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social processes

The Second Authority
Editing and Production: Tania Cindorf
Ifat Ben-Shoshan
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Graphic Production:
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THE SECOND AUTHORITY is happy to offer these films to
educational bodies and social organizations.
Institutions interested in viewing these films can apply
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Greetings
I am pleased and honored to present the collection of productions of the Second Television and Radio Authority which appears
in the catalogue before you. The catalogue includes films and programs produced by the Authority which were aired between
1999 and 2003 on Channel 2 and Channel 10.
The Second Authority Law granted it the opportunity to produce programs of special interest to the public. From the outset,
the Authority has considered the production of these films of vital importance, unbridled by the restrictions of commercial
considerations and focusing on subjects of great significance to the Israeli public.
This collection consists primarily of documentary films which deal with various aspects of the Israeli experience and illustrate
a reflection of the reality we live in, in all its richness and complexity.
The Authority is proud of the work in television which is reflected in this collection and, particularly, of its contribution to the
world of documentary production in the Hebrew language. Without a doubt, the Authority’s involvement in the field of
documentary film over the past few years has brought about increased production and encouraged artists in the field, young
and old, to create and innovate.
This collection also includes programs centering around days of special significance to the Jewish people and Israeli society,
to which the Authority has dedicated productions which emphasize and deepen their significance.
The Authority has taken on another goal, that of producing programs that deal with Israeli culture in all its aspects. The highquality productions in this area have raised the level of the programming of the commercial channels and have given them
depth and appeal to viewers of all different tastes and preferences.
From time to time the Authority re-evalues its aims in the field of broadcasting and the goals it wishes to achieve as a public
body. The work we have done and the achievements we present here give us the strength to continue to encourage the
quality productions that are developed under our roof.
I wish to thank the film artists who have taken part in this important task and those who have contributed to this project on
behalf of the Authority: The members of the Authority’s Council, and in particular the members of the Committee for
Communications Development and the Authority’s Production Department managers – Yalon Gurewitz, Yoram Shwager, Yosi
Mulla and Ifat Ben-Shoshan.
With best wishes,
Mordechai Sklar
General Director
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Cafe Noah
The Submarine Children
Mistress of the Voice
The Children of Juareesh
The Riddle of the Human Brain
Takasim
Children of the Dream 2
The Colors of Love Dance
Combinations
Three Stories About Growing Up
A Family
Children’s Island in Kfar Saba
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The Jewish Experience
Two Weddings
Chelouche Rises from the Dead
A Time of Grace
Yudith – The Story of a Convert
Inducted From Birth
Natan Ijacques Elbaz
Round and Round - 2000
Tel Aviv – Breslav Express
Another Land
Brother Daniel – The Last Jew
The Gabbai
Knitted Kippa
The Journey to a Soul Mate
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Children of Life
To Touch the Light
I’ll Never Leave You
Oshri’s Bar Mitzvah
Tandem
Seeds of Independence
Next Stop – Berlin
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Culture and Education
Like a Turtle
Struggle
Rolling
Touching Lives
On the Edge
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CONTENTS
Social Processes
The Bukharan Quarter
Farewell Kerem Shalom - Part 1
Krispel’s Daughter
Jesse Congo
The Station
Returnees
Good Intentions
We Have to Win
Love, Romanian Style
Mother and Mom
Looking for Love
Puppet on A String
Dynamo Hulon
Life as a Fable
Living Positively
To Plant a Root – To Buy a Root
Mondial in Shfar’am
Nahal Sinai
Sabras
The Peace-Line
Casino Manila
Ketty
Fragments
Farwell Kerem Shalom – Part 2
No Other Home
Border Band
House, Kid, Work
Has the Flower Truly Faded?
Mimi’s Beauty Saloon
The Backyard
Highway 411 – Cutting Across Israel
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Love in Ein Karem – part 1
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Bracha and Masha
Internal Exile
Charity in the Wadi
Waiting for the President
On the Borderline
No-Man’s Land
Love in Ein Karem – part 2
- The House of Love and Peace
Alla Cries
My Distant Cousin
The Pain on the Other Side
Window on the East
The Golden Cage
Nowhere Else to Go
The Desert Knows No Borders
Why Do I Need Politics Now
Returning Stolen Cars
Manal
Cinderella of the Wadi
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White Rosa
Utopia in the Galilee
By the Roadside
Digital Dreams
Haredi Destiny
Who Cares?
The Golden Queen
The Kosovo Situation
War Games
Nurit
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Partners
Taufik
Pictures From Home
Disputed Land
Following the Drum
But the Best Win in Nazareth
Villa Leah
A Dream in White
A Bird in the Hand
Living on the Moon
Meeting in Cyprus
The Al-Atrash Family Still Lives Here
The Son’s Legacy
Area K
The Song of Kababir
Udi Adiv. Daoud Turki.
Between Israel and Palestine
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A House in Rajar
A Fist in the Face
The Al Kara Brothers - A Druse Profile
Our Hearts are in Dances
Children’s Story
Azazme – a Vanishing Breed
The Last Stop
Biscuits from Gaza
The Quiet Arab Rebellion
As it Should Be
Like a Black Dot in the Big Sea
Abed Will Not Be a Tracker
Distant Relations
Southern Wind
Ramallah at Midnight
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Running for the Olympics
Second Chance in Arad
Old Wives’ Tales
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Before Life Began
The Barrier
China Farm – The Untold Story
Lebanon, The Childrens’ Channel
The Last Shell
Tail of the Cannon-Ball
At the Top of the Hill Stands a Soldier
The Arrow
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Mr. Director
The Guard from the Mount of Olives
Not a Classic Case
The First Arab Referee
Meilech in Flesh and Blood
Smoke Screen
Samah Canaan
Footprints of Reality
Attorney Without Borders
David Granit – Officer And Gentleman
Aiid El Adam
A Bird Between Continents
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Every Day I Die For You Again...
The Hill in Red
Premiera – Drama
The Fallen
Images of War
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When The Town Burns Down
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The Silence of the Sirens – Drama
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Brothers In Arms
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Four Crossroads
Diamonds in a Pitta
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Living it Up
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Between Two Women
Sob Sister - Drama
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What Does the Bird Care - drama
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Street Corners
Children’s Stories
The Israelis
At the Edge of the Shelf
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The Settlers
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Voice of the Spirit
CULTURE AND EDUCATION
‫תרבותוחינוך‬
CULTURE & EDUCATION
CAFE NOAH
In the 1940’s, an exclusive cafe was built in the HaTikva
neighborhood of Tel Aviv which hosted concerts of MiddleEastern music – Cafe Noah. This is the story of the nowclosed cafe and the musicians of the period who immigrated
from Iraq and Egypt, and who return to perform one last
time among the ruins of the cafe. This film is a tribute to
the cafe in the HaTikva neighborhood of south Tel Aviv that
became a legend.
1996
Director: Duki Dror
Producer: Zygote Films
Length: 26 minutes
THE SUBMARINE CHILDREN
At the prestigious Boyer boarding school in Jerusalem, the
first experiments in educational integration were conducted
in the 1970’s – gifted 12-year-olds from tough neighborhoods
left their families to study with the children of the cream
of Jerusalem society. Four graduates, today almost 40
years old, look back and examine the pain and the results
of the experiment. The different aspects of the controversial
integration process are documented through their personal
experiences.
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1997
Director: Amir Gera
Producer: Gera Productions
Length: 30 minutes
THE SECOND TELEVISION & RADIO AUTHORITY
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
CULTURE & EDUCATION
MISTRESS OF THE VOICE
The story of Ilana Eliah, an Israeli singer with Kurdish roots,
who sings protest songs that express the suffering and
pain of the Kurdish people. The film presents the musical
work of this singer blessed with a voice of rare power. Ilana
Eliah and her band perform before Kurdish expatriates in
Europe. The combination of the content of the songs, the
singer’s vocal power and her strong presence express the
pain, the yearning, and a direct understanding of the
destruction that has become the lot of tortured Kurdistan.
1998
Director and Producer:
Uri Vaknin
Length: 26 minutes
THE CHILDREN OF JUAREESH
A year of gang wars in the Juareesh section of Ramle was
documented through the eyes of two neighborhood boys,
Karaja and Jarushi during a course in psychodrama. The
film, which was made before the gangs came to an
agreement, expresses the desperation and helplessness
of the local children in the face of neighborhood violence.
They describe how they see their future and the future of
their home, and although they themselves are Bedouins,
they find their answers through identification with the
Palestinian people.
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1998
Director: Ofra Shimoni-Shachor
Producers: Hana Gold-Levkovitz
and Itzik Malka
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
CULTURE & EDUCATION
THE RIDDLE OF THE HUMAN BRAIN
A Journey into the Mystery of the Human Brain
The human brain, the greatest mystery of all time, is the
focus of this film which describes a new, unique project
of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, to unravel its
mystery. For this purpose a team of researchers from
various fields was assembled – biologists, physicists,
computer scientists, psychologists and philosophers.
Together they are researching the concept of “neural
thinking.” This film follows the students, a new generation
of scientists, and investigates the fascinating process of
special training they undergo.
1999
Director: Ekel Sivan
Producer: Sivan Productios Ltd.
Length: Two segments of 25
minutes each
TAKASIM
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1999
Director: Duki Dror
Producer: Zygote Films
Length: 32 minutes
Felix Mizrahi journeys to Cairo in an attempt to uncover the
mystery surrounding the death of his brother, the musician
Farag Ibrahim, one of the greatest violinists in Egypt in the
1930’s. At the “Voice of Cairo” radio station he searches
for recordings of his brother in order to learn about the style,
color, and quality of his brother’s playing. At the same time
the film provides a historical sketch of the period of Mizrahi’s
youth. He recalls how the greats of Arabic music – Oum
Koulthoum, Abdul Wahab and others – attended his 25-yearold brother’s funeral. Through his personal quest, Mizrahi
re-examines his identity, divided between Israel and Egypt.
The film includes musical segments from the Egyptian
repertoire as performed by Zehava Ben, Albert Elias, Avraham
Salman, Felix Mizrahi, and others.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
CULTURE & EDUCATION
CHILDREN OF THE DREAM 2
“Children of the Dream” was the name coined in 1951
by the well-known American children’s psychologist Bruno
Bettelheim for the research group, the children of Kibbutz
Ramat Yohanan in the Zevulun valley he spent a few
weeks. His goal was to determine whether a new kind
of person was being raised in the kibbutz environment.
His work was documented on 16 mm film. Today, nearly
fifty years later, the only copy of his film has been found,
as well as the “children of the dream” who are still alive.
Through them we attempt to understand what happened
and what will happen to the dream of kibbutz life, as well
as other Israeli dreams.
2000
Director: Ran Edelist
Producer: Tapuz Communication
Length: 28 minutes
THE COLORS OF LOVE DANCE
The life story of Miri Alon, who grew up in Majd-Al-Krum,
a daughter of foster parents, the father a Syrian Moslem,
the mother a Jewess. Miri didn’t fit into village life and
was adopted by Yardena Cohen from Carmiel, who taught
her the art of belly-dancing. She developed an individual
method and turned belly-dancing into a unique form of selfexpression. Today she runs a theatre of Middle-Eastern
movement in which Jewish and Arab women participate.
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2000
Producer: Sivan Productions Ltd.
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
CULTURE & EDUCATION
COMBINATIONS
At the Zionist Youth Farm, immigrants from Ethiopia, Russia,
Australia, France, and the U.S. live together under one roof.
This school is a kind of microcosm of Israeli society, with
all of its problems and complications, but it also projects
an optimism through its stories of cooperation and friendship.
The story of the school is presented by teachers and interns:
Reuven Maharat, an immigrant from Ethiopia, Yochi Boskila,
an immigrant from Morocco, Ronit (not her real name) who
was abused as a child, and Eva, a boarding-school counselor,
who claims that here there are no distinctions of race or
socio-economic situations, nor does she consider the
children “losers.” They are all equal in her eyes.
2000
Director: Eran Livny
Producer: Eternity Productions
Length: 25 minutes
THREE STORIES ABOUT GROWING UP
Three families speak openly of crises in the lives of their
adolescent children. What can you do when your son stops
going to school, disappears at night, and beats up other
kids? In Guy’s neighborhood, one of the gang was stabbed
to death. Avi decides not to take the matriculation exams.
When he’s a father, he’ll support his kid so he won’t feel
he’s fighting alone against the world. This film deals with
behavioral patterns, ways of coping and the reasons behind
extreme and sometimes violent behavior in young people
through the eyes of parents and teenagers.
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2000
Director: Idit Haberfeld
Producer: Ocean
Communications
Length: 26 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
CULTURE & EDUCATION
A FAMILY
Hans and Ilana, who were among the “founders” of the
Sheinkin St. scene, left the street for Pardess Chana. There
they opened a store of plastic products where they raise
their children in an environment of peace, quiet, and a lot
of freedom where the word “no” almost doesn’t exist.
The film focuses on a few day-to-day situations in the life
of the family, from the point of view of different family
members. The film explores their daily routine, in an attempt
to understand the new ways of the family.
2001
Director: Amir Hargil
Producer: Assa Productions
Length: 25 minutes
CHILDREN’S ISLAND IN KFAR SABA
A study of the Democratic School in Kfar Saba, where the
students choose their own courses and are involved in
setting the rules for the school. The film follows the
development of the school from opening day until the third
year’s graduation party. The school offers something new
and revolutionary, and expectations are high. As time passes,
some of the older students worry about their matriculation
exams and want to transfer to a regular school. The teachers
continue to give their all to the project, but reality touches
them in a painful place.
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2001
Anat Tzom Ayalon
Length: 53 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE
‫הוויהיהודית‬
TWO WEDDINGS
1998
Director: Oren Yakobovitz
Producer: Sheleg Productions
Length: 24 minutes
Dov Yarkoni and Tanya Boyden had two weddings: the
first, a Reform ceremony with 400 guests and family
members; the second, a religious Rabbinate ceremony.
Bitter destiny brought Dov and Tanya together five years
ago – Yonatan, Tanya’s brother, came from Manchester,
joined the paratroopers, and was killed in battle in Lebanon.
Yaron, Dov’s brother, was his best friend. Tanya came to
Israel following her brother’s death and met Dov, who
came to comfort the family. The wedding represents a
closure after five years since Yonatan’s death. The film
follows the couple through arguments, nostalgic moments,
preparations for the wedding, choosing the Ketubah, the
Shabbat Chatan at the Reform synagogue and Tanya’s
bachelorette shower, all the way to the Hupa.
CHELOUCHE RISES FROM THE DEAD
Tension and violence between synagogue-goers and their
young neighbor are the focus of this film. Rafi Pomerok,
23, is the great-great-grandson of Aharon Chelouche, the
man who built Beit Chelouche in the Neve Tsedek
neighborhood of Tel Aviv and the synagogue in Rafi’s back
yard. Once a year Rafi holds a party until dawn which 2,000
people attend, young people as well as VIP’s like Tel Aviv
mayors, Ron Huldai and Roni Milo. The film documents
the preparations for the party and the angry response of
the synagogue-goers, most of whom are newly-religious
Shas supporters.
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1999
Ido Bahat
Length: 24 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
A TIME OF GRACE
1999
Gili Flurman
Length: 58 minutes
Gili Florman began making a film about religion in Israel.
He met monks, rabbis and intellectuals, attempted to
investigate the fine points of the religious experience and
the intimacy that develops during prayer, and to discover
the nature of the illumination that is revealed to those who
seek answers. While filming, the director finds himself
swept into these very experiences. This film is a unique
look at the process of returning to religion through personal
experience. It accompanies Gili as he deals with nonreligious friends who find it hard to accept his new status,
and his family who have to get used to this new situation
which brings about so many conflicts. His personal journey
brings Gili new realizations, both spiritual and intellectual.
YUDITH – THE STORY OF A CONVERT
The story of Christine, a young German who chooses to
convert to Judaism through the tough orthodox procedure
and takes on a new identity and a new name – Yudith. All
along the way she runs into the Israeli “wall of glass” that
prevents her from becoming “one of us.” The film illustrates
her awakening from her illusions and reassessment of her
great dream, to live as a Jew in Israel, a dream that crumbles
before a difficult reality.
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2000
Director: Avi Bohbut
Producer: Ocean
Communications
Length: 46 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
INDUCTED FROM BIRTH
Who are the second generation of settlers? This film
presents the story of the residents of Mitzpe Kramim in
Judea and Samaria and their struggle to prevent the
dismantling of the outpost in 1999. A year later we meet
the heroes of the story. Against the background of the
events occurring all over Israel, the film investigates the
questions of whether there was any point to their struggle,
whether the Israeli public sees their battle in a different
light today, and whether Israeli settlements have a chance
of survival in what will one day be the Palestinian state.
2000
Director: Eyal Zaid
Producer: T.T.V. Productions Ltd.
Length: 25 Minutes
NATAN IJACQUES ELBAZ
Natan Ijacques Elbaz is a tiler who can barely make a livin.
Although he is an excellent craftsman, he is forced to haggle
over prices with impatient, overbearing customers. But
things might be different if they knew that the man working
for them had been one of the biggest criminals in the country.
Filming began before Elbaz decided to change his ways and
return to religion, allowing the viewer to witness the dramatic
transformation Elbaz goes through.
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2000
Director: Miki Bahagan
Producer: Eli Hakim
Length: 34 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
ROUND AND ROUND – 2000
This film documents ten years in the life of Yisrael Grizvalt,
who spent two years in a Norwegian jail for drug smuggling,
found religion, returned to Israel and married Leah, his
childhood sweetheart. Yisrael Grizvalt of 1990 is a Breslav
Hassid living in Safed, a father of six who dips in the mikveh
and meditates in the forest. By the year 2000, Yisrael, the
father of eleven children returns to confront his mother
who lives on Kibbutz Sha’ar HaGolan. This is a colorful,
fascinating document which deals with issues such as the
connections between kibbutz, drugs and religion.
2000
Director: Yossi Leon
Producer: Highlight Films Ltd.
Length: 25 minutes
TEL AVIV – BRESLAV EXPRESS
This film illustrates the fascinating story of Adi Ran and his
complex personality. In the eighties, Adi Ran was a protest
singer on the fringes of the Tel Aviv rock music scene, and
in the nineties he found religion. Despite his new religious
life, Ran stills plays in bars before a mixed audience of nonreligious, ultra-orthodox, and newly-religious fans. He talks
about his new life, about his wife, also newly-religious, and
about music, an inseperable part of his personality.
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2000
Director: Eran Livny
Producer: Eternity Productions
Length: 25 Minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
ANOTHER LAND
Southern Mt. Hevron, a picturesque, mountainous area,
has attracted a new breed of settlers. Instead of joining
existing settlements, these colorful individualists have
chosen to build a “recluse farm” where they can live their
unique lifestyle and freely express their divergent religious
ways. Who are these people, what do they think, and why
are they here? This film studies two of these reclusive
settlers and their farms; Avraham Talia, 71, known as “the
Prophet,” and Gadi Luski, a 39-year-old sabra.
