented at
CoPro
Director
Robby Elmaliah
Producers
Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash
Company
Yulari Films & Fig Films
The challenges of immigration are exposed as we
follow a family who moves to Israel in 2006 from the
Tunisian Island of Djerba.Though the community to
which they arrive seems like the most natural place
for them to set up their new home, tensions soon
arise between the wider community and the Uzan
family – and within the family as well.The realities of
his new country are at odds with the father’s desire
to earn an honest living.
Length – 73'
Format – HD
Original language – Hebrew, Tunisian Arabic
Tel: +972 2 672 4256
Channel 8, Israel
Festivals
Jerusalem FF
E1
E2
Guardians of
Remembrance
Josef Mengele has
saved my life in
Auschwitz
‫שומרי הזיכרון‬
‫ג'וזף מנגלה‬
‫הציל את חיי באושוויץ‬
Director
Boris Maftsir
Producer
Zvi Shefy
Company
Zvi Shefy Productions
Length – 107'
Format – HD
Tel: +972 2 6724256
The Holocaust of the Jews in the former Soviet
Union has remained a mystery many decades after
the war. In a journey never before seen on screen,
Boris Maftsir sets out to restore the memory of a
Holocaust all but forgotten. The work of a lifetime,
this is the first film in a multi-part series project
about how the Holocaust was all but hidden from
official Soviet history – and about those who will
not let the memory be erased.
Director & Producer
Doron Braunshtein
Company
Doron Braunshtein
The second Authority for Television & Radio
Claims Conference, The Joint
Contact Person: Doron Braunshtein
Tel: +972 3 5335835
Mobile: +972 50 7815765
Website: apollobraun.com
Channel 8, Israel
Length – 95'
Format – DVD
This film tells the story of Hedva Rat, who came
to Auschwitz in 1944 with her grandparents, and
little sister. When they arrived, Josef Mengele sent
her family to the left side (their death) and Hedva
joined them – although he sent her the right side.
Mengele pointed at her again and she was taken
away from her family – to live. In all the seven
months she was in Auschwitz, Mengele, as she is
saying, protected her " A kind, handsome and a true
gentleman". Although knowing what he did to her
beloved family and to the Jewish people – at large.
Festivals
Haifa FF
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Reflections of the Past 61
E3
presented at
CoPro
Night Will Fall
‫ירד הלילה‬
Director
André Singer
Producers
Sally Angel, Brett Ratner
Company
Angel TV, Spring Films
Length – 75'
Format – DCP
Date of Release – Jun 2014
(Sheffield World Premiere)
Original language – English, Russian, Hebrew
Tel: +972 3 5664129
Website: cinephil.co.il
E4
Shores of Light
‫אור בקצה המגף‬
Night Will Fall tells the story of the liberation of
the Nazi Concentration camps. Using remarkable
archive footage and testimony from survivors
and liberators, it tells of the efforts made to
document the almost unbelievable scenes that
the allies encountered on Liberation. The film
explores how a team of top filmmakers, including
Sidney Bernstein, Richard Crossman and Alfred
Hitchcock came together to make a film to provide
undeniable evidence of what the allies found. Each
new generation deserves access to this evidence.
Director
Yael Katzir
Producers
Gady Castel, Yael Katzir
Company
Katzir Productions
Contact Person: Yael Katzir
Tel: +972 3 6421648
Mobile: +972 52 2207949
Channel 8
Keshet – Channel 2
Length – 57'
Format – DCP
Original language – Italian, Hebrew
This is a poignant untold story of warmth and
compassion after the horrible WW2. Thousands of
Jewish survivors landed in Southern Italy on their
way to Israel, and were warmly welcomed by the
poor locals. In this time of psychological and physical
healing, hundreds of children were born. The film
follows the story of three Israeli women who were
born then, in Santa-Maria-di-Leuca. It weaves rare
historical footage with unique current testimonials
capturing a ray of light after great darkness.
Mediaset Italia, Rete 4
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
Valdarno FF Italy
Festivals
2014 World Premiere (7 June): Special Jury Honourable
Mention, Jerusalem FF 2014 (15 July): Special Mention
IDFA 2014
E5
E6
Soaps
The Night of Fools
‫סבונים‬
‫ליל הפתאים‬
Director & Producer
Eyal Ballas
Format – Pal widescreen
Contact Person: Eyal Ballas
Tel: +972 54 4944171
Mobile: +972 54 494171
Human soaps in the Holocaust – truth, commemoration
and memory. The film depicts the theme of
manufacturing soap from the bodies of Jews during
the Holocaust from historical, social and cultural
aspects, and explains its disappearance from the
Israeli narrative over the years. Throughout the
film Holocaust researchers claim it is a myth while
survivors convinced that it occurred even to their
relatives.
Director & Producer
Rami Kimchi
Company
Sheder Productions
A Docu-Drama.The story of an Algerian – republican
anti-Nazi resistance, which – on November 8th 1942 –
succeeded, with only 400 volunteers, in capturing the
city of Algiers thus dramatically affecting the outcome
of Operation Torch – the Allies’ first victory on the
Western front in World War II.
Length –57'
Format – HD
Original language – Hebrew, French
Subtitles – French, English
Distributor: Michael Treves − JMT Films
Distribution, co-productions & world sales
Mobile: +972 52 3633398
Email: jmtfilms.com/201353/about-us
Website: jmtfilms.com/201353/about-us
Israel National channel 1
Channel 1 – The national TV channel of Israel
Festivals
Jerusalem FF
E7
E8
THERE AND HERE
Tunnel of Hope
‫שם וכאן‬
‫בריחה‬
Director
Avida Livny
Producer
Omer tv
The story of 3 ex-pilots and a navigator in the
Israeli Airforce all in their eighties, who decide to
come clean about their true identities as holocaust
survivors and venture out on a journey throughout
their lost childhoods, their silent youth and their
glory days as pilots.
Format – DCP
(Jerusalem film festival)
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Mobile: +972 54 6184547
Director & Producer
Dror H. Shwartz
Format – DCP
Channel 10
In 1943, 250 Jewish Salaverry Workers, successfully
escaped from a Nazi labor camp in Novogrudok,
Belarus, via a tunnel they dug. The film follows the
remaining escapees alive today, accompanied by
their descendants, in an attempt to find the tunnel.
