Full-Length Feature Films ANNUAL CATALOGUE OF ISRAELI FILMS 2010-2011
פסטיבל הקולנוע ירושלים 28 JERUSALEM FILM FESTIVAL 7-16.7.2011 1 Head of Research & Coordinator: Nirit Eidelman Research: Limor Levy Translation & Editing: Tamar Cohen Illustrations: Lena Baklanova Graphic design and printing: Keterpress Enterprises, Jerusalem ANNUAL catalogueof ISRAELi FILMs ANNUAL catalogueof ISRAELi FILMs ANNUAL catalogueof ISRAELi FILMs Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Jerusalem Film Center, housed in the beautiful historical building facing the walls of the Old City, is home to the Israel Film Archive, the largest archive responsible for the preservation of Israeli fiction, documentary, and experimental cinema; the Jerusalem Cinematheque, which offers the best of Israeli and international cinema all year round; and the Jerusalem International Film Festival, the prestigious cinematic event that takes place every summer. The catalogue presents up-to-date information about the feature and documentary films produced in Israel over the past twelve months. The information has been gathered by the staff of the Jerusalem Film Center's resource center and with the cooperation of film funds, producers, and filmmakers throughout Israel. This annual service gives a broad picture of what is happening in Israel in the field of feature and documentary cinema. As you will see for yourself, it displays the fascinating and high-quality array of Israeli cinema in full creative bloom.
Yours, Lia van Leer Yigal Molad-Hayo Founder and President Acting director Dear Filmmakers, buyers, and distributers,
The Israeli film industry has known an unprecedented burst of creativity in the last decade. The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, in association with the Recanati Foundation, has had the privilege of being a part of these wondrous years, supporting a large part of the Israeli full-length feature films, documentaries, TV dramas, student graduation films, and experimental films. Together, the two foundations have been operating the “Cinema Project” since 1988, within the framework of the Rabinovich Foundation and under its management. The project is independently funded and supported by the Cultural Administration at the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israeli Council for Cinema. We believe this catalogue is a vital and necessary tool for aiding the distribution of the great variety of Israeli films produced here in the last year. We recommend it to every filmmaker, buyer, distributer, and enthusiast as a means for searching for Israeli films that are relevant to them, and also as a way of getting an overall impression of the dynamic Israeli film industry.
Kind regards, Giora Einy Director General The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts Dear friends,
The Israel Film Center at The JCC in Manhattan is a proud supporter of the Israeli film industry. Both the quality and the quantity of Israeli films produced in recent years require strategic systems and tools to best bring forth Israeli films to the world. The goal of the Israel Film Center and Online Database is to better connect North American industry members and audiences to Israeli cinema and film industry. Through our website (www.IsraelFilmCenter.org) and other tools, we aim to serve the American community as well as Israeli filmmakers, keeping the international film community both updated and at the forefront of the leading cinematic achievements coming out of this region. We salute the Israeli filmmakers and invite industry members and film presenters to visit www.IsraelFilmCenter.org to learn more about films listed in this directory and others.
Yours, Isaac Zablocki Israel Film Center & Online Database www.IsraelFilmCenter.org Dear Friends,
The Cultural and Scientific Affairs Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is proud to be a partner, for the third year in a row, in the publication of the annual catalogue of Israeli cinema 2010–2011 by the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Jerusalem International Film Festival. This catalogue of modest dimensions contains all necessary information about the Israeli films in their various genres that were produced during the past year, in addition to vital information about the key elements of the Israeli cinema scene. The catalogue is user-friendly for readers both in Israel and abroad. We at the Foreign Ministry found the two previous catalogues to be efficient and useful tools and very helpful. We expect this current catalogue, which will be sent to Israel’s diplomatic missions abroad, to be no less promising. Entrusted with disseminating Israel’s culture around the world, we consider the catalogue to be a vital tool in our activities to further that goal. We congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for its initiative and for its successful production, and we hope that this important catalogue will grow in content and in scope from year to year, as will its readership.
Sincerely, Vered Heller Head of the Cinema Section Anita Mazor & Uri Amitai Cultural and Scientific Affairs Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Full-Length Feature Films Full-Length Feature Films Full-Length Feature Films Aguna political anarchy reigns, and perverse sexual satisfactions are the norm. Within עגונה Dir.: Moshe Cohen Prod.: Yehuda Arad this chaos, five different characters try Source: Avraham Parsuf Contact: to pave their scattered lives. +972-8-869-4621, +972-54-788-0987, [email protected] Production Another world עולם אחר status: completed After her husband disappears, Rachel (Olam Acher) returns to her parents' house and Dir.: Eitan Reuven Prod.: Eitan together they try to find him in order Reuven, Shlomi Aviner Source: Eitan to get him to grant her a divorce by Reuven Contact: eitanm@gmail. Jewish law. Otherwise she will be left an com, [email protected] “Aguna,” unable to begin her life anew. Production status: completed Web Site: www.anotherworldmovie.com Andante The near future. After a biological holocaust, most humans have become אנדנטה Dir.: Assaf Tager Prod.: Lihu Roter murderous, “contaminated” creatures. The Source: Tinsatr Creative Pool Contact: film's five protagonists, who are still human, +972-3-518-4361, +972-52-572-0672, each represent a different worldview and [email protected] Production status: ideology as they try to survive. completed Web Site: www.andantefilm. com Armand's Kites העפיפונים של ארמנד In a post-industrial world, a factory sells the frightened, sleepless masses a dreaming (Ha-'Afifonim shel Armand) experience. Sarah, the sole surviving Dir. & Prod.: Moshe Zeevi Source: dreamer, searches for explanations to her Moshe Zeevi Film Productions Contact: strange nighttime visions. +972 3-612-9992, +972-54-644-8207, [email protected] Production status: And on the Third Day completed A military reserves helicopter pilot who וביום השלישי (U-va-yom ha-shlishi) runs an aircraft equipment shop is sent Dir: Moshe Ivgy Prod: Julia Shifter, on occasional missions to do targeted Avraham Pirchi, Tami Leon, Chilik Michaeli killings in the Gaza Strip. He gets Source: UCM Films Contact: UCM caught in an emotional and legal trap. +972-3-627-6200, [email protected] Production status: completed Bananot La-Eroviszion בננות לאירוויזיון In a futuristic Israel far beyond identity crises, violence is rampant, social and Dir.: Eytan Fox Prod: Gal Uchovsky, 10 Full-Length Feature Films
Moshe Edery Source: United King / Blockbuster בלוקבסטר Abot Reifh Hameiri Contact: +972-3- 766-1175, [email protected] Production Dir.: Sharon Maman Prod.: Assaf status: pre-production Ehrenreich, Sarit Bracha Source: Yael Five girls are flying to represent Films / Ehrenreich Films Contact: Israel in the Eurovision competition +972-52-749-7915, [email protected] with a song written for them by their Web Site: www.blockbuster.co.nr neighbors, a homosexual couple. Trying to escape his humdrum life, ex-footballer Micky Schwartz embarks Beautiful Valley with a childhood friend on a scheme to .make the first Israeli blockbuster עמק תפארת (Emek Tife'eret) Dir.: Hadar Freidlich Prod.: Eilon Boxer בוקסר ,Ratzkovsky, Yochana Kredo, Yossi Uzrad Guy Jacoel, Gilad Schneider Source: July Prod.: David Mandil Sc.: Harel Noff August Productions Contact: Source: Movie Plus Productions +972-3-510-0223, [email protected] Contact: +972-3-516-4373, Production status: completed +972-50-863-1093, [email protected] Privatization of the kibbutz forces Production status: pre-production 80-year-old Hanna into retirement. She The story of a modest and God-fearing struggles to maintain her “usefulness” community that preserves its rich and independence. culture in folklore, dress, customs, music, and food… and of a local Rocky Bena piecing together his shattered world. בנא Dir.: Niv Klainer Prod.: Marek By Summer End עד סוף הקיץ ,Rozenbaum, Ellie Meirovitz, Itai Tamir Michael Rozenbaum Source: Transfax (Ad Sof Ha-Kayitz) Film Productions Contact: Dir.: Noa Aharoni Prod.: Chaim Sharir +972-3-687-1202, [email protected] Source: Yetzira Ivrit, Ltd. Contact: +972- Production status: completed Budget: 3-562-0916, +972-54-670-7970, $800,000 Web Site: www.transfax.co.il [email protected] Production status: A father of a mentally impaired child has post-production Budget: $600,000 an affair with his son's illegal foreign Web Site: www.sharir.name caretaker. 1978. An end-of-summer coming-of- age tale set in a rural community in Israel, on the backdrop of the imminent peace accords with Egypt. 11 Cannon Fodder Central Station תחנה מרכזית בשר תותחים (Basar Totachim) (Tachana Merkazit) Dir.: Eitan Gafni Prod.: Eitan Gafni, Yafit Dir.: Ami Livne Prod.: Eyal Shiray, Elie Shalev, Noam Stolman, Adi Azoulay Meirovitz Source: Golden Cinema, Production status: pre-production Israel; EZ Films, France Contact: A plague breaks out among the Israeli +972-3-695-3220, +972-54-550-2961, population. The IDF responds within 24 [email protected] Production status: hours but after a day of bloody combat post-production contact is lost between the central Web Site: www.amilivne.co.il command and the units on the ground… With his tin shack under threat of demolition, Kamel, a young Bedouin security guard, decides to stage a Carmel bombing and then prevent it, in order .to become a hero and save his village כרמל Dir.: Amos Gitai Prod: Michael Tapuach, Amos Gitai, Laurent Truchot Source: Hamon Productions Contact: Close Enough במרחק נגיעה ,+972-50-520-1902 ,+972-3-621-6800 [email protected] Production status: (Be-Merhak Negi'a) completed Dir.: Lior Harlev Prod.: Yochanan Kredo, Gitai brings to the screen his views on Eilon Ratzkovsky Source: July August history, war, and memory, combining Productions Contact: +972-3-510-0223, autobiographical elements with a [email protected] Production status: variety of cinematic styles to get to the completed core of the question: what is cinema? A lonesome young security guard is torn between his belief that the Cats on a Pedal Boat end of human civilization is near and a relationship with an intelligent חתולים על סירת פדלים (Hatulim 'al Sirat Pedalim) rebellious young woman with a shady Dir: Yuval Mendelson, Nadav Hollander past. Prod: Jonathan Bar Ilan Source: Yuval Mendelson & Nadav Hollander Contact: Congress כנס העתידנים @[email protected], yuvmendelson gmail.com, [email protected] (Kenes ha-Atidanim) Production status: completed Budget: Dir.: Ari Folman Source: Bridgit Folman $130,000 Film Gang, Opus Films, ECL Belgium, ARP A romantic horror comedy about two Contact: +972-3-518-1805, teenagers and a cat trying to enjoy a [email protected] Production status: quiet afternoon. post-production 12 Full-Length Feature Films
Ivan Tich, a space researcher and 4373, [email protected] Production journalist, is covering the world congress status: post-production of futurists in Costa Rica. He gradually Two twenty-something slackers in a loses touch with reality and sinks into a Jerusalem neighborhood get mixed up strange utopian world, as terrorist acts with the local gangster. take place routinely outside of his hotel. Dissolution התפרקות Dancing Arabs (Hitparkut) ערבים רוקדים (Aravim Rokdim) Dir.: Nina Menkes Prod.: Marek Dir.: Eran Riklis Prod.: Chilik Michaeli, Rozenbaum, Itai Tamir, Nina Menkes Avraham Pirchi, Tami Leon Source: Source: Transfax Film Productions UCM Films Contact: +972-3-627-6200, Contact: +972-3-687-1202, [email protected] Production status: [email protected] Production status: pre-production Budget: $3 million completed Budget: $200,000 A bright Palestinian-Israeli boy from With surreal energy and brutal b&w Tira goes to a Jewish boarding school realism, the film follows the moral and passes as a Jewish kid. Based on collapse and first glimmer of redemption the novel by Sayed Kashua. of a young, morose Israeli Jew.