2001
Director: Dudi Bergman
Producer: Dimona
Communication Center
Length: 50 minutes
BROTHER DANIEL – THE LAST JEW
“My name is Oswald Ruffheisen, but everyone knows me
as Brother Daniel. I want you to know that I was born a
Jew and died a Jew.” Thus begins this documentary film
on the fascinating life of the priest Oswald Ruffheisen, a
converted Jew. A controversial figure, brother Daniel fought
for recognition as a Jew, even though he converted and
became a Catholic priest. This is also the story of a unique
relationship between a Catholic priest sworn to celibacy
and the woman he loved. This story, set in the city of Haifa,
has only come to light with Ruffheisen’s death.
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2001
Director: Amir Gera
Length: 57 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
THE GABBAI
The walls of the Addas synagogue in Jerusalem are
decorated with rare murals that were painted by the
founders of Bezalel Art School, Stark and Shatz. As the
100th anniversary of the synagogue approaches, Yehezkel,
the veteran Gabbai (caretaker) arranges to have the
synagogue refurbished – and to have the murals removed.
The congregation is outraged, but the Gabbai refuses to
give in. Despite its uniquely Jerusalemite aspects, this film
has a universal message about the impossible mission of
uniting a community, a congregation and the authorities,
and about a unique community for whom the synagogue
is its whole world.
2001
Director: Avital Livneh
Producer: Zoog Productions
Length: 26 minutes
KNITTED KIPPA
This film presents two sub-cultures, each of which is at an
ideological crossroads: the kibbutz, which must deal with
an ideological and social crisis and the threat of collapse;
and the “knitted kippa (skull-cap)” community, which faces
religious extremism from within and a crisis of values. We
enter the homes of the religious and discover a surprising
charm and tolerance despite differences of opinion.
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2001
Director: Yitzhak Rubin
Producer: Teknews Media Ltd.
Length: 47 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
THE JOURNEY TO A SOUL MATE
A look from a Yeshiva student’s point of view at his personal
life, at God, and at faith. His life is divided between the
religious experience and another form of culture which
negates his religiosity. His doubts are revealed through the
internal process he goes through, as seen from both the
sad and the funny, optimistic sides of the issue.
2001
Director: Amichay Greenberg
Producer: Roll Communications
(1989) Ltd.
Length: 24 minutes
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CATALOG 1999 - 2003
‫אתגריםבחברה‬
CHALLENGES IN SOCIETY
CHILDREN OF LIFE
The World of Autistic Children and their Families
Autism and the long hard road to dealing with exceptional
children from day to day are the subjects of this film. The
film features parents who speak openly about their crisis,
the process of mourning they went through, the acceptance,
and the constant search for medication, treatment, and
finding a place for their autistic children.
1997
Length: 24 minutes
TO TOUCH THE LIGHT
A look at life through the eyes of two good friends: Sigal,
the sighted daughter of blind parents and Eden, the blind
daughter of sighted parents. The film is a meeting between
Eden, who has accepted her blindness to the point where
she no longer feels underprivileged because of it and Sigal’s
parents, who have never learned to accept their blindness,
and between Eden and her own parents, who had difficulty
with their daughter’s blindness and only now are willing to
talk about it. Sigal describes the world of the blind from
the viewpoint of a girl who grew up in the world of the
blind. These meetings present a complicated picture, from
various points of view, far from the accepted stereotypes.
¥µ
1998
Length: 24 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
I’LL NEVER LEAVE YOU
The Story of a Different, Total Love
1998
Director: Avital Koren
Length: 24 minutes
The story of three “abnormal” couples and the realtionships
between them. Each of the heroes of the film suffers from
some level of mental retardation, yet they have succeeded
in creating relationships they had only dreamed of. The
stars of the film are David and Bella, who met at the AKIM
theatre; Eleanor and Yair, who write poetry, and Ronit and
Dedi from Kfar Tikva. They are “naturals” in front of the
camera, and the viewer gets the impression that a hidden
camera documented the events; an impression that enables
us to get close to these warm people, to accept them and
love them, and to understand that their love is not limited
by the logical limitations that we, the “normal” ones, create
for them.
OSHRI’S BAR MITZVAH
Oshri Ohana is a charming, communicative boy, gifted with
a well-developed imagination and sense of humor, who
suffers from Down’s Syndrome and development problems.
He planned his Bar Mitzvah celebration as a unique event.
This film documents the preparations for the event, studying
his speech, being called to the Torah at the Western Wall,
and his meeting with his favoite artists, who came to
congratulate him at his Bar Mitzvah: Gil Sassover, Dana
Dvorin, Eyal Golan, and the stars of Hopa Hey.
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1999
Director: David Orbach
Producer: Tokan Production
Length: 24 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
TANDEM
A touching film about Nir Caspi, a soldier who was wounded
15 years ago while serving in the army. Nir lost both arms
and his eyesight to a land mine in Lebanon. Since then he
has had to learn to use a new body, with prosthetic limbs
which he has painted in bright colors, and to deal with
difficulties and loneliness. The film centers on a two-day
bicycle trip to the desert which Nir takes with friends. “I
can’t see the scenery, but I can hear it and feel it,” he says.
1999
Director: Amir Gera
Length: 25 minutes
SEEDS OF INDEPENDENCE
Oren, Ruti and Tali, young people with learning difficulties,
move for the first time in their lives to their own apartment
and a life of their own. The three are subjects of the Nitzan
Onim project of the Nitzan organization, whose goal is to
supply educationally-challenged people with the tools to
integrate into the community and to work in the free market,
while leading independent lives. The film reveals the world
of three young people who are trying to deal with their new
lives despite the difficulties and fears that stand in their way.
¥π
2000
Director: Eyal Zaid
Producer: Herzelia United
Studios of Israel
Length: 24 Minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
NEXT STOP – BERLIN
A group of children whose parents suffer from multiple
sclerosis travels to Amsterdam and Berlin. In addition to
their reponsibilities at home, they participate in fund-raising
events, write letters asking for aid, and present their painful
personal stories to the media. Their next stop is a fundraising evening at a Berlin synagogue. They hold rehearsals,
present their stories before students, and in general are
frustrated by the indifference they find in Israel. This film
also investigates the fine line between the children’s need
for help from a supporting organization, and their right to
normal lives as children.
2000
Director: Ziv Naveh
Studios of Israel
Length: 26 minutes
LIKE A TURTLE
µ±
2000
Director: Netanela Aizenberg
Producer: Shiba Communication
Ltd.
Length: 24 Minutes
The story of the Geva family from Kfar Vradim in the Galilee,
who are raising, in addition to their own children, four
adopted children who are afflicted with Down’s Syndrome.
In 1990 a fire broke out in their home, and two of the
children, one biological and one adopted, were killed. The
family members were left without a roof over their heads
and the neighbors took them in. Since the tragic incident,
Ya’akov, the father, has devoted his life to helping those
with special needs. Together with a Christian Arab partner
from Tarshiha, he opened a center for people with special
needs in Ma’alot and two hostels for the retarded in Acco.
The daily care of Down’s Syndrome children isn’t easy, but
there is no doubt that Yochi and Ya’akov Geva derive
strength from these children. This is an optimistic story
with a touch of sadness about a special family that radiates
warmth and generosity unconditionally.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
STRUGGLE
The story of Moshe, crippled by polio, who won’t give up
easily, and fights his personal battle alongside the other
disabled of Israel. This film is interlaced with images from
the days of the great struggle of the disabled in 1999.
Moshe lives a completely normal life and an exemplary
family life, he doesn’t give up on the privileges he is eligible
for as a disabled person, and among his activities he works
for access to public places for the disabled. Despite his
optimism, his struggle and his personal story, the image
that emerges isn’t pretty or harmonious.
2000
Yigal Shoham
Length: 26 Minutes
ROLLING
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2000
Director: Yossi Rabach
Producer: Cinema Productions
Length: 25 Minutes
A film about sports and achievement, but more so, about
people who haven’t lost their optimism or their will to live
full lives despite their disabilities. The film centers around
the Israeli disabled basketball team. Twelve players and
their coach jumped, sweated, shot, shouted and cried, in
an attempt to win the European championship which took
place in Holland and to ensure themselves a spot in the
Special Olympics in Sydney. This is the film’s message:
Life goes on, and in a big way. Along with a look into the
lives of the disabled players, the film presents a nail-biting
series of games, and until the last moment it isn’t clear
whether or not the team has achieved its goal of winning
the championship.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
TOUCHING LIVES
Autistic Adolescents
2000
Length: 26 minutes
“Outbreaks of anger and violence are common among
autistic adolescents,” according to Osnat Ravid, principal
of the school for autistic adolescents. This film revolves
around autistic adolescents and their families, their
problematic relationships and the sacrifices the parents
must make, all in the shadow of the big question – what
will the children do when they reach the age of 21, when
they will leave the educational system? We meet Ran,
an autistic 20-year-old who lives with his father, Erez, an
autistic 17-year-old from Rehovot, who is gifted with
unusual artistic skills, and 15-year-old Nisan, who has
well-developed communication skills. These families, who
devote their lives to dealing with their exceptional children,
pay a high price financially and socially and experience a
total lack of understanding by the establishment in terms
of their children’s special needs.
ON THE EDGE
µµ
2000
Director: Eitan Wetzler
Producer: Marisa FerdmanWetzler
Length: 25 minutes
Tamar Borrer, choreographer and dancer, was the victim
of a road accident ten years ago which left her crippled in
both legs. But she hasn’t given in to her misfortune. She
continues working and creating. This film deals with Tamar’s
last two creations, “Mama Ma” and “Pregnant.” The first
is about her feelings of loss and separation from her mother
who passed away, and the second is about the sense of
renewal which comes from bearing a child. The film revolves
around a performance and meeting which Tamar arranged
at a shelter for abused women. The meeting creates an
opportunity for close relationships. Tamar feels she lives
on edge between hope and despair, between life and
death, between sanity and insanity.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
‫תהליכיםבחברה‬
SOCIAL PROCESSES
THE BUKHARAN QUARTER
1996
Director:
Producer:
Length:
Etty Hassid
Belfilms Productions
Ltd.
Two versions:
37 minutes,
30 minutes
Jerusalem’s Bukharan Quarter was once a wealthy
neighborhood that prided itself on its homes and gardens.
Today it is a unattractive ultra-orthodox neighborhood. The
film’s director, who grew up in the quarter, returns to the
scene of her childhood during the High Holy Days. Dr.
Shaul Zedaka, writer Dan Benaya-Seri, Shlomo Musaioff
– grandson of the founder of the Bukharan Quarter - and
Etti Hassid present the social and environmental changes
in the quarter, the communities of Rabbi Yitzhak Kadouri
and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and night-tours of the Selihot
prayers, against a backdrop of Kaparot ceremonies,
synagogues, and the grandeur of the past.
FAREWELL KEREM SHALOM – PART 1
1996
Directors:
Producer:
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Length:
Nir Toib and
Gil Izakov
G.N. Communication
Ltd.
25 minutes
A film about the residents of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, the
first kibbutz to be disbanded, traumatically, in the summer
of 1995. The film documents the last moments as the
members leave the kibbutz – people who will carry a wound
that will never heal; it won’t kill them, but something in
their souls has been extinguished. The film accompanies
Yael and Yanai Agmon, among the leaders of the kibbutz;
Avi Hasson, who remained at the abandoned kibbutz; the
Nakash family who immigrated to Kerem Shalom from
Argentina because they believed in the kibbutz ideal; the
Moyal family for whom the disbanding of the kibbutz means
expulsion; and Hassan and Fuad from Han-Yunes, who
deal with the closure of the place where they worked
since its inception.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
KRISPEL’S DAUGHTER
1998
Director:
Producer:
Length:
Yitzhak Rubin
Teknews Media Ltd.
Two segments of 25
minutes each
The story of the uncompromising struggle of Ofra Dahari
(Krispel) from Sderot against the patriarchal rule of her father
and the dictates of the society in which she grew up. Ofra
ran for office in the municipal elections of 1998 against the
wishes of her father, Avraham Krispel, the all-powerful boss
of the Sderot branch of the Likud. Her decision to run for
office causes a schism within the family and the Likud
branch. The chasm widens when she is elected head of
the branch, and the father disowns her, forbidding his wife
and son to speak to her, and preventing her from attending
her brother’s wedding. The film tells the story of Ofra’s
feminist struggle: She marries against her father’s wishes
and builds a marriage based on total equality.
JESSE CONGO
The alliance between the Shas and Likud parties had no
effect on the results of the local elections in the
underprivileged Jesse Cohen neighborhood of Holon. This
film documents the election wars in the neighborhood
which is considered the “seismograph” of national elections.
Local hero Freddy Drix, a non-establishment neighborhood
worker who lives on welfare, presents an insider’s view
of the neighborhood and of the country.
1998
Director:
Producer:
∂±
Length:
Gil Karni
G.N. Communication
Ltd.
25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
THE STATION
Charlie Ben Siton was the number one criminal in Acco.
After serving almost 20 years in various prisons, he was
released, kicked his drug habit, and started a hostel for
addicts who had given up on other rehabilitation centers.
This film presents his personal story and the story of the
private rehabilitation hostel he established. The film deals
with drug addiction with rare candor. Participants in the
film chose not to have their faces shadowed or blurred in
order to make it clear that addicts are real people.
1998
Director:
Nir Toib
Producers: Avni Communications
Ltd.
Length:
25 minutes
RETURNEES
This film documents the stages of integration of an Israeli
couple, Michal and Amit, who spent 12 years abroad and
decided to return to Israel. On their way back to Israel from
the United States they lived in France for three years. The
film describes their return, from the stage of packing and
preparing to move into their new home in Zichron Ya’akov
just before Israel’s 49th Independence Day, through the
end of their first year in Israel. Their personal experiences,
their hesitations and fears intertwine with the dramatic
developments following the assassination of Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin.
1998
Director:
Producer:
∂≥
Length:
Nir Toib
G.N. Communication
Ltd.
45 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
GOOD INTENTIONS
Photographer Yehoshua Zamir, a bereaved father whose son
was killed in the battle for the Beaufort, teaches ways of
dealing with loss and bereavement through photography –
the method he used to get over his own personal loss. The
film introduces us to Zamir, a member of Kibbutz Ein Dor,
and Dita, from Kfar Yehoshua, who also lost a son in the
same battle. Together they present ways to deal with loss.
1998
Producer: Message VideoProductions Ltd.
with the support of the Israeli Film Service
Length: 52 Minutes
WE HAVE TO WIN
The story of the Hapoel Beer Sheva soccer team, which
after 27 years in the National League, was demoted to the
Third League. Life in the city and the entire Negev revolves
around the team. The team functions as an honored
representative of an area suffering from unemployment
and social problems. The film focuses on the inner circle
of fans who have been with the team for years and their
feelings of defeat and loss.
∂µ
1998
Director: Amnon Binyamin
Producer: Concord Communication
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
LOVE, ROMANIAN STYLE
The story of four older Israeli women who had had enough
bitter relationships and find comfort in the arms of Romanian
workers, attractive men who are many years younger than
they: Irit, who met George in a nightclub, Mariana, 52, who
runs a restaurant, and goes out with 35-year-old Niko, and
Tali, a divorcee of 42 and mother of four, who is having an
affair with 27-year-old Adrian. This couple lived in Tali’s
house until Adrian was caught and deported. The film
documents their parting. Chaya had a fling with a Romanian
worker and ended up with a broken heart. She explains
the attraction of the Romanian men.
1999
Director: Racheli Schwartz
Producer: Topline
Communications Ltd.
Length: 25 Minutes
MOTHER AND MOM
Michal and Michal are raising a one-year-old boy. Ruti and
Nicole are raising two children, each having had the
experience of giving birth. This is the story of two lesbian
couples who decided to be impregnated from donated
sperm and start families. The film examines the warm and
loving family experiences of the two couples, who must
fight the stereotypes of a society that can’t accept the kind
of family unit they have created. Nicole and her partner
Ruti have taken their case to the Supreme Court and are
awaiting the court’s decision on their parental rights.
∂∑
1999
Director:
Producer:
Length:
Avital Koren
T.T.V. Productions Ltd.
25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
LOOKING FOR LOVE
Four one-day journeys in search of love. The directors went
out to find out if traditional love still conquers all and what
awaits those who still believe in it. The film centers around
four romantics: Eduardo, a foreign worker who loves his
wife and can’t decide whether to accompany his friends
to a brothel. Yaeli, a young Tel Aviv virgin, believes she can
still find true love. Margaret gives up romantic love for
maternal love and decides to bring a child into the world
by herself. Orna, whose husband died of AIDS a few
months ago, looks for a new love at the graves of saints.
1999
Directors: Yonatan Gurfinkel and
Mosh Goldberg
Producer: Tapuz Communication
Length: 25 minutes
PUPPET ON A STRING
Lauren Milek, a 22-year-old student and poet, was raped
twice. The first time was when she was 17, and the rapist
was sentenced to ten years in prison. The second time,
two years ago, the case was sent to the Tel Aviv district
attorney, she was informed that the rape was “problematic,
not a classic case of rape.” The film presents the story of
a woman who has nothing more to lose. The sense of
shame that keeps other women in the shadows becomes,
for her, a protest. The fact that these are repeated cases
of rape shatters the preconceptions prevalent in society,
among men and women alike.
∂π
1999
Director:
Producer:
Length:
Amir Gera
Gera Productions
26 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
DYNAMO HULON
1999
Director:
Producer:
Length:
Rami Rodan
Pakada Films
25 minutes
The story of a south Tel Aviv soccer team, made up new
immigrants mostly from Bukhara and its struggle for a
place at the bottom of Third league. The film centers around
a game between Dynamo Hulon and Maccabi Montefiore.
This game symbolizes the struggle of new immigrants for
acceptance and equality in Israeli society. In the film we
meet Neri Rubinov, team manager and pivotal player, Eli
Simonov, who works as a truck driver, and Team Chairman
Pesach Olbovski, a professor of literature, who believes
that the team represents a source of pride and a way of
dealing with new immigrants’ feelings of inferiority. The
film presents dramatic scenes from the game alongside
intimate moments with the film’s central figures, against
a background of sights and sounds from the Shapira
neighborhood of south Tel Aviv.
LIFE AS A FABLE
A Theater in Prison
A group of prisoners from the Sharon Prison put on a play
portraying their lives as inmates for audiences outside the
prison. The play, directed by Sasi Samucha, director and
acting teacher, is an adaptation of Aesop’s fables designed
to express the feelings of the prisoners. Avi Benizri, an exconvict, returns to appear in stories about life on the outside,
while inmates Yosi Nahmani and Eli Suissa tell about life
in jail.
1999
Director:
Producer:
∑±
Length:
Yuval Bachar
Herzelia United
Studios of Israel
25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
LIVING POSITIVELY
Shirley, Ben, Aviram and Boaz are AIDS carriers who speak
bravely and openly about the painful moments in their lives.
They recount how they contracted the disease, how their
friends and families reacted, and how the disease affects
their daily lives. The film documents the changes that have
occured to AIDS carriers since the introduction of new
medication that has brought new hope to their lives. The
film offers a rare look into the lives of people who live on
the fringe of society, in the shadow of fear and social stigmas,
but their world is still rich in love and mutual support.