The archaeological excavations dug up not only
piles of dirt and some physical remnants, but also
dredged up the memories, pain and hope of 3
generations which merge to become one story.
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Mobile: +972 54 6184547
F1
Alia
‫עליה‬
Director & Producer
Noam Edry
Length – 47'
Format – HD
Original language – Hebrew, Spanish
Contact Person : Noam Edry
Tel: +972 52 3662325
Website: noamedry.com
Alia fought for an entire decade to obtain a small
council flat in the northern Israeli town of KiryatShmona. 50 years on it has become her prison,
due to her deteriorating health. Documented by
her granddaughter in a continuous visual journey
spanning a decade, Alia transforms her narrowing
world through a variety of artistic activities. Her
own memoirs encompass the collective stories
of the Moroccan community in Israel and of all
women at the fringes of society.
Festivals
Libi Bamizrach (My Heart is in the East)
June 2015 – Tel Aviv Cinematheque
The Face of Her Reality 69
F2
F3
Broke
Etched in my Body
‫מרוששות‬
‫חרות בגופי‬
Director
Julie Shles
Producers
Shula Spiegel, Dana Eden
Company
Shula Spiegel Ltd. &
Donna Productions TV and Movies
(2001) Ltd.
Director & Producer
Nili Tal
Company
Nili Tal Productions
Length – 50'
Format – HD
Contact Person : Shula Spiegel
Tel: +972 3 5610120
Mobile: +972 50 5209349
The film focuses on women that are defined as
"the collapsing middle class" and reveals naked,
brave lives. The film's heroines are four 45-50 years
old women that excelled in their fields, believed in
education and hard work – and were still kicked
out of the work force, and into the circle of poverty.
The four women fight to survive financially, but
also to preserve their sense of self. Against all odds,
they fight to overcome the void and re-invent
themselves.
Channel 8, Israel
Shuli Arbib was divorced with three daughters
when she met Goel Razon, who presented himself
as a Hiller. He had then 6 wives soon they became
also his wives and part of the cult. For more then
10 years they videotaped and photographed the
life in the sect. The footage is rare and priceless
Length – 73'
Format – HD
Contact Person : Nili Tal
Tel: +972 3 6410805
Mobile: +972 50 623293
Website: nilital.com
Festivals
DocAviv FF 2015
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
70 The Face of Her Reality
The Face of Her Reality 71
F4
Third Person
‫גוף שלישי‬
Director
Sharon Luzon
Producers
Aurit Zamir, Yoav Roeh
Company
Gum Films
Length – 58'
Format – DCP, DVD-PAL, Pro RES
Original language – Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish
Contact Person: Aurit Zamir
Tel: 972 52 6010403
Website: gumfilms.com
Susan was born with both male and female sexorgans. At age of five months, her parents decided
she would be female. At 35 she discovers this. The
medical establishment asserts that everyone must
be either male or female. Susan dares to question
this axiom. This film follows two compelling
storylines. One is the story of Susan and her socialactivism. The other is the story of Ofer, another
intersex individual, whose story is an inspiring
mirror image of hers.
Yes Docu –DBS Satellite Service
Festivals
DocAviv 15
72 The Face of Her Reality
G1
G2
BackLight
FREILAUF
‫פנסים‬
‫פריילופ‬
Director
Oran Magedish
Producers
David Noy, Yoram Ivry
Company
Cinemax Productions Ltd.
Length – 65'
Format – HD
Contact Person: David Noy
Mobile: +972 50 7321555
Website: cinemax-prod.co.il
BackLight deals with elusive gap between dreams
and reality. The film documents the life of three
backstage crew members, living within touching
distance of their dreams: Ilan is a talented singersongwriter working as a sound technician; Simon
is a circus artist working as a high-tower lighting
rigger; and Amiram is an actor working as a lighting
technician on film sets. All three are in the shadows
of their artistic dreams, as they try to fulfill their
personal ambitions and cross the hidden line that
separates the backstage from the spotlight.
Director & Producer
Tal Haim Yoffe
Contact Person: Tal Haim Yoffe
Mobile: +972 54 8188853
Israel Reshet – Channel 2
Length – 48'
Format – PRORES
presented at
CoPro
The director decides to build himself a bicycle to
his particular specifications. To learn how to, he sets
out on a journey in search of people whose great
love is the bicycle. He meets a former dancer with
the Batsheva Dance Troupe, who builds bike frames
professionally, a welder from Florentin neighborhood
who builds crazy bikes, a musician who performs at
his shows on his “Fixie” bike, a farmer who cleared
an entire chicken coop just to store the hundreds of
bicycles he has collected, and more... This is a movie
that begins with an accident, turns into a love story
and ends with a big crash.
Festivals
DocAviv 2014
Festivals
Haifa FF
74 The Soul and Science
The Soul and Science 75
G3
G4
DAVID PERLOV
Into Truth:
a journey into the
heart of a nation
‫דוד פרלוב‬
:‫בדרך לאמת‬
‫מסע אל לב האומה‬
Director
Ruth Walk
Producer
Youval Orr
Company
Eilat Media
Length – 67'
Format – HD
Distributor: Michael Treves ‫ ־‬JMT Films
Distribution, co-productions & world sales Mobile: +972 52 3633398
Website: JMTFilms.com
David Perlov (1930-2003) an Israeli filmmaker. In
1958 immigrated from Brazil to Israel, where he
was considered as one of the most important
filmmakers in the country and the leading force of
the Israeli documentary cinema. In 1973 Perlov had
begun to film the "Perlov Diaries" an endeavor that
lasted 10 years. He was one of founders of the first
and prestigious film school at Tel Aviv University.
The film "Perlov – Portrait" tells the life story of
Perlov, his art, and his influence of filmmakers in
Israel and abroad. A major part of the film deals
with Pelov's early days in Brazil.
Director
Amit Shalev
Producer
Oded (Lio) Spiegler
Company
Limiko Films
Contact Person: Amit Shlev
Mobile: +972 54 30 60 277
Trailer: vimeo.com/limiko/intotruthtrailer
password: intotruthtrailer
Channel 8, Israel
Length – 48'
Format – full HD
Date of Release – TBD
As the world plunges into uncertainty – with
multi-faceted crises erupting everywhere and
antisemitism at an all-time high – one global thinker
offers an unlikely solution that ties it all together
while fearlessly shattering our current world view.