Day is Yours Even Dorot ואלה תולדות Night is Yours (Ve-ele Toldot) לך יום אף לך לילה (Lakh Yom Af Lakh Layla) Dir.: Eli Kolodner Prod.: Perah Rubin Dir. & Prod.: Eyal Zion Source: Eyal Zion Source: Eli Kolodner Contact: Contact: +972-52-556-9145, eyalzion@ +972-50-598-9479, elikolodner@gmail. gmail.com Production status: completed com Production status: completed A baby disappears from the scene of a The story of Tunisian-born Joseph car accident and ends up at the home Buchnik, father of 8, who comes to of an ultra-Orthodox young woman. A Israel and becomes a revered teacher. media storm rages outside but doesn't In the Yom Kippur War he loses his penetrate the ultra-Orthodox world. son and is no longer the same person. The Dealers Dusk הדילרים בין השמשות (Ha-Dillerim) Dir.: Oded Davidof Prod.: David Mandil (Bein ha-Shmashot) Source: The Dillers Partnership Dir: Alon Zingman Prod: Assaf Amir Contact: +972-50-863-1093, +972-3-516- Source: Norma Productions Contact: 13 +972-3-560-9311, [email protected] The Flood מבול Production status: completed (Mabul) One accident ties the fates of four Dir.: Guy Nativ Prod.: Chilik Michaeli, protagonists in four separate stories Tami Leon, Avraham Pirchi Source: together, over the course of one day. UCM Films Contact: +972-3-627-6200, [email protected] Production status: The Exchange completed On a Moshav near the sea, a family deals ההתחלפות (Ha-Hitchalfut) with the unexpected return of the oldest, Dir: Eran Kolirin Prod: Eilon Ratzkovsky, autistic, son, just a week before the Bar Yossi Uzrad, Guy Jacoel Source: July Mitzvah of his gifted younger brother. August Productions Contact: mail@ jap.co.il,, +972-3-510-0223 Production status: in production Budget: 10 million Footnote הערת שוליים NIS (He'arat Shulayim) A man comes home at an odd time Dir.: Joseph Cedar Prod.: David Mandil of day and for a moment it seems to Source: Mobi Plus Productions him like he has walked into the house Contact: [email protected], of a stranger. He observes anew those +972-3-5164373, +972-50-8631093 things that make up his life. Production status: completed Two Talmud professors at the Hebrew Fill the Void University are competing for the prestigious Israel Prize. They happen to למלא את החלל (Lemaleh et he-Chalal) be father and son. Dir.: Rama Burshtein Prod.: Assaf Amir Source: Norma Productions Contact: +972 -3-560-9311, [email protected] Gei Oni (Valley of Production status: post-production Web fortitude) גיא אוני Site: www.norma.co.il (Gei Oni) a love story set in the Jewish Hassidic Dir. & Prod.: Dan Wolman Source: Dan world. Shira must decide between Wolman Film Productions, Ltd. Contact: following her heart and fullfulling her +972-3-574-2683, +972-54-476-5894 duty to her beloved deceased sister. Production status: completed A late 19th-century ove story between two young Jewish pioneers struggling to cultivate barren lands in Palestine.
14 Full-Length Feature Films
The Golden Ha-Hi She-Chozeret Pomegranate Ha-Bayta ההיא שחוזרת הבייתה רימון הזהב (Rimon Ha-Zahav) Dir.: Maya Dreifuss Prod.: Amir Harel, Dir.: Dan Turgeman Prod.: Eviatar Dotan Ayelet Kit Source: Lama Productions Source: Gershom Productions, Praxis Contact: +972-54-470-8295, Productions Contact: +972-54-520- +972-3-685-0430, [email protected] 7010, [email protected] Production Production status: pre-production status: completed Web Site: www. The story of a thirty-year-old late bloomer thegoldenpomegranate.com who goes back to live with her parents The life story of Mazal, from her childhood and has an affair with a married man. in Yemen to her death in Jerusalem. It is the epic tale of the immigration to Israel Hayuta and Berl חיותה וברל .of the first pioneers from Yemen (Hayuta ve-Berl) Goya Dir.: Amir Manor Prod.: Assaf Amir :Source: Norma Productions Contact גויה Dir.: Nikita Feldman Prod.: Nikita and +972-3-560-9311, +972-52-568-8180, Rufina Feldman, David Derzi Source: [email protected] Production status: Nikita Feldman Contact: +972-54-789- post-production 6098, [email protected] Production An elderly couple has trouble adjusting status: completed to the social and economic changes A religious Jerusalemite family receives surrounding them. One painful night a strange guest for the Sabbath: Sveta, they decide to put an end to the a Russian young woman undergoing physical and spiritual suffering. conversion. A downward spiral of violence and tragedy ensues. The Holy Gathering הקיבוץ הקדוש Ha-Ben Shel Elohim (Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Kadosh) Dir.: Naamit Mor Haim, Nimrod Shanit הבן של אלוהים Dir.: Guy Nattiv, Erez Tadmor Production Prod: Naamit Mor Haim, Nimrod Shamir status: pre-production Source: Zed Films Contact: +972-3-624- A hallucinatory journey of a grumpy 3450, +972-3-624-3451, info@zedfilms. 78-year-old man and his Hassidic son com Production status: post-production to Poland in search of lost magic. Budget: 455,000 NIS (estimated) On a kibbutz, a utopian dream crumbles and a large group of the third generation seeks answers in religion. 15 The House on the Igor and the Cranes איגור ומסע העגורים Corner (Igor ve-Masa ha-'Agurim) הבית בפינת הרחוב (Ha-Bayit be-Pinat ha-Rechov) Dir.: Yevgeny Roman Prod: Chilik Dir.: Marko Carmel Source: Dvash Michaeli, Tami Leon, Avraham Pirchi Productions Contact: +972-3-5441189, Source: UCM Contact: +972-3- [email protected] Production status: 627-6200 Production status: post- post-production production A love story in the 1970s between a Fourteen-year-old Igor moves from married man and his sister-in-law, who Moscow to Israel with his mother, leaving has cancer and is married to an Arab. behind his father, a bird researcher whom he hardly knows. Over the Internet, I, Bialik along with his father, he follows the .migration of a flock of cranes אני ביאליק (Ani, Biyalik) Dir.: Aviv Talmor Prod: Tzvika Amotz, In the Fifth Heaven ברקיע החמישי Gil Ben Chor Source: Aviv Talmor Contact: [email protected] (Ba-Raki'a ha-Chamishi) Dir.: Dina Zvi-Riklis Prod.: Yifat Prestelnik, Leon Edery, Moshe Edery If you pull north Source: Yifat Prestelnik Films, Ltd. / United ,King, Ltd. contact: +972-3-566-3882 אם תמשוך צפונה (im timshokh tzafona) [email protected] Production status: Dir: Yael Shavit, Orna Mokady Shavitt completed Prod: Yael Shavitt, Orna Mokady Shavitt Source: Orna Mokady Shavitt Contact: Summer 1944. Thirteen-year-old Maya [email protected] Production is placed in a foster home. The director of Status: completed webpage: www. the home falls in love with her, reminded ifyoupullnorth.co.il of a tortured love affair from his past. Maya falls in love with a member of the The unfathomable story of Major Rafi underground who is engaged to one of Mokady - Who was left wounded in the workers at the home. the battle field during the 1967 Israeli- Syrian battle on the Golan Heights, while being confident help is on the Intimate Grammar הדקדוק הפנימי .way (Ha-dikduk ha-Penimi) Dir.: Nir Bergman Prod.: Assaf Amir Source: Norma Productions Contact: +972-3-560-9311, [email protected] Production status: completed 16 Full-Length Feature Films
A 10-year-old boy whose body Source: Transfax Film Production refuses to develop constructs an inner Contact: +972-3-687-1202 world and tries to awaken his dormant [email protected] Production status: growth gland. Based on the novel by completed Budget: $2,200,000 David Grossman. Mali's family ownd a garage in Jaffa. Mali has been secretly seeing Tawfik, Invisible one of the Arab mechanics. They want to elope to Cyprus, but the morning of לא רואים עליך (Lo Ro'im Alayikh) their flight everything goes wrong. Dir.: Michal Aviad Prod.: Ronen Ben Tal Source: Michal Aviad Contact: Je t'aime I Love You +972-52-244-0648 Production status: Terminal ז'ה טם איי לאב יו טרמינל completed Two women discovered that they were Dir. & Prod.: Dani Menkin Source: raped by the same serial rapist twenty Menkin Productions Contact: years ago, leading them to confront +972-52-399-0622 Production status: the trauma, each on her own and both completed together. The story of a young Israeli who goes to meet his fiancée in NYC. He misses It's Never Too Late his connection in Prague and meets a charismatic British young woman who אף פעם לא מאוחר מדי (Af Pa'am Lo Me'uchar Miday) makes him have doubts. Dir.: Ido Fluk Prod.: Gal Greenspan, Ido Fluk Source: Ido Fluk Contact: Je t'aime mon amour ז'טם מון אמור [email protected] Production status: post-production Dir.: Dan Sessler Prod.: Yoram Kislev budget: 100,000 NIS Source: Dan Sessler Contact: A man drives his father's old car [email protected] Production status: throughout Israel, north to south, completed in a quest to follow his childhood An unconventional film comprised of memories. 14 monologues spoken by 13 different characters, into their cell phones. Jaffa Joe & Belle כלת הים ג'ו ובל (Kalat ha-Yam) Dir.: Keren Yedaya Prod.: Marek (Jo ve-Bel) Rozenbaum, Jerome Bleitrach, Emmanuel Dir.: Veronica Kedar Prod.: Amir Agneray, Benny Drechset, Karsten Stouter Fishman Contact: +972-50-377-3472, 17 [email protected] Production Lonely planet פלנטה אחרת status: completed (Planeta Acheret) A black, romantic crime comedy about Dir.: Edan Zeira Prod.: Yoram Kislev, Ami two girls who develop a love for the Milstein Source: Cromagnon Contact: homeland and for one another on the [email protected] Production status: Tel Aviv-Sderot axis. completed A filming crew goes in search a man Kidnapped Moshe Ivgy who survived the Holocaust living with a pack of wolves in the vast plains of לאן נעלם משה אבגי? (Le'an Ne‘elam Moshe Ivgi?) Siberia. Dir.: Avi Malka Prod.: Avi Malka, Ilan Moscovitz Source: Impro Productions Contact: +972-3-6721289, avi@impro. A Man Without a Cell co.il Production status: completed phone איש ללא סלולרי Budget: $600,000 (Ish le-lo Selulari) Three complete strangers are brought Dir.: Samah Zoabi Prod.: Amir Harel, together by a stray football that falls Ayelet Kait Source: Lama Films from the sky, and are pulled into a Contact: +972-3-685-0430, series of crazy and strange events. [email protected] Production status: completed Web Site: Lipstikka www.lamafilms.com In a Palestinian-Israeli village, the אודם (Odem) life of a teenager is complicated: no Dir.: Jonathan Segal Prod.: Jonathan privacy, no higher education, no beer, Segal, Dror Moreh Source: Obelis and hardly any girls. When a cellular Productions Contact: +972-54-309- antenna is put up in the middle of 1900, [email protected] the village, everything turns into a Production status: completed whirlpool. A complicated friendship forms between two Palestinian women in Maya מאיה London around a heavy secret that is slowly revealed out of shreds of Dir.: Michal Bat-Adam Prod.: Michal Bat- memory. Adam, Moshe Mizrahi Source: United King Films Contact: +972-3-690-9800 Production status: completed In her first acting role, Maya plays a mentally ill girl. Determined to make 18 Full-Length Feature Films this her breakthrough role, she stays at My Australia אוסטרליה שלי a psychiatric hospital, and her empathy with the patients creates tension (Ostraliya Sheli) between her and the play's director. Dir.: Ami Drozd Prod.: Michael Rozenbaum Transfax Film The Mission of the Production Contact: +972-3-687-1202, Human Resources [email protected] Production status: Manager completed 1960s Poland. Two brothers are שליחותו של הממונה על משאבי meant to immigrate to Australia but אנוש (Shlihuto shel ha-Memuneh ‘al Mash'abei instead find themselves in Israel, in a Enosh) completely foreign culture. Dir.: Eran Riklis Prod.: Haim Mecklberg Source: 2-Team Productions, Ltd. My Dearest Enemy Contact: +972-3-687-5111 Production status: completed Dir. & Prod.: Tzipi Trope Source: Maya Films, Ltd. Contact: [email protected]., The human resources manager at a +1 646 246 4239 (New York), Jerusalem bakery is sent to find out +972-52-367-1411 Production status: about an employee – a foreign worker pre-production who was killed in a bombing – and slowly emerges from his emotional The story of a friendship between two stagnation. women, an Arab and an Israeli.
