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Raiders
In today’s Russia, tens of thousands of houses, businesses, factories and private land have all been victims of hostile seizures, not by individuals, but by organized corporations. These “enterprises” comprise not only of criminal bosses but also well-known politicians, oligarchs, police officers, judges and prosecutors, the “Raiders”. Ownership of property is taking on a different meaning in Russia, the system turns a blind eye, nothing is safe. Award-winning director Alexander Gentelev (“Oligarchs”, “Thieves by Law”, “Putin’s Games”) follows raided victims and several takeovers in this investigative documentary film.
Rita Jahan Foruz
Probation Time
Planets – Four Variations of Detachment
Set in a cold and distant orbit around the hot Israeli sun are four stories of deliberate isolation. A butterfly hunter, a man with a robotic arm, a family that runs a self-sustaining farm in the middle of the forest and a taxidermist who specializes in pets all wander in their spaces, devoted exclusively to their own worlds. Roaming between them in his own orbit is a man with a camera, drawing lines of communication between the spaces and characters. Through these people and their worlds he examines the emotional, artistic and technological conditions of the cinema that he creates.
Pole, Dancer And A Movie
Pole dancing may have started in strip clubs, but over the past few years it has won international recognition as an art form, a sport and a means of empowering women. Director Isri Halpern follows Neta Lee Levy, the founder of Israel’s first pole dancing studio, as she competes for the European title. He discovers an outspoken and frank woman, who challenges the very world she lives in no less than she challenges the world she came from. She demonstrates that, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, a woman in a bikini and high heels may also be made of the same material champions are made of.
The Polgar Variant
Photonovela
A twelve-year-old girl must complete an ancestry assignment for school. Slowly, the boring task transforms into a sweeping drama embodying many secrets about three generations of one family-beginning before WWII, continuing as Holocaust refugees, and ending with the fall of the collective kibbutz ideal. What does this heavy historical burden mean for a young girl today, living in a reality of social networks, soap operas, and telenovelas? A first-person documentary about the unsettling thought that life is a chain of events governed by coincidence and not by individual decisions.