“Into Truth” is a rare portrait of the controversial
Kabbalist, and teacher of millions, Dr. Michael
Laitman in his tireless quest for world peace which
is calling on Jews to re-examine everything they
know and believe to be true.
Festivals
Haifa FF
G5
G6
North into the Mist
Once upon a time
there was a King
‫צפונים בקוטב‬
‫היה היה מלך ־ נסים אלוני‬
‫ שתי תמונות‬,‫בשלוש מערכות‬
‫ביניים ואפילוג‬
Directors & Producers
Company
Independent
Length – 50'
Format – HD Cam
Contact Person:
Mobile: +972 52 2674697
Mobile: + 972 52 3805553
[email protected]
'North into the Mist' is a documentary which
follows 72 year old,Yngve Kristoffersen, a Norwegian
scientist who sets out on a dangerous three month
expedition in a small hovercraft to remote areas
of the Arctic. He intends to fulfill his lifelong dream
and prove a theory about an asteroid hitting the
Arctic Ocean millions of years ago, affecting the
planet till this day. He encounters Extreme weather,
hungry Polar Bears, and mechanical difficulties along
the way. The theory which inspired the expedition
was based on data collected by John Hall on US Ice
Station T3 in the late 1960's.
Director
Doron Djerassi
Producers
Levi Zini, Avishai Peretz,
Doron Djerassi
Company
Doc. Films
Channel 1
Contact Person: Doron Djerassi
Mobile: +972 50 7699465
Festivals
Chagrin Falls International Film Festival, Cleavland USA
World Film Festival,Tartu, Estonia
New York City International Film Festival,
Times Square, New York
Riverside International Film Festival, Riverside,
California
Length – 80'
Format – HD (Dcp)
Nissim Aloni was a king of the Hebrew theater.
The magical realm he brought to the stage
brimmed with imagination and poetry, giving voice
and vision to the loftiest dreams. But in a world
dominated by mundane democracy and controlled
by functionaries, Aloni was an exile king, without a
kingdom, without an audience, without critics, and
without theater managers to share his whimsical
musings with the public.
Channel 8, Israel
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
G7
G8
Silicon Wadi
Where is Elle Kari
and what happened
to Noriko-san?
‫סיליקון ואדי‬
presented at
CoPro
Directors
Daniel Sivan, Yossi Bloch
Producer
Ronen Ben-Tal
for Plan B Productions
Length – 82'
Format – HD
Distributor:
Hadar Porubanova/Go2Films
Tel: +972 2 5831371
Mobile: +972 54 6184547
Israel is known in the world as a start-up nation.
There are actually more startups in Tel-Aviv than
in the whole of Europe and more Venture Capital
is invested per person than anywhere else in the
world. 4 startup teams are accompanied for 2 years,
from having an idea on a napkin and until they hit
the jackpot or go bust. Throughout their personal
rollercoaster of voyage we catch an intimate and
exciting glance on how the 'High-Tech Nation'
really works.
Yes Duco
‫איפה אלה קרי‬
?‫סאן‬-‫ומה קרה לנוריקו‬
Director
Dvorit Shargal
Producers
Yael Leshem, Dvorit Shargal
Company
Kastina Communications LTD
Length – 49':30'
Format – HDV
Date of Release – Sep 2014
Contact Person: Dvorit Shargal
Tel: +972 3 5270185
Mobile: +972 52 3512025
Website: dvoritshargal.com
A nostalgic, fascinating and heart-breaking journey
into a very popular photographed children's books
in black & white from the mid-20th century (they
were photographed by Anna Riwkin-Brick and
most of them were written by Astrid Lindgren).
An unbelievable detective story, which follows
the missing heroes of the books: Were they real
children? Where are they now?
Festivals
Indian Cine Film Festival, Mumbai 2014. Winner of
the Best Documentary – Jury.
Filmmakers of the Year Film Festival in Jakarta,
Indonesia Nov. 2014
DOCfeed festival in Eindhoven, Holland, Feb 2015
In BigMuddy FF Carbondale, Illinois, in Feb
Women director festival in New Delhi in 2015,
Women in media FF in Newark in March
Universe Multicultural Film Festival in California, April
Tupelo FF Ms in April
Saint Tropez & Nice FF in May
Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Wales, May
Cms,International Chilren's Film Festival, Lucknow,
India, May
G9
Wings of Change
‫ללא גבולות‬
Director & Producer
Tuvi Arbel
Company
Arbel Television
This is a film about one billion birds and one rare
bird. About an unusual species that simultaneously
conducts dozens of projects with the determination
of a bulldozer. “Mr. Birdman” Prof. Yossi Leshem, a
lightly religious, tall, authoritative man with a rugged
Israeli charm and the persuasion skills of a salesman
who doesn’t take no for an answer.
Length – 50'
Format – HDV
Original language – Hebrew,
English, Arabic
Subtitles – Hebrew, English, Arabic
Contact Person: Tuvi Arbel
Tel: +972 9 7680237
Mobile: +972 52 2683758
Website: arbeltelevision.com
Festivals
Jerusalem FF
Untold Stories
H1
H2
A Closed Story
Censored Voices
‫סיפור סגור‬
‫שיח לוחמים‬
presented at
CoPro
Director & Producer
Micha Livne
Company
I Docu
After 30 years of suppressing, forgetting and
denying the events at the traumatic battle of Sultan
Yaakub that took place In the first Lebanon war, I
am compelled to choose between loyalty to my
comrades, my unit's officers, and looking at the
mirror – to uncover a new and painful truth about
manhood, fear and resourcefulness.
Length – 90'
Format – DCP
Contact Person: Micha Livne
Tel: +972 4 9909044
Mobile: +972 54 4388538
Director
Mor Loushy
Producers
Daniel Sivan, Hilla Medalia,
Neta Zwebner
Company
One Man Show, kNow Productions
One week after the 1967's 'Six-Day War', a group
of young kibbutzinks, led by renowned author
Amos Oz and Editor Avraham Shapira, recorded
intimate conversations with soldiers returning
from the battlefield. The Israeli army censored
the recordings, allowing only a fragment of the
conversations to be published. Censored Voices
reveals these original recordings for the first time.