1999
Director:
Producer:
Length:
Ran Kotzer
Herzelia United
Studios of Israel
25 minutes
TO PLANT A ROOT - TO BUY A ROOT
∑≥
1999
Director:
Producer:
Length:
Amir Gera
Gera Productions
46 minutes
In the heart of the underprivileged Neve Eshkol neighborhood
of Sderot, two run-down apartment buildings, is the urban
kibbutz Migvan. Veteran residents, new immigrants, a small
drug rehabilitation center, a pimp, an elderly prostitute, and
the urban kibbutz live together in strange harmony. The
members of Migvan, most of whom are ex-kibbutzniks,
came to Sderot in 1987 in an attempt to integrate into the
local community and to bring social and educational reform
to the town. During the course of 11 years, the urban kibbutz
has become an integral part of the town of Sderot, and there
are hopes that others will follow. This film deals with the
innermost heart of Israeli society, an experiment in
transplanting foreign tissue into the heart of the town of
Sderot – an experiment whose results are still unclear.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
MONDIAL IN SHFAR’AM
This film centers around the excitement of the Mondial
tournament in Shfar’am. It seems that the whole town of
Shfar’am has been bitten by the Mondial 1998 bug, and
the residents are divided by their loyalty to their teams,
particularly Brazil and Italy. The film looks into the roots of
this phenomenon and the emotional involvement of the
residents of Shfar’am, and documents the victory
celebrations in the town square.
1999
Director: Nir Toib
Producer: G.N. Communication Ltd.
Length: 47 minutes
NAHAL SINAI
A nostalgic, touching look at the Nahal Kibbutz in the Sinai
desert which was founded after the Six-Day War, and the
people who lived there, the subjects of Naomi Shemer’s
famous song. The young soldiers who were sent to farm
the land near El-Arish grew up and not one of them works
in agriculture. Now they are academicians, scientists, and
businessmen. But despite the time that has past and the
distance between them, they keep in close touch,
reminiscing and celebrating together. They return to the
site of the kibbutz and find a big surprise awaiting them.
∑µ
1999
Director: Yehiel Ne’eman
Producer: Vivace Productions
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
SABRAS
1999
Director: David Orbach
Producer: Fishe-Gat Productions
Ltd.
Length: 25 minutes
Through the revival of the stage play “He Walked Through
the Fields” by the Beer Sheva Theatre under the direction
of Gadi Inbar 50 years after it was first performed, this film
contrasts the image of the Sabra of 1948 with that of our
time. Sharon Tsur, who plays the role of Uri, identifies with
his character’s sense of sacrifice, while presenting his own
version of the Lebanon War. Efrat Reiten speaks of her
role as a Holocaust survivor living on a kibbutz 50 years
ago. What is the image of the Sabra today? Actress Chana
Maron, who acted in the original play in 1948, maintains
that the Sabra lost his innocence with the assassination of
Yitzhak Rabin, the ultimate Sabra.
THE PEACE-LINE
Northern Ireland, 1998
∑∑
1999
Directors: Yehuda Litani and
Yalon Gurewitz
Producer: Nachon Productions
Length: 50 minutes
Two days before the referendum for the approval of a
peace agreement between the factions of Northern Ireland,
it was important to hear what the two groups on opposite
sides of the barricades in Belfast, the Catholics and the
Protestants, had to say about the age-old conflict between
them. The Catholics and Protestants of Northern Ireland
seem to hate each other without remembering the reason
why. New generations are born into this reality. One family
whose son is a terrorist lives next to a family that was a
victim of terrorism. Even the Israelis who made this film
find it difficult to tell the difference between Catholics and
Protestants, the majority and the minority, and why they
are still fighting after all these years.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
CASINO MANILA
24 Hours in the Life of a Filipino Caregiver
1999
Director: Eyal Halfon
Producer: Hafaka Al Arba
Length: 24 Minutes
Eddie Lugo, a caregiver from the Philippines, spends 24
hours a day, seven days a week, at the side of Sorin
Hershko, who was injured in the Entebbe campaign and
suffers from 100 percent paralysis. Eddie functions as
Sorin’s hands and feet. Eddie’s private life is squeezed into
24 hours once a week. He leaves his room, which he
shares with eight other people, and together with the large
Filipino community goes to the church at the old central
bus station, from there to a Filipino discotheque in a seedy
hotel by the sea, and then finishes his day at the gambling
tables of Casino Manila. At the casino, a dump at the end
of Ben Yehuda Street in Tel Aviv, Eddie gambles away the
money he was meant to send back home to the Philippines.
This film documents the life of a foreign social group living
within our society.
KETTY
The wonderful story of Ketty, daughter of an underprivileged
family from Kiryat Shmona, who grew up in a boarding
school in Karmiel and dreams of joining an army
entertainment troupe. The film follows Ketty through a
year of struggle to fulfill her dream. The film’s director met
Ketty while instructing her in making a short film about her
life that tells the story of her unusual family. At the end of
the film, mother and daughter meet at a performance of
the army entertainment troupe to which Ketty was accepted.
∑π
1999
Producer: Topline Productions Ltd.
Length: 55 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
FRAGMENTS
1999
Director: Orit Filberg
Length: 24 Minutes
The interaction at the Tsedaka Home for the Aged in Ma’alot
between three elderly Holocaust survivors and Christian
volunteers who came from Germany to atone for their
fathers’ sins. Wolf Berkowitz, who lost his wife and two
children in the Holocaust, Elisabeth Weiss, who saw her
children burned before her eyes, and Elena, who chose
the path of forgetfulness, are taken care of by this group
of German volunteers headed by Yohanan Hans Beyer. The
language spoken at the home is German, and the place is
immaculately clean and functional. The ambivalent
relationship between the caregivers and the residents
creates absurd situations and a depressing atmosphere
against the pastoral backdrop of Ma’alot.
FARWELL KEREM SHALOM – PART 2
Four years after the disbanding of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom,
the creators of the film “Goodbye to the Kerem” return to
the film’s protagonists to find out what happened to them
following the disbanding of the kibbutz. What did it do to
the ideals they believed in? What became of the place they
once loved so much, and who stayed there? The film
returns to the ruins of what was once the kibbutz – the
abandoned children’s house, the dusty dining hall, the
playground, and the people who are now scattered around
the country. Do they miss Kerem Shalom?
∏±
1999
Director: Nir Toib and Gil Izkov
Producer: G.N. Communication
Ltd.
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
NO OTHER HOME
The story of three generations of one family living on
Kibbutz El-Rom on the Golan Heights. Grandfather Motti
wandered all his life between Australia and Israel, finally
following his daughter to settle in the Golan, the only place
he can find peace for his wandering spirit. Despite this, he
says he would be willing to leave the Golan if peace comes
to the region. In the shadow of political uncertainty and
the extreme changes the kibbutz has experienced since
privatizing, the film investigates the concept of “home”:
the nation as home, the kibbutz as home, the private home,
and our connections to them.
2000
Avital Koren
Length: 23 minutes
BORDER BAND
∏≥
2000
Ltd.
Length: Two segments of
25 minutes each
The story of a band of young people from both sides of
the Lebanese border. Their rehearsals took place at the
Turmus Gate, a small border crossing near Kibbutz Malkia.
The film documents the band in the shadow of recent
security events that threaten its existence, in particular,
the difficulties of bringing over the young men from
Lebanon. Most of the film was made during the Israeli
withdrawal from Lebanon. The withdrawal left the Israeli
band members worried and anxious for the fate of their
Lebanese friends, during the time that the residents of
southern Lebanon – families of the South Lebanese Army
in particular – are crowding toward the border.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
HOUSE, KID, WORK
The story of Sigal Rosen’s volunteer work with The Center
for Aid to Imprisoned Foreign Workers. The film documents
the foreign workers in the Ma’asiyahu Prison wing for
candidates for deportation – people who came to work in
Israel with simple dreams of building homes, starting
families, and giving their children a good education. These
dreams shatter in the face of reality, a reality of Israeli
employers who take advantage of their workers and a
police force which acts on government orders and deports
1000 illegal foreign workers every month. The stories of
Shirani, Bogdan, Yuan and Sigal paint a disturbing picture
of Israeli reality.
2000
Director: Shachar Rosen
Producer: Eden Productions Ltd.
Length: 25 Minutes
HAS THE FLOWER TRULY FADED?
∏µ
2000
Length: 25 minutes
On Lag B’Omer, 1956, four weddings were planned at
Kibbutz Nahal Oz. On that day, Ro’i Rottberg, security chief
of the kibbutz, patrolled the border with Gaza. Infiltrators
who reached the kibbutz fields ambushed and shot him.
They kidnapped him and took him to Gaza where they
mutilated his dead body. That afternoon his body was
handed over to UN soldiers, who returned it to Israel.
Moshe Dayan, then Chief of Staff, who was invited to the
weddings, knew Ro’i personally and eulogized him at the
gravesite. In this film we meet the couples who got married,
the children of that generation, who talk about Ro’i and
discuss that time from today’s perspective, following the
disbanding of the kibbutz and the kibbutz experience.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
MIMI’S BEAUTY SALOON
In Hatzor Haglilit, a development town in the north, nothing
happens all year – until summer comes, and with it the
wedding season. Through the story of Bruriah, who is
marrying off her daughter Natalie, we meet the MiddleEastern women who frequent Mimi’s Beauty Saloon: strong,
warm women who talk about their lives and their world.
“Mimi’s Beauty Saloon” is a funny, human, touching film
in which the lines blur between real life and the soap operas
these women love to watch.
2000
Producer:G.N.Communication Ltd.
with the support of Reshet
Length: 52 minutes
THE BACKYARD
∏∑
2000
Director: Asher Nachmias
Producer: Dimona
Communications
Center
Length: 26 minutes
In Netivot, like everywhere else, people have dreams. But
for those who live in Netivot, even the simplest dream can
seem like an impossible mission. This film follows four
characters: Moshe Amar is a young actor and stand-up
comedian who is afraid of getting stuck in the small town.
Shlomo Nachmias is a poet in his fifties who dreams of
being relevant in the year 2000. Yitzhak Levi is a journalist
and soccer referee who wonders if it is enough to be a
local hero. Chana Shimoni is a bakery owner who has no
time for herself. She finds that even the smallest of dreams
won’t fit in between the ovens. Yet she, perhaps, is the
closest to making her dreams come true.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
HIGHWAY 411 – CUTTING ACROSS ISRAEL
Highway 411 starts at Bilu Junction, cuts through an
American-style shopping mall, passes an Air Force base
whose planes pass over the mall, rolls past an Ethiopian
village of caravans where four forgotten families still live,
and ends at Kibbutz Hulda, which was established in 1907.
Through the eyes of the film’s four main characters who
live along the highway, we meet an atypical yet realistic
cross-section of Israeli society. The road’s physical path is
an analogy for the path Zionism has taken.
2000
Director: Yoram Honig
Producer: Hizayon Marketing and
Advertising Ltd.
Length: 24 minutes
WE’VE SEEN THAT MOVIE BEFORE
∏π
2000
Director: Yoram Sheffer
Producer: Cinema Productions
Length: 25 minutes
A behind-the-scenes look at the most intensive Israeli male
experience – army reserve duty. Through four main
characters, the film asks the question: “Why do reserve
duty?” It seems that the best reason is being with friends.
The film’s director accompanies an IDF Infantry School
patrol unit in training. Learning maneuvers in jeeps and
shooting (and almost flipping over on the dunes), are four
of the least macho men you can imagine: Eyal, 40, is a
veteran of the Golani Patrol who works as an editor. Ya’akov,
32, a Golani officer, runs a pool hall. Danny, 38, the company
commander, works in a management position for Koor.
Eliav, 24, served in Givati and is an architect. These
participants have no feelings of being suckers, on the
contrary, they enjoy the experience of male bonding that
reserve duty provides.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
WHITE ROSA
The surreal sight of a religious woman in a long dress and
head-covering collecting prostitutes at night from the streets
is a familiar one in Bat Yam. Until five years ago, Rosa was
a part of that world. This is the story of Rosa Asias, 48, who
was a criminal and a drug addict, a denizen of the underworld
who served time in prison, found religion, and today
rehabilitates drug addicts. Rosa lives between two worlds:
her world of lovingkindness where she gives her soul to
junkies and dreams of starting a shelter for addicts, and the
dilemma of her life with her daughters who cannot forgive
her for the years of abandonment and suffering.
2000
Director: Orit Filberg
Studios of Israel
Length: 26 minutes
UTOPIA IN THE GALILEE
Eight years ago, Ella Jungman, a landscape architect,
decided to uproot her family and move to the Upper Galilee.
She assembled a group of people from the farms, kibbutzim,
Arab villages, development towns, and outposts in the
Galilee who meet once a week. These meetings provide
an opportunity for the group’s members to express
themselves and to create. In effect, she has created a new
kind of interaction between Israelis. In comparison with
the sectorally divided Israeli society, the group’s activities
seem to be an almost impossible fulfilment of the vision
of Utopia.
π±
2001
Length: 27 Minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
BY THE ROADSIDE
26,000 people have been killed in road accidents since the
State of Israel came into being (as opposed to 19,000 who
were killed in war). Every month, 50 more families enter
the circle of bereavement. This film follows three families
in their painful battle for survival and documents the
insensitivity of the authorities towards bereaved families.
To this day, 2001, no government body has been willing to
provide a budget for the Center for Aid to Victims of Road
Accidents. The film expresses the pain of these families in
the hope that someone will wake up and make a change.
2001
Avital Koren
Length:
25 Minutes
DIGITAL DREAMS
“Broadserve,” a start-up company, was founded a yearand-a-half ago. Yosi, a businessman who lives in New York,
decided to start the firm. He brought in Chen, an exkibbutznik who is uncertain about money, and Yisrael, who
is sure he has all the answers. Together they take the road
that only one percent survive. This is a film about a small
business with dreams of making it big. The film accompanies
the developments within the company, the promises, the
illusions, the fights and the hopes for success.
π≥
2001
Avital Koren
Length:
27 Minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
HAREDI DESTINY
“Shababnikim” – this is what the Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox)
society calls its fringe youth. This is a recent phenomenon
that includes hundreds of young people. The film documents
the lives of Shai and Arik, two “Shababnikim.” Arik, son
of an elite Jerusalem family, passes the time doing odd
jobs, and Shai, from a Haredi home in B’nei Brak, is out to
“find himself.” At the same time the film presents the
parents’ point of view, most of whom are ashamed of their
sons and consider them a burden and a stain on the family
name, who will make it difficult to marry off their other
children.
2001
Director: Noam Demsky
Producer: Mordi Kershner
Length: 26 Minutes
WHO CARES?
Hundreds of youths run away from home, roam the streets,
sleep in the shacks, and steal in order to eat. Maryuma
and Dino recently opened a new branch of Beit Hashanti
in Tel Aviv, a home for girls who don’t fit in at other
institutions. But this is only a small step towards dealing
with a growing problem which has no clear solution.
πµ
2001
Avital Koren
Length: 24 Minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
THE GOLDEN QUEEN
The film follows four women who compete in a senior
citizen’s beauty contest, all of whom were beautiful in their
youth and have maintained their beauty over the years.
The film, which was shot at the Bayit Bakfar Seniors’ Home,
deals with the concept of beauty through the eyes of elderly
women. The beauty contest reveals the changes that have
taken place recently in the lives of the elderly: free from
the responsibilities of making a living and taking care of
their children they are ready to begin a new exciting chapter
in their lives.
2001
Avital Koren
Length: 25 minutes
THE KOSOVO SITUATION
Renewed warfare in the Balkans turned the world’s attention
back to this war-torn land. This film presents the story of
Eli Eliezri, Israeli representative of the Joint Commision in
Yugoslavia. The film follows Eli through his activities as a
worker for the humanitarian organization in post-war Kosovo,
as he works toward the rehabilitation of children and the
educational system in a country searching for a new national
identity.
π∑
2001
Doron Tiberg and
Gil Izakov
Length: 24 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SOCIAL PROCESSES
WAR GAMES
Until recently they were protected in the warm bosom of
their family homes, and now they are women soldiers
fighting in a territory that until now belonged exclusively
to men – war games. The Supreme Court ruling on Alice
Miller’s demand for equality opened the door for the
placement of women in various “masculine” positions.
How do the women get along in these jobs? Which qualities
are necessary for their success? Have they adopted male
patterns of speech, or have they invented a language for
themselves? How do their “masculine” positions affect
their ability to function in other aspects of life?
2001
Director: Lizka Assa
Length: 24 minutes
NURIT
This film tells the story of Nurit Hornstein, daughter of a
Jewish mother and a British sergeant who served in Israel
in the 1940s. When the State of Israel was founded, the
sergeant left the country, promising to return. Nurit was
abandoned and put up for adoption. After her foster parents
died, Nurit decided to investigate her past and her family.
The fim follows her through Israel, England and the U.S.
in her two-year search for her roots and the love that was
denied her for so many years.
ππ
2001
Directors and Producer:
Doron Tiberg and
Gil Izakov
Length: 55 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
‫‪JEWS - ARABS‬‬
‫יהודים–ערבים‬
JEWS - ARABS
SURGEONS
This film revolves around two Arab doctors who work in
Israeli hospitals. One, Dr. Adel Abu-Tsalah, a Druse from
Majdal Shams, who sees himself as a Syrian for all intents
and purposes, also treats soldiers who were injured in
incidents in southern Lebanon. The other, Dr. Najah Ali
Husseini, son of a well-known East-Jerusalem family, is
considered one of the leading orthopedic surgeons in
Israel. He works at Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus,
treating patients of both nationalities. He is loved and
accepted by all.
1997
Director: Yael Kipper Zaritzky
Producer: Hana Gold-Levkowitz
and Itzik Malka
Length: 25 minutes
BEFORE THE LORD
The Sufis are members of an Islamic religious order that
believes in mystical aspects of the religion. This film, which
includes rare footage of Sufi ceremonies in mosques,
presents the story of the members of this community living
in Israel through their ceremonies and religious services.
The film centers on the story of Sheikh Abu Falestin, the
charismatic “guru” who has inflamed his faithful community
in Sahnin.
±∞≥
1997
Director: Anuar Hassan
Ltd.
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
JERUSALEM TAXI
A film about the dual identity of Arab taxi drivers in
Jerusalem. The film, shot at the Ram HaKirya taxi station
on Jaffa Road, deals with the complications the Arab drivers
confront in their work, in the shadow of terrorist attacks,
peace negotiations, and the opinions of their passengers.
The film describes the relations of the drivers with Israelis,
on the one hand, and the relations between Israeli Arabs
and Arabs from the territories on the other.
1997
Director: Noam Shalev
Length:
25 minutes
LOVE IN EIN KAREM – PART 1
Yosef Kandil, a vegetable vendor in the Mahane Yehuda
market, and Yusuf Rahil, who owns a store on Salah A-Din
Street in East Jerusalem, are cousins. Yusuf’s mother,
Allegra, was born to an ultra-orthodox Jewish family from
Jerusalem and married an Arab in 1930. Yosef’s mother
was Allegra’s sister. This film is based on the book “Stories
of Ein Karem” by Dr. Moshe Amirav, which documents the
first meeting between the two cousins. Allegra and her
family lived in Ein Karem, in a house which has been turned
into a Bible museum.