Melting Away My Lovely Sister אחותי היפה נמס בגשם (Namess ba-Geshem) (Achoti Ha-Yafa) Dir.: Doron Eran Prod.: Doron Eran, Dir.: Marco Carmel Prod.: David Mandil, Leon Edery, Moshe Edery, Bili Ben Boshe Moshe Edery, Leon Edery Source: Source: Tel Aviv Doco, Ltd. / United House Partnership Contact: King, Ltd. Contact: +972-54-777-9050, +972-3-516-4373, +972-50-863-1093, [email protected] Production [email protected] Production status: status: completed Web Site: www. completed doroneran.com A modern-day Moroccan-Jewish Parker Hendriksen, a teenager from legend about a love triangle between suburban Toronto, is been kicked a superstitious wife, her insensitive out of his family's house when his husband, and the ghost of her sister, homophobic father discovers the son's who died of sorrow after being penchant for cross-dressing. banished for falling in love with an Arab man. 19 , Eviatar Dotan / Praxis
New Family An obsessive relationship between Nika and her captor, Ivan, who is משפחה חדשה (Mishpacha Chadasha) holding her to pay off a gambling debt. Dir.: Tali Shalom-Ezer Prod.: Elad Gaviah Prod.: Matar Productions, Marker Obsession רסיסי אהבה Productions House Contact: +972-3- 768-4216, [email protected] (Resisey Ahava) Production status: pre-production Dir.: Nissim Notrika Prod.: Riki Shelach Budget: 600,000€ (estimated) Source: Riki Shelach Contact: A normative Israeli family takes in a +972-3-624-3126, +972-52-250-8133, neglected boy. The heroine of the story [email protected] Production status: makes desperate efforts to save the completed boy, but it turns out that she is in need Jerusalem, the 1960s. Sami, a father of of rescuing herself. four with a gambling problem gets sent to prison. Wealthy unmarried Dina gets him Night after Night released, but on the condition that he will .be hers, much to Sami's wife's chagrin לילה ועוד לילה (Layla ve-'od Layla) Dir.: Tamar Yarom Prod.: Marek Off-White Lies אורחים לרגע Rozenbaum Source: Transfax Film Production Contact: +972-3-687-1202, (Orchim le-Rega) [email protected], [email protected] Dir: Maya Kenig Prod: Yoav Roeh, Orit Production status: pre- production Zamir Source: Gum Films Contact: 1960s. Mangred, a 45-year-old +972-3-620-5194, [email protected] Holocaust survivor, lives in a Jerusalem Production status: completed hostel. One day a beautiful Yiddish The coming-of-age of a rebellious poetess comes to the hostel and teenage girl and her estranged father, Manfred decides to donate half of his who pose as refugees from the north savings toward reviving the Yiddish of Israel during the Second Lebanon language. War in order to find a place to stay.
Nika Once I Was פעם הייתי ניקה Dir.: Arnon Tsadok Prod.: Doron Eran (Pa‘am Hayiti) Source: Tel Aviv Doco, Ltd. Contact: Dir.: Avi Nesher Prod.: Dudi Zilber, Avi +972-54-777-9050, watchmandoron@ Nesher, Avraham Pirchi, Tami Leon, Chilik gmail.com Production status: completed Michaeli Source: Metro Communication Budget: $750,000 Web Site: www. / UCM / Aratomes Contact: ucoi@ doroneran.com 20 , Eviatar Dotan / Praxis
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netvision.net.il Production status: +972-54-5400687, [email protected] completed Production status: completed During the summer of 1968, a teenage 1982. Max Stoller, the legendary Maccabi boy goes to work for a matchmaker Tel Aviv basketball coach and Holocaust who has survived the Holocaust and survivor, accepts an invitation to Frankfurt both their lives are forever altered. to train the German national team and causes a public and private storm. Pa'am Rishona Lo Nechshevet Phobidillia פובידיליה פעם ראשונה לא נחשבת Dir. & Prod.: Tommy Lang Source: Dir.: Yoav Raz, Doron Raz Prod.: Shai Tommy Lang Contact: 972-54-429-6231 Iines, Guy Bahar, Amir Gollan Source: Production status: in production Artza Productions Contact: +972-77- 540-1764, [email protected] Production Peter, a 60-year-old widower, moves in status: completed with Noga, his slightly younger girlfriend. Along with them are Peter's 23-year-old A young agoraphobic computer son, Noga's 21-year-old daughter, and technician is forced to leave his house her 75-year-old father. Will they manage? and enters into a battle of wills with the real-estate agent to save his kingdom. Peace Domestic Policeman שלום בית השוטר (Shlom Bayit) Dir.: Aner Preminger Prod.: Aner (Ha-Shoter) Preminger, Noa Haviv Source: Aner Dir.: Nadav Lapid Prod.: Itai Tamir Preminger Contact: [email protected] Source: Kineret Films Contact: Production status: post-production +972-52-460-4575, [email protected] Budget: 2,000,000 NIS Production status: completed An Israeli mother desperate to defend A police officer in an anti-terrorism unit her family during the second intifada, lives his life between his friends and his locks them in the house for one long enemies. The birth of his daughter and weekend. the encounter with Israel's class war undermines his organized values system.
Playoff Pride כבוד פלייאוף Dir.: Eran Riklis Prod.: Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, Michael Sharfstein Source: (Kavod) Topia Communications / United King, Ltd. Dir.: Haim Bouzaglo Prod.: Yaniv Hamama, Contact: +972-3-6297222, Leon Edery, Moshe Edery, Yoram Millo 21 Source: United King Films Contact: +972- Michael Sharfstein Source: Topia 3-567-8881, [email protected] Communications (2003), Ltd. Contact: Production status: completed +972-3-629-7222, +972-54-540-0687, A bloody battle takes place between [email protected] Production two Moroccan-Israeli families over status: post-production some casinos in Eastern Europe. 1989. First Intifada. 18-year-old Tomer, an IDF soldier serving in Gaza, is sent to avenge the death of his fellow soldier Restoration and comes to some realizations about .the political and existential situation בוקר טוב, אדון פידלמן (Boker Tov, Adon Fidelman) Dir.: Joseph Madmony Prod.: Chaim Sharir Source: Yetzira Ivrit, Ltd. Rabies כלבת Contact: +972-3-562-0916, +972-54-670- 7070, [email protected] Production (Kalevet) Status: Completed Dir.: Navot Papushado, Aharon Kishales An irascible old furniture restorer unites Prod.: Julia Shifter, Avraham Pirchi, with his mysterious young apprentice Tami Leon, Chilik Michaeli Source: to save his business from his greedy UCM Films Contact: +972-3-627-6200, biological son, who wants to sell it off to [email protected] Production status: real-estate investors. completed The first Israeli horror film. A brother and sister on the trail of a dark secret Revolution 101 fall into the hands of a psychopath. The rescue mission includes two cops, four המדריך למהפכה (Ha-Madrikh la-Mahapekha) tennis players and a forest ranger. Dir.: Doron Tsabari Prod.: Ori Inbar Source: Hakrav Al Haagra Contact: +972-4-810-3838, +972-54-5961333, Radical רדיקל [email protected] Budget: $500,000 Production status: completed Dir.: Omer Reis Prod.: Avi Malka A mixture of documentary, drama, and Production status: post-production animation. The director tries to use The stories of three separate the power of the cinematic medium to characters, each looking for hope create social change. amidst the loneliness that surrounds them, are woven into a thriller. Rock the Casba רוק בקסבה (Rock ba-Kasba) Dir.: Yariv Horowitz Prod.: 22 Full-Length Feature Films
Salsa Tel-Aviv Slower than a Heartbeat סלסה תל אביב איטי יותר מלב Dir.: Jorge Weller Prod: Zvi Spielmann Source: Israfilm, Ltd Contact: +972-9- (Itti Yoter mi-Lev) 950-0474, +972-50-533-9823, israfilm@ Dir.: Yoni Zich'holtz Prod.: Evyatar netvision.net.il Production status: Dotan, Rami Damari Source: Praxis completed Productions, Ltd. Contact: +972-77-700- A political-romantic melodrama 4120/1 Production status: completed involving Vicky, an illegal worker from Laila Gutman published a successful Argentina, Yoni, an Israeli who tries to novel four years ago but has had help her, and his fiancée, Dafna. writer's block ever since. She fears that maybe she only had it in her to write Sea Salt one book… מלח ים (Melach Yam) The Slut הנותנת Dir. & Prod.: Itai Lev Source: Itai Lev Contact: +972-54-652-8977, itailev@ (Ha-Notenet) netvision.net.il Production status: Dir: Hagar Ben-Asher Prod: Marek completed Budget: $50,000 Rozenbaum, Benny Drechsel, Karsten A romantic triangle between Danni, Stöter Source: Transfax Film Procutions an Israeli actress, her boyfriend Lior, (Israel), Rohfilm (Germany) Contact: and Tamara, her best friend and Lior's +972-3-687-1202, [email protected], ex-girlfriend. [email protected] Production status: completed Web Site: www.rohfilm.de Tamar is a promiscuous mother of two Simico's Big Fantasy girls. She no longer seeks redemption, .until Shai arrives and tries to save her הפנטזיה הגדולה של סימיקו הקטן (Ha-Fantazia ha-Gedola Shel Simiko ha-Katan) Dir.: Arik Lubetzky Prod.: Michael Srak Srak סרק סרק Sharfshtein Source: Topia Comunnications (2003), Ltd. Contact: Dir. & Prod.: Haim Bouzaglo Source: Full +972-3-629-7222, +972-54-540-0687, Moon Productions Contact: +972-3- [email protected] Production 567-8881, [email protected] status: In prodution Production Status: completed Thirty-year-old Little Simico works in 2004. In the period leading up to the the local humus joint. He's engaged to Gaza Disengagement, fears of a right- a girl who dreams of a big wedding, but wing assassination attempt on the Prime Simico's fantasy is to make a big movie. Minister's life come to a head. 23 Still Walking their relationship in order to realize their .love and replenish their vitality and hope עוד אני הולך (Od Ani Holekh) Dir.: Yaki Yosha Prod.: Dorit Yosha Source: This Is Sodom זוהי סדום .Yaki Yosha, Ltd. Contact: yosha@netvision net.il Production status: completed (Zohi sdom) A former commando gets involved in Dir.: Muli Segev, Adam Sanderson Prod.: gambling, Not even his safety net of Avi Nesher, Dudi Zilber, Moshe Edery friends and comrades can save him. Source: Artomas Communications, Keshet Broadcasting Contact: +972-3-690- Testimony 9999 Production status: completed Web Site: www.mako.co.il/sdom עדות (Edut) The story of the last week of the Dir.: Shlomi Elkabetz Prod.: Shlomi infamous city of Sodom, the center of Elkabetz, Sandrine Brauer Source: entertainment and corruption in the Shlomi Elkabetz Contact: +972-54- time of the Bible. 317-4755, [email protected] Production status: completed Twonight 2 בלילה Inside the head of a soldier, stories he saw, heard, or experienced unravel. A (Shnayim ba-Layla) conceptual film that uses documentary Dir. & Prod.: Roei Verner Source: Firma and fictional elements to break down Productions Communications Contact: the perception of Israeli reality. +972-52-888-3332 Production status: completed Thanator A sweet film about our everyday life and the endless search for a parking תנאת'ור )התפוררות( Thanator (Hitporerut) spot in the big city – a spot for the car Dir.: Tawfiq Abu-Wael Prod.: Amir Harel, and for the heart. Ayelet Kait Source: Lama Productions Contact: [email protected], ayelet@ The Urban Tale מעשיה אורבנית lamafilms.com, +972-3-685-0430 Web Site: www.lamafilms.com Production (Ma'asiya Urbanit) status: completed Dir.: Eliav Lilti Prod.: Shay Werker A few days before emigrating, Iyad and Source: Bdalak Productions Contact: Nur, a bourgeois Palestinian couple from +972-52-277-9578, dadadafilms@gmail. East Jerusalem, delve into the pain of com, [email protected] Production status: post-production Web Site: www. urbantale.co.il 24 Full-Length Feature Films
A brother and sister go on a quest to The Weeping find their father who abandoned the Springtime Ballad בלדה לאביב הבוכה family when they were babies. Along the way they meet people who give (Balada la-Aviv ha-Bocheh) them a peek into what their future lives Dir.: Benny Toraty Prod.: Chaim Sharir, may hold for them. Moshe Edery, Leon Edery Source: Yetzira Ivrit, Ltd. Contact: +972-3- The Unforgettables 562-0914, +972-54-670-7970, chaim@ -sharir.name Production status: post הבלתי נשכחים (Ha-Bilti Nishkachim) production Budget: 1,000,000 NIS Dir.: Matan Gugenheim Prod.: Rephael Web Site: www.sharir.name Katz, Edouard Mauriat & Farès Ladjimi, Twenty years after a car accident on the Christine Ruppert & Helga Binder night of the premiere of his ensemble's Source: Pimpa Films / Mille et Une work, "The Weeping Springtime Ballad," Productions Contact: +49-221-33 00, Yosef Tawila, one of three survivors of [email protected], [email protected] the crash, is paid a visit by the son of Production status: post-production one of the other surviving musicians, The passionate love story between now dying of cancer, whose dying Yossi, a former IDF solider, and Dora, request is to hear the piece performed a mysterious French photographer for the first and last time. visiting Israel, as they both struggle in vain to leave their pasts behind. We are not alone אנחנו לא לבד The Wanderer (Anachnu Lo Levad) ,Dir.: Lior Harlev Prod.: Eilon Ratzkovsky המשוטט (Ha-Meshotet) Yochana Kredo, Yossi Uzrad, Guy Jacoel, Dir.: Avishai Sivan Prod.: Shai Goldman, Ilan Ben Dov Source: July August Redi Siven, Avishai Sivan, Keren Michael Production, Og Productions Contact: Source: The Mouth Agape Contact: +972-3-510-0223, [email protected] +972-50-728-5159, godard197707@gmail. Production status: completed com Production status: completed Adi, a lonely young man who works as Budget: $120,000 Web Site: www. a security guard in a large mall, firmly hameshotet.com believes in an ancient prophecy about Isaac, a young yeshiva student, is the imminent end of human culture. an only child to born-again orthodox When he meets the rebellious May, parents. Trapped in a dysfunctional things are no longer so clear. family and a failing body, Isaac finds refuge in wandering