Length – 84'
Format – HD
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
Contact Person: Hilla Medalia
Mobile: +972 54 4791124
Website: censoredvoices.com
Festivals
Sundance FF
Hot Docs
Berlin FF
84 Untold Stories
Untold Stories 85
H3
Credit for Murder
‫קרדיט לרצח‬
Director & Producer
Vladi Antonevicz
Company
Mockofiction
presented at
CoPro
A documentary thriller. Two friends discover the
tumultuous secrets behind a real double murder
video that was posted online by Russian Neo
Nazis. As more and more details are revealed, the
immediate consequences of the investigation start
to endanger their own lives
Tribeca Film Institution
Channel 8
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
86 Untold Stories
Defense Files
‫תיקים מהסנגוריה‬
Director
Moish Goldberg
Producer
Liran Atzmor
Length – 6 Episodes / 35 min
Format – DCP
(Jerusalem Film Festival)
Length – 104'
Format – HD
Contact Person: Vladi Antonevicz
Tel: +972 3 5476335
H4
Distributor: Hadar Porubanova / Go2Films
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Mobile: +972 54 6184547
An unrepentant glimpse at public defenders and the
criminals they represent. Attorney client privilege
has been lifted for the first time in Israel to present
the criminal justice system in a hyper-realistic way.
Here are the stories of a racist soccer fan who
attacks Arabs, an African nanny accused of causing
a baby's death, a customs inspector charged with
accepting a bribe, and more. This series focuses on
the complexity of the human spirit and the crises
facing society today.
Makor Foundation
Yes Docu
Festivals
Best Documentary Series, Israeli Documentary Film
Forum, 2014
Awards: Best Documentary Series, Israeli
Documentary Film Forum, 2014
Untold Stories 87
H5
Shapira & I
‫שפירא ואני‬
Director & Producer
Yoram Sabo
Length – 57'
Format – HD
Contact Person: Ruth Diskin Films Ltd.
Tel: +972 2 6724256
presented at
CoPro
H6
Two Funerals
‫שתי לוויות‬
70 years before the discovery of the Dead Sea
Scrolls, Jerusalem antiques dealer Moses Shapira
traveled to London with what he hoped to present
to the British Museum as the original version of
the Book of Deuteronomy. But the assessment that
the scrolls were fake, devastated him and Moses
Shapira put an end to his life. For more than 30
years filmmaker Yoram Sabo has been obsessed
with clearing Shapira’s name and finding out the
fate of the scrolls.
Directo
Rotem Azulay
Producers
Yaron Bar, Rotem Azulay
Company
Moked production
Marc Rich Foundation
Contact Person: Rotem Azulay
Tel: +972 2 9942484
Mobile: +972 50 9942484
Length – 57'
Format – Full HD
Tel Aviv during The 1930's. Yehoshua Steinbock
emigrates with a group of architects from Europe
to Israel. Together, they build internationally styled
buildings, which would later be known as part of The
White City, the historic center of Tel Aviv. Steinbock
died an intellect, a Zionist hero and a great family
man. However, shortly after his funeral, another
funeral was held in his honor. The second funeral
made it apparent that Steinbock had secretly been
conducting two separate lives with two different
families, each of which had a young girl named Aya.
Reshet – Channel 2
88 Untold Stories
Untold Stories 89
I1
3 Houses
‫ בתים‬3
Shorts
Director
Omri Shenhar
Producers
Ronit Sela, Marc Grey
Company
The Association for Civil Rights
in Israel (ACRI)
Since the establishment of the separation barrier,
the Jerusalem neighborhoods Ras Hamis and Ras
Shahada have been cut off from the rest of the
city. The authorities stopped providing services and
recently announced about their plan to destroy
dozens of buildings in the area. The film tells the
story of 3 families struggling with this hard reality.
Length – 9':42'
Format – HD
Subtitles – English, Arabic
Contact Person: Omri Shenhar
Mobile: +972 54 4906073
Email: omrishenhar.wix.com/omrish
Festivals
Viewster Online Film Fest
Culture Unplugged Festival
Shorts 91
I2
I3
A Lullaby for Ian
A Trip to the
Other Planet
‫שיר ערש לאיאן‬
‫מסע אל הפלנטה האחרת‬
Director & Producer
Doron Levene
Company
Kino Kitchen Studio
Shortly after the birth of my daughter, Eli, our dog,
Ian, was diagnosed with cancer.This film documents
the last day in Ian’s life where my partner and
6-month year old daughter accompany me on the
way to the vet where Ian was put to sleep. Ian's
lullaby is a lullaby to death and new life. A silent
voyage of fifteen years that despite the pain leaves
space for optimism and hope.
Director
Tom Kless
Producer
Eyal Keila
Company
Sapir College
Length – 10':31'
Format – 25 fps 1920 \ 1080 Full HD
Length – 15'
Format – Full HD 16:9
Contact Person: Asaf Yecheskel
Tel: +972 3 9302351
Mobile: +972 52 8386492
Website: facebook.com/CostanzaFilms
Contact Details: Sapir College
Tel: +972 77 9802787
Mobile: +972 54 3060819
An animated portrait of the hallucinatory journey
of consciousness experienced by Jewish writer
Yechiel De-Nur ("KaTzetnik 135633"), during a
psychiatric treatment with the hallucinate drug LSD,
in the Netherlands, 1976. The treatment guides
De-Nur through a re-visit of the "Other Planet" of
Auschwitz, during which, he sees himself as the Nazi
officer who sent him to burn in the crematorium.
This life-altering experience releases De-Nur from
his repressed traumas of the past, and engulfs him
with new prophecies of a dark possible future.
David Perlov Fund
Snunit Fund – The Second Authority for Television & Radio
Festivals
Jerusalem FF
92
Shorts
Shorts 93
I4
I5
Dej Mi Sluka
Eden Rests
‫דיג' מי סלוקה‬
‫מנוחת עדן‬
Director & Producer
Shira Mekin
This film is based on the ghetto-picture diaries of
Erich Lichtblau-Leskly who was sent toTheresienstadt
Ghetto at 1942, and during his time there, secretly
painted caricatures depicting the day to day life of
the Ghetto.The film depicts Yossef's journey through
the crowded Ghetto
Length – 04':38'
Format – Classic Animation, HD
Contact Person:
Michelle Pose, Ofir Goldman
Tel: +972 3 5166868
Mobile: +972 54 2106387
+972 54 4999949
[email protected]
Website: firstcourse.net
94
Shorts
Ofer Kapota, Natalie Chen,
Hadar Sitruk
Company
Minshar for Art
A number of events of Tel-Aviv’s early days are
intertwined and poured into the story of a movie
premier at Tel-Aviv’s first ever cinema: Eden.
