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Annonces
Seven women reflect on a single theme. They expand outwards from the scriptural announcements made to Sarah, Mary, and Hagar, to weave a new web of associations and textuals interpretations, broaching subjects such as the bith of the image in Christendom, and poetry in ancient Greece.
Description d’un combat
Life Sentences
An Arab man marries a Jewish woman. They live in quiet harmony within the Arab-Jewish community with their son and daughter. After it is discovered that the father is behind dozens of myserious terror attacks in the late 1960s, the mother flees the country with her kids to the other side of the world and settles in Montreal’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. When they grow up, the two will take opposite paths.
Burning Paris
Yeshayahu Beitel was born in Sweden to a Holocaust survivor father and a sickly mother who died when he was 14. At age 27 he decided to become a photographer and brought his camera to Paris. There he began his strange and intimate documentation of a group of Neo-Nazis.
Caught In The Net
China is the first country in the world to classify Internet addiction as a clinical disorder. Caught in the Net features a Beijing treatment center where Chinese teenagers are being “deprogrammed,” and follows the story of three boys from the day they arrive at the center, to their three-month treatment period, and their long awaited return home. The film provides a microcosm of modern Chinese life and investigates one of the symptoms of the Internet age. It examines inter-generational pressures and the disregard of the human rights of minors who get caught in the net.
Pinpoint of Light
Love and terror, life and death, commitment and the longing for a child, shape the first two years of marriage of the director and his wife.
Waves of Freedom
Interviewees, supported by authentic documentary footage, reminisce about defying the British blockade to bring Jewish refugees into the future state of Israel.
Agadati: Screen of an Artist
Baruch Agadati-dancer, painter and filmmaker- is best known for having captured on film the flavor and excitement of life in Tel Aviv of the 1930’s. As film technology improved, Agadati’s AGA film company produced the first major sound picture in the land of Israel. This is the Land (1934), his most ambitious film, detailed the founding of Tel Aviv, the outbreak of World War I, the Balfour declaration and other important events celebrating fifty years of Jewish growth in Palestine. Agadati captured the pioneering mood of the early years and this compilation documentary ably celebrates his life and work.
Eyewitness: David Rubinger
Israel Prize laureate David Rubinger has been photographing important dramatic events and personalities in Israel’s history since 1947. For the first time ever, we return together with the photographer to some of the people and places that he immortalized through his camera lens. Who can forget the memorable photo of the three soldiers standing in awe at the Western Wall on June 7, 1967. Did you ever wonder what became of them? Or that pretty female soldier tending to a wounded comrade at the height of the Yom Kippur War. Come along with the photographer on this unique journey, a trip which spans more than fifty years of dedicated professionalism and talent, propelled by the great affection he possesses for the country and its people.
