 |
| Documentary > Personal Point of View |
|
 The Green Dumpster Mystery |  | Directed and Produced by Tal Haim Yofe
50 min., Hebrew with English subtitles/ English, Israel 2008
A detective-like search is launched when the director finds some old photographs and documents in a dumpster near his home in southern Tel Aviv. The photos sparked his imagination and set him off on a humorous, personal and touching journey in search of the owner’s identity, discover their story and bring them back from oblivion. |
| | Abraham's Children |  | Directed and Produced by Dag Hoel
4x30 min., Arabic and English with English subtitles, Norway 2008
In four 30-minute episodes, we set out in the footsteps of biblical Abraham as he journeys from his birthplace in ancient Mesopotamia, through Syria, Lebanon, and Israel and eventually to his final resting place in the West Bank city of Hebron. Along this trail we meet Muslims, Christians and Jews, all united in the belief that they are descended from him. |
| | (Half) The Time of My LIfe |  | Director/Producer: Marko Doringer
Filmmaker Marko Doringer has decided to go on a very personal mission. He is 30 years old, hasn't achieved anything in life and has just lost his first molar. Bodily decay has begun and youth is disappearing fast. What else is there in life before it’s all over?
Best Austrian documentary film '07-'08 Great Prize “Diagonale ‘08 |
| | How Dare You? |  | Director: Lizka Assa, Producer: Lizka Assa
Hanni was a career driven successful young women whose life were turned up side down when she was diagnosed with a fatal neurological disease (ALS) and a prognosis of only two years left to live.
Best Feature Length Documentary - International Documentary Film Festival on Disabilities
|
| | The Last Card |  | Director: Sylvain Biegeleisen
Director Sylvain Biegeleisen sets out to get to know his eighty-seven year old mother, with whom he shares a complex relationship manifesting itself in silence. When dialogue replaces decades of misconception, we learn of the painful truth covered by that silence.
Jerusalem Film Festival, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal, Best Documentary- Grand Off European Independent Film Award |
| | Melting Siberia |  | Director: Ido Haar
Marina was born 57 years ago in the former Soviet Union. She says she lacks nothing. She has a husband, nice children and friends but it soon becomes clear that something is off in her seemingly harmonious life. Marina has never met her father.
Jerusalem Film Festival 2004 – Special Mention, ANONIMUL International Film Festival, Best Documentary Prize, Silverdocs, DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival |
| | The Cemetery Club |  | Director: Tali Shemesh
90 Min, Video, Hebrew, Polish, English Subtitles
For over two decades, a group of women and men have been meeting weekly at Israel’s National Cemetery. Amongst the graves of the nation's dignitaries, they debate philosophy, read poetry, eat lunch and determine the fate of the Jewish nation.
Mayor of Tel Aviv Award tor Promising Director - Doc Aviv, Best Cinematographer Award - Doc Aviv, Hot Docs, winner of the Magnolia Award for Best Asian Documentary, Golden Dove Award Dok Leipzig, IDFA 2006, Miami International Film Festival, Best Director Award One World Film Festival |
| | Seeds of Summer |  | Director: Hen Lasker, Producer: Edna Kowarsky, Elinor Kowarsky
63'/52' minutes ,Hebrew, English Subtitles
Seven years after completing an IDF combat course, the director returns to the place where she first fell in love with a woman – her commander. Over the course of 66 days and nights, the film follows the girls in one of the most rigorous combat courses and reveals the mechanism that enables the transformation of 18-year-old girls into fierce soldiers.
Jerusalem Film Festival 2007 |
| | Rafting to Bombay |  | Directed and Produced by Erez Laufer
70/56 min., Hebrew, English with English subtitles, Israel 2009
When Erez Laufer accompanied his father to Mumbai to visit his childhood home, he never imagined that he would be caught up in one of the city’s most horrific terrorist accounts. Sixty years ago, his father and grandmother found refuge in India as they fled from the Nazis. Arriving on a raft, they found a magical land of elephants and spices which amicably hosted them till the end of the war. This is the story of past and present colliding in one family’s remarkable history.
Jerusalem Film Festival, Mumbai International Film Festival 2010 |
| | Precious Life |  | Directed by Shlomi Eldar, Produced by Ehud Bleiberg and Yoav Ze'evi
90 min. Hebrew, English and Arabic with English subtitles, Israel 2009.
After Raida Abu-Mustafa is told she may have to bury her newborn child next to her two daughters, who died from a genetic disease in Gaza, Dr. Raz Somech, a young pediatrician at Tel Hashomer Medical Center, joins the fight to save the baby’s life. He turns to the film director and Arab affairs correspondent, Shlomi Eldar, and asks him to broadcast a story about the “bubble boy” with no immune system. Slowly, an extraordinary relationship is forged between mother, doctor, and film director, who vows to find a genetically suitable donor in the Gaza Strip.
Honorable Mention for Van Leer Documentary Award - Jerusalem Film Festival |
|
| 1 2  |
|
|
|