Length – 6'
Format – HD
Festivals
Jerusalem Film Festival, 2014
Contact Person: Michelle Pose,
Ofir Goldman
Tel: +972 3 5166868
Mobile: +972 54 2106387
+972 54 4999949
[email protected]
Festivals
Maine Jewish Film Festival, Toronto Jewish Film
Festival, San Francisco Jewish, Film festival, Seret
Film Festival, Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Jewish
Interntional Film Festival
Shorts 95
I6
I7
Hora
Ivan
‫הורה‬
‫איוון‬
Director & Producer
Yoav Brill
Company
TLVfest
Length – 9':23'
Format – Digital. 16:9
(First commercial screening)
Contact Person: Yoav Brill
Mobile: +972 54 7918443
Website: cargocollective.com/yoavbrill
96
Shorts
Two men are walking down the street holding
each other's hands. Using interviews held by the
director with men of his hometown Tel Aviv, this
animated short investigates an intimate yet very
public gesture. Who's into it? Who avoids at all
costs? And how come a public admission of your
sexual nature can mean a whole different thing in
another culture.
Director & Producer
Alice Korenyouk
Company
TLVfest
Length – 7':43'
Format – XD-CAM
Festivals
TLVfest, Tel Aviv
ITFS, Stuttgart
Kashish, Mumbai
Contact Person, Distributor:
Michelle Pose, Ofir Goldman
Tel: +972 3 5166868
Mobile: +972 54 2106387
+972 54 4999949
[email protected]
Three years ago my brother Ivan passed away. Ivan
and I were close, he was an important role model
in my life and I thought I knew him as well as he
knew me. After his death I realized I was wrong. My
brother had many hidden sides and I started feeling
like I didn't know him at all. I went on a search to
find out who he was. During my search I found his
blog. The blog opened up a whole new world and
tons of information about Ivan. I created my project
from Ivan's blog.
Festivals
Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival
Shorts 97
I8
I9
Long distance running
off side
‫לרוץ למרחקים ארוכים‬
‫אופסייד‬
Director & Producer
Tsipi Karlik
Company
dostories365
Length – 13'
Format – DV
Tsipi Karlik, dostories365
Tel/fax: +972 3 6966321
Mobile: +972 54 2400960
Website: site442513.44.webydo.com
Dostories365 is a social documentary & business
enterprise with a unique model that raises awareness
of social issues by short documentary movies. The
personal story of Remy Yulzari, who experienced
PTSD in the army, The film depicts the daily journey
Remy PTSD, his familiarity with his wife and family
while daily coping with PTSD. About five years ago,
Rami formed a group, 'Run with Rami', which he
helps other PTSDs through the run, the film will
show the various relationships of Remy in his life,
and the desire to win the PTSD.
Director & Producer
Tsipi Karlik
Company
dostories365
Israeli Cinemateques
Tsipi Karlik, dostories365
Tel/fax: +972 3 6966321
Mobile: +972 54 2400960
Ynet internet – Tv online
Sport Channel
Festivals
Five Israeli Cinemateques
2 Germany festival, Medimed
98
Shorts
Length – 9'
Format – DV
enterprise, around the year, with a unique model
that raises awareness of social issues – by short
documentary movies.The film presents the personal
story of Ben, 16 year-old boy, Beitar Jerusalem's goal
keeper. A snapshot of contemporary youth in Israel,
Ben, is a distressed neighborhood boy, who is trying
to fulfill his dream and come out from where he
grew up. Using a football frame film presents the
contest and his will to succeed, despite the bad
starting life.
Sport Channel
Festivals
2 Germany festival, Medimed
Shorts 99
I10
I11
Quality Time
Restitution
‫זמן איכות‬
‫כל הזכויות שמורות‬
Director & Producer
Doron Levene
Company
Kino Kitchen Studio
In 1978, my brother Amnon (Ami), age 9, and I, age 5,
caught the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, a disease
spread by ticks. My brother passed away from this
disease while I survived. This film follows my father
as he makes a trip back to the grave of his son after
a 30 years absence. In this process he confronts the
grief and loving memory that has remained buried
for decades.
Length – 10':57'
Format – 16:9 (1.78:1) 1920 / 1080p 25
Contact Person: Asaf Yecheskel
Tel: +972 3 9302351
Mobile: +972 52 8386492
Website: facebook.com/CostanzaFilms
100
Shorts
Anael Resnick, Laila Bettermann
Company
Minshar School for Arts
Length – 11':42'
Format – HD 16:9
Festivals
Oberhausen film festival
Sarajevo film festival
Sao Paulo international Film festival
Hot springs Documentary film festival
Contact Details:
Minshar School of Art
Contact Person: Maya Zaydman
Tel: +972 3 6378119
Mobile: +972 54 2218000
Address: David Hachmi 18
Tel Aviv-Yafo 6777818
Two tenants. A Palestinian house. A Jewish landlady.
We, the two Israeli tenants are intrigued. Who is the
actual owner of this house? Furious and scared by
our questions, our landlady forbids us to continue
the documentary movie we started to shoot. So
we create a world of found-objects, a restitution,
through which we manage to tell the stories of the
house and the aborted movie, between revealing
and covering up, between telling and silencing.
Zochrot organization
Shorts 101
I12
I13
thirteen
‫יש מצב להופעה‬
‫שלוש עשרה‬
Director & Producer
Noam Hamou
Length – 04':24'
Format – HD
Contact Person:
Michelle Pose, Ofir Goldman Tel: +972 3 5166868
Mobile: +972 54 2106387
+972 54 4999949
[email protected]
102
Shorts
Anywhere else, the process is simple: a band goes
on tour, and sooner or later it comes to a city near
you, you get a ticket and go see them live. Not in
Israel. Musical performances and rock concerts are
typically a routine business, but in our small country,
far from the international music scene, where inner
dynamics are so irregular and bizarre, things can
get complicated. The clip "Slight Chance of Rock"
analyzes this complex process and all of its unique
causes and variables.