±∞µ
1998
Length:
25 Minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
ANSAR
JEWS - ARABS
Prisoners of the Intifada Return to the Ansar Prison
Camp in the Gaza Strip
1998
Director: Itzik Lerner
Ltd.
minutes each
Rare footage of the Ansar prison camp filmed with a home
movie camera was used as the basis of this documentary
film which deals with the problem of prisoner release. Itzik
Lerner, with the aid of this old footage, located five exprisoners who were arrested for their involvement in the
Intifada, and returned with them to the abandoned camp,
which was closed down in 1993. The film presents
emotional reunions of the former prisoners with the Israeli
prison guards, and with lawyer Tamar Peleg, who
represented two of the prisoners.
THE GATEKEEPER
The story of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem,
the holiest site to the Christian faith is interwoven with the
stories of its gatekeepers. The gates of the church have
been opened and closed for 800 years by a dynasty of
guards who have preserved the family tradition since the
days of the Crusaders. The film introduces us to the
gatekeepers, and through them, to the fascinating history
of the site, and to Christianity in general.
±∞∑
1998
Director: Yair Mauda
Ltd.
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
BRACHA AND MASHA
This film documents the special relationship between two
elderly, terminally ill Jewish women, whose families have
abandoned them, and an Arab male nurse from Tira who
adopts them and cares for them in his home. On the one
hand it is the story of the two old women who were
rejected by their families and await their inevitable end,
and on the other hand, it is a fascinating Israeli story of
interaction between Jews and Arabs, and the meeting of
different faiths, opinions and cultures – a story of the
borderline which touches the living tissue of Jewish-Arab
relations at the end of the 20th century.
1998
Producer:Topline Communications
Ltd.
Length: 25 Minutes
INTERNAL EXILE
A story of unfulfilled love between Na’ama Havkin, a 73year-old Jewish clinical psychologist, and Dr. Haider Abed
El Shafi, who was the head of the Palestinian delegation
to the Madrid peace talks. Havkin and Abed El Shafi have
known each other since the time of the British Mandate,
when they were neighbors in Jaffa, and went on excursions
and concerts together. Their love affair lasted many years,
though they never married. Today, they have a close
relationship and meet frequently.
±∞π
1998
Length:
25 Minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
CHARITY IN THE WADI
The story of Charity House in the Wadi Salib neighborhood
of Haifa, where 18 homeless, ex-cons, junkies and
alcoholics, both Jews and Arabs, are being rehabilitated.
The film accompanies Kamil Shehada, the Christian Arab
who established Charity House, and the experiences of
his family living next to people whom society has rejected.
The film also presents Shehada’s struggle to save the
neighborhood from bulldozers that are razing the area for
the construction of a new government building.
1998
Producer: Taknews Media Ltd.
Length:
25 Minutes
WAITING FOR THE PRESIDENT
President Clinton at the Bethlehem-Efrat Border December 1998
±±±
1998
Length:
24 minutes
During the week of Hanukah, right before Christmas Day,
Bethlehem eagerly awaited the visit of U.S. President Bill
Clinton. At the Jewish town of Efrat, minutes away, the
visit was almost ignored. The film “Waiting for the
President” follows the preparations and excitement over
President Clinton’s visit and examines the tense relations
between the residents of Bethlehem and their Jewish
neighbors. While the President lights up the Christmas
tree with the American residents of Bethlehem, a family
of Jewish immigrants from the U.S. light the Hanukiah in
Efrat for the first time in the Holy Land. And they all wait
for the President.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
ON THE BORDERLINE
The Utman family lives in Beit Tsafafa, on the PalestinianIsraeli border and are faced with difficulties and doubts.
Although the family members are college-educated and
involved in Israeli society, they experience frustration and
prejudice as Palestinians living in Israel. In the same village
lives Shukri Allan, a terrorist who was released in the Jubril
Agreement. In an interview he tells of the changes he went
through from his youth until he was caught in 1970 on his
way to execute a terrorist attack in Israel.
1998
Director: Yahaly Gat
Producers: Fisher-Gat Productions
Ltd.
Length:
25 minutes
NO-MAN’S LAND
Two thousand Israeli Arabs live in Jerusalem today caught
between Arabs from East Jerusalem who consider them
Israelis, and the Jewish population which does not accept
them as Israelis. The film presents this conflict through
personal stories, and their different ways of dealing with
the question of identity. Dr. Adal Man'a, a resident of an
Arab neighborhood in northern Jerusalem, sends his children
to the Anglican School. Dr. Zahi Hoori is a leading cardiologist
at the Bikur Holim hospital, where he experiences coexistence
in his daily life and works toward wiping out prejudice.
±±≥
1998
Director: Michael Halpern
Producer: Message Video
Productions Ltd.
Length:
24 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
LOVE IN EIN KAREM – PART 2 - THE HOUSE OF LOVE AND PEACE
A continuation of the film “Love in Ein Karem”, which
presents the story of forbidden love between Allegra Balu,
an ultra-orthodox Jewess, and Jabra Rahil, a Christian Arab
before the establishment of the state of Israel. The film
documents the changes in the house since the making of
the first film, and the relationship formed between the two
alienated families. The Rahil couple’s son meets the Balu
family’s children for the first time at the Rahils’ home.
Faisal Husseini also arrives at the Rahil home, hoping to
find there mutual understanding for the future.
1999
Length:
25 Minutes
ALLAH CRIES
±±µ
1998
Director: Ohad Ufaz
Producer: April com (1989) Ltd.
Length:
24 minutes
In February 1996, at the height of the first steps toward
implementing the second phase of the Oslo Accords, the
director of this film was called to reserve army duty in
Ramallah. The country was then paving a series of by-pass
roads in the West Bank. The by-pass road around the village
Abud was nearing completion. The route was planned to
pass through an olive orchard, and it was necessary to
uproot 200 olive trees, some of which belonged to
Mahmoud Falah, a resident of the village. The director
returned to film the finished road, to see if it was safer for
the residents of the adjacent settlements to travel on, and
whether the lives of the villagers were calmer and freer.
He meets Mahmoud and together they discuss the
possibility of reconciliation between the two peoples in
light of the changes that the peace process has brought
to the disputed territories.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
MY DISTANT COUSIN
Fifteen years ago, this film’s director made a film about
the pen-pal relationship between two girls – Mervet, a
Palestinian, and Galit, a Jew. Today they are both young
mothers and still write to each other, though less often,
and sadly, they do not meet. The film accompanies them
in their private lives, and through their eyes we witness
the changes that the last 15 years have made in the
Palestinian-Israeli problems of war and peace.
1999
Director: Lissa Bodlika
Producer: T.T.V. Productions Ltd. and
Belle-Helene Productions with the
support of INA (France) and Image Plus
Length: 53 Minutes
THE PAIN ON THE OTHER SIDE
High school students from the Arab village of Kfar Yasif in
the western Galilee learn about the Holocaust at the Holocaust
Museum at Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot. At a seminar, which
takes place on Sunday, their day off, these young Arabs
study the historical facts of the Holocaust and the roots of
anti-Semitism in Europe.It is not easy for the students - their
identification with the Jews is seen by their parents as a
betrayal of the Palestinian people and its suffering.
±±∑
1999
Director: Michael Halpern
Producer: Message Video
Productions Ltd.
Length:
25 Minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
WINDOW ON THE EAST
In the heart of Jerusalem, students from the Kedma school
meet with students from Beit Tsafafa High School on an
educational project. Yasmin and Dudu from Katamon sit
together in the class with Samar and Rami from Beit Tsafafa.
Maria, an Israeli-Arab who teaches at Kedma, and has to
cope with prejudice, views the project as a professional,
cultural, and personal challenge. The film examines the
two points different angles, and asks the question: Is it
possible to bridge the gaping political abyss between the
two neighboring communities?
1999
Director: Roni Ben Yitzhak
Producer: Zaygote Films
Length: 24 Minutes
THE GOLDEN CAGE
The story of Immed Saba, who was imprisoned in Megiddo
Prison for 20 months for his objection to the Oslo accords.
The filmmakers meet with Immed Saba at the Hague in
Holland, to which he was exiled “of his own free will”,
and where he lives with his wife and daughter on a grant
from the Dutch government. Saba is working on a doctorate
in political sociology, comparing the activities of bodies in
the Palestinian Authority to those in Kazahstan.
±±π
1999
Yulie Gershtel and
Gideon Levi
Length:
25 Minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
NOWHERE ELSE TO GO
In October 1948, the IDF entered the village of Ilbon and
deported the 600 residents to Lebanon. Six months later
they were all allowed to return. In this film, old and young
village residents tell their story, among them the captain
of the women’s volleyball team “Sparta Ilbon,” winner of
the National Cup, as well as soldiers serving in the IDF.
The villagers are still waiting for an apology from the Israeli
government for the injustice that was done to them.
1999
Director: Pnina Grietzer
Producer: P.A. Grietzer Filmakers
Length:
Two segments of 25
minutes each
THE DESERT KNOWS NO BORDERS
A Unique Relationship between Jordanians and Israelis
in the Southern Arava
A group of Jordanians and members of Kibbutz Yotvata
initiated a unique project in which the kibbutzniks instructed
the Bedouin of the Jordanian Arava desert in the agricultural
development of their land. The film documents the relations
formed between the neighbors who share the same desert.
It turns out that the desert is an excellent place to build
neighborly relations.
±≤±
1999
Director: Bat Ami Yogev
Producer: Eilat Productions Video
T.V. Ltd.
Length:
24 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
WHY DO I NEED POLITICS NOW
This film describes the obstacle course facing Musa Alian
(Abu Nazzi), the first Arab to run for office in Jerusalem’s
municipal elections in 1998. Abu Nazzi, who sought to
solve the municipal problems facing the residents of East
Jerusalem, became involved in a tough political struggle
involving the Palestinian Authority, the Jerusalem right
wing, and the 150,000 East Jerusalem voters who boycotted
the elections. The promises to the voters, the relations
with the authorities and the residents, the reaction of West
Jerusalem, and the race in which Abu Nazzi invested
$250,000 are documented in this film.
1999
Directors: Yair Mauda and
Zvi Yehezkeli
Producer: Grufit Communication
and Productions
Length: 24 minutes
RETURNING STOLEN CARS
±≤≥
1999
Director: Zvi Yehezkeli
and Productions
Length:
25 minutes
The rash of cars being stolen from Israel and taken to the
Palestinian territories has brought about the establishment
of a plethora of companies that specialize in locating stolen
vehicles. Cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians who
work together to prevent car-theft has created, beyond their
work relationships, warm personal ties, such as that between
Yair Yifrach and Tarek Zaid. This film documents the work
of Yair, field man for a vehicle location company in the
territories, who has connections with the Palestinian Authority.
His background in security is known to his Palestinian
colleagues, and he has warm personal relations with them.
Tarek is the top Palestinian officer for the Southern Hebron
area. He received his military training in the P.L.O. and in
the Lebanon War he was commander of Arafat’s troops in
Beirut. Despite their very divergent views, they cooperate
for the common cause of stopping car thefts.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
MANAL
The story of Manal Amar, a 17-year-old girl from the village
of Shfaram, who left her parents’ home and her friends to
study at a boarding school for arts and sciences in Jerusalem.
This is a story of life on the border between two worlds –
the Jewish and the Arab – through which we witness the
conflicts faced by Manal. Questions of identity plague her
at a school which represents for her an island of tolerance
in Israeli society. She finds it hard to stand at attention at
Memorial Day ceremonies, for example, since she is an
Arab, but is studying at a Jewish school. This is a film about
a young Arab girl’s attempt to fit into Israeli society.
1999
Director: Nir Toib
Ltd.
Length: 25 minutes
CINDERELLA OF THE WADI
This film documents the preparations at the home of Miss
Israel, Rana Raslan, at Wadi Nisnas in Haifa, for her trip to
the Miss World competiton in the Caribbean. This will be
the first time Rana has ever spent much time away from
her family. As an Arab she will have to express an opinion
on the Arab-Israeli dispute. How will the Arab beauty queen
feel when she stands before the flag bearing the Star of
David, while the Israeli anthem is playing, the words of
which she doesn’t even know?
±≤µ
1999
Director: Gil Karni
Ltd.
Length: 25 Minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
PARTNERS
1999
Director: Amir Hargil
Producer: Fisher-Gat Productions
Ltd.
Length: 25 minutes
This film documents a rare but possible business partnership
between Jews and Arabs, who have merged their source
of livelihood and overcome nationalistic schisms and
tensions. How they establish mutual coexistence, what is
the model we can learn from for reconciling the two
peoples living in this country, and how Israeli and Arab
society relate to their partnership, are some of the questions
the film deals with. It presents the partnerships between
Nuri El-Ukbi from Ramle and Sara Elizrov from Netanya,
who opened a restaurant at the Carmel market, and Zvika
Sadeh and Ihab Kashua, who built an entrepreneurial firm
and offer financial counselling. The partnerships, which
came about as a result of chance meetings, have
experienced difficulties but have succeeded thanks to the
owners’ dedication in overcoming obstacles.
TAUFIK
This film presents the story of Taufik Abu Wahil, an Arab
student from Um-El-Fahm, who is studying at the Film and
Television department of Tel Aviv University, and is engaged
in a struggle against the institution. He is making a
provocative film about an Arab male prostitute in Tel Aviv,
which the department refuses to allow him to produce. The
film follows Taufik through his struggle to obtain permission
for his film, part and parcel of his personal struggle against
the Israeli society which refuses to accept him.
±≤∑
1999
Director: Nir Toib
Ltd.
Length: 24 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
PICTURES FROM HOME
Israelis and Palestinians aged 15-18 took part in a fivemonth photography course, at the end of which they
presented their work in a group exhibition on the concept
of “home.” During the course, these young people got to
know each other and learned to deal with their
preconceptions, despite the tension between them. Most
of the participants said that the course was the most
significant experience of their lives. Their work was exhibited
in Israel, New York and Washington.
1999
Director: Lara Mazawi
Length: 29 minutes
DISPUTED LAND
±≤π
2000
Avital Koren
Length: 25 minutes
Ze’ev Ashkenazi was one of the founders of the village
of Adi in the Galilee. Twenty years later, his grandson Guy
attempts to purchase land in the village, but runs into
financial difficulties. He turns to the neighboring Arab
village which had advertised a tender for the purchase of
land – and wins. Guy wants to build his home in the village
but the residents make it difficult for him. He finds himself
in a similar situation as Farchi, an Arab who wants to live
among the residents of Adi. The film reveals the conflict
between Israeli-Arab’s and Jews in the Galilee, examines
the relationships between man, his land and livelihood,
and the behavior of two people fighting for the same
piece of land.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
FOLLOWING THE DRUM
The darbuka is a simple Arab drum with a long musical
history in the East. It has become a popular instrument in
Israel. This film illustrates the different aspects of the
instrument and the many possibilities it offers. The film
features Kobi HaGoel, darbuka player, composer, and builder
of percussion instruments. Against the backdrop of the
clashes between Arabs and Jews that broke out in 2000,
Kobi travelled to the Galilee to meet Arab darbuka players,
among the best in Israel. Together they play music and
discuss the situation in the country.
2000
Length: 25 minutes
BUT THE BEST WIN IN NAZARETH
In September 2000, the Nazareth Brothers, the city’s soccer
team, dropped to last place in the National League. The
team comprises Arabs, Jews, and foreigners. Team
members Haled, Ashraf, Samir, Duro, Sagi, and Shlomi
unfold the story of the team’s struggle from the bottom of
the standings up to second place in the league. The players
feel like “brothers” and think that politicians should learn
a lesson from them. Coach Eli believes that the Nazareth
Brothers will continue to represent Arabs and Jews with
dignity in these times of uncertainty, confusion and instability
in the State of Israel.
±≥±
2000
Producer: Pakada Films
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
VILLA LEAH
JEWS - ARABS
A Love Story from the Past, Between an Arab and a
Jewess in the Heart of the Rehavia Neighborhood
2000
Length: 25 minutes
In Jerusalem’s Rehavia neighborhood, near Terra Sancta
building, stands Villa Leah – a beautiful house surrounded
by lush gardens, with a fountain long dry and a wall with
two entrances. This house of stone conceals one of
Jerusalem’s greatest love stories: the story of Christian
Arab lawyer Nassib Abakrious Bey’s powerful love for Leah
Tannenbaum, a Jewess from Meah Shearim who was 30
years younger than him. In 1930 the two were married in
Alexandria. Abakrious Bey built this magnificent house in
Rehavia and for his Jewish wife. The film tells the romantic
story of Villa Leah .
A DREAM IN WHITE
Two young couples prepare for their weddings. One, a
Jewish couple from Ramle, the other, an Arab couple,
the bride from Tarshicha and the groom from Kfar Yasif.
The film follows the two couples as they go through the
banal preparations for the magical moment, while looking
into the inner truth surrounding the real heroes of the big
night – the dreams, the hopes, and the excitement. We
discover the world of the young, a combination of the
Middle East and the American Dream common to Ramle
and Tarshicha.
±≥≥
2000
Director: Dror Shkolnik
Length: 26 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
A BIRD IN THE HAND
JEWS - ARABS
The Arab Village of Beit Nekuba in the Judean Hills
2000
Director: Yehuda Litani
Length: 24 minutes
In July 1948, the residents of Beit Nekuba, an Arab village
next to Jewish Kiryat Anavim, were forced to leave their
homes. Some of the residents left for the West Bank,
while others stayed in nearby Abu Ghosh. In the 50’s the
settlement authorities decided to build Ein Nekuba on part
of the land belonging to Beit Nekuba, to which the residents
who had been living in Abu Ghosh returned in the 1960’s,
and those who had been living in the West Bank returned
in 1967. This is a story of a coexistence that seems
impossible in these times, the proof of which lies in the
fact that during the uprisings of October 2000, not one
incident occurred there.
LIVING ON THE MOON
The story of Dr. Amar El Zant, a 29-year-old Egyptian working
on a post-doctorate in astrophysics at the Technion in Haifa.
After two years in Israel he realizes that a wall of
misunderstanding still stands between the two countries.
In the film, El Zant tells of his father’s experiences as part
of the peace delegation to Israel in 1977. We also meet
interviewees including professors, friends of El Zant from
the physics department at the Technion. The film gives us
a rare insight into Egyptian intellectuals and their view of
Egyptian-Israeli relations.
±≥µ
2000
Director: Yitzhak Kol
(1998) Ltd.
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
MEETING IN CYPRUS
In July 1999, in the town of Aya-Napa, Cyprus, a four-day
inter-faith conference was held between Jews, Christians
and Moslems. Among the Jews were religious right-wingers
and settlers, while most of the Christians and Moslems
were residents of the territories from Bethlehem. The film’s
director focused on five Yeshiva graduates from the religiousZionist world. After the four days, some of the participants
expressed disappointment, while others had discovered a
thing or two about their Arab neighbors.