25 X burst Zion and His Brother ציון ואחיו התפרצות X (Hitpartzut X) (Tsion ve-Echav) Dir.: Eitan Zur Prod.: Yochanan Kredo, Dir.: Eran Merav Prod: Asaf Amir, Yoav Eilon Ratzkovski, Eli Meirovitz, Yossi Uzrad Ro'eh Source: Norma Productions Source: July August Productions Contact: +972-3-560 9311, anat@norma. Contact: +972-3-510-0223, [email protected] co.il Production status: completed Production status: completed Web Site: www.norma.co.il In a fit of jealousy, a middle-aged Fourteen-year-old Zion and his 17-year- professor murders the lover of his old brother, Meir, are haunted by a terrible younger wife. He gets rid of the secret about a horrible accident, raising evidence, but now he has to witness questions about loyalty and responsibility. his wife's longing for her lover, whom she believes has mysteriously disappeared. Documentary films Documentary films Documentary films Addicts 18-year-old Ameer Abu-Ria, a Muslim- Arab Israeli citizen, volunteers for the מכורים (Mekhurim) IDF, beginning a journey of civic and Dir. & Prod.: Haim Pinkason Source: self-definition. Pinkason, Ltd. Contact: +972- 52-529- 6264, +972-3-658-7593, haim.pinkason@ Apocalypse Today הכנסת: אפוקפליפסה היום gmail.com Production status: completed An innocent young girl abuses drugs (Ha-Knesset: Apokalipsa Ha-Yom) and alcohol until her tragic death. Dir.: Uri Rosenvaks Prod.: Yehuda Bitton Source: Yehuda Bitton Productions Aisha Contact: +972-2-534-5797, +972-52- [email protected] ,261-2667 עיישה Dir. & Prod.: Oshri Hayun, Hila Cohen Production status: completed Source: Sapir Academic College A behind-the-scenes look at Israel’s Contact: +972-54-216-2890, Knesset over the course of one year. +972-50-578-7199, [email protected] Production status: completed Ascending and A special relationship between Descending עולים ויורדים בו ,96-year-old Aisha and her she-goat Buba, on the backdrop of her failed (Olim ve-Yordim Bo) relationships with her 11 children. Dir. & Prod.: Yehonatan Indursky Source: Yehonatan Indursky Contact: Amos and Tahina [email protected] Production status: completed עמוס וטחינה (Amos ve-Tchina) Five stories from Jerusalem’s Nachlaot Dir.: Alon Weinstock Source: Alon neighborhood, centered around Joseph, Weinstock Contact: +972-54-555-3379 who left his family behind in search of Production status: completed a spiritual experience. The story of Amos Gottlieb, a shell- shocked Yom Kippur War veteran. Bayit, Avoda, Chaim – Ha-Mechanizem Shel AmEER GOT HIS GUN Ha-Matzav ha-enoshi בית,עבודה, חיים — המכניזם של בני דודים לנשק המצב האנושי (Bnei Dodim la-Neshek) Dir.: Naomi Levari Prod: Saar Yogev Dir. & Prod.: Senyora Bar David Source: Black Sheep Fil mProductions Source: Akedia Productions Contact: Contact: +972-74-703-9009, info@ +972-9-745-0299, +972-50-586-0646, bsheepfilms.com Production status: [email protected] Production status: completed completed 28 DOCUMENTARy films
The film explores how women struggle and Dan Shadur Contact: +972-3- within the cruel economic reality. 5602701, [email protected] Production status: in production Band in the Modern Budget: $350,000 World The story of the Israeli community in Iran before and during the להקה בעולם המודרני (Lehaka ba-'Olam ha-Moderni) Islamic revolution of 1979. For Dir.: Uri Triest Prod.: Juval Hering one young Israeli family – that of the Source: Uri Triest Contact: +972-3-520- director – the last days of Tehran are 0687, +972-52-520-0687, uritriest@gmail. also a private story of a paradise lost com Production status: completed and never to return. The story of an unknown rock band made up of a brother, his sister, and her Ben Zion Netanyahu husband. They decide to try their luck (temporary title) בן ציון נתניהו )שם זמני( in the US, but between the economic crisis and the reality of music in the Dir. & Prod.: Moshe Levinson Source: virtual age, no one really notices. Moshe Levinson Contact: +972-54- 423-2176, +972-3-605-5955, l.m@orange. Beating Time net.il Production status: post-production The life story of the 101-year-old לנצח את הזמן (Lenatzeach et ha-Zman) Prof. Ben Zion Netanyahu (father of Dir.: Odette Or Prod.: Youval Or Benjamin), one of the most important Source: Unicorn Content & Media historians in the world, known for his Contact: +972 3 682-2220, monumental study of the sources of +972-52-393-9343, [email protected] the Spanish Inquisition, and once the Production status: completed right hand man of Zeev Jabotinsky. After discovering that he has ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and only 4 years to Black bus סוררת live, 29-year-old Avi Kremer decides to do the impossible and find a cure. He (Soreret) believes there’s a reason why he of all Dir.: Anat Tsuria Prod.: Lynn Roth people contracted the disease. Source: Anat Tsuria, Sigal Landesberg Contact: [email protected] Before The Revolution Production status: completed -Sara and Shlomit are two young ultra לפני המהפכה (Lifnei Ha-Mahapecha) Orthodox women who are shunned by Dir.: Barak Heymann Prod.: Dan Shadur their own society for violating the number- Source: Heymann Brothers Films, Ltd. one rule: never air dirty laundry in public. 29 Blacks – KMS up – tells the story of the struggle of the Mizrahi Jews for social justice and שחורים — SMK (Shchorim) equality in Israel. Dir.: Moran Ifergan Prod.: Moran Ifergan, Anat Schwartz Source: The Bus אוטובוס :Sam Spiegel Film & TV School Contact +972-2-673-1950, [email protected] (Otobus) Production status: completed Dir.: Yasmine Novek Prod.: Yariv Mozer, The daily routine of three young Yasmine Novek Source: Mozer Films, Ethiopian-Israeli rappers and their Ltd. Contact: +972 3-544-0649, info@ attempt to find a place in Israeli society. mozer-films.com Production status: completed Blood Relation There are parallel universes in the city of Jerusalem. Aside from Egged – the קרבת דם (Kirvat Dam) Israeli national bus system, there is a Dir.: Noa Ben Hagai Prod.: Edna & Elinor Palestinian public bus service. Crossing Kowarski Source: Eden Productions the Jewish part of town, the van carries Contact: +972-3-527-3403, +972-50- dreams from a different world. 488-1176, [email protected] Production status: completed Cabbage Head Group חבורת ראש כרוב A Palestinian refugee and an Israeli officer – the children of two sisters. (Chavurat Rosh Kruv) Now they must meet. Conqueror and Dir.: Ophir Lobel Prod.: Yoram Globus conquered, masters of the land and its Source: Globus Group Production refugees status: completed A movie for the entire family with Breaking a Wall humorous sketches based on the songs of Kobi Oshrat, one of the leading שוברת קיר (Shoveret Kir) composers of children’s songs in Israel. Dir.: Yitzhak Halotzi Prod.: Yahaly Gat Source: Muse Productions Contact: Carte Blanche מסביב לשעון — תיבת פנדורה _fg ,+972-50-570-6736 ,+972-9-744-5666 [email protected] Production status: (Misaviv la-Shaon – Teivat Pandora) post-production Budget: 435,000 NIS Dir.: Alexandre Goetschmann Prod.: Yael The story of Vicki Shiran, who led a Biron Source: Yael Biron Contact: theater group for disadvantaged youth +972-3-732-1304, +972-54-460-5196, in the 1970s, and the youngsters who [email protected] Production status: participated in it – today all grown completed 30 DOCUMENTARy films
Dr. Dror Sofer (47) is the only trauma Chasing the Shadow doctor at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital. He (temporary title) לרדוף אחרי הצל )שם זמני( is always on call, always prepared to bring patients back among the living. (Lirdof Acharei ha-Tzel) Dir.: Mordechai Vardi Prod.: Noam Casit – Not Just a Café Demsky Source: Noam Demsky ,Productions Contact: +972-2-993-2217 כל אנשי כסית (Kol Anshei Kassit) +972-52-287-0669, demskynoam@gmail. Dir.: Meir Swissa Prod.: Doron Eran com Production status: completed Source: Tel Aviv, Ltd. Contact: +972 The Yeshiva is like another planet, -52-803-6619, watchmandoron@gmail. where the students devote themselves com Web Site: www.doroneran.com entirely to the study of the Torah, Production status: completed Budget: where the emotional temperature is $130,000 close to boiling point, and were the Café Casit was the heart of the Tel Rabbi-student relations are like a Aviv Bohemia for three decades, a powerful magnetic field. place where poets, actors, singers, entertainers, and producers, lived and Chronicling a Crisis כרוניקה של משבר .died and became the stuff of legend (Khronika Shel Mashber) The Chosen Trail Dir: Amos Kollek Prod: Michael :Tapuach, Talia Kleinhendler Source שביל בארץ אחרת (Shvil Be-Eretz Acheret) Hamon Productions, Pie Films Contact: Dir.: Uri Goldstein Prod.: Lea Levin +972-3-621-6800, +972-50-520-1902, Source: IBA Channel 1 Contact: +972- [email protected] Production status: 52-800-7476, +972-2-676-6343, levinlea@ completed Budget: $200,000 gmail.com Production status: completed The film recounts 7 years difficult and The film takes a look at the “Israel frustrating years in the life of director Trail”, a 900-km trail that crosses Israel Amos Kollek after the failure of his last from north to south, and asks: If we feature film, Happy End. could return to the beginning of our lives, would we choose a different path or the same one?
31 Cinema Jenin The story of a former collaborator and his family who have been stripped of סינמה ג’נין Dir.: Alex Bakri, Marcus Vetter Prod.: their identity. The film looks at the price Philippa Kowarsky Source: Cinephil children pay for their parents’ choices. Contact: +972-3-412-6566, ori@cinephil. co.il, [email protected] Concrete בטון A Fellini-esque documentary that takes place in the West Bank city of Jenin and (Beton) follows a local initiative to re-open the Dir.: Yehuda Bitton Prod.: Nurit Kedar old and only cinema in the city. Source: Nurit Kedar Contact: +972- 52-3541542, [email protected] Clearing Out Mom’s Production status: completed Budget: House $175,000 For the first time, Israeli soldiers and לרוקן את הבית של אמא (Leroken et ha-Bayit Shel Ima) officers who took part in Operation Cast Dir. & Prod.: Tal Haim Yoffe Source: Tal Lead come forward. Their testimonies Haim Yoffe, One Man Films Contact: create a narrative of a war that was +972-3-751-3732, +972-54-818-8853, largely covered up by the media. [email protected] Production status: completed Darkei Noam דרכי נועם After the death of their mother, the director and his three sisters have the Dir. & Prod.: Onil Brosh Contact: +972- mission of going through her house, full 3-527-4534, +972-52-267-4041, of hundreds of books, photo albums, [email protected] Production status: and trinkets. What to keep and what completed to throw away? Then they find a dark A dramatic document about the family secret in an old envelope. stubborn struggle of Noam Tzadok, who was diagnosed with cancer, to The Collaborator return to life. and his Family Demons & Madness רחוקים ג’אן וג’נון (Rechokim) Dir.: Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash Prod.: (Jan wa-Janun) Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash, Ross Kauffman Dir.: Mamdooh Afdile Prod.: Amir Harel, Source: Fig Films, Ltd. / Deckert Ayelet Kait Source: Lama Productions Distribution GmbH Contact: +972-54- Contact: +972-3-685-0430, +972-3-686- 312-1355, +49-3412156638, info@figfilms. 9793, [email protected] Production com Production status: completed status: completed Budget: 600,000 NIS 32 DOCUMENTARy films
A secular Arab-Israeli director returns Doma דומא to his religious family to settle a longstanding dispute about demons Dir.: Abeer Zeibak Haddad Prod.: Suheil and ghosts. Haddad Source: Abeer Zeibak Haddad, Ilil Alexander Contact: +972-50-638- Director’s Cut 2522, [email protected], ililalexander@ gmail.com Production status: completed גרסת הבמאי (Girsat ha-Bamai) Doma (dolls in Arabic) is a journey Dir. & Prod.: Doron Eran Source: Tel in the footsteps of repressed sexual Aviv Doco, Ltd. Contact: +972-54-777- abuse within Arab society. 9050, [email protected] Production status: completed The Dreamers החולמות The life story of the Israeli cinema tycoon, Menahem Golan. (Ha-Cholmot) Dir.: Efrat Shalom Danon Prod.: Yifat Dolphin Boy Prestelnik Source: Yifat Prestelnik ,Films, Ltd. Contact: +972-3-566-3882 הדולפין (Ha-Dolphin) [email protected] Production status: Dir.: Dani Menkin, Yonatan Nir completed Prod: Dani Menkin, Yonatan Nir, Judith Orthodox filmmakers pursue their Menassen Ramon Source: Menkin cinematic dream under the watchful Productions Contact: +972-52-231- eye of the rabbinical establishment. 7317, +972-52-399-0622, niryonatan@ gmail.com Production status: completed Edges קצוות The story of Murad, a boy from an Arab village who undergoes a special (Ktzavot) dolphin treatment in Eilat to regain his Dir.: Tal Avitan Prod.: Liz Avitan speech after being cruelly beaten by Source: Sapir Academic College his peers. Filmed over the course of Contact: +972-8-689-7679, +972-52-574- four years. 3215, [email protected] Production status: completed Budget: 32,000 NIS The story of a family living in the shadow of the death of the father. Each tries to find something to hold on to. Tal, the filmmaker, uses his camera.