Director & Producer
Tsipi Karlik
Company
dostories365
Length – 9'
Format – DV
Contact Person:
Tsipi Karlik, dostories365 Tel/fax: +972 3 6966321
Mobile: +972 54 2400960
enterprise, around the year, with a unique model,
that raises awareness of social issues by short
documentary movies. Child and family in the
preview bar mitzvah ceremony, the documentation
describes the family's economic distress in the face
of the desire to hold the Bar Mitzvah ceremony. The
film shows the options that organizations such as the
Line of Grace give the family the possibility to hold
the ceremony.
Sport Channel
Festivals
2 Germany festival
Medimed
Shorts 103
I14
White Mist
‫כתמים לבנים‬
Director & Producer
Itay Netzer
Company
Maale School
Isaac, a long-time Soviet immigrant, and Brut the dog
live together in a dark, memory – filled apartment.
Brut’s hind leg has a tumor. Up early, they visit the
vet. Isaac anticipates an amputation. Brut is ecstatic
to be out.
Length – 04':24'
Format – HD
Contact Person:
Michelle Pose, Ofir Goldman Tel: +972 3 5166868
Mobile: + 972 54 2106387
+ 972 54 4999949
[email protected]
104
Shorts
Festivals
Jerusalem FF
DocAviv
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Towards an Israeli Identity
J1
J2
Arab Movie
My Shabbath
‫סרט ערבית‬
‫השבת שלי‬
Directors
Eyal Sagui Bizawe, Sara Tsifroni
Producer
Osnat Trabelsi
Company
Trabelsi Productions
Length – 60'
Format – HD
Subtitles – Hebrew, Arbic, English
Contact Person: Trabelsi Productions
Tel: +972 3 5660398
Mobile: +972 50 2266413
So many people still wax nostalgic about that old
Friday night ritual when everyone would watch the
Arabic-language Movie of the Week. But did anybody
ever wonder why Israel’s official TV station, insisted
on showing movies made by “The Enemy”? The films
let us peek out from our “Villa in the Jungle” and
catch a glimpse at our neighbors across the border.
But most of us didn’t really want to see those people,
whose culture, anguish, and aspirations flickered on
our screens.
Director
Ofir Trainin
Producer
Nir Finkelstein
Company
Prometheus
Gesher Multicultural Film Fund-Israel
Contact Person: Ofir Trainin
Mobile: +972 50 7527054
Length – 46'
Format – HD
An ex orthodox visits the beach in Shabbat for the
first time; A DJ awaiting all week for the big weekend
party; Sabbath gentile (Muslim Arab) that serves the
orthodox Jewish community;Three generations of one
family preparing a special dish for Friday's dinner on
their roof top "My Sabbath" is an innovative experiment
comprised of short smartphone videos, which were
filmed and sent from hundreds of people around
Israel. The movie focuses on a few central stories that
occur during the weekend and are composed into a
montage of dozens of personal viewpoints. Through
this unique style the movie gives the viewer a distinctive
view of the meaning and sense of the Israeli weekend.
Channel 8, Israel
Festivals
DocAviv
106 Towards an Israeli Identity
Towards an Israeli Identity 107
J3
J4
Nobody Home
ROCK IN THE RED ZONE
‫לא בבית‬
‫רוק בצבע אדום‬
Michal BenTovim
Between life and death on the mountain of olives –
A portrait of a holy mountain, weaving together
the prophecies, myth, history and 3 human – beings
from different faiths who live there in the present,
searching for meaning, faith and redemption.
Length – 58'
Format – HD
Contact Person: Michal BenTovim
Tel: +972 54 4284076
Directors
Laura Bialis
Producers
Laura Bialis, Elana Horwich,
Ravit Markus, Korelan Matteson
Company
Foundation for Documentary Projects
Length – 90'
Format – HD: DCP/HDCAM/Blu Ray
Original language – English, Hebrew
The New Foundation for Cinema & TV-Israel,
Distributor:
Hedva Goldschmidt / Go 2 Films
Tel: +972 2 5831371
Mobile: 0 52 3321732
Sderot, Israel: a city of factory workers and rock
musicians, the children of Middle Eastern refugees.
Despite feeling forgotten by their country as
rockets pummel them, Sderot’s citizens persevere.
In underground bomb shelters, they create unique
rhythms that have transformed Israeli music.
Searching for a story about music, filmmaker Laura
Bialis stumbles into a world she never imagined.
Crossing the line between observer and participant,
she presents a tale of music and romance on the
frontlines of a never-ending war.
Festivals
Haifa Film Festival: World Premiere
Towards an Israeli Identity 109
J5
WINDING
‫פתלתל‬
Director
Avi Belkin
Producer
Avi Levi
Company
Ptaltal
Length – 61'
Format – HD
Contact Person: Avi Levi
Mobile: +972 54 76060366
"Winding" tells the untold story of the most
infamous river in Israel, the Yarkon. The film places
the landscape in the forefront, portraying it as the
hero, in that way and by the use of rare archival
materials, social and personal stories, the Yarkon
River reflects the Israeli narrative in a completely
new way and reveals the primary importance
in the connection between a society and its land. It
is a tale about nature and man.
Festivals
Haifa FF – WINNER- Best Israeli Documentary
Film
Docs & cuts
(Rough cut Screening)
K1
Blend
‫בלנד‬
Director
Rachel Rusinek
Producers
Eyal Ben Moshe, Rachel
Length – 75'/55'
Format – HD
Distributor: Ruth Diskin Films
Tel: +972 2 6724256
Mobile: +972 50 5400024
112 Docs & cuts
presented at
CoPro
K2
presented at
CoPro
Cafe Nagler
‫קפה נגלר‬
The documentary film Blend is about the mixture
created in the West Bank between wine and conflict,
the political and private. By following the process
of wine production in three wineries in the West
Bank, the film explores the lives of Jewish settler
families trying to appropriate the land through
the vine roots. Documenting their farm work and
wine production provides an unusual look into the
mechanism of the occupation.