2000
Director: Avigail Sperber
Producer: Avigail Sperber and
Shai Davidi
Length: 25 Minutes
THE AL-ATRASH FAMILY STILL LIVES HERE
The Hebron home of Zuhur and Yusuf Al-Atrash, parents
of ten children, was destroyed three times. For almost a
year they lived in a tent, after the civil authority ordered
the destruction of their home, claiming that it was built on
agricultural land. The family tried to fight the demolition
order, but to no avail. The family’s claims are supported by
the Red Cross, the “Cristians for Peace” organization, the
“Israeli Council Against Destruction of Housing” and
“Guardians of Justice” – Rabbis for human rights. The film
documents the relationship between these organizations
and the family they are trying to help.
±≥∑
2000
Director: Tuvi Arbell
Studios of Israel
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
THE SON’S LEGACY
In July 1994, Arik Frankenthal was murdered on the way
to his home in Moshav Gamzu by a terrorist cell of the
Hamas. Before Arik was murdered, his father Yitzhak
Frankenthal was a businessman. His son’s murder changed
his life, and today he devotes most of his time and energy
to bridging the gap between Israelis and Palestinians. The
parents’ group he founded, whose activities are documented
in the film, attempts to influence the decision-makers of
the political establishment, as well as public opinion on
both sides of the issue. In their view, understanding the
other side’s pain and problems is the way to bring the two
warring sides together and pave the road to peace.
2000
Length: 24 Minutes
AREA K
±≥π
2000
Director: Nadav Harel and
Ramon Blumberg
Producer: Herzelia United Studios
of Israel and Evansky
Vision
Length: 26 minutes
According to the Oslo accords and the Wye agreements,
Israel controls the Gaza Strip’s marine territories. Between
areas K and M, controlled by Israel, lies area L, where
fishing is permitted for 2000 Palestinian fishermen. Their
main problem is a lack of room for fishing. This situation
has lead to a paradoxical system of cooperation between
Israelis from the settlement of Dugit and Palestinians from
area K: The Palestinian fishermen pay the Israelis to go
with them out to sea, while they provide an expert workforce. This has caused a conflict with fishermen from
Ashkelon, who claim that the Palestinians are stealing the
fish which rightfully belong to them.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
THE SONG OF KABABIR
The village of Kababir in Haifa’s Carmel district, established
about 200 years ago, is a rare example of Jewish-Arab
coexistence. In 1936, a representative of the Ahmadist
religious group of Moslem pacifists from India, arrived in
the village, and the entire village joined it. During the War
of Independence, their Jewish neighbors protected this
Arab village. This film tells a story of coexistence from the
point of view of Muhammad Zaidan, a poet who makes
his living as a taxi driver, who takes us on a tour of Kababir
and other locations in the Carmel district.
2000
Length: 25 minutes
UDI ADIV. DAOUD TURKI.
The sensational spy story of Udi Adiv from Kibbutz Gan
Shmuel, who was accused of spying for Syria. Udi Adiv
and members of the Jewish-Arab network headed by
Daoud Turki (his controller) were accused of traveling
secretly to Damascus, where they planned a Marxist
revolution in Israel. Udi Adiv and Daoud Turki were
sentenced to 17 years in prison. The film compares the
standing of the two in Jewish and Arab society, their lives
in the shadow of the past, and the current positions of the
two past-partners in ideological struggle, whose opinions
have since diverged dramatically.
±¥±
2001
Length: 52 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
JEWS - ARABS
BETWEEN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
This is the story of two Israelis who have warily followed
political events since the Oslo Accords in 1993 until the
present day through the Palestinian Soccer Team. The team’s
coach is Azmi Nasser, who took a group of kids who played
in the sewage-drenched alleys of refugee camps and made
them into a source of pride as well as hope for victories
over stronger teams. They document the story of the team
through Gaza, Qatar, and the El Aktza Intifada.
2001
Length: 57 Minutes
±¥≥
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
‫מיעוטים‬
MINORITIES
MINORITIES
A HOUSE IN RAJAR
This film revolves around a house in Rajar, the northernmost
in the village, which is designated to be returned to Lebanon
in accordance with a U.N. decision. The residents of the
village are members of the minority Allawi group from
Syria, who one day found themselves living in Israel. The
Rajar residents are very suspicious towards outsiders and
don’t allow strangers into their village. The fact that they
belong to a minority group has forced them to maintain a
veil of secrecy around their religion and way of life.
1994
Director: Racheli Shwartz
Producer: Tel Hai Communication
Center
Length: 29 minutes
A FIST IN THE FACE
This film documents the training of the Israeli Boxing Team
for adults and youth at the Kfar Yasif boxing club, focusing
on three characters: Tufik Bassisi, the “Israeli Rocky” from
Shfar’am, is Israel’s hope for the Olympic Gold Medal. He
won the Bronze Medal in the European championship.
Michael Kozinski is the team trainer, who supplements his
income working as a security guard. William Sh’hada is
the manager of the Kfar Yasif boxing club.
±¥∑
1998
Director: Nir Toib
Ltd.
Length: 24 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
MINORITIES
THE AL KARA BROTHERS – A DRUSE PROFILE
The story of Druse artist, Ovadia Al Kara, son of a prominent
Druse family from Daliyat el-Carmel. As a child he worked
cleaning gardens for some of Israel’s top artists in nearby
Ein Hod. He was entranced by the magic of art with the
help of Itche Mambush, and he travelled alone as a young
man to Paris, where he studied painting and sculpture.
Ovadia Al Kara returned to Israel as a famous artist and
built his home at Ein Hod, where he is the only Druse artist.
In this film he meets members of the Al Kara clan, an
encounter which illustrates the clash between Druse
tradition and modern art, and the ensuing schism.
1998
Length: 25 minutes
OUR HEARTS ARE IN DANCES
The Samaritan community is one of the most mysterious
in Israel. The film “Our Hearts are Dances” gives us a rare
look at the Samaritans. The film centers around Gadi
Tsedaka, once an actor at the Cameri Theatre who now
runs a small theatre company with his wife Pnina. The film
features two parallel events; a performance of the play
“Antigone” by Sophocles at the Tsedaka theatre, and the
Passover sacrifices on Mt. Gerizim, a location sacred to
the Samaritans.
±¥π
1999
Director: Ohad Ufaz
Producer: April Com (1989) Ltd.
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
MINORITIES
CHILDREN’S STORY
This film offers us a peek into the lives of two 13-year-old
boys from disadvantaged homes in East Jerusalem.
Muhammed Shawiki works as a porter like his father, and
together they provide for 13 souls. Shadi Sharaona’s parents
are divorced and his father is in jail. After school he works
in the marketplace with his mother to provide for their
family of four. The film reveals what children think about
childhood, work, masculinity, and the strength to compete
in the marketplace, which they describe as “a jungle full
of wolves.” The film sensitively illustrates the two boys’
lives and their dreams for the future.
1999
Director: Suha Araf
Producer: T.T.V. Poductions Ltd.
Length: 24 Minutes
AZAZME – A VANISHING BREED
±µ±
1999
Director: Doron Maigners
Producer: Videa Productions
and Direction
Length: 25 minutes
The complex story of the Azazme tribe, a large and
prominent Bedouin tribe that lives in the Negev. The Azazme
are discriminated against by the Israeli authorities, despite
their many sons who serve in combat units in the IDF. Their
lands were confiscated and they were settled in one of
the most dangerous areas in Israel – Ramat Hovav. Over
five years ago, a group of families from the tribe got fed
up with their situation and settled near Kibbutz Revivim
with government permission. Since then, hundreds more
families have joined them. The film presents their untenable
situation and pits the tribe’s members against the members
of Kibbutz Revivim who have turned to the government
for help in solving the problem of the Azazme.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
MINORITIES
THE LAST STOP
The characters at the heart of this film illustrate the gradual
loss of the patriarch’s stature and power in Arab society.
Abu-Kamal, 62, lives in a home for the aged. Abu Mustapha
Daoud, 94, who lives in the village Daburiah, is surrounded
by grandchildren and great-grandchildren who show him
love and respect. At the climax of the film, the residents
of the home for the aged celebrate the birthday of one of
the residents. It seems that progress isn’t always for the
best, and that the elderly are happier when they live
according to traditional norms.
1999
Director: Suha Araf
Length: 25 minutes
BISCUITS FROM GAZA
Muhammed Talabani works in a fancy air-conditioned office,
while outside poverty reigns. It’s hard to believe that such
a modern factory is located on the Gaza – Rafiah Road.
Talabani runs the biscuit factory which he built with his
own hands. In this film he tells the story of his life which
began in a refugee camp. Alongside him works Ahmed
Sarhi, a division manager. Sarhi and Talabani grew up
together in the El-Maza refugee camp. Talabani has beaten
the odds and become rich, while Sarhi lives in a poor
neighborhood in Deir El-Balah and can barely support his
nine children.
±µ≥
2000
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
MINORITIES
THE QUIET ARAB REBELLION
Three Israeli-Arab women question their position in the
chauvinist-traditionalist society in which they grew up.
Nabia, 60, from Kfar Yasif, mother of four daughters, has
been active in Israeli feminist groups for 30 years. Makbula,
a 27-year-old single social worker, tries to be active from
within Arab society. Sophie, who runs a bridal salon, has
decided to return to religion. The three women are engaged
in an inner struggle between themselves and against the
surrounding society. Nabia, Makbula and Sophie describe
the cycle their lives are stuck in, as a minority of women
in a chauvinist society, as Arabs living in a Jewish country,
and as women in general.
2000
Avital Koren
Length: 24 Minutes
AS IT SHOULD BE
This film centers around Emil, son of a warm Druse family,
who finds himself at a crossroads in his life. Emil was born
in Nahariya, where he spent nearly all his life: kindergarten,
school, army service. Over the course of time, Emil fell in
love with a Jewish girl who had returned to religion. At
this juncture, Emil has to decide: will he continue with his
Jewish girlfriend, or will he give up and return to his family
in Peki’in and Druse society?
±µµ
2000
Director: Ilan Yagoda
Producer: Multicam Ltd.
Length: 38 Minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
MINORITIES
LIKE A BLACK DOT IN THE BIG SEA
This film documents the dramatic story of Yihie Elkayan,
a Bedouin from a tribe which lives west of Arad. Seven
years ago he met Rita, a Jewish girl from Jaffa. Rita and
Yihie joined his extended family, but after some time,
relations between Yihie and his father Suleiman deteriorated.
Suleiman tries to murder his son, and ends up injuring him
badly. The father is sentenced to ten years in prison for
attempted murder, and the responsibility of providing for
the family falls on the son with the family plunging into
poverty and starvation.
2000
Length: 25 minutes
ABED WILL NOT BE A TRACKER
This film centers around Abed Al Houashla, a 30-year-old
high school graduate and member of the Al Houashla tribe,
who operates heavy machinery at the Dead Sea Works.
According to him, the harmony which had characterized
Israeli Bedouins and Israeli society no longer exists. He
expresses his antagonism toward the government by
refusing to serve as a tracker in the army like other members
of his family. Abed represents the new generation of
Bedouins which is rejecting tradition. He lives with his
family in the desert, even though he owns an apartment
in Dimona .
±µ∑
2000
Director: Kamil Shiraf
Producer: Tuvi Arbell with the
support of the Israel
Film Service
Length: 45 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
MINORITIES
DISTANT RELATIONS
Riad and Yusuf are brothers-in-law who were born and
raised in the town of Tira, near Kfar Saba. They are both
fifty years old. Riad always dreamed of becoming a film
director. Yusuf was a member of the People’s Front for the
Liberation of Palestine. He was arrested in 1970 and
released in 1985. This film is a dialogue between the
brothers-in-law about identity, childhood memories, and
dreams. A story of two men from one village who each
found a way to fulfill his dreams. The two represent the
dilemma of Arabs in Israel today, at the crossroads between
war and peace.
2000
Tzipi Trope with the
support of the Israel
Film Service
Length: 51 minutes
SOUTHERN WIND
This is the story of Bedouins who lived in the Negev, and
as part of an urbanization plan were brought to live in the
settlement of Tel Sheva. The film presents the dilemmas
they faced and the difficulties they encountered as a result
of leaving their traditional tent-dwellings for stone buildings
and the modern life. The film focuses on the Bedouins, and
on the relations between the residents of Omer and Tel
Sheva, two towns only 500 meters apart, yet worlds apart
culturally, economically and in terms of their world-view.
±µπ
2000
Producer: Hizayon Marketing and
Advertising (1994) Ltd.
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
MINORITIES
RAMALLAH AT MIDNIGHT
Where do young Arabs go for a good time? In Tel Aviv and
the big cities they are usually searched thoroughly and
refused admittance. But they have found an alternative in
Ramallah, the real capital city of the Palestinian Authority,
center of entertainment, leisure and culture. Salim Mar’i,
an Israeli Arab who has lived for the last few years in Tel
Aviv, guides us through the entertainment centers of
Ramallah, and asks, why Ramallah?
2000
Director: Tuvi Arbell
Producer: Herzeliya United
Studios of Israel
Length: 24 minutes
±∂±
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
‫עוליםועליה‬
IMMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRATION
IMMIGRANTS & IMMIGRATION
CIRCUS OF ILLUSIONS
A group of children and youth, immigrants from Ethiopia
who had worked in a circus in their homeland, try to bring
their skills to Israel. They study at religious schools and
dream of turning the little company they created – “The
Lions” into a professional performing company. The film
accompanies them as they deal with the difficulties of
integration and their dream of founding a circus. This is
the story of a group of young people who live between
two worlds - the world of reality, of poverty and dilapidated
caravans, and the world of fantasy, where anything is
possible.
1997
Avital Koren
Length: 25 minutes
SHALL WE DANCE?
The world championship of ballroom dancing for 16 to18year-olds took place in December 1998 in Hungary. Dancers
in elegant ballroom gowns and Latin-American dancers in
mini-skirts and high heels (the men in tuxedos) are woven
into a film that tells the story of the immigration from
Russia that brought ballroom dancing, now recognized as
an Olympic sport, to Israel. The film features three couples
and their families, who came to Israel from Russia.
±∂µ
1998
Nili Tal
Length: 39 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
RED, BLACK, BLUE AND WHITE
A Ghetto of Russian Culture in the Florentine District
1998
Director: Duki Dror
Length: 32 minutes
The story of a provocative punk-thrash-ambient-hard rock
band, Ausweis, whose members are Russian immigrants
who live in a cultural commune in the Florentine district of
Tel Aviv. The band’s first concert at Beit Lessin “blew up”
following a violent confrontation with punks and skinheads.
The members of the band want to live in Israel but can’t
integrate into society. Their aesthetic, cultural, and spiritual
world derives from the Soviet regime that collapsed during
the stormy years of the Perestroika. Andrei Lev, member of
the band and an artist who graduated from the Bezalel School
of Art, describes the group as “a subculture of the Russian
ghetto.” They play together, create together, and live together
as a romantic group of immigrants on the fringe of the city
and its culture.
MY SISTER BANCHIYA
This film tells the story of Banchiya, a ten-year-old Ethiopian
girl who immigrated to Israel at the age of three with her
mother and three sisters. Banchiya and her sisters were
sent to a boarding school in Netanya, and half a year later
their mother died of an illness. After her death, the Sperber
family, a religious family of 12 living in the Jewish Quarter
of the Old City of Jerusalem adopted Banchiya as their
daughter. The film touches on Banchiya’s challenges dealing
with white religious society and the big family. Today,
Banchiya is confronted with questions of her identity and
her loyalty to the Ethiopian community.
±∂∑
1999
Director: Avigail Sperber
Producer: Moshe Alafi
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
RUSSIAN ORCHESTRA
An Orchestra made up of Russian Musicians and an
Israeli Singer
Singer Anna Resnikov was famous in Russia and Japan.
She followed her love, pianist and orchestra founder Vadim
Altshuler, to Israel. Bassist Victor Nichshein brought his
non-Jewish wife. Yotam Shechter, Israeli musician and
singer, sings in Russian for Russian audiences despite the
fact that he doesn’t speak a word of Russian. This film tells
the unusual story of the orchestra, the relationships between
the players, and the meaning it has for Israel today.
1999
Length: 25 minutes
RUNNING FOR THE OLYMPICS
This film centers around a group of Ethiopian runners who
are participating in a special project at the “Neurim” boarding
school. Arcady Scaller, a running coach from the Ukraine,
heads the project which prepares runners 15-years of age
and up for Olympic competition. We meet Eddy, who
dreams of a scholarship to a school abroad, Solomon, who
joined the project a few months earlier to make his father
happy, and Rafi and Uri, middle-distance runners who are
competing for the same spot. Through the training and the
relationships between the runners and coach Arcady, the
film explores the story of the boys’ acclimatization to Israel
and their personal dreams, to “run” to a better place.
±∂π
1999
Director: Avital Koren
Length: 24 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SECOND CHANCE IN ARAD
2000
Directors and Producers:
Jorge Gurewitz and
Shlomi Slutzski
Length: 24 minutes
This is the story of the first year in the development town
of Arad for Fernando and Paula Melinski, computer
programmer and biochemist who left Argentina, where
they lost their jobs, their respect, and their faith in the antiSemitic, poverty-stricken country. The film follows the
couple and their two children from November 1999, when
they decided to emigrate to Israel, until the end of November
2000, when they themselves help their family that followed
them to Israel from Argentina. Thus they complete a cycle
that began 100 years ago, when their great-grandparents
came to Argentina from Czarist Russia to escape the
pogroms and starvation.
OLD WIVES’ TALES
The story of Ro’i Ingedau, a young man who immigrated
from Ethiopia with “Operation Moses.” Ro’i lives in Ramle,
and as he waits to be inducted into the army, he knows
his opportunities in life are few. He places his hopes in the
IDF. He dreams of joining a combat unit and perhaps even
trying to get into an elite unit and becoming an officer. His
comrades speak of racism and discrimination in the army,
and say that an Ethiopian has no chance of success. The
film finds Ro’i standing at the crossroads of his life,
wondering about his induction and his first steps as a soldier.
±∑±
2000
Director: Tamar Yarom
Studios of Israel
Length: 24 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
HOW DO YOU SAY ‘HELP’ IN HEBREW?
2001
Director: Ayelet Leket Keinan
Producer: Ocean
Communications
Length: 25 minutes
Anna and Sonia are new immigrants who were injured in
recent terrorist attacks. Anna Krakov was injured in the
attack which occurred on the evening of Holocaust
Remembrance Day in 1994 in Afula. Anna found a way to
overcome her horrific pain by giving endlessly to immigrants
like herself. Sonia Notov was injured in the attack on the
Bus No. 26 in Jerusalem in 1996, which put an end to her
career as a dancer. Sonia didn’t give up, and after a long
period of rehabilitation, she returned to dancing. As a result
of the hardships of immigrants who went through terror
attacks, an organization called Selah was founded, whose
goal is to provide every immigrant who has suffered
traumatic experiences with the basic needs necessary for
his rehabilitation.
MY OWN TELENOVELLA
±∑≥
2001
Director: Jorge (Johanan) Weller
Producer: Weller Productions
Films and the support
of The New Israeli
Found for T.V. Cinema
& The Shalem Fund
Length: 67 minutes
“In this film, I go on an personal journey to visit the family
I left behind 22 years ago when I immigrated from Argentina.
For two weeks I stayed with my family in the city where
I was born, I breathed the smell of neglect and pain which
arose from the walls, and absorbed the loneliness in which
my relatives’ lives were shrouded. Then I brought them
back with me to Israel. I suppose I hoped they would live
near me, that they would stay in Ra’anana. I suppose I
hoped to bring my children a grandfather and aunts, like
all their friends have.”
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
YEVGENY’S FILM
Yevgeny Gobstein immigrated from the former USSR and
served as an ambulance driver in the IDF. In 1996 he was
injured by shrapnel from a roadside mine in Lebanon and
was paralyzed from the neck down. Yevgeny would like to
tell his life story through a film about his life. He lies in bed
at home, paralyzed but fully conscious, breathing through
an artificial respirator at the side of his bed. He doesn’t
come across as sad or depressed, but fills his life with
meaning and always sets himself new goals.
2001
Producer: Videa Productions
and Direction
Length: 26 minutes
±∑µ
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
‫צבאוביטחון‬
THE MILITARY AND SECURITY
THE MILITARY & SECURITY
IF THEY DIDN’T SAY IT’S PERMITTED IT MUST BE FORBIDDEN
“The Guardian’s Ranch” is a basic-training camp for soldiers
from underpriveleged backgrounds, most of whom are
considered delinquents. The film tells the story of the
ranch, the young men who train there, and their daily
struggle, in the light of their difficult backgrounds. In the
final analysis, “The Guardian’s Ranch” serves to save these
young men from a life of crime.
1997
Producer: Shavit United Studios
Ltd.
Length: 25 Minutes
BEFORE LIFE BEGAN
This film centers around the tragic story of Suleiman
Hirbawi, a Druse policeman who served in the Bomb Squad,
who lost his eyesight to a bomb that had been planted by
the Jewish Underground fifteen years earlier. At the time,
Hirbawi announced from his bed in Hadassah Hospital that
he felt no anger or need for vengeance. Today, from his
chair in the Acco Police telephone exchange, Hirbawi
expresses his anger at the country that betrayed him and
the Underground members who were pardoned. The film
also portrays the plight of the Druse community.
±∑π
1998
Director: Rami Rodan
Producer: R.A.R. Misgav-am
Productions Ltd.
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
THE BARRIER
This film examines one of the central aspects of Israeli
society – military service. It is an exclusive, ground-breaking
documentary of the entire period of service of a paratroop
unit, from their acceptance to the unit and breaking-in
period in 1995 through their daily struggles and the difficult
missions they are called on to perform. The central feature
of the film is the death of three Palestinians at the Tarkumia
roadblock and the chain of events that followed.
1998
Director: Nir Toib and Gil Izakov
Ltd.
Length: 58 Minutes
CHINA FARM – THE UNTOLD STORY
±∏±
1999
Director: Nir Toib
Ltd.
Length: 61 minutes
For the first time, the paratroopers of Unit 101, who took
part in the counter-attack on China Farm during the Yom
Kippur War, tell of their traumatic experiences and painful
memories fighting against the Egyptian army’s Second
Division. The film features interviews with some of the
soldiers – Regiment Commander Natan Shunri; Noah
Kinnerati, who lost his son in the Lebanon War; Dr. Naftali
Hadas, who received a decoration for his actions in combat;
Aharaleh Toib; Yoram Nahari, recipient of a medal for
excellence in combat; and Ilan Weiner, who served as an
army paramedic. This film documents a slice of history
heretofore unknown.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
LEBANON, THE CHILDRENS’ CHANNEL
A father documents his son who is serving in Lebanon. In
real time, as a “field reporter,” he brings in chilling reports
from the beginning of the war until the end of his son’s
term of service. The film deals with the questions of soldiers
as children, Israel’s identity as a “land of mourning” and
the struggle of the bereaved mothers of winter 1998. The
film includes interviews with politicians and top military
officers. The main conclusion of this document is that
“Lebanon is no more than an item for the media, and today,
perhaps, a political issue for election campaigns.”
1999
Director: Haim Tal
Producer: Tal Heksherim
Productions Ltd.
minutes each
THE LAST SHELL
Director Ziv Kannari’s peers from kibbutzim Gadot,
Mahanayim and Tel Katzir spent the Six-Day War as children
in bomb shelters, and know the fear of war. Their parents’
generation fought in that war, whereas their own children,
among them Adam Kannari, the director’s son, know nothing
of living under “the Syrian threat.” This film looks at the
32 years that have passed since the Six-Day War through
the eyes of three generations, and describes the statusquo which is expected to come about as a result of the
impending peace treaty with Syria.
±∏≥
1999
Director: Ziv Kannari
Producer: Highlight Films Ltd.
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
TAIL OF THE CANNON-BALL
2000
Director: Dubi Kroituro
Producer: Nachon Production
minutes each
A military historian and a film director investigate the veil
of secrecy surrounding the controversial battle at Tel Motila
near the Kinneret. The battle took place in May 1951
between Israel’s Golani troops and a Syrian fighting unit.
Although the battle’s goal was achieved, it is considered
one of the biggest blunders in IDF history. Reports of the
battle were purposely blurred in order to cover up an
another tragedy that occurred during brigade exercises,
the victims of which had their names added to the list of
battle casualties. Why were these soldiers’ names played
with? Why weren’t their families notified? This film deals
with the collective military memory and its way of dealing
with bereavement from an entirely new angle.
AT THE TOP OF THE HILL STANDS A SOLDIER
The generals in the IDF who regularly go into politics after
their retirement from the army are the subject of this film,
which asks the question: What qualifies them to be
generals? By what criteria of success or failure are these
high-ranking officers judged? The film reveals the fact that
the IDF lacks any criteria to judge its generals, and all are
seen as “winners.” On the other hand, lower-ranking
officers and fighters are considered responsible for mistakes
and losses. In reality, there is no public body responsible
for the criticism and censure of the Defense Establishment.
±∏µ
2000
Director: Haim Tal
Producer: Tal Heksherim
Productions Ltd.
minutes each
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
THE ARROW
Directors: Haim Tal and
Michael Horak
Ltd.
At the height of the El Aksa Intifada, the Israeli Defense
establishment reported on a new stage of operations for
the Arrow anti-ballistic missile. Is the Arrow a huge waste
of resources and a threat to Israel’s future, as Reuven
Pedahtsur claims, or is it an amazing realization of the
Zionist vision? The Arrow’s developers recount the missile’s
advantages while its detracters claim that the project is an
engineer’s caprice that was forced on the Ministry of
Defense. How can the public decide if it is truly being
protected? The film presents possible scenarios for the
coming war, accompanied by interviews with top personnel
at the Ministry of Defense and critics of the Arrow’s
development plan.
with the support of EO International and
VRT
Length:
52 minutes
±∏∑
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
‫דיוקנאות‬
PERSONAL PROFILES
PERSONAL PROFILES
ABU SHARBAT
The Story of a Traditionalist Communist Journalist
Moshe “Musa” Huri is the hero of the documentary film
“Abu Sharbat.” Huri is a man of contradictions. His
capitalistic lifestyle stands in direct opposition to his longstanding involvement with the Communist Chadash Party.
The film presents Abu Sharbat’s political career of more
than fifty years, a career fraught with struggle against the
hatred of the government on one hand, and the alienation
of society on the other, with no chance of advancement
within the party.
1998
Producer: Vedea Productions and
Direction
Length: 25 minutes
MR. DIRECTOR
Television personality Rafik Halabi is the hero of this film,
which presents his conflict as a success-oriented outsider
in Israeli society. He fights tooth and nail against both the
Druse and the Israeli establishment. The film follows Halabi
through his work on television and at home in Daliyat ElCarmel during the period when he won the Sokolow Prize
for Journalism. Halabi reveals his roots in his home town,
his father’s influence on him and his relationship with his
children, and presents his work in the Israeli media.
±π±
1998
Director: Eyal Zaid
Producers: Hana Gold-Levkowitz
and Itzik Malka
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PERSONAL PROFILES
THE GUARD FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
Only one man is familiar with every grave in the cemetery
on the Mount of Olives, the oldest Jewish cemetery on
earth: Abed Siad, the cemetery’s guard, a Moslem resident
of A-Tur in East Jerusalem. This film focuses on the story
of Abed and his unique personality. He is a devout Moslem,
but has taken on certain Jewish beliefs, such as the coming
of the Messiah and the resurrection of the dead. He knows
each grave by heart and even the Chevra Kadisha’s computer
can’t compete with him.
1998
Length: 24 minutes
NOT A CLASSIC CASE
Shmuel Toledano, orientalist, Mossad agent, and ex-Knesset
member, returns in this film to the scene of his childhood
in Tiberias and its environs. There he tells of neighborly
relations with Arab neighbors and meets friends who
participated with him in the project for immigration to Israel
from North Africa under the auspices of the Mossad.
Toledano was an advisor in Arab relations to Prime Minister
Golda Meir and was among the advocates of the cancellation
of military rule over Arab settlements in Israel. His unique
character and his approach to Israeli Arabs and the
Palestinian conflict are presented in this film through
historical events in the State of Israel.
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1998
Director: Noam Shalev
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PERSONAL PROFILES
THE FIRST ARAB REFEREE
Daoud Suhil was appointed in 1973 as the first Arab soccer
referee in Israel, and with the years became one of the
most influential people in Israeli soccer. In 1995 he refereed
at the Cup Finals, and was chosen as Referee of the Year
by the Israeli press. The story of Daoud Suhil, a Christian
Arab from Kfar Yasif, is a microcosm of the story of the
Arab community in Israeli society. A story of education,
sports, will-power, and hope for a better future.
1999
Director: Israel Rozner
Producer: Promo Video
Poductions Ltd.
Length: 25 minutes
MEILECH IN FLESH AND BLOOD
This film attempts to understand the complicated personality
of Rabbi Elimelech Fuerer – a phenomenon and autodidact
in many fields of medicine, who puts the good of the
people before his personal needs. A portrait of a unique
man who doesn’t claim to be any more than he thinks of
himself: Meilech from B’nei Brak. The film follows Rabbi
Fuerer as he offers advice to the many specialists who
come to him daily, his modest family life, and accompanies
him in his various personal encounters.
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1999
Director: Yoram Shartok
Producer: Omer Productions
Length: 25 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PERSONAL PROFILES
SMOKE SCREEN
A Journey into the Musical World of Ariel Zilber
Ariel Zilber, composer of many Israeli rock classics, has
spent the last five years creating sounds influenced by Arabic
music. This film documents three days of work on the music,
rehearsals at his home, and a performance at the Tzavta
club. Zilber’s performance of the song “Smoke Screen” on
the Dudu Topaz television show creates an ironic contrast
between the obsessive, uncompromising musician and the
“King of the Ratings”.”Smoke Screen” is a film about a
musical labor of love in a ratings-obsessed culture.
1999
Director: Yigal Burshtein
Producer: Osnat Trabelsi
Length: 48 Minutes
SAMAH CANAAN
This film tells the story of Samah Canaan, who was born
in Shechem (Nablus) to a Jewish mother and a Moslem
father, spent 17 years in an Israeli prison for opposing the
Israeli occupation, and today serves as second-in-command
to Jibril Rajoub, Head of Preventive Security in Judea and
Samaria. In the film, Samah Canaan meets with his mother,
an Arabic-speaking Jewess who lives in Shechem and
recalls the events surrounding the opening of the Western
Wall tunnel in September 1996. The film presents the
unique character of Samah Canaan, an optimist who strives
for peace.
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1999
Director: Zvi Yehezkeli
& Productions
Length: 25 Minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PERSONAL PROFILES
FOOTPRINTS OF REALITY
This story of photographer Mickie Kartzman’s work during
the Intifada, and his involvement as the son of a family
that lived through the military regime in Argentina, illustrates
the connection between photography and reality. In the
film, Kartzman explains his work in the occupied territories
with his colleague, “Ha’aretz” journalist Gideon Levi, meets
with his parents and his daughters, and most importantly,
reveals his relationship with the camera through which he
sees and expresses himself.
1999
Avital Koren
Length: 24 Minutes
ATTORNEY WITHOUT BORDERS
The film “Attorney Without Borders” documents the life
work of attorney-at-law Leah Tsemel, who fights for the
rights of the Palestinian people. Tsemel has been fighting
windmills for 25 years, and while the Israelis see her as
an enemy of the people, Hanan Ashrawi considers her a
dear friend. The film documents her achievements up to
this day, among them receiving President Mitterand’s Peace
Prize, and the difficulties she encounters, both from the
Israelis and the Palestinians.
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1999
Length: 24 Minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PERSONAL PROFILES
DAVID GRANIT – OFFICER AND GENTLEMAN
This film tells the story of the life and death of First
Lieutenant David Granit, son of Menahem and Na’ama,
who grew up in Ofra, a liberal settlement and an example
of broadmindedness. During military service as a paratrooper
officer, he was killed in Lebanon. David, whose unique
personality combined the nationalistic religiosity of a settler
with tolerance of the non-religious, is memorialized by
family and close friends in special ways that typify his
personality.
2000
Length: 43 minutes
AIID EL ADAM
This film is a portrait of Basam Aiid, one of the most
controversial fighters for human rights in the Middle East.
Basam Aiid worked for about six years as investigator for
the pro-tolerance organization “B’tselem.” In 1996 Basam
Aiid was kidnapped by the Palestinian Secret Service and
was released only as a result of massive international
pressure. About two years ago, the Palestinian refugee
from Shu’afat founded an organization called “The
Palestinian Group for Overseeing Human Rights.” He has
become one of the most influential men in the West Bank.
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2000
Director: Duki Dror
Length: 24 Minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PERSONAL PROFILES
A BIRD BETWEEN CONTINENTS
This is the story of the poet Erez Biton. Biton, a native of
Algiers, now in his fifties. Biton was injured as a child in
the city of Lod by a grenade left behind by Arabs. He lost
his left hand and his eyesight. At a boarding school in
Jerusalem he formed his world-view: direct interaction
with the sighted and hunger for education and artistic
expression through poetry. This approach may explain his
motivation in being involved in politics, culture, and art.
2001
Director: Yaniv Tal
Producer: Eli Hakim with the
support of the Shiri
Levinger Fund
Length: 29 minutes
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CATALOG 1999 - 2003
‫ימיםמיוחדים‬
SPECIAL DAYS
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY
SPECIAL DAYS
GREENBOIM’S SON
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2002
Director: Duby Kroituro
Producer: 2 Shot films
Length: 53 minutes
The father, Yitzhak Greenboim, was the head of the rescue
committee of the Jews in Israel during the Holocaust. At
the same time, his son Eliezer was a Kapo at AuschwitzBirkenau. According to the testimonies of Holocaust survivors,
the younger Greenboim was a cruel Kapo, a Nazi collaborator,
and a Jew-hater. After the war, Eliezer Greenboim came to
Israel and fell in love with Stefa Rosenzweig, a survivor of
Auschwitz. When the War of Independence broke out, he
joined the army and fell in the battle for Ramat Rachel. That
very day, flyers were distributed in Jerusalem claiming that
the evil Greenboim was murdered by an avenging Jew who
identified him as the Kapo from the camps. “Greenboim’s
Son” documents the journey of his nephew Mati Greenboim
to the hell of the death camps. Sixty years later, he searches
for the truth. He listens to the survivors and looks for
testimonies and documents, certain that he can clear the
name of his Kapo uncle.
BEYOND TEARS
2002
Director: Hedva Galili-Smolinski
Length: 51 minutes
This film focuses on a group of creative artists who were
prisoners in concentration camps and who expressed their
reactions to the continued horrors through black humor,
caricature, irony and satire. A minority among them survived;
most were sent to their deaths. Their work reflected the
artists’ opposition to the inhuman acts of the Nazis during
the Holocaust. The film introduces us to some of the artists:
Zvi Kanar, pantomimist; Erich Laskly, painter; Ya’akov Zim,
caricature artist; Aryeh Ben-Menahem, collage artist; and
Yosef Bau, artist, animator and caricaturist. The association
between the Holocaust and humor prompts immediate
resistance. But those who survived the camps and their
horrors acknowledge that imagination, humor and creativity
enabled them to survive and to retain their humanity, not
only as a means of self-protection, but also as a spiritual
weapon against their oppressors.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SPECIAL DAYS
GAON AND MICHAELI
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2002
Director: Netanel Semarik
Producer: Netanel Semarik
with the support of Keshet
Length: 50 minutes
A talk-show on Holocaust Memorial Day moderated by
Merav Michaeli and Yehoram Gaon – two hosts who
represent polar opposites of Israeli society. On the program
they interviewed guests who made outstanding contributions
in the fields of social action, economics and the military in
the year 2002. Moments before the beginning of Israel’s
54th Independence Day, the question is asked, “What does
it mean to be an Israeli today?” Among the guests: General
Aharon Ze’evi-Farkash, head of Israeli military intelligence,
Yossi Ofir, a recently fired high-tech employee, Ilite Shmueli
a mother of a disabled girl, who was among the leaders of
the demonstrators for the rights of the disabled.
IN THOSE DAYS AT THIS TIME
Nine short films about Jewish communities during the
Holocaust. A representative of each community tells his
moving story about the community. These survivors, against
a background of photographic images, speak of their
memories of the Holocaust.
Hela Rufeisen – Cracow, Poland
Moshe Ziv – Mishkolz, Hungary
Karla Raveh – Lemgo, Germany
Haim Rafael – Saloniki, Greece
Shoshana Evron – Florence, Italy
2002
Director: Amir Gera
Length of each segment:
10 minutes
Dan Reese – Vienna, Austria
Leah Zonnenshein – Amsterdam, Holland
Lily Taho – Levov, Poland
Hanna Tesler – Malkopania, Czechoslavakia
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
SPECIAL DAYS
LAND OF THE WOLVES
2003
Director: Gili Gaon
Producer: Haim Slutzki, Afikei
Communications Ltd.
Length: 57 minutes
General (Res.) Yossi Peled was born Jefke Mendelevitch
during WWII in Antwerp, Belgium. At the age of six months
he was sent, along with his two older sisters, to the home
of a Christian family, where they lived as Christians for six
years. Later, with the help of the Jewish Brigade, they
immigrated to Israel and settled at Kibbutz Negba. This
film tells the life story of the very Israeli General Yossi
Peled. He and his son Orr travel to Antwerp, visit all the
places where he grew up, and there, for the first time, he
decides to investigate the lives of his mother and father
who died at Auschwitz, and discovers that the greatest
trauma of his life actually took place in Israel.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
A film about the annual gathering of 25 survivors of the
Kovna Ghetto, the “kids” who survived Auschwitz and the
war. Every May 5, these survivors assemble for what they
call a “birthday party,” since that was the date of their
rebirth. The film attempts to decipher the mystery of the
children’s ability to survive, and to explain how their collective
strength protected them. Some of the survivors prefer not
to stay in touch, while for others the annual meeting helps
them continue with their lives.
2003
Director: Ruth Walk
Producer: Yael Perlov
with the support of Keshet, Makor Fund,
Nik Media-Netherlands, Cinema Project
≤±±
Length:
64 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
The scene: a cafe, Tel Aviv, 1944. Andrei, rising star in the
Polish-language theater and Auschwitz survivor, interrupts
a gloomy conversation about the sugar shortage and shakes
the foundations of the cafe’s daily routine. The cafe owners’
daughter Alma falls in love with him. At the same time, his
lover from the past, also an actress, who has come to bring
Andrei back to Europe, arrives at the cafe in search of him.
Over the course of 24 hours, the lives of Andrei and the
denizens of the cafe are changed.
2002
Script:
Gabriel Bibliovitch and
Ran Sarig (Chelvitch)
Director: Gabriel Bibliovitch
Producers: Buzz Television Ltd. and Fnuk
Featuring: Kyril Sponov, Yosef Fichchazda, Yamit Sol,
Agnishka Wagner, Dori Tepper, Alex Anski, Yisrael Brite,
Ayala Verta
with the support of Film Project, Cinema Project.
Length:
38 minutes (short version)
43 minutes (long version)
SPECIAL DAYS
FOOLISH ME - DRAMA
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CATALOG 1999 - 2003
IDF MEMORIAL DAY
SPECIAL DAYS
WE THOUGHT WE WOULDN’T CRY ANY MORE
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Ehud Manor, radio personality and songwriter, lost his
brother in the War of Attrition. In his memory he wrote the
song “My Little Brother Yehuda” – and named his son
after him, although he cannot bring himself to pronounce
his name, and instead calls him by his nickname “Yadi.”
Ehud Manor is interested in new methods of
memorialization. He accompanies three families who are
going through the commemoration process of their dead
and examines their meanings. He tries to see how they
enable the families to continue with their lives while
preserving the memory of the departed.
2002
Director: Nitza Gonen
Length: 26 minutes
EVERY DAY I DIE FOR YOU AGAIN...
2002
Director: Orna Ben-Dor
Studios of Israel Ltd.
Length: 26 minutes
This film centers around three writers and three poems.
The writers and the poems have become memorial candles
in the Israeli process of bereavement. Each writer has a
personal story which gave birth to his poem. Natan Yonatan,
a bereaved father, dedicated scores of his poems to the
memory of his son Lior. Ali Mohar, army buddy of Yoram
Bialer, dedicated his poem “Yoram” to him. Yoni Ro’eh,
childhood friend of Chen Barod, dedicated the song “The
Fruit of Your Garden” to Chen and his mother. Yehoram
Gaon, Ali Mohar and Yoni Ro’eh perform the songs. The
film features three meetings between the families of the
fallen soldiers and the songs’ creators and performers.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
IDF MEMORIAL DAY
SPECIAL DAYS
THE HILL IN RED
2002
Director: Ido Sela
Producer: Goren Productions Ltd.
Length: 49 minutes
PREMIERE – DRAMA
2002
Script:
Moish Goldberg
based on an idea by
Hagai Levi
Director: Hagai Levi
Producer: Sheleg Productions
≤±∑
During the Six-Day War, on the battlefield at the foot of Tel
Fahar in the northern Golan Heights, Regiment 12 of the
Golani Brigade lost most of its soldiers and officers. The
battle was bloody, a succession of improvised, courageous
deeds. In hindsight, the fighters say the outcome of the
battle was foreseen. The battle at Tel Fahar left behind a
pained, mourning, broken unit. Yet, for the soldiers who
survived – most of whom were new immigrants from
eastern Europe and north Africa – Tel Fahar was the baptism
of fire which branded them with their Israeli identity, and
endowed them with a feeling of equality with the native
Israeli soldiers they fought beside. The Golani Brigade has
a long and proud legacy, but the battle at Tel Fahar has a
central, almost legendary place in the molding of the selfimage of the brigade’s soldiers and officers.
with the support of Cinema Project
Length:
32 minutes
Roni and Sigal, a couple in their early forties, meet with an
IDF officer regarding the investigation into the death of
their first-born son, Ro’i, who was killed less than a year
ago. While they wait, the father realizes that they are going
to be watching a film which reenacts their son’s death in
a tank accident. They meet a young soldier, the director of
the film, and through him they learn about the IDF’s
“bereavement industry” in general, and the death of their
son in particular. While the mother indulges her fervent
search for the truth, the father tries, in his way, to go on
with his life. Over the course of half an hour in their lives,
we are exposed to their different reactions to bereavement
and the changes in their relationship as a result of their
encounter with death.
Featuring: Dan Toren, Keren Mor, Eli Altonio, Riki Blich
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
THE FALLEN
IDF MEMORIAL DAY
SPECIAL DAYS
An IDF Memorial Day talk-show hosted by Kobi Meidan.
≤±π
Three women are guests in the studio: Shuli Muallem, wife
of Lt. Colonel Moshe Muallem who was killed in the
helicopters tragedy; Keren Cohen, whose twin brother, Or,
was killed in Lebanon; and Ophira Rotem, an ex-officer
in the IDF whose son, Oren, a soldier, was killed in a road
accident. Kobi Meidan discusses with the guests the
concept of “the fallen” and its personal and collective
significance for them, on this day and throughout the year.
2002
Director: Adi Binyaminov
Producer: Meter Plus
Length: 47 minutes
IMAGES OF WAR
Seven short films, all composed of stills by various
photographers. Each film describes the story of war, soldiers,
and memorials since the founding of the state of Israel.
All of the stories, the memories and the tragedies, are
presented against a backdrop of still shots taken by
photographers on the battlefield and the headlines of the
times. The names of the films: Memorials, War, Portraits,
The War of Independence, The Six-Day War, The Yom
Kippur War, The Peace for Galilee War.
2002
Director: Reuven Hecker
Producer: Amythos Films
Length of each segment:
7 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
2003
Director: Uri Shine
Length: 49 minutes
The story of the “Eitan” unit for the location of missing
IDF soldiers – a unit that deals with the gathering of
intelligence information and terrorist activity in Arab
countries. The film uncovers, for the first time, the activities
and the contribution made by the men of this unit, through
an investigation held by two of its soldiers who were sent
to locate two missing soldiers from the War of
Independence. The missing soldiers were discovered and
kidnapped while on a mission, and their place of burial is
still uncertain. The families of the missing soldiers, 50 years
later, have requested the opening of unmarked graves in
order to verify their sons’ burial in these graves, while the
authorities and the military establishment are not
cooperative.
IDF MEMORIAL DAY
SPECIAL DAYS
CODE-NAME AL-HUSSEINI
≤≤±
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
2003
Director:
Avi Hemi based on an
idea by Yael Friedman
Producer: Idan Regev Productions
Length:
52 minutes
“A German passport will allow me to run away when the
town burns down... for the kids, you understand.” Quietly,
each for himself, without ceremony or pointless talk, many
Israelis, second- or third-generation Holocaust survivors,
are applying for “insurance policies” – German, Austrian,
Czech, Hungarian or Polish passports. They are eligible for
citizenship as a result of their parents’ or grandparents’
status as war refugees. History repeats itself in the
increasingly sad and ironic story of Israelis who dream of
returning to the “safe and open arms” of Europe. The film
“When the Town Burns Down” presents relevant questions
about Israeli and Jewish identity today. Through the
protagonists’ personal stories the film illustrates the cycle
of Jewish history, which could lead, albeit in a hidden and
subtle way, to the destruction of the Third Temple.
TISHA BE’AV
SPECIAL DAYS
WHEN THE TOWN BURNS DOWN
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CATALOG 1999 - 2003
YOM KIPPUR
SPECIAL DAYS
THE SILENCE OF THE SIRENS – DRAMA
2003
Script:
Moti Lerner
Director: Ori Inbar
Producer: Riki Shelah Productions
with the support of Makor Fund and Telad
Length:
70 minutes
SEVEN
2003
Director: Chen Shelah
Producer: Micha Livneh
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A drama marking the 30th anniversary of the Yom Kippur
War, illustrating the political and military decision-making
processes which came before the war that took the Israeli
military by surprise and threatened the existence of the
State of Israel. The plot centers on the two weeks before
the war broke out, when most of the military leaders were
convinced that the possibility of war was slight, despite
intelligence from the Arab nations to the contrary. Along
with the developments in the office of the Chief of Staff
are presented the deliberations of the Agranat Committee.
Featuring Assi Dayan as Moshe Dayan, Ruth Geller as
Golda Meir, Gil Frank as David “Dado” Elazar, Natan Datner
as Eli Zeira, Yoram Hatab as the Intelligence officer who
warns of the impending war, Eitan Lundner as his superior
who ignores his warnings, Ilan Ganani as the Intelligence
officer who is undecided about the chances of war breaking
out, and Eran Amihai as King Hussein.
On June 6, 1973, 130 members of Kibbutz Mizra were
mobilized in the space of a few hours. That evening, the
kibbutz decided to establish an emergency committee that
would run the kibbutz through the days of crisis. From that
moment, the secretary of the kibbutz kept an exact record
of the events that occurred on the kibbutz. As line after
line of the secretariat protocol unfolds, so does the human
drama of Israel behind the lines of battle. Within ten days
Kibbutz Mizra lost seven of its members and sons. Others
were injured. Each day, sometimes twice a day, the homefront commander arrived with bitter news. The film tells
of the days of war on the kibbutz and focuses on the central
figures of the bereaved families and the people who filled
the key positions on the kibbutz.
Length:
50 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
YOM KIPPUR
SPECIAL DAYS
BROTHERS IN ARMS
2003
Story Directors:
Daviv Ofek and Shiri Zur
Producer: Eden Productions
This program revolves around three stories. In each one
the protagonist attempts to locate a person who played a
meaningful role in his life during the war, but whose name
he doesn’t know. They are aided in their attempt to solve
the mysteries by portrait artist Gil Gibli, who awakens
memories for the protagonists and draws portraits of people
whose names and identities are unknown. The stories are
drawn from different aspects of the war and are varied in
character. The program is packaged as a studio program
and combines documentary films with meetings between
the protagonists and the people they were searching for.
Length:
54 minutes
PHOTOGRAPHS OF WAR
A documentary series comprised of two programs and 18
short films. The series is based on stills by photographer
Micha Baram from the time of the war, when he served
in the IDF spokesman’s bureau. The two programs present
the stories behind Baram’s photos, alongside interviews
with soldiers and families who lost their loved ones. The
short films are based on war-time newspaper headlines,
which, when combined with the photos, tell the human
stories behind the headlines.
2003
Director: Micha Shagrir
Producer: Tapuz Communications
with the support of Channel 10
≤≤∑
Length of each program:
30 minutes
Length of each short film:
5 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
‫סדרות‬
PROGRAMS
INTIMATE REPORT
A series of cultural documentary programs.
PROGRAMS
Each program features an Israeli artist on a journey through
his cultural points of reference. The artist relates to current
cultural events from his own personal point of view. The
artists come from different parts of the country, the center
and the periphery, religious and secular, Jews and Arabs,
natives and new immigrants. Each artist presents his own
creative style within the spiritual Israeli experience. They
provide a new, original perspective on Israeli society and
local culture, through which we can learn about the creative
process in Israel, trends in society, different ways of life
and means of self-expression, about barriers and difficulties,
and personal preferences in the various fields of work.
Altogether there are 25 programs, each from 30 to 40
minutes long.
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First season:
2001
Second season: 2002
Third season: 2003
Content Editors:
Yair Garbuz, Orna BenDor and Shimon Adaf
Directors:
Orna Ben-Dor, Tamar
Barkai, Ami Tir, Ran
Landau, Nati Adler,
Doron Zabari
Producer:
Herzelia United
Studios of Israel
Participants,
first season:
David Ofek and
Yossi Madmoni
Muhammed Bachri
Hanna Maron
Ronit Matalon
Ro’i Rosen
Hemi Rudner
Sigalit Landau
Yisrael Brite
Yisrael Harel
Haim Be’er
Participants,
second season:
Shaul Bibi
Tzvia Greenfeld
Eran Tzur
Efrat Mishori
Avigdor Feldman
Eliezer Zonenshein
Alona Kimchi
Amir Benayun
Bambi Sheleg
Yehoshua Sobol
Participants,
third season:
Dan Benaya-Seri
Jackie Levi
Dr. Meir Buzaglo
Michal Ne’eman
Shaanan Street
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
CULTURE SUPPLEMENT
A series of documentary programs hosted by journalist Dov
Alfon.
PROGRAMS
The program is based on the theory that between any two
given people on earth there exists a system of connections
of six degrees at the most, which they have in common.
The program moves from interviewee to interviewee through
the use of similarities in subject and context. Each program
is devoted to a central issue of Israeli cultural and social life,
and each subject provides a focal point for discussion with
the various interviewees. On “Culture Supplement,” Israeli
culture becomes a microcosm of human culture – a complex
of subtleties, schools of thought, flavors and colors. It
encompasses East and West, the religious and the secular,
mainstream art and alternative art, the private and the public,
the individual and society at large.
Host: Dov Alfon, journalist and editor of the “Ha’aretz”
newspaper, founder and editor of the “Gallery” and “Captain
Internet” supplements. In recent years he has worked as
the “Ha’aretz” correspondent in Paris, and at present he
edits the magazine “The Marker.”
Altogether there are 15 programs, each from 30 to 40
minutes long.
First season:
Second season:
Editor:
Directors:
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Producer:
2002
2003
Irit Dolev
Danny Sirkin, Idan Levi,
Gabi Bibliovitch, Shaul
Betzer
J.C.S. Productions Ltd.
Subjects of the
first season:
The Spirit of the Times
Feelings of Guilt
Misunderstandings
Materials
Language
Money
Chutzpah
The Body
Place
Pioneering
Subjects of the
second season:
The New Patriotism
Escapism
Borders
Consensus
America
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PROGRAMS
ZOOM
A cultural documentary series with a modern, fast-paced
approach, which deals with Israeli culture in the broadest
sense of the phrase. Daring messages are presented
through the use of the best tools of the television medium,
both visual and idea-based. Each program illuminates a
subject from unusual angles, through an original, colorful,
kinetic style of presentation. The program deals with
subjects we are exposed to every minute of every day but
don’t take the time to notice. “Zoom” brings to the screen
touching statements and messages that are likely to change
our attitudes. Altogether there are 52 programs, each 2540 minutes long, presented by creative young directors.
1999 - 2000
(1992) Ltd.
Program subjects: The Young and the Restless; The Other Side of the Tracks;
Girls and Boys; Cool; Donky; Drugs and Technology; Without Freedom; Peeping;
Sexuality in Sports; The Land of Nod; Grown-up Games; Hotels; The Russian
Mafia; Witches; Artificial Limbs; Hey Baby; Maps; Hitch-hiking; Baldness; Pain;
White Lies and Black Lies; Religion and Art; Body Language; Pig; The Staring
Cult; Children in a Strange City; Singles; Cemeteries; Breaking Up - Missing;
Breaking Up - Obsessing; Love At First Sight; Sane - Insane; Tears; Toilets;
Hypnosis; Legal Drugs; Low-Tech; Honor; Hymns; Femininity in Mentally Retarded
Women; Life is a Game; Vampires; Laundry; Torture; Jealousy; Circumcision;
Happiness; The Mistake of My Life; Children Playing War; The Avengers; Galya
- Why; The Queen of the Class.
SCREEN TEST
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1995 - 2002
Producers: Message Video
Productions Ltd.,
Globus Group Ltd.,
T.T.V. Productions Ltd.
and Sivan
Productions Ltd.
Young film and television producers, for whom this is their
first time on television, are guests in the studio where they
present their first films. Through the interviews and
discussions in the studio we learn about each artist’s world
and the source of the idea for his film. 346 features, each
from 40 to 60 minutes long, have been shown since the
program began in 1995. Hundreds of student films have
been broadcast, some of them through the support of the
Second T.V and Radio Authority’s film funds for the
encouragement of creativity – “Snunit” and “Brosh.” The
programs are alternately hosted by: Nachman Shai, Yitzhak
Ben-Ner, Jackie Levi, Avigail Arieli, Alon Abutbul and
Menashe Noy.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PROGRAMS
FOUR CROSSROADS
2002
Chief Director:
Israel Rozner
Producer: Tapuz Communications
Length: 55 minutes
The road always passes through two points. It is comprised
of a physical side and the idea it expresses. Four roadstories about 24 hours in the lives of: Erez Mushulam,
truck driver for a Tnuva distribution route by night and
instructor of a theatre course for Arab and Jewish youth
in Lod and Karnei Shomron by day; Atrash Nader, a truck
driver who brings merchandise through the Karni Pass to
Israel each day; the Zubchek family from snowy Kiev on
their way to a new home in arid Arad; and Yossi Goldenberg,
a bus driver from the Binyamin region of the West Bank
who takes kids from Karnei Shomron to school every day
in his armored vehicle.
24 HOURS
DIAMONDS IN A PITTA
≤≥∑
24 HOURS
A five-part series of documentary
films. Each segment documents,
over a 24 to 48 hour period, important
locations, occurrences and events
which illustrate the various strata of
the Israeli experience. The events
are presented from different points
of view and were filmed by multiple
film crews simultaneously. Their
fusion into one image creates a
fascinating look at the dimension of
time; a crossroads of the human, the
societal, the culture and the political.
2002
Chief Director:
Eyal Halfon
Producer: Al Arba Production
Length: 50 minutes
24 hours on Tuval Street in the Diamond Exchange district
of Ramat Gan. A street that completely changes its face in
the space of one day. In the daytime the street belongs to
office buildings and hi-tech, and at night, to massage parlors,
peep-show booths and slot machines. Everyone suffers in
his own way from the political and economic situation. The
film revolves around five central figures: Dorit Dayan, a
sandwich vendor who came from the world of crime; Ziv
Mendel, CEO of a hi-tech company; Yossi Lulu, diamond
polisher; and Ezra Rafaeli, merchant, and Dan Ben-Eliezer,
polishing-wheel maker, who met in prison and today try to
help those who want to leave the world of crime.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PROGRAMS
VOICE OF THE SPIRIT
The day commemorating the sixth anniversary of the
assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. An analysis of the rift between
secular society and ultra-orthodox and national-religious
society through the day’s radio broadcasts from various
stations: Radio Alshata, Radio Non-Stop, Arutz 7 and The
Voice of Truth. The only thing the stations have in common
is the memorial day for Rabin, a highly charged subject in
each sector of society. The film presents the different societal
approaches typified by the different radio stations.
2002
Chief Director:
Guy Michael
Producer: Zed Films
Length: 46 minutes
24 HOURS
SYLVIA AND ELIYAHU ARE LEAVING HOME
≤≥π
2002
Chief Producer:
Yael Kipper Zarizky
Producer: Eden Productions Ltd.
Length: 51 minutes
Eliyahu Arbel, who had been living until recently in his
home in Ramat Gan, and Sylvia Klott, owner of a perfumerie
for 52 years, from Ashkelon, make the difficult move from
their private homes to a home for the elderly, each in his
own way. The film accompanies them through the dramatic
moments when they close one chapter and open, with
much hesitation and expectation, a new chapter in their
lives. Twenty-four hours in the lives of new and old residents,
who come from different places and backgrounds to a
home for the elderly. A change from the old and familiar
to the new and unknown. A day of drastic change and the
beginning of a new life.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
24 hours in the lives of youth aged 15–18 who work for
the Magen David Adom. These young people, all from
different backgrounds, have to deal with complex situations
and questions of life and death. Unlike other young people,
they are prepared to give up their leisure time to save lives.
This activity is an essential part of their lives even when
they aren’t on call. The film presents an encounter between
different worlds, different cultures, and different parts of
the country.
2002
Chief Director:
Yifat Keydar
Producer: Profile Productions Ltd.
Length: 45 minutes
24 HOURS
PROGRAMS
LIVING IT UP
≤¥±
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PROGRAMS
ISOLA CACTUS
2002
Director: Rami A.Rodan
Producer: Shimon Peretz Multicam
Length: 52 minutes
A documentary on the subject is the line that shouldn’t be
crossed - the bottom line. In Hebrew it is called the " red
line.” The red line of the Kinneret (the sea of Galilee) has
been ignored – water is pumped out even though the red
line signals drought. An island has appeared in Israel’s sole
sweet water reservoir. The appearance of the island shocked
artist Shosho Natan of Kibbutz Ashdot Yaacov, and he decided
to create a series of art-works which were placed on the
island, photographed and exhibited in “Gabriel’s House.”
The art-works represent the artist’s troubled feelings, for he
sees the red line of the Kinneret as a metaphor for the
situation in Israel, a breaching of the bottom line of sanity,
a moral and intellectual “drying up” of our attitude towards
the environment and towards one another. The film combines
art and nature and reflects the society and the individual. It
shifts from Shosho’s work in building the installations, placing
them on the island and photographing them, to his encounters
with meaningful figures in his life.
THE SUGGESTION BOX
BETWEEN TWO WOMEN
≤¥≥
THE SUGGESTION BOX
The aim of the “Suggestion Box”
project is to provide freedom of
creativity and a venue for programs
and subjects of public and social
importance and developments in
television of special interest, without
focusing on a specific genre or
predetermined content. The intention
is to provide a window of opportunity
for Israeli artists and original creations
that have not been represented on
the screen until now. Six programs
have been produced in this
framework.
2002
Producer: Technews Media Ltd.
with the support of Project Kolnoa
Length: 67 minutes
Orna Porat was born 78 years ago in Cologne, a German
Christian called Irena Klein, and was a member of the Hitler
Youth during the rise of the Nazis. The film begins in
Cologne, Germany, where she was invited for a showing
of the film “White Lies,” in which she played the leading
role. There Orna also begins a journey through her life: the
woman she was then wanted to become a minister, turned
into a actress, and was drafted into the German army and
was exposed to the horrors of the Holocaust. At the end
of the war she fell in love with a Jew whose parents were
killed in the Holocaust and decided to go to Israel with him.
In Israel she changed her name to Orna Porat, converted
to Judaism and began dealing with a new world and a new
language, and attempted to integrate as a German into a
land of Holocaust survivors. The film documents her amazing
acceptance into the Hebrew theatre, difficult battles with
cancer, and her becoming the First Lady of Hebrew theatre
– Recipient of the Israel Prize.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PROGRAMS
SOB SISTER - DRAMA
2002
Scripwriter and Director:
Tamar Yarom
Producer: Buzz Television Ltd.
Tel Aviv
The days of the first Intifada. A platoon of wild infantry
soldiers. Shirley, the new NCO for personal problems,
young and dreamy, finds herself in a rough masculine
world. She is torn between her attraction to Yaron, the
commander of the platoon and her curiosity about Daniel,
an exceptional soldier in the unit. The platoon is moved to
Gaza. Shirley wins the heart of the soldiers, and becomes
one of the gang. She is oblivious to the harsh reality that
surrounds her, but her fantasy world is bound to be
shattered. Shifting between reality and fantasy, the film
tells a story about youth, love and the loss of innocence.
Featuring: Danna Yvgi, Moshe Folkenflik, Dado Elbahri, Eli
Altonyo, Daniel Bronfman,Erez Cahna, Yuval Gerstner.
with the support of Cinema Project
Length:
47 minutes
THE SUGGESTION BOX
LISA
≤¥µ
An in-studio program about artists and the plastic arts.
2002
Director: Givon Snir
Producer: Topline
Communications Ltd.
Length: 37 minutes
The program is based on the pop aspect of art, the presence
of artists in culture, the innovation of plastic art as opposed
to other aspects of visual art, and the use of plastic art as
a basis for a wild, cutting-edge, sensuous and aesthetic
discussion in this political and social era of Israeli society.
The studio was designed by various artists, among them
Avner Ben-Gal, Nir Hod and Ohad Meromi, and the
discussion introduces youthful artistic activity while bringing
up complex questions. The studio functions as a space for
concerts and work of video and slide art as a backdrop for
discussions between artists. Host: Yael Bergstein.
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PROGRAMS
WHAT DOES THE BIRD CARE - DRAMA
Scriptwriters: Yossi Wein, Sharon
Shamir, Dan Volman
Director:
Yossi Wein
Producer:
Sirocco Productions Ltd.
with the support of Makor Fund
Length:
40 minutes
This unusual television drama is based the play “Cabaret
Levin”, a collection of short sketches and songs by Israel’s
most acclaimed and controversial playwright– Hanoch Levin,
edited by Yisrael Gurion and performed at the Cameri Theatre.
Levin’s world is mostly dark, ironic and sad, yet funny and
poetic at the same time. This collection includes some of
his more urban writings, that were united into a coherent
chain of events, all set in Tel Aviv, with surprising and original
passages from one sketch to another. This very cinematic
interpretation of theatrical sources gives these writings
another dimension, another layer of meaning regarding the
creative process, a main theme in Levin’s work.
Featuring: Alex Ansky, Uri Gotliv, Israel Gurion, Zahi Grad,
Merav Gruber, Salim Dao, Shirily Deshe, Shmuel Vilozni, Gal
Zaid, Osnat Hakim, Anat Magen, Shimon Mimran, Meir
Swissa, Kyril Sponov, Muli Omer, Gabby Amrani, Ohad Shahar.
THE SUGGESTION BOX
STICK IN THE SPOKES – AN ANIMATED DRAMA
≤¥∑
An animated ecological comedy that takes place in the
Haifa area and on the banks of the Kishon River. The heroes
of the drama are Motti and Nina. He is naive, sensitive and
neighborly, and she is the absolute opposite. Together they
try to fight the polluters of the Kishon and its environs. The
film is computer-animated in a unique and original style
inspired by the animated features on MTV. The combination
of animation and a story of social relevance create a unique,
surreal world.
2002
Scriptwriter and Director:
Ilan Manor
Producer: Tut Banana Ltd.
Length: 35 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PROGRAMS
STREET CORNERS
A daily feature that tells the story behind the names of
streets and the people who live there, throughout the
country. Some of the features are about the orign of the
street name, some are about its history, but they all deal
with people and the unique personality of each street.
120 Street Corners in all, each about 3 minutes long.
1998 - 1999
Producers: Sheba Communications
Ltd. and Concorde
CHILDREN’S STORIES
SHORT FEATURES
A daily morning feature. Various performers read children’s
stories written by Israeli authors. The presenters: Etti
Ankari, Meir Banai, Avi Yafe, Haim Tzinovich, Tzahi Noy
and Hagit Dasberg.
≤¥π
180 features, each about 7 minutes long.
1999
Director: Ofer Bar Sadeh
Producer: Second Television and
Radio Authority
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PROGRAMS
THE ISRAELIS
A daily feature that presents a personal profile on an Israeli.
Each day brings a light look at the life of an Israeli living in
the country – who he is, where he comes from and what
he does. Jews – religious and secular, new immigrants,
Arabs, Bedouins, Druse, and more.
2000
Producer: Sheba Communications Ltd.
SHORT FEATURES
AT THE EDGE OF THE SHELF
≤µ±
A daily feature that was broadcast at the start and end of
each day. Israeli authors read from their works – poems
and stories.
2000
Director: Dubi Baruch
Producer: The late Meni Lazarin
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PROGRAMS
TWO MINUTES
These short features were filmed at the Camelot club in
Herzliya, at a stand-up comedy performance before a live
audience. The comedian is actor Haim Almakis, and his
discussions with the audience are combined with rich comic
visual flashes, the fruit of his imagination. The subjects are
taken from the Jewish-Israeli cultural world and present
questions and debates that touch our daily lives, and are
rooted in the various levels of Jewish tradition – the Bible,
the Talmud, and the teachings of the sages.
13 short features, each 2 minutes long.
2001
Script:
Reshef Levi,
Vered Mosenzon,
Shlomo Mashiach
Director: Zvi Godel
Producer: Israel Educational Television
SHORT FEATURES
SHAUL DAVIDI – ART LTD.
An art corner about Israeli painting and painters. Shaul
Davidi, art dealer and collector, offers his art collection for
presentation on television. The T.V. producers send a
director to check out the possibility of producing an art
feature using Davidi’s collection. Davidi insists on presenting
the feature himself. Here the situation comedy begins to
develop, within which the works of art are presented.
Featuring Menashe Noy as Davidi, Arik Zilberman as the
director, and Isabel Pe’er-Marx as the make-up artist.
≤µ≥
1999
Script:
Arik Zilberman
Director: Dubi Baruch
Producer: The late Meni Lazarin
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
PROGRAMS
HERE’S A STORY FOR YOU
A daily book recommendation, which brings to the screen
the fascinating stories of books told by readers. The
storytellers transmit the intoxicating, wonderful, enriching,
surprising or frightening scent of the book. The storytellers,
all book-lovers from different sectors of society, talk about
books from their personal collections that are particularly
close to their hearts.
45 segments, each from 2 to 3 minutes long.
2003
Directors: Uri Shein
≤µµ
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
‫הקרןהחברתית‬
‫מיסודהשלהקרןהחדשה‬
‫לקולנועוטלוויזיהוהרשות‬
‫השנייה‬
THE SOCIAL FUND
established by the New Foundation
for Cinema & Television and
the Second Authority
THE SOCIAL FUND
FORTUNA
2000
Director: Timna Rosenheimer
Producers: Snow in August
Production Ltd.
Every year in May, the six Dvash sisters leave their homes,
husbands, children, and grandchildren, as well as their work
and worries, for a luxury vacation in Eilat. For a brief time
they forget about the world around them and even drop
their names - calling each other ikhchi (Arabic for "my sister").
Behind this magical time together lies a miserable childhood
in the shadow of their mother Fortuna, who betrayed her
maternal role. Their painful stories of traumatic childhoods
are accompanied by the optimism of sisterhood, friendship,
sacrifice, strength, survival, intimacy, love and victory.
with the support of the Culture and
Education Council
Length:
53 minutes
SISTER-WIFE
2000
Directors: Timna Goldstein and
Hadar Kleinman
Producer: Transfax Film
Productions Ltd.
≤µπ
This is the story of Zipora Bat Israel, a member of the Black
Hebrew Community of Dimona. After 21 years of marriage
she wakes up one morning to learn that her husband,
Hazriel, is marrying a second wife, 14 years her junior polygamy is a tradition among the Black Hebrews. This film
attempts to understand how two women can share the
same object of affection. How much pain does it pose to
them? How much feminine wisdom is needed to cope with
the situation? Will Zipora and Arela ever be able to build a
bond of sisterhood between them? How much choice do
they really have? This is a film by women about women
who live in an unusual community. Yet at the same time it
reflects the experiences shared by women everywhere.
Length:
58 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
THE SOCIAL FUND
CUT
2000
Director: Nizar Hassan
Producers: Nizar Hassan and
Dana Eilon
Length: 70 minutes
Haim Dokomanji arrived in Moshav Ajur from Turkey in
1953. Haim, who arrived with a suit and tie, was shocked
by what he found in Israel and was soon contemplating
his bitter fate. Some time later he met Salome Jamo, who
arrived at the moshav from Iraq with her family a few years
earlier. It was love at first sight and, despite both their
families' reservations, the two of them were married.
When the Jewish Agency declared Ajur to be a cooperative
village the two families formed a political pact and ran the
village council. It was a pact that lasted only several years
until the start of political in-fighting between the village
residents over control of the council.
THE ARENA
2001
Director: Moish Goldberg and
Jonathan Gurfinkel
Producer: Eran Riklis Productions
and Maagalot
A group of citizens whose lives have become intertwined
with Rabin Square fight a municipal plan to destroy the
square and build an underground parking lot in its place.
What makes this enormous concrete hunk of sidewalk,
cracked and neglected in the heart of Tel Aviv, a place worth
fighting for? What is it about this square, which since its
inception has hardly changed physically, though the power
it has accrued and the dramas which unfolded there have
indelibly marked it with such a great “emotional” change?
The film features image piled upon image of the experiences
which have been etched on to our collective memory.
with the support of Makor Foundation and
Telad
≤∂±
Length:
48 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
THE SOCIAL FUND
THE INNER TOUR
2001
Director: Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Producer: Raed Andoni and
Liran Atzmore
This film tells the story of tourists visiting their homeland.
In the year 2000, a few months before the wave of violence
broke out, a group of Palestinian tourists from the West
Bank took a trip to Israel. The landscapes they encountered
seemed familiar yet foreign, threatening yet fascinating.
This is their homeland, yet they are visiting it as tourists.
The trip becomes a journey through time – between the
highly charged memories of a past that is threatened with
being erased, and the harsh reality of the present.
with the support of Telad, The Soros
Documentary Fund, ZDF-Arte Germany,
Jan Vrijman - Netherland, SVT - Sweeden,
BBC - England, VPRO - Netherland
Length:
97 minutes
THE KEY
At the age of 76, Margalit Zinati, the last Jewess in the
Druse village of Peki’in, enters the final battle of her life –
the fight for the key to the synagogue her family has
maintained for 2,000 years. While she struggles with Ilan,
who also dreams of carrying the torch of Judaism in Peki’in,
a third Jew appears who builds a competing synagogue
underneath their noses. The film presents a tragi-comic
allegory of the story of the Jewish people and its
uncontrollable need to fight, internally and externally, at
any cost.
≤∂≥
2001
Directors and Producers:
Dan and Noit Geva with
the support of Keshet
Length: 56 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
THE SOCIAL FUND
HOLIDAY FLOWERS
2001
Director: Limor Pinchasov Ben
Yosef
Producer: Yaron kaftori Ben Yosef
Length: 56 minutes
Gila and Motti are a couple who, after losing their former
business, decide to sell flowers and strawberries on the
roadside, in order to make a living. Motti is a 51 year old
man who spent time in jail. Gila is 39 years old, a fiery
redhead divorcee with two children, neurotic, sarcastic, a
workaholic and toothless. If they make a lot of money this
Passover holiday, they will, perhaps, be able to afford to
have her teeth fixed. Survival in this line of business means
daily clashes with the police, municipal authorities and the
local mob. The film is also about the people who stop at
the roadside to make a last minute purchase of flowers
for the holiday
THE SETTLERS
At Tel Rumeida there are seven Jewish families living in
caravans, who for the last 14 years have stubbornly insisted
on occupying a small hill in the heart of the city of Hebron.
The film documents this group, so highly controversial in
Israeli society. The group’s influence on public opinion is
out of proportion to its small size, as expressed by its daily
life and its highly charged relations with its Arab neighbors.
This is a rare and intimate look into the heart of this extremist
group, which constitutes the extreme right wing of the
Jewish settlers in Israel.
2001
Director: Ruth Walk
Producer: Belfilms Productions
Ltd.
≤∂µ
with the support of the Soros Foundation,
BBC, TV Ontario
Length:
58 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
THE SOCIAL FUND
THE BUNKER
2003
Director: Nitza Gonen
Producers: Gon Productions
This film describes a journey in search of identity carried
out by Pinchas Cohen-Gan, an Israeli artist of Moroccan
descent and extensive Western education, who chose to
live in Israel. The film describes how Cohen-Gan considers
making a trip to Germany to install his work at the site of
Hitler's bunker, in order to examine his situation and position
in Israel as an Eastern immigrant. At the same time, CohenGan tries to find a location at kibbutz Nirim for an exhibition
entitled “The Architecture of Evil”. This exhibition is actually
the closing of a circle because his first exhibition was held
in the cowshed of this same kibbutz in social protest.
with the support of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Foundation
Length:
50 minutes
THE CLASS OF 2000
This film describes the final year of studies of the 12thgrade students at Amal High School in Kiryat Malachi. This
class is considered the most successful in the history of
the school. Their last year in this collective hothouse is full
of tension at the approach of their matriculation exams,
their fears and expectations of their impending army service,
their plans for the future, their work and play. The film
focuses on the trivial details of the daily lives of these
young people living in the Israeli periphery, and reveals
their unique beauty.
≤∂∑
2002
Director and Producers:
Tami Gross and
Yuval Cohen
Length: 60 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
THE SOCIAL FUND
ADDICTED
Rafi is a compulsive gambler at a crossroad. He must
choose between his beloved wife and daughter and the
football pools, his life's obsession. He is overtaken by all
too familiar fantasies of wealth, the possibility of answering
to no one, the joy of commanding the respect of others.
2002
Director: Avi Hemy
Length:
48 minutes
ON THE FRONTLINE
A group of young people arrived in Gilo in Jrusalem in
September 2000. They have postponed their military service
to spend a year living together. These young people some
religious, some secular, from left-wing backgrounds and
residents of west Bank settlements, are trying to promote
understanding and cooperation in Israeli society, whose
schism is tearing it apart. While concentrating on fence
mending from within, the group members find themselves,
at the outbreak of the October 2000 Intifada, under fire
from nearby Beit Jala, as any hopes for external peace are
crushed before their eyes.
2002
Chanoch Zeevi
≤∂π
with the support of Tzav Pius Organization
Length:
55 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003
THE SOCIAL FUND
DO THEY CATCH CHILDREN TOO
2003
Director: Hedva Galili-Smolinsky
I was born here, and if they catch me, will I be returned?
Asks Ryan, a ten-year-old Filipino boy, after his father is
arrested as an illegal alien in Israel. Nato is his cousin and
best friend, whose father has a legal work permit. The
children live seemingly normal everyday lives, in the shadow
of the constant fear of deportation. The film focuses on
the world of the children of foreign workers. In addition to
typical childhood experiences, these children are forced to
deal with a complex reality against the background of their
temporary status that includes tough questions as to their
identity. The film follows the children's dreams, their fears
and their yearnings.
Length:
49 munutes
A CITY WITH NO PITY
The director of this film returned to the scene of her
childhood in Lod in order to make a film about a city where
Jews, Muslims and Christians live in a whirlpool of sights
and sounds – the call of the muezzin, the church bells, the
voices of the open marketplace, and the planes landing at
the nearby airport. She was greeted by a shower of stones
and discovered a violent, angry city, an urban ruin. A city
of surrealistic reality. The situation worsened with the
continuing Palestinian terrorism and particularly after the
events of September 11. Lod, a city without pity, has
become a futuristic metaphor for the state of the entire
country.
≤∑±
2003
Tzipi Reibenbach
Length: 65 minutes
CATALOG 1999 - 2003

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