33 Elephants in the masked man entered a gay youth club in snow Tel Aviv and murdered two youngsters. פילים בשלג (Pillim ba-Sheleg) Entanged לכודים Dir. & Prod.: Aviv Sheyn Source: Aviv Sheyn Contact: +972-54-998-4545, aviv. (Lechudim) [email protected] Production status: Dir.: Amir Har Gil Prod.: Udi Kalinski, completed Maamon Matar Source: Provid A subtle observation of a number of Contact: +972-54-520-8720, +972-9- Russian immigrants who have lived in 952-4697, [email protected] the religious settlement of Alon Shvut Production status: completed for the past twenty years. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seen through the eyes of 6 citizens living in Electric Mind the shadow of the cycle of violence. The silent majority trapped in a המוח החשמלי (Ha-Mo’ach ha-Chashmali) historical situation of ongoing crisis. Dir.: Nadav Harel Prod.: Nadav Harel, Catherine Le Clef Source: Noprocesse Eye Level בגובה העיניים @Films Contact: +972-54-734-5558, cat catdocs.com Website: www.wix.com/ (Be-Gova ha-'Einayim) nadavharel/electric-mind Production Dir. & Prod.: Hila Indursky Source: Hila status: completed Indursky Contact: +972-50-555-0804, This film follows people suffering from +972-9-950-0855, [email protected] brain disorders, who are undergoing Production status: completed Budget: groundbreaking medical treatments 5000 NIS involving the electric stimulation of The story of a short-statured 14-year-old the brain. The film raises significant girl who wants to be a famous singer questions about ethics and technology,. and actress.
Empire of Pride Fashion Order צו האופנה אימפרית הגאווה (Imperiyat Ha-Ga’ava) (Tzav ha-Ofna) Dir. & Prod.: Yair Qedar Contact: Dir.: Yoav Gurfinkel, Moish Goldberg, +972-54-668-0939, [email protected] Naftaly Gliksnerg Prod.: Naftaly Production status: post-production Gliksberg Source: Glikscom, Ltd. Budget: 200,000 NIS Contact: +972-3-373-0422, +972-54-521- The film documents the LGBT pride 2766, [email protected] Production events of 2010, almost a year after a status: post-production 34 DOCUMENTARy films
A look at the Israeli wardrobe and the A cinematic fantasy in five acts, changes it has undergone over the last using animation, after-affects, archival century since the first pioneers to the footage, original music, and interviews present. to tell the story of the beloved yet enigmatic Israeli poet Lea Goldberg, Father’s right four decades after her death. זכות אבות (Zekhut Avot) Flashback פלאשבק :Dir. & Prod.: Israel Halpern Source Halpern Films Contact: +972-52- Dir. & Prod.: Shelly Gur-Sherman, Udi 230-9090, [email protected] Moses Source: Shelly Gur-Sherman Production status: completed and Udi Moses Contact: +972-54-771- The story of four divorced fathers fighting 6778, [email protected] Production for the right to raise their children, with status: completed the help of the first-ever men’s rights In a small house in a Moshav in the organization in Israel. Jerusalem hills, lives 54-year-old Libby, poor and alone with her two dogs A Film Unfinished and cat. In the eighties, she was the first punk singer in Israel, soloist for שתיקת הארכיון (Shtikat ha-Arkhiyon) “Libby and the Flash”. Will she make a Dir: Yael Hersonski Prod.: Noemi comeback? Schory, Itay Ken Tor Source: Belfilms Contact: +972-3-624-0780, +972-54-233- 1611, [email protected] Web Site: The Flat הדירה www.cinephil.co.il/Index.asp?ArticleID=58 5&CategoryID=77&Page=3 Production (Ha-Dira) status: completed Dir.: Arnon Goldfinger Prod.: Arnon Goldfinger, Thomas Kufus Source: A film about an unfinished Nazi Arnon Goldfinger Contact: +972-3-522- propaganda film, this documentary 0764, +972-52-340-3026, [email protected]. portrays the people behind and in front ac.il Production status: completed of the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto. Going through the apartment of his mother, who died at the age of 98, The Five Houses of Lea the director finds the traces of a Goldberg troubling pas among the piles of letters, documents, and pictures the parents לאה גולדברג בחמישה בתים (Lea Goldberg be-Chamisha Batim) brought with them from Germany to Dir. & Prod.: Yair Qeder Source: Qeder films Palestine 70 years earlier.. Contact: +972-54-668-0939, qedery@ gmail.com Production status: completed 35 Flutchkes Galei-Zahal הגלצניקים פלעטשקס Dir.: Ofer Inov Prod.: Anath Kandell, (Ha-Galatznikim) Ofer Inov Source: One Light Dir. & Prod.: Udi Kalinsky Source: Productions Contact: +972 528386968, IBA, Channel 1 Contact: +972- 54- [email protected], +972-2-983- 4245-8404, [email protected] 1371, [email protected] Production Production status: in production status: completed Budget: $120,000 For almost ten years the camera Flutchkes (in Yiddish: flabby arms) documented one of the strangest follows the multi-disciplinary dance phenomena in Israeli society, military, and performance “Gila,” which is performed media: IDF army radio, which determines by 70- to 80-year-old women who will be the next generation of journalists and media figures in Israel. Forget About it The Games They Play שכח מזה משחקי ידידות (Shkach mi-Ze) Dir. & Prod.: Tomer Halfon Source: (Mischakey Yedidut) Mistigris MP Contact +972-54-566- Dir.: Ram Loevy Prod.: Ram Loevy, 9128, [email protected] Production Penelope & Ed Peskowitz Source: status: complete Ram Loevy Contact: +972-3-672-9732, After Max, a successful contractor, goes [email protected] Production status: bankrupt, his daughter Tamar fights to completed keep him from drowning in despair. In the relatively peaceful spring of Max’s denial and dementia reveal the 2008, Tel Aviv University held an connection between body and soul. international basketball tournament in which teams from Palestine and Jordan joined the hundreds of students Free Improvisation from 14 countries who were invited to take part in the games and tour the אלתור חופשי (Iltur Chofshi) country. Jewish and Arab film crews Dir.: Doron Djerasi Prod.: Shushan documented what they saw. Production Source: Sam Spiegel TV and Film School Contact: adin214@gmail. com Production status: completed The film follows the struggle of Jean- Claude Jones, an avant-garde musician with MS, to continue to make music despite the adversities of his illness.
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God’s Messengers (The Gypsy Davy ג’יפסי דייווי (Story of a Cult Dir.: Rachel Leah Jones Prod.: Philippe שליחי האל (Shlichei ha-El) Bellaïche Source: RLJ Productions Dir.: Itzik Lerner Prod.: Itzik Lerner, Nir Contact: +972-54-462-8554, pbellaiche@ Toib Source: G.N. Communication gmail.com Production status: completed Contact: +972-3-561-4302, gn@gn-com. How does a white boy with Alabama com Production status: post-production roots transform himself into a Flamenco A documentation of “Gilad’s Farm,” the guitarist in Andalusian boots, and what stronghold of the extremist Hilltop Youth, happens along the way? The film tells on the eve of the settlement construction the story of guitarist David Serva Jones freeze and outpost evacuation. through his five women and five children.
Green Yellow Red Haim Hefer, The Story Behind the Words ירוק צהוב אדום הן אפשר — חיים חפר, הסיפור (Yarok Tzahov Adom) שמאחורי השירים ,Dir: David Gavro Prod.: David Gavro Yael Shavit Source: Slassi Productions (Hen Efshar – Haim Hefer, ha-Sipur She- Contact: +972-77-507-7122, +972-54- me-Achorei ha-Shirim) 589-5724, [email protected] Web Site: Dir.: Eitan Oren Prod.: IBA Channel 1 http://www.wix.com/Gavrod/SLASSI Source: IBA Channel 1 contact: +972- Production status: completed Budget: 2-644-3485, [email protected] 500,000 NIS Production status: completed Mogus Birsau lives in southern Israel The stories behind the poems written and wants to create music for the by Israeli poet Haim Hefer during Israeli mainstream. He surrounds Israel’s War of Independence. himself with a group of young men who write songs expressing the hidden The Hangman התליין .feelings of the Ethiopian immigrant (Ha-Talyan) Dir.& Prod.: Netalie Braun, Avigail Sperber Source: Pardes Contact: +972-54- 422-2578, +972-52-882-6566, avigail73@ gmail.com Production status: completed The story of Shalom Nagar, the man who hung Adolf Eichmann and became a killer himself, tells the story of Israel from an alternative and surprising point of view. 37 Hany the normal world of kids, and reared to .be world champions in chess האני Dir. & Prod.: Adi Harel Source: Hamidrasha School of Art Contact: Hekdesh Moussaief הקדש מוסאיוף festivals@ beitberl.ac.il ,9-747-8737 +972- Production status: completed Dir.: Rabbi Asher Prosper, Malka, Rony The story of Hany, a 48-year-old Zarf Prod: Scala Studios Source: Scala Palestinian man, married and father Studios, Ltd., Tel Aviv Production status: of six, from the village of Biddu, who completed works and lives during the week at the The film tells the history of the Bukharim Jerusalem SPCA compound next to the neighborhood in Jerusalem since security fence. it was established 130 years ago. Rabbi Shlomo Moussaief, the film’s Ha-Medina She-Ba- protagonist, is the most influential figure Derekh in the neighborhood and its synagogue. המדינה שבדרך — סדרה בעלת Heart of Chocolate חמש פרקים לב של שוקולד Dir. & Prod.: Yoel Sharon Source: IBA Channel 1 Contact: +972-2-6443485, (Lev Shel Shokolad) [email protected] Production Dir.: Eti Peleg, Yaron Shani Prod.: Eti status: completed Peleg Source: Eti Peleg Contact: A wheelchair-bound Yom Kippur veteran +972-54-460-2082, +972-8-864-0151, goes on a journey throughout Israel [email protected] Production and in search of national and personal status: post-production conscience. Five episodes. 60-year-old Eti Peleg, armed with an adventurous spirit and two academic Ha-Shachmataiyot degrees, buys a little camera and goes on a life-changing journey around the השחמטאיות Dir.: Yosi Aviram Prod.: Amir Harel world in the footsteps of that mythical Source: Lama Productions Contact: substance: chocolate. +972-54-470-8295, +972-3-685-0430, [email protected] Production status: completed Budget: $25,000 The story of chess players Judit, Susan, and Sofi Polgar, three Hungarian sisters who were guinea pigs in their father’s controversial experiment: they were kept home from school, isolated from 38 DOCUMENTARy films
