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Two holocaust survivors live in a tiny apartment. The movie portrait the daily routine of one day in their life, getting up, dress, every little action takes eternity, creating a flex in time.
Family in Transition
The story of a family in Nahariya, a small traditional town in Israel, whose lives change completely after their father finally decides to tell his family that he’s a transgender woman. Their mother chooses to stay with her spouse through the whole process, but just as it seems that life is back to normal, she takes a sharp turn and shakes everything up again.
Private Album
The story of Israel’s seventy years, as reflected in the private images of 17 Israelis. Each picture brings back to life a historic moment, major or minor. Filmmaker Kobi Farag leads the journey between people and images that create a new kind of history – history of the people.
The Promised
In Paris they were called “Jews”, in Israel they are the “French”: Marouane who was circumcised at the age of 18, dreams of becoming a shepherd in Jerusalem; Isabelle who follows her husband to Netanya, leaves her son behind; and Valerie, the television star, lives in Tel Aviv and misses a Paris that has long gone. Terror attacks in France, Terror attacks in Israel.Wandering Jews, arriving in Israel to discover its reality – tougher than they knew, beautiful and struggling, isintegrating. Five years of continuous cinematic observation of the French immigration, 100,000 people and one question left open: Why?
The Museum
Ginette
This is the story of Ginette, from her native Tunisia to her adoptive city of Marseille, in her role as the Sephardic matriarch she has become. Through intimate diary readings and unscripted anecdotes, this wife and mother recounts her upbringing in North Africa, the War, an enduring love story, her devotion to the Jewish community and reflections on modern life. What begins as a bonding experience between cameraman and grandmother, materializes into the portrait of a woman’s 90-year journey.
Conventional Sins
The Dutch Myth
A journey to the past can often lead to a voyage to the unexpected. In this probing documentary, we follow 88 year old Avraham Roth as he travels to Holland. But the Netherlands of his childhood turns out to have been much different than the image that most people have of this country. 85% of Dutch Jewry was destroyed in the Holocaust with the Dutch themselves taking an active part in the Nazi machine of destruction. This chilling fact has somehow been swallowed up in the positive image of the Dutch. Holland as always been seen as a liberal country that is peace-loving and one that went out of its way to help Jews during the Holocaust. But the truth proves otherwise. We are taking on “the Dutch Myth” with one of the prominent activist for Survivors rights. Roth went to school with Anne Frank and lost many of his family members in the Holocaust. He never discussed his experiences with his four sons, but when he turned 88 they decided that it was time to find out what happened. With a stubborn man for a father, the sons turned to the filmmakers for help…What they thought was a journey with the second generation up against the silence of their father, swept the filmmakers into a shattering of Dutch myths.
A Land Without Borders
Award-winning writer Nir Baram grew up in a political household. Both his father and grandfather were members of the Knesset and Israeli government ministers. As Baram begins to lose faith in the possibility of a two-state solution, he decides to travel throughout the West Bank to speak with both the Palestinians and the Israeli settlers living there. The surprising revelations force Baram to challenge his entire political belief system and reevaluate his own hopes for a peaceful resolution to this conflict.