Director
Mor Kaplansky
Producers
Liran Atzmor, Yariv Barel,
Mor Kaplansky
Company
Atzmor Films
Distributor: Go2Films ‫ ־‬Hedva Goldschmidt
Mobile: +972 52 3321732
Café Nagler is the story of a family-owned café
in Berlin in the beginning of the 20th century. The
director embarks on a journey to reveal what
she believes is the true story behind the café, her
family legacy but discovers that historical truths can
sometimes be overrated.
Length – 80' Documentary feature
Format – HD
Date of Release – End of 2015
Original language – English, Hebrew, German
Docs & cuts 113
K3
K4
Just Kids
Mixed Feelings
‫שלושה אחים ומערה‬
‫רגשות מעורבים‬
Director
Tamar Tal
Producers
Tamar Tal, Hilla Medalia
Co producers
Tina Leeb & Jurgen Kleinig
Company
Tamar Tal Films & Know Productions
In co-production
Celluloid Fabrik
presented at
CoPro
Just Kids is the story of three brothers, (ages 73, 82
and 84) who set off on a journey to find a cave in
the woods of Tuscany, the place where, as children,
they hid to escape the Nazis. But more than a
search to find a geographical location, the brothers
are on their way to locate the common ground of
memory, the nexus where the conflicting versions
of their stories can come to rest.
Length – 82'
Format – HD
Length – 75'
Format – HD
Original language – Italian, Hebrew
Subtitles – English, German
Contact Person: Tamar Tal
Tel: +972 3 6205672
Mobile: +972 52 3879377
Website: tamartal.com
114 Docs & cuts
Director
Guy Davidi
Producers
Anna Somershaf, Guy Davidi
Company
GuyDVD Films
Makor Foundation Israel
MDM Leipzig, Germany
Arte NDR Germany
Contact Person: Guy Davidi
Mobile: +972 54 4949831
From the theater in his house, Israeli acting teacher
Amir Orian is determined to create change in
times of war. "Mixed Feelings" is a story about
cultural resistance through theater and about
the ungrateful mission of political education. The
film starts in one war and ends 5 years later with
another; the process captured through the relation
between Amir and his students reveals the process
of Israeli society in between the wars.
Alter Cine foundation (Canada)
Frittord (Norway)
NRK (Norway)
Docs & cuts 115
K5
K6
Phantom Pain
Rabin in His
Own Words
‫כאב רפאים‬
‫רבין על רבין‬
Director & Producer
Ohad Milstein
Company
Ohad Milstein
Length – 52' \ 72'
Format – HD
Original language – Hebrew, German,
Swiss-German, English
Contact Person: Ohad Milstein
Mobile: +972 54 4614262
116 Docs & cuts
"Phantom pain" follows the battle of Rahel, the
daughter of Swiss Bishop Patrick Strife, through
a high-risk identical twin pregnancy. At the fourth
month of the pregnancy, Rahel was informed that
one of the fetuses lost pulse and is lying dead
alongside to his living twin brother. Due to the
high risk for physical disability & brain damage for
the surviving fetus, all doctors, without exception,
recommended the termination of Rahel's pregnancy;
In other words – killing the living fetus.
Director
Erez Laufer
Producers
Orly Topel, Vivi Halpern
Company
Kol-Miney Productions Ltd.
Contact Person: Orly Topel
Tel: +972 3 6480220
Mobile: +972 50 5304401
Length – 90'
Format – HD
Rabin in His Own Words is an “autobiography”
of sorts, since the story is told entirely in his own
voice. Thus, the film offers a heretofore unseen
perspective on Rabin – his own. The film will relay
the personal and political life of the man and the
myth – as he lived it. Like any good protagonist,
his narrative is well rounded: sacrifice, sacrilege,
heroism, hubris, humor and heartache. Rabin in His
Own Words brings the man – flesh and blood –
back to life, if only momentarily.
Docs & cuts 117
K7
K8
Silence Days
The Treasure of
Kufrein
‫ימים של שתיקה‬
‫המטמון של כפריין‬
presented at
CoPro
Director
Abeer Zeibak Haddad
Producers
Suheil Haddad, Abeer Haddad
Company
Abeer Productions
Length – 75'
Format – HD
Original language – Arabic
Contact Person: Abeer Haddad
Mobile: +972 50 6382522
118 Docs & cuts
Tracing an "honor killing" of a young woman that
took place in my hometown Nazareth 40 years
ago. This documentary journey aims to unravel the
social and political circumstances that had let to
her murder and to that of many other Palestinian
women. So I trace other stories of "honor killings",
meet the families and sometimes also the killers,
who have expressed remorse. In order to investigate
the causes for this enduring phenomenon and the
term "honor killing"
Director
Zohar Sela
Producers
Zohar Sela, Sharon Erez
Company
SELA-V
Contact Person: Zohar Sela
Tel: +972 4 6396133
Mobile: +972 50 5765208
Length – 52'
Format – DVCAM
Date of Release – End of 2015
In war, atrocities are carried out by the military
forces. Soldiers murder, rape and plunder – in the
name of war. The village of Kufrein is abandoned
in 1948, during the war. Soldiers ransack the
village, taking coins and jewelry. The following day,
the treasures are given out to the children of the
neighboring settlement. Realizing that the treasure
is spoils of war from Kufrein, it is quickly gathered
up again and buried deep in the earth, until peace
returns.
Docs & cuts 119
K9
Vita Activa, The Spirit
of Hannah Arendt
‫ ביוגרפיה‬,‫ויטה אקטיבה‬
‫רוחנית של חנה ארנדט‬
Director
Ada Ushpiz
Producers
Ina Fishman, Ada Ushpiz
Company
Intuitive picture, AUfilms
Length – 124'
Format – HD
Original language – English, Hebrew,
German, French
Distributor: Hedva Goldschmidt/Go2Films
Tel: +972 2 5831371
+972 2 5831371
Mobile:+972 54 6184547
120 Docs & cuts
presented at
CoPro
Hannah Arendt, a well-known and most influential
Jewish-German philosopher, caused a great uproar
in the 1960s by coining the subversive concept of
"banality of evil" when referring to the Nazi evil.
Today she evokes renewed interest around the
world, especially among youngsters. This film is a
personal and spiritual Biography of her in her own
voice, so to speak, using rare archives, personal
letters and selected quotes.
Sodec Quebec Canada
Rogers Documentary Fund Canada
Channel 8, Israel
CoPro Campus
L1
L2
1 Building and 40
People Dancing
A-22103 - Aide Mémoire
‫ זיכרון דברים‬- A-22103
‫בניין אחד‬
‫וארבעים אנשים רוקדים‬
Director & Producer
Miki Polonski
Company
Minshar School of Art
Across from the municipal Music Hall in Bat-Yam,
there is a large, rundown concrete building. It was
part of the public housing project in the 50’s, and
most of its lodgers have been there forever… The
gap between the two buildings is much larger than
their distance.
Length – 48'
Format – 2K
Original language – Russian, Hebrew
Contact Details: Minshar School of Art
Contact Person: Maya Zaydman
Tel: +972 3 6378119
Mobile: +972 54 2218000
Tel: +972 2 5831371 Mobile: +972 54 6184547
122 CoPro Campus
Director & Producer
Yonatan Geron
Company
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Length – 26'
Format – HD
Snunit Fund – The Second Authority forTelevision & Radio
The David Perlov fund: Keshet Broadcasting ltd
Channel 2
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
Contact Details:
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Contact Person: Raffi Yaniger
Tel: +972 2 5893340
Address: Mt. Scopus Campus,
POB 24046 Jerusalem 9124001
A 22 yrs. old Holocaust video testimony by
Yudith Arnon, a past choreographer and one of
the first pioneers of the Israeli Dance, constitute
a starting point to a nonlinear and unusual story
line and explores new findings and personal
artistic commentary by the director and the main
characters in her private and professional life in
order to preserve, understand and spread her life
story. The movie combins both documentary and
experimental aspects and style.
Channel 8, Israel
Festivals
DocAviv 2015 (submitted by Bezalel, Selections yet
to be made), Krakow FF 2015 (Submitted, Selection
made by April 2015), Hot Docs 2015 (Submitted,
Selections yet to be made)
CoPro Campus 123
L3
L4
CROSSING
‫איש קטן של צ'כוב‬
‫חוצות‬
Director & Producer
Amir Cohn
Company
Tel-Aviv University Film & TV
Department
The film follows 83 year old Albert Cohen as he
attempts to host and direct the play “Chekov’s
Little People” in his home. Albert’s persistent and
uncompromising struggle provides a glimpse into
the life of one of the most respected actors in
Israeli theater. His journey raises questions about the
connection between actor and character, stage and
home, creation and life.
Length – 28':10'
Format – HD-1920:1080
Contact Person: Amir Cohn
Mobile: +972 54 6999441
124 CoPro Campus
Director
Inbar Horesh
Producers
Inbar Horesh, Antoinette
Company
Minshar school of art
Length – 43'
Format – HD
Festivals
Epos the international art film festival
DocAviv 2015
Contact Person: Inbar Horesh
Mobile: +972 54 8191163
presented at
CoPro
Three sons as three drag queens portraying their
three mothers. This drag queen trio performs at
underground queer parties in Jerusalem. After a
year performing together, they are facing their final
appearance. Following them in the days leading to
their last show they reveal the various facets of
their lives in a political-comic documentary which
exposes the tensions between drag performance
and real life. Involved Film Institution
Festivals
DocAviv 2015
CoPro Campus 125
L5
L6
I'll See You Again
SASHKA
‫אני אראה אותך בית‬
‫סאשקה‬
Director & Producer
Achva Hershtik
Company
The Ma'aleh School of Television,
Film & the Arts
Length – 25'
Format – HD
Contact Details:
The Ma’aleh School of Television,
Film & The Arts
Contact Person: Katie Green
Tel: +972 2 6277366
Mobile: +972 54 4839706
Address: 20 Shivtei Israel Street
Jerusalem 9510541
126 CoPro Campus
Grandma Rebecca must finally leave her home
and memories and move in with her children and
grandchildren. The separation from her home and
her life is unbearably hard. Her family guides her
with love and sensitivity to a new future that also
has room for her memories. A social documentary
that takes an honest look at re-housing parents
when they are old and the freedoms and rights that
they sacrifice as a result.
Director & Producer
Yana Lerner
Company
Sapir Academic College
Snunit Fund – The Second Authority for Television
& Radio;other
Contact Person: Yana Lerner
Mobile: +972 54 6346046
Length – 35'
Format – HD
presented at
CoPro
Sashka is a sweet 13 year-old-boy. His family
emigrated from Russia to Sderot, a small town in
southern Israel, next to Gaza strip. Though they
struggled to adjust, Sashka's unique perception
of reality kept him going. But at some point the
ground beneath him starts to shake and confront
his childish optimism with the confusing reality. We
follow Sashka's sudden and rapid maturation while
he is trying to figure his own way around.
festivals
Cinema South
Festivals
DocAviv 2014
CoPro Campus 127
L7
L8
Seeds of Gum
True Colors
‫זרעים של מסטיק‬
‫טרו קאלרז‬
Director & Producer
Miriam Baron
Company
Kibbutzim College
While visiting the Trumpledor Cemetery, I discovered
my name engraved in a tombstone. This led me
on a quest for my father, who was anything but a
“father” to me. My father passed away several years
ago and left me with only endless questions and
complaints. After speaking with the women of the
family, I discovered my father and the movie was
my closure.
Length – 32'
Format – HD
Subtitles – Hebrew
Contact Person: Ruth Lev Ari
Mobile: +972 52 2789226
128 CoPro Campus
Director
Ayelet Albenda
Producers
Hilla Shitrit, Amir Tausinger,
Efrat Cohen
Company
Gaudeamus Productions
Length – 18'
Format – HD
Subtitles – English, Russian
Gesher multicultural Film Fund-Israel - music
copyright
Contact Details: Tel Aviv University
Contact Person: Amir Tausinger
Tel: +972 3 6409008
Mobile: +972 54 5997426
Address: P.O.B 39040 Tel Aviv – Yafo
6907801
presented at
CoPro
True Colors provides a glance into the world of
girls who create makeup video tutorials. It presents
teenagers in the age of the Selfie, the searching
of femininity in its early stages and sheds light on
the power cosmetic companies have in forming
these girls’ world. The film raises questions about
the definition of knowledge, work, community and
success, and is part of a constantly evolving portrait
of a generation, that never stops documenting itself
and the powers surrounding it.
Channel 8
Festivals
Sarasota Film Festival Tel Aviv Student Film Festival
CoPro Campus 129

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