Hola and Natan The film goes back with Tzila Carmeli, one of the founders of Moshav חולה את נתן (Chula et Natan) Nordiya, on a journey to reconstruct Dir.: Robby Elmaliah Prod.: Robby her family’s saga from Romania to Elmaliah, Avner Faingulernt, Arik Bernstein Ukraine during WWII. Source: Sapir College – School of Film and Television Studies / Alma Films Homecoming השיבה הבייתה @Contact: +972-52-854-4441, e.robby gmail.com Web Site: www.HulaNatan. (Ha-Shiva ha-Bayta) com Production status: completed Dir.: Orna Ben Dor, Noa Maiman Prod.: A tragicomic documentary about the Noa Maiman Source: Creation House attempts of two garage men who N.M., Ltd. Contact: +972-9-960-6688, live in a poverty-stricken war zone to [email protected] Web Site: www. survive through their fatalistic reality. avchouse.com Production status: completed Home Sweet Home Oto, Nato, and Germain are going on a unique and emotional journey in a החיים יפים (Ha-Chaim Yafim) quest for identity. They were born in Dir.: Efim Graboy Prod.: Tuvi Arbel Israel to foreign workers, and are going Source: Efim Graboy, Tuvi Arbel Contact: back to their supposed “homeland,” +972-52-268-3758 Production status: where their parents came from. completed Ten years after they immigrated, Yafim’s How Much Love כמה אהבה father loses his will to live. His mother is the sole breadwinner, and every day (Kama Ahava) is filled with heartbreaking quarrels. Dir.: Kinneret Hay-Gillor Prod.: Dan Yafim decides to take control over his Muggia Source: Dan Muggia & Kinneret crumbling family. Hay Gillor Contact: +972-3-695-3871, +972-50-885-2845, [email protected] The Home That Wasn’t Production status: completed Budget: There $343,000 ’Kinneret documents her parents הבית שלא היה שם (Ha-Bayit She-Lo Haya Sham) intimacy from back in the days when her Dir.: Nitzan Carmeli Prod.: Nitzan and mother was a dreamy-eyed teenager Shuka Carmeli Source: Nitzan Carmeli and her father an aspiring athlete, until Contact: +972-54-679-9317, +972-9-882- the present reality, in which Carmel 0386, [email protected] Production suffers from muscular dystrophy. status: completed Budget: 30,000 (estimated) 39 The Human Turbine I Shot My Love tells a personal story and follows the triangular relationship הטורבינה האנושית (Ha-Turbina ha-Enoshit) between director Tomer Heymann, his Dir.: Dani Verete Prod: Yehuda Bitton German boyfriend, and his mother. Source: Yehuda Bitton Productions Contact: +972-52-261-2667, ybitton@ I Was There in Colors אני הייתי שם בצבע :netvision.net.il: Production status completed (Ani Hayiti Sham be-Tzeva) Jewish academics and Palestinian Dir.: Avishai Kfir Prod: Itzik Rubin shepherds in Susya work together to Source: IBA Channel 1 Contact: +972- harness the energy of the wind and the 2-644-3485, [email protected] sun for a renewable energy project that Production status: completed will supply electricity to the inhabitants Fred Monson was an American Jew, who live in tents and caves, and allow Zionist, and photography buff, who the opening of a mechanized dairy that took countless color photos in Israel will open up new opportunities for from the 1940s to the 70s. They lay in economic independence. a basement until the filmmakers came across them… I Saw a Bird I will be like messi ראיתי ציפור )שם זמני( חולה על מסי (temporary title) (Ra’iti Tzipor) (Choleh 'Al Messi) Dir. & Prod.: Ronen Zaretzky, Yael Kipper Dir.: Adi Weiss, Tomer Bar Sade Source: Wagtail Productions Contact: Prod: Adi Weiss Source: Sapir +972-77-201-4231, +972-52-887-0538, College Contact: +972-50-781-8404, [email protected] Production status: [email protected] Production completed status: completed A film about the disappearance of Omer's dream is to be the best soccer nature and wild animals in Israel, seen player in the world. He won't let through the struggle of four individuals. anything stop him, not even leukemia. I Shot my Love Dir.: Tomer Heymann Prod: Barak Heymann, Tomer Heymann Source: Heymann Brothers Films Contact: +972- 3-5602701, [email protected] Production status: completed
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Ilana Gur – Out of In Third Person בגוף שלישי Frame (Be-Guf Shelishi) אילנה גור — מחוץ למסגרת (Ilana Gur – Michutz la-Misgeret) Dir.: Arthur Yakobov, Sharon Atias Prod.: Dir.: Nurit Kedar, Ido Bahat Prod.: Nurit Yoav Halevy Source: Master Property: Kedar Contact: +972-52-354-1542, Tmuna Communication Ltd. / Open Doors [email protected] Production Films Contact: +972-4-678-6980, +972- status: completed 50-729-6949, [email protected] Controversial artist Ilana Gur sits on Web Site: www.opendoorsfilms.com the balcony of her remarkable museum Production status: completed Budget: in Jaffa and offers us a glimpse into $130,000 her life. The personal road trip of Bukharan artist and painter, Arthur Yaakobov, to I’m not a Philippina find out about the family whom he .never knew אני לא פיליפינה (Ani Lo Filipina) Dir.: Anat Tel Prod.: Sasha Klein, Anat Incessant Visions חזיונות בלתי פוסקים ,Tel Source: Sasha Klein Productions Ltd. Contact: [email protected] (Chezyonot Bilti Poskim) Production status: completed Dir.: Duki Dror Prod.: Yael Shavit Six-year-old Krizel is a blind girl of Source: Zygote films Contact: +972-54- Philippine origin, born in Israel. She lives 493-4740, +972-052-234-4091, duki.dror@ with her adoptive mother, Janette, a gmail.com Production status: completed foreign Philippine worker. She dreams of He made sketches on scraps of paper seeing once again and staying in Israel. and sent them to the young cellist who awaited him in Berlin. She saw his genius and within several years helped In Neutral Waters him turn into the most sought-after architect in Germany. Erich Mendelssohn במים ניטראליים (Be-Mayim Neitralim) and his wife had to leave Germany. They Dir.: Hilla Shitrit Prod.: Reuven Hecker wandered between continents, and Source: Hilla Shitrit Contact: +972- 52- every place he built, he left his mark. 432-7866, +97254-426-4747, hillalala@ gmail.com Production status: post- production Budget: 200,000 NIS A therapeutic cruise in the North Sea for Israeli reserves soldiers who fought in Lebanon and in the Territories.
41 The Inheritance focuses on the heartbreak and hope of the modern kibbutz as a new generation הירושה (Ha-Yerusha) struggles to ensure its survival. Dir.: Hiam Abbas Prod.: Arik Bernstein, Metro Communications Source: Alma Iraq ‘n’ roll עירקנרול ,Production Contact: +972 -3 522-4061 [email protected] Production Dir.: Gili Gaon Prod.: Dani Haimovich status: in production Source: Station Films, Ltd. Contact: In a small Muslim village in the north +972-3-670-9761, +972-54-397-1492, of Israel, an inheritance battle between [email protected] Production status: siblings goes on as the father lies on completed his deathbed, reminiscing about his Dudu Tasa, a leading Israeli rock unfortunate past with his wife, the late musician, explores his family roots and mother. the story of his grandfather, who was one of the leading musicians in Iraq Interrupted Streams in the 1930s. The journey will have an effect on his identity, both as a זרמים קטועים (Zramim Ktu‘im) musician and as an Israeli. Dir. & Prod.: Guy Davidi, Alexandre Goetchmann Source: Guy Davidi & I’ve Seen Giraffes in Alexandre Goetchmann and AMC India ראיתי ג’ירפות בהודו @Contact: +972-54-494-9831, guydvd gmail.com Web Site: sites.google.com/ (Ra’iti Jirafot Be-Hodu) site/interruptedstreams10/ Production Dir.: Noam Pinchas Prod.: Ronen status: completed Michaeli Source: Ronen Michaeli Along the broken water pipe in the Contact: [email protected] West-Bank village of Bil’in, the people Production Status: completed of the village walk on different paths The Giraffes, a wild rock band, set out towards an uncertain future. on a magical musical tour across India to perform for thousands of Israeli Inventing our backpackers, but the 2008 terror attacks life: The Kibbutz in Mumbai take the journey off-track. Experiment Dir.: Toby Appleton Perl A documentary examining the 100-year history of Israel’s kibbutz movement, recreating its glorious past, and chronicling its recent decline. The film 42 DOCUMENTARy films
Israel a Home Movie Jews Now יהודים עכשיו כך ראינו (Kakh Ra’inu) (Yehudim Akhshav) Dir.: Eliav Lilti Prod.: Arik Bernstein Dir.: Galia Oz Prod.: Anat Yahalom Source: Arik Bernstein Contact: +972 Source: IBA Channel 1 Contact: +972- -3-522-4061, [email protected] 2-644-3485, [email protected] Production status: in production Production status: completed A three-episode documentary series An Israeli mosaic that spreads from telling the story of Israel and Palestine Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, through the from the start of the 20th century up to settlement of Kedumim and the the late seventies by means of a wide Kibbutzim in the north, focusing on variety of personal home movie footage in fathers and sons and the way in which any format from before the Age of Video. Judaism is passed from generation to generation, for better or worse. Jeannete The Journalists ג’נט העיתונאים Dir.: Ruth Walk Prod.: Yariv Mozer, Hila Aviram Source: Yariv Mozer Contact: (Ha-Itona’im) +972-52-270-2000, info@ mozer-films. Dir: Idit Avrahami Prod: Assaf Amir com Production status: completed Source: Norma Productions Contact: The exclusive life story of Jeannette [email protected] Production status: Ordman, a petite, aristocratic, and completed powerful woman, who dedicated her The six-part series explores the life to dance and to her dogs. shock the printed press in Israel is experiencing these days with the infiltration of television and internet Jeremiah and in the shadow of the fierce war .between the Israeli publishers ירמיהו (Yirmiyahu) Dir.: Eran Paz Prod.: Ilan Moskovich Source: Yermiyahu Production Contact: +972-77-549-1584, +972-54-451-9171, +972-54-238-1933, [email protected] Production status: completed A film about the Shapira neighborhood in southern Tel Aviv and one man who gives hope to the many miserable residents there.
43 The Journeys of The Lady of the Court אשת החצר a Secular Jew in Jerusalem (Eshet Ha-Chatzer) Dir.: Amnon Binyamin Prod.: Idan מסע של חילונית בירושלים (Masa Shel Chilonit be-Yerushalayim) Negev, Yael Feldboy Source: Idan Regev Dir. & Prod.: Elena Canetti Contact: Productions, Ltd. Contact: +972-54-242- +972-54-882-0433, [email protected] 4243, +972-3-649-5593, regev.idan@gmail. Production status: completed com Production status: completed Waking up one morning to the A rare peek into the life of Rivka emptiness of her life, 45-year-old Elena Paluch, an ultra-Orthodox woman and decides to go on a journey through the political journalist who was an advisor religious worlds that inhabit her city, to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Jerusalem’s streets. matchmaker between his government and the ultra-Orthodox parties. Kafka’s Last Story Land of Genesis הסיפור האחרון של קפקא ארץ בראשית (Ha-Sippur ha-Acharon shel Kafka) Dir. & Prod.: Sagi Bornstein Source: (Eretz Bereshit) Ruth Diskin Contact: ruth@ruthfilms. Dir.: Moshe Alpert Prod.: Moshe Alpert, com Production status: completed Haim Mecklberg, Esti Yaakov Meckelberg Franz Kafka’s inheritance ignited a Source: Afikim Productions, 2team cultural struggle between the heiresses, Productions Contact: +972-4-675-4628, Israel and Germany. An intercontinental [email protected], +972-50- investigative quest for literary treasures, 531-2999, +972-50-640-2691, +972- big money, and betrayed testaments. 3-687-5111, [email protected] Web Site: www.afikimproductions.com Production status: completed Budget: Kvisa Melukhlekhet 1,300,000 NIS The film follows three mammals in their כביסה מלוכלכת Dir.: Yael Sherer Prod.: David Noy respective geographic habitats, as the Source: David Noy Contact: davidno@ seasons change: the wolves of the minshar.org.il Golan Heights, the swamp cats of the Two years ago, 27-year-old Yael filed Sea of Galilee, and the ibexes of the an unprecedented civil suit in Israel, desert. suing damages from her father for sexual abuse. Her siblings responded by disowning her. Her mother is her only family, but the two have never talked openly about matters. 44 DOCUMENTARy films
Langue sacrée, langue from 1967 to the present, from the parlée point of view of the Israeli jurists who .established the system and served in it שפה אחת ודברים אחדים (Safa Achat u-Devarim Achadim) Dir.: Nurith Aviv Prod.: Itay Tamir, Serge Life in Stills הצלמנייה Lalou Source: Layla Productions / Les films d’ici Contact: nurith.aviv@gmail. (Ha-Tzalmaniya) com Production status: completed Dir.: Tamar Tal Prod: Barak Heymann A journey into the Hebrew language, Source: Heymann Brothers Films ancient and modern, through the Contact: +972-52-274-2445, barak@ portraits of ten translators. A mosaic heymannfilms.com Production status: of characters, languages, and cultures. completed Part three of a trilogy. The story of Miriam Wissenstein and her grandson Ben, who embark on an The Last Chance High exciting, funny and touching journey to ”.save the legendary “Photo House תיכון ההזדמנות האחרונה (Tichon ha-Hizdamnut ha-Achrona) Dir.: Ben Shani Prod.: Ruthi Steinberg Like The Queen of Source: Uvda – Keshet TV Contact: England כמו מלכת אנגליה +972-561-8035 ,+972-623-9000 Production status: completed (Kemo Malkat Angliya) A documentation of a year at the Dir. & Prod.: Micha Shagrir Source: Branko Weiss High School in Ramle, Tapuz Comunications Contact: +972-2- where students whom the educational 673-4587, [email protected], tapuzltd@ system has given up on get another netvision.net.il Production status: chance to get their high school completed diplomas and a different future. Layer by layer, the past and present of artist David Bergman unfold into a The Law in These Parts dramatic story starting in Nazi-occupied Paris, through the Kibbutz, and to the שלטון החוק (Shilton ha-Chok) national stage and his private studio. Dir.: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Prod.: Liran Atzmor Source: Liran Atzmor, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Contact: +972-52-800- 3362, +972-54-234-7500, Molir@bezeqint. net Production status: completed A critical look at the history of the legal system in the Occupied Territories 45 Lo Chavera A personal documentary about the search for the Israeli director לא חברה Dir.: Sivan Ben Ari Prod.: Noemi Schory Moshe Guez – the Israeli Ed Wood – Source: Beit Berl College School of and for the whereabouts of his rarely Arts Contact: +972-52-898-7319, seen, much censored, debut feature [email protected] Production film, The Angel was a Devil. status: completed In high school Sivan admired Lior – a The Lost Love Diaries יומני האהבה האבודים .wild punk with a magnetic personality Seven years later, Lior returns to Sivan’s (Yomanei ha-Ahava ha-Avudim) life, now with a rare disease that has Dir.: Yasmine Novak Prod.: Eilon left her paralyzed in most of her body. Ratzkovsky, Yossi Uzrad, Guy Jacoel, Noa A film about friendship and about how Lifshitz Source: July August Productions we deal with emotional and physical Contact: +972-3-510-0223, disabilities. +972-54-246-1103, [email protected] Production status: completed Longing Alice and Bernie were young lovers in Holland during WWII. A moment געגוע (Ga’agua) before going into hiding they swore Dir.: Effi Banai Prod.: Liat Kamai-Ashed to keep diaries for one another. At the Source: Yehuda Bitton Productions end of the war Alice waited in vain. Contact: +972-52-261-2667, ybitton@ On the eve of her wedding to another netvision.net.il Production status: man, she received a package from completed a mysterious woman with Bernie’s diary in it. 65 years later, her daughter The journey of a man into the depths convinces her to open it for the first of his past and into the roots of his time. yearning for a place which was and is no more. Luxuries מותרות Looking for Moshe Guez (Motarot) Dir.: David Ofek Prod.: Elinor and Edna Kowarsky Source: Eden Productions לאן נעלם משה גז? (Le’an Ne’elam Moshe Gez) Contact: +972-50-389-8485, +972-50- Dir.: Avida Livny Prod.: Gidi Avivi 530-5155, [email protected] Source: Vice Versa Films Contact: +972- Production status: completed 50-528-7659, [email protected] Production status: post-production Warehouses cramped with rotting goods, Budget: $250,000 and donkeys dressed up as zebras – all these take part in the surreal reality of 46 DOCUMENTARy films
Israeli’s blockade on Gaza. This is the The film follows the preparations for story of the merchandise itself: kiwis, a grandiose production of the Opera fresh meat, toys, shoes, notebooks, “Nabucco” by Verdi at Masada, while canned goods—products that have searching for answers to questions been purchased, stored, expired, spoiled, about the myth of Masada and its and ultimately, destroyed. meaning for Israeli identity in the 21st century. Ma Harag et Moni Fanan Me and god אלוהים ואני מה הרג את מוני פנאן Dir.: Ophira Assayag (Elohim va-Ani) Exclusive interviews with the family of Dir.: Nati Adler Prod.: Chai Kahana the late Moni Fanan and the story of Source: Nati Adler Contact: +972-50- the private “bank” he ran and managed 755-6205, [email protected] to keep a secret for 15 years until his Production status: completed suicide in 2009. A new-media documentation dealing with the connection between people and God. The Marquis of Bnei Brak Melissa, Mom and Me מליסה mom ואני המרקיז מבני ברק (Hamarkiz mi-Bnei Berak) (Melisa, Mom va-Ani) Dir. & Prod.: David Moran Source: David Dir.: Limor Pinchasov Prod.: Limor Moran Contact: cinemoran@gmail. Pinchasov, Yaron Kaftori Source: Cicero com Web Site: www.cinemoran.com Productions Contact: +972-3-544- Production status: complete 4845, [email protected] Production status: completed Micha Frankel is an Israeli translator of French literature, a homosexual who is Seven years ago Israeli Yael and desperately searching for a partner to American Melissa met in a striptease spend the autumn of his life with. club in Japan. Yael, a stills photographer, documented their friendship with a home video camera and Melissa Masada Syndrome exposed her difficult life story. Seven years later Yael decides to bring the תסמונת מצדה (Tismonet Metzada) story full circle. Dir.: Ayelet Heler Prod.: Naftaly Gliksberg Source: Glikscom, Ltd. Contact: +972-3-3730422, +972-54-5212- 766, [email protected] Production status: post-production 47 Memorial Movie Hagit, the granddaughter of the late Prof. Yeshayahu Leibovitz, travels סרט זכרון (Seret Zikaron) across Judea and Samaria monitoring Dir. & Prod.: Yonatan Kanaskevich settlement development for Peace Now. Source: Tel Hai Rodman College This awakens the pain and rage she Contact: +972-50-781-6366, feels towards the religious community, [email protected] Production which she herself hails from. status: completed An attempt to revolutionize cinema Mind fuck זיוני שכל direction by collecting materials from an infinite network of security cameras (Ziyunei Sekhel) around the world Dir.: Eran Koblik, Ricardo Royshester Production status: completed Memories of the All Yacki wanted was to make his on Eichmann Trial porn movie. A strange wish for a boy from an ultra-Orthodox family who זכרונות משפט אייכמן (Zikhronot Mishpat Eichmann) never even watched television or Dir.: David Perlov Prod.: IBA Television, movies. Channel 1 Source: Yad Vashem Visual Center / IBA Channel 1 Contact: +972- Mirall’eh מירל’ה .visual.center@yadvashem ,2-644-3485 org.il , [email protected] Production Dir.: Vered Berman Prod.: Dina status: completed Kahanovitz, Edna Nahum Source: 6 A restoration of the 1979 film by Productions Contact: didi21@netvision. David Perlov, in which he interviews net.il Production status: completed Holocaust survivors and members Budget: 417,000 NIS of the second generation about how Beautiful Mirall’eh, born with four the Eichmann trial affected them and degenerated limbs, abandoned by her transformed Israeli perceptions of the parents at birth, became a success Holocaust and the survivors. story, against all odds, through willpower and her left foot. The Messiah Will Always Come The Models הדוגמניות המשיח תמיד יבוא (Ha-mashiach Tamid Yavo) (Ha-Dugmaniyot) Dir. & Prod.: Lea Klibanoff Contact: Dir.: Adi Frost Source: Kastina [email protected] Production status: Productions Contact: +972+9-9612200 completed Production status: completed 48 DOCUMENTARy films
A three-part documentary series that Mr. Joseph משת”פ shatters the glamorous veneer of the top-model industry and shows what (Mashtap) the life of a young aspiring model really Dir. & Prod.: Doron Eran Source: Tel looks like. Aviv Doco, Ltd. Contact: +972-54- 777-9050, [email protected] Monologues About Production status: in production Death Web Site: www.doroneran.com Budget: 500,000€ אפילוג — מונולוגים על מוות (Epilog – Monologim ‘al Mavet) In 1940 Joseph Joanovici entered the Dir. & Prod.: Michal Kaphra Source: office of the Gestapo commander Michal Kaphra Contact: +972-50- in Paris and offered to provide iron 587-8596, +972-3-525-52716, kmichal@ to the German army in exchange for netvision.net.il Production status: saving his family, thus becoming the completed biggest Jewish collaborator with the Thirteen influential figures from Nazi war machine. He also funded the Israeli society were chosen to give French underground and saved many monologues about death. In the last Jews. After the war he was tried and leg of their lives, they talk about aging, sentenced, escaped to Israel, was about fears, and about death. deported by Ben-Gurion, and died homeless in Paris in 1965. Mostar Round-Trip Muscles מוסטאר הלוך ושוב שרירים (Mostar Halokh va-Shov) Dir. & Prod.: David Fisher Source: (Shririm) Cinephil Ltd. / Fisher Features, Ltd. Dir.: Idan Glikzeilig Prod.: Asaf Mor, Contact: +972-3-649-3575, +972- Michal Wiets Source: The Sam Spiegel 52-387-9171, [email protected], Film & TV School Contact: +972-2- [email protected] Production status: 673-1950, [email protected] Web completed Site: www.jsfs.co.il Production status: completed During three roundtrips to Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where his 17-year- A year in the life of a lonely body old son Yuval is attending an international builder and weight lifter in his pursuit high school, filmmaker David Fisher to become a champion. A new kind of watches his son’s relationships unfold: hero who knows how to lose and still with his father, his Israeli peers, his follows his dream. Israeli-Arab roomate, and his Spanish girlfriend, Neus.
49 My Brother, My Hero My Parents – Nitza and Dick אח שלי גיבור ההורים שלי — ניצה ודיק (Ach Sheli Gibor) Dir.: Lior Agur Prod: Yahaly Gat (Ha-Horim Sheli – Nitza ve-Dick) Source: Muse Productions Contact: Dir.: Ohav Flantz Prod.: Tali Shemesh +972-9-744-5666, +972-50-570-6736, fg_ Source: Tali Shemesh Contact: +972- [email protected] Production status: 52-273-1175, +972-54-458 -8710, tali. post-production Budget: 370,000 NIS [email protected] Production status: When a missile hit their PUMA in the completed Second Lebanon War, Uri and Dubi’s Ohav Flantz goes for his annual visit to lives were changed forever. Long after his parents in Australia, where they’ve the war has dropped off the public been living for the past ten years in agenda, the two lead a public struggle a beautiful house surrounded by acres to make a change on behalf of their of Australian forest. Under the idyllic comrades in arms. Their reception by surface cracks are revealed. the military establishment is not a warm one. My Parents – Shanti and Martin שנטי ומרטין — “פרויקט ההורים My Name Is Ahlam שלי” קוראים לי אחלם (Kor’im li Ahlam) (Shanty ve-Martin – “Proyect Ha-horim Dir.: Rima Essa Prod.: Claudia Levin Sheli”) Source: Claudius Films, Ltd. Contact: Dir.: Jason Danino Holt Prod.: Tali +972-52-238-5334, Claudia.levin@ Shemesh Source: Tali Shemesh claudiusfilms.com Production status: Contact: +972-52-273-1175, tali. completed [email protected] Production status: While fighting for her daughter’s right completed to receive adequate treatment for her An intimate journey of a mother and leukemia, Palestinian Aisha is no longer son in the Sinai Peninsula. afraid to stand up to her husband, to her occupiers, to the authorities and My Parents – Tami and to anyone who is in the way of her Jacob תמי ויעקב — “פרויקט ההורים שלי” .daughter’s path to health (Tami ve-Yakov – “Proyect Ha-horim Sheli”) Dir: Nir Horvitz Prod: Tali Shemesh Source: Tali Shemesh Contact: tali. [email protected] , +972-52-273-1175 Production status: completed 50 DOCUMENTARy films
The story of a relationship between No “Full Stop” a man with advanced Parkinson’s Dir.: Shlomo Slutzky Prod: Shlomo disease and his caregiver wife, as told Slutzky, Yehuda Bitton Source: Shlomo through the eyes of their son. Slutzky / IBA Channel 1 / INCAA Contact: +972-3-544-9965, +972-52- My Sweet Canary 249-7419, [email protected] Production status: post-production קנרית מתוקה שלי (Kanarit Metuka Sheli) Budget: $175,000 Dir. & Prod.: Roy Sher Source: Sher Shlomo Slutzky’s trip to Argentina Films and Music Productions Contact: to cover the case of a former Junta +972-52-6817788, +972-3-546-0297, General charged with killings during [email protected] Web Site: www. the 70s, surprisingly turns into a quest mysweetcanary.com Production status: in the steps of Shlomo’s friends, who completed were imprisoned, exiled or killed after Roza Eskenazi sang the way she joining guerrilla forces, and who feel lived, with passion, fire, and love. This betrayed by Shomo for emigrating to story is the story of three musicians Israel. from Greece, Turkey, and Israel, who embark on an exciting musical journey Oedipos of Nazarath תלויים באויר to tell the story of Greece’s best-loved rebetiko singer. (Tluyim ba-Avir) Dir. & Prod.: Ramy A. Katz Source: Naphtali St, 23 Ramy A. Katz Contact: +972-3-566- @ramykz ,+972-54-598-3095 ,8811 מבצע נפתלי (Mivtza Naftali) gmail.com Production status: post- Dir.: Oren Reich, Vered Yeruham Prod.: production Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait Source: Lama Ricki, who was physically abused by her films Contact: +972-3-685-0430, husband throughout her marriage, faces +972-54-470-8295, amir@lamafilms. the dilemma of whether or not to file com, [email protected] Web Site: a complaint and thus to endanger the www.lamafilms.com Production status: family unit or to watch her children grow completed up in fear. The tenants of one apartment building in Jerusalem are given a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity to upgrade their lives. But will they reach an agreement?
51 One of His kind Pariz Bo’eret פריז בוערת מות האדמו”ר (Mot Ha-Admor) Dir.: Itamar Elkalay Prod.: Claudia Levin Dir.: Ron Maiberg Prod.: Noam Shalev Source: Claudius Films Contact: Source: Highlight Films Contact: +972-52-238-5334, Claudia.levin@ +972-3-616-8611, [email protected] claudiusfilms.com Web Site: www.highlight.co.il Production Yeshayahu Beitel was born in Sweden status: completed. to a Holocaust survivor father and a The life story of Adam Baruch, one sickly mother who died when he was of Israel’s most important journalists, 14. At age 27 he decided to become a who died two years ago. photographer and his camera brought him to Paris, which led to a strange One of Seven and intimate documentation of a group of neo-Nazis אחד משבעה (Echad mi-Shiv'a) Dir. & Prod.: Goel Pinto Contact: +972- A Place of Her Own רעות [email protected] ,54-245-4900 Production status: completed (Reut) Emcompassing different and contra- Dir.: Sigal Emanuel Prod: Dikla Barkai dictory Israeli cultural identities – ultra- Source: Go2Films Distribution Contact: Orthodox, Mizrahi, homosexual – the +972-2-983-1371, [email protected] filmmaker sets out through different Production status: completed stations in his life. The unbelievable story of Reut, a young woman without a home seeking her One on One place in the world and fighting for her .children אחד על אחד (Echad ‘al Achad) Dir.: Dori Rivkin Prod.: Haggai Arad, Elad Peleg Source: Daroma Productions Pnina Feiler – A Contact: +972-8-672-2090, +972-57-755- Communist Nurse פנינה פלייר — אחות קומוניסטית [email protected] Production ,5805 status: completed (Pnina Feiler – Achot Komonistit) Dir. & Prod.: Dalia Mevorach, Dani A touching film about a father and son’s Dothan Source: Elil Communication journey. The father – Peretz Rivkin, Production status: completed former captain of the deaf basketball team – renounced his dream of being a 85-year-old Pnina watches the world basketball player to support his family. she dreamed of collapse all around her. His son, Dori, a filmmaker, decides to Her kibbutz has abandoned its socialist return his father to the basketball court. ideology, her children have left Israel, 52 DOCUMENTARy films and wars are pushing the ideal of a Precious Life חיים יקרים .brotherhood of nations” further away“ (Hayim Yekarim) Poetry Ltd Dir.: Shlomi Eldar Prod.: Ehud Bleiberg, Yoav Zeevi Source: Bleiberg שירה בע”מ (Shira Ba’am) Entertainment & Jasmin T.V. Contact: Dir. & Prod.: Dorit Weisman Contact: [email protected], +972-3-752-2881, +972-2-581-8778, +972-50-871-3205, +972-54-544-0050 Web Site: [email protected] Production preciouslifemovie.com Production status: completed Budget:100,000 NIS status: completed A movie about a revolution in poetry An exceptional relationship is formed in and five Jerusalem poets for whom an isolation room in the children’s ward poetry is a way of life and a catalyst of Tel-Hashomer hospital between a for social change. young woman from Gaza whose baby son suffers from a genetic disease, an Israeli doctor, and a journalist. Poisoned נובמבר 80 (November Efes Shmoneh) Red Nose אף אדום :Dir. & Prod.: Daniel Sivan Source OneManShow / Alma Films Contact: (Af Adom) +972-50-852-0811, [email protected] Dir. & Prod.: Eldad Prives Source: Eldad Production status: completed Budget: Prives, Asaf Oren Contact: +972-52- 400,000 NIS 831-5338, [email protected] A bunch of boys, friends since elementary Production status: completed Budget: school, are about to go to the army. Once 100,000 NIS inside, all but one of them are counting A Tel Aviv street clown sets out to the days until their release. One of conquer the sadness in Sderot. The them graduates from an officers’ course, one-time gig turns into a project of making his buddies think he’s abandoned over a year, and the clown becomes them for the army. part of the city’s fabric.
53 The Sasgonsky’s The incredible story of the Yatza Affair, (.in which Brigadier General (Res מצאנו מה לעשות עם ההרים (Maztanu Ma La’asot ‘Im ha-Harim) Yitzhak Yaacov was charged with Dir. & Prod.: Yuval Pan Source: Yuval severe espionage. The affair reveals Pan Contact: +972-77-211-8855, the long arm of the “Secret Kingdom” [email protected] Production status: of the Israeli defense system. completed In the summer of 2007 an article The Secret of Killing in a local newspaper reveals that Baby Rose סוד הרצח של הילדה רוז bulldozers are about to raze the last open natural area in the Timna Valley (Sod ha-Retzach shel ha-Yalda Rose) to build a hotel complex. Five citizens Dir. & Prod.: Nili Tal Source: Nili Tal join forces and set out on a 4-year Contact: +972-50-662-3293, ntp@ quixotic battle against the real estate netvision.net.il Production status: barons, government bureaucrats, and completed the Kibbutz establishment. On September 11, 2008, a police diver pulled up a red suitcase from the Score for a Salmon’s bottom of the Yarkon River, in Tel Aviv. Life Inside, were the remains of a toddler named Rose. The film tells the story הפרטיטורה של הדג סלומון (Ha-Partitura shel ha-Dag Salomon) of the melodrama leading up to the Dir. & Prod.: Ilan Zarfati Source: Ilan murder of the baby. Zarfati Contact: +972-54-247-5098, [email protected] Production Sharon Amrani: status: completed Remember His Name שרון עמרני- זכרו את השם Composer André Hajdu, winner of the Israel Prize, is the “bad boy” of Israeli (Sharon Amrani – Zikhru et ha-Shem) classical music. He swims constantly Dir.: Yair Raveh Additional directors: against the stream. Dover Kosashvili, Joseph Cedar, Nir Bergman Prod.: Lilach Nagar Source: Kastina Productions Contact: +972-9- Secret Kingdom 961-2200, +972-52-433-9917, yair.raveh@ gmail.com Production status: completed ממלכת הסוד (Mamlekhet ha-Sod) Dir. & Prod.: Nir Toib Source: G.N. This documentary about director and Communication Contact: +972-3-561- screenwriter Sharon Amrani, who 4302, +972-54-453-8022, gn@gn-com. drowned tragically in 2001, incorporates com Web Site: www.gn-com.com scenes written by Amrani and directed Production status: completed by leading feature filmmakers in Israel.
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Shift A portrait of writer Sarah Shilo. She did not go to university, and instead of משמרת (Mishmeret) narrative she writes in episodes. Fame Dir: Aya Ben Ron Prod: Oded Kimhi comes after working for many years as Source: Aya Ben Ron Contact: +972-54- a kindergarten teacher in her northern- 760-7978, +972-3-529-2427, a_benron@ Israel town and writing anonymously. netvision.net.il Production status: post- What will she do now? production Budget: 75,000 NIS The film documents life in two coma Shund שונד units in the Reut medical center in Tel Aviv, patiently observing the doctors Dir. & Prod.: Yael Leibovitz-Zand Source: and nurses who come into contact Zandoco Contact: +972-77-500-8919, with the comatose patients and the +972-50-846-4920, yaelleibo@bezeqint. social and ethical codes that govern net the place. Production status: completed A journey into the against-all-odds Sho’Qostak (What’s story of the Yiddish theater in Israel Your Story?) and its charismatic actors. שו קוסתאק )תרגום:מה הסיפור Six Million in Two שלך( Dir.: Jamal Khalaile, Paulina Carbonnier Rooms ששה מיליון בשני חדרים : Prod: Bahier Egbareye Source Bahier Egbareya [email protected] (Shisha Milyon be-Shnei Chadarim) , [email protected] +972-54-921- Dir. & Prod.: Barak and Tomer Heymann 9029 Production Status: completed Source: Heymann Brothers Films, Jamal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, Ltd. Contact: +972-3-5602701, office@ converses with five young Israelis heymann-films.com Production status: in with different ideological views. While production Budget: $220,000 focusing on the issue of fear, the Tsi-la Piran, a second generation central issue becomes admitting the Israeli daughter of Holocaust survivors, Other without having to giving up chooses to deal with her personal one’s own identity. demons by conducting therapy workshops throughout Germany and Shum Gamadim Lo Poland with the troubled second Yavo’u generation of the “Other Side.” שום גמדים לא יבואו Dir.: Ruth Walk Prod.: Yael Perlov Production status: completed
55 SIXTY and the city A documentary journey to the backstage of the Declaration of בת שישים מחפשת אהבה (Bat Shishim Mechapeset Ahava) the State of Israel. The last living Dir. & Prod.: Nili Tal Source: Nili Tal witnesses to the historical moment Productions Contact: +972-3-641-0805, and the makers of the myth explore +972-50-661-3293, [email protected] what really happened in the 32 minutes Web Site: www.nilital.com Production of ceremony. status: completed Budget: $100,000 At the age of 60, I decided that I need Status: Single סטטוס: רווק/ה love. I had more than 100 blind dates with men and filmed a few of them. (Status: Ravak/a) Enjoy my journey. Dir.: Chen Landau Prod.: Noa Maiman Source: Added Value – Creation House Shoulder Dancing N.M. LTD Contact: +972-9-960-6688, [email protected] Web Site: www. :avchouse.com Production status כתפיים רוקדות (Ktefayim Rokdot) completed Dir.: Ruth Eshel Prod.: Neve Yosef Community Center Source: Ruth Eshel Four successful singles aged 38+ take Contact: +972-4-855-0738, reshel@ us on a personal journey into the research.haifa.ac.il; +972-4-822-7499, reasons behind their status, raising [email protected] Production questions of fear and failure, living status: completed alone, past traumas, and the relevance of the concept of marriage. The film tells the story of Ruth Eshel, avant-garde dancer and scholar of artistic dance in Israel, and her journey Sumna’s Letter המכתב של סומנה along with dozens of Ethiopian-Israeli dancers to establish an Ethiopian (Ha-Mikhtav shel Sumna) dance troupe in Israel. Dir. & Prod.: Hadar Kleinman, Timna Goldstein Source: The House Behind A State Behind the the Sun: Contact: +972-3-674-1138, Scene +972-50-679-3652, [email protected] Production status: completed מדינה ביום אחד (Medina be-Yom Echad) Hannah Star was adopted as an infant Dir. & Prod.: Avi Weissblei Source: from Romania to Israel and was sent Rampa Contact: +972-77-443-0876, to a boarding school at age 13. As she +972-54-445-2450, [email protected] approaches age 18 she decides to go Production status: completed www. on a journey in search of her routes youtube.com/user/AviWeissblei and her biological mother.
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Systema Tel Aviv, Tziyun Meah תל אביב, ציון מאה סיסטמה Dir. & Prod.: Ohad Milstein Source: Dir. & Prod.: Michael Yoseph Source: Ohad Milstein Contact: +972-54-461- Michael Yoseph Contact: +972-52- 4262, [email protected] Web Site: 560-5353, [email protected] Production www.ohadmilstein.com Production status: completed status: completed Budget: $120,000 A series of 30 short films combing the A film about the women of the Israeli behind-the-scenes stories of the band, artistic swimming team on their way to “Tel Aviv Youth” over the course of the the championship. year of Tel Aviv-Jaffa’s centenary, with the stories of the places and people That’s Gila, That’s Me who shaped the 100-year-old city. זה גילה, זה אני (Ze Ani, Ze Gila) Thieves by Law גנבים בחוק :Dir. & Prod.: Alon Weinstock Source Alon Weinstock Contact: +972-54- (Ganavim ba-Chok) 555-3379, [email protected] Dir.: Alexander Gentelev Prod.: Sasha Production status: completed Klein, Maya Zinshtein, Simone Baumann A fascinating documentary about the Source: S.M.S Productions Contact: life story of Gila Goldstein, born in the +972-50-289-8992, +972 -54-225-6211, 1950s as Avraham Goldstein. From [email protected] Production status: Maccabi Haifa soccