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From Tel Aviv to Cannes: How Israeli Documentary Cinema Went Global
From Cannes to SXSW, from Sundance to IDFA — Israeli documentary filmmakers have built one of the most recognized national non-fiction cinema traditions. Here is how.
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When Killers Stay Free: Joshua Oppenheimer and the Indonesian Massacres
Between 1965 and 1966, one million Indonesians were killed in a purge. The perpetrators were never tried. Joshua Oppenheimer spent eight years breaking that silence.
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The Stalag Affair: When Holocaust Memory Became Pulp Fiction
In 1961, as the Eichmann trial unfolded, Israeli newsstands sold erotic pulp novels set in Nazi camps — the Stalag affair. What they reveal about trauma is still unsettling.
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The Unfinished Film: Nazi Propaganda and the Ethics of the Documentary Image
In 1942, Nazi cameramen staged scenes in the Warsaw Ghetto for propaganda. The unfinished film became a reckoning with historical truth and the ethics of the documentary image.
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Rosa Eskenazi and the Rebetiko Revival: The Voice That Refused to Be Forgotten
Rosa Eskenazi sang in Greek, Turkish, Armenian and Ladino — the defining voice of Sephardic Jewish rebetiko. A documentary restores the forgotten legend of the Eastern Mediterranean.