 Ark of the Covenant | Director: Nir Toib
50 Minutes, English, Hebrew, English subtitles, Colour 1999
Where is the legendary lost Ark of the Covenant? According to historian Richard Andrews it is buried deep in the bowels of the Temple Mount located in Jerusalem. He is out to uncover it but, as this film shows, the repercussions could prove disastrous.
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| | Cutting the Cord |  | Director: Daniel Syrkin, Producers: Dana Eden Donna Productions, Paul Pauwels Periscope Productions, Simone Baumann, Solveigh Hardt LE Vision
In co-production with VRT, RTBF, MDR, Reshet Broadcasting. With the support of MDM
Myriam Fuks is a well-known Yiddish-language singer who resides in Brussels. Myriam grew up believing that her parents were Holocaust survivors. Last year Myriam found out that this was a lie. Her mother knew a different War, living a good life as a Christian in a small German village. The film follows Myriam as she sets out to understand her mother’s true story. It’s a film about myths, their use and abuse.
Documenta Madrid
52’ minutes, French, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, English subtitles, Israel-Belgium–Germany. |
| | The Diaries of Yossef Nachmany |  | Director: Dalia Karpel, Producer: Marek Rozenbaum
The history of the establishment of the State of Israel is told differently by the two nations fighting over the same land. Revealing the diaries of Yossef Nachmani, a mainstream Zionist and director of the then Jewish National Fund Office in the Galilee during the 1930s and 40s, this history, albeit by a Jewish clerk is portrayed in a way which differs from the Zionist ethos commonly acknowledged by the State of Israel. Jerusalem Film Festival |
| | A Film Unfinished |  | Directed by Yael Hersonski, Produced by Noemi Schory, Itay Ken-tor
90 min., English, Hebrew, German, Polish and Yiddish with English subtitles, Israel/Germany 2010
A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.
Sundance Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Full Frame, Best Internatioanls Feature Award-Hot Docs 2010, Planete Doc Review, Melbourne International Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival, Silverdocs Festival |
| | Harlan: In the Shadow of The Jew Süß |  | Directed by Felix Moeller. Produced by Amelie Latscha.
99 min. German, Italian, French, with English subtitles. Germany, 2009.
Veit Harlan was, along with Leni Riefenstahl, Nazi Germany’s most successful film director, remembered today for his infamous Jud Süß. Harlan was a master of national kitsch, exulting in melodrama and death, but he was also an extraordinary artist who ended up serving the Nazi propaganda machine. This documentary film, the first account of his life and career, draws on his extensive film catalogue, including previously unreleased materials from the Harlan family’s private archive.
Berlin Jewish Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Boston Jewish Film Festival, UK Jewish Film Festival, Stockholm International Film Festival, Award for Preservation of Audio Visual Memory -Jerusalem International Film Festival |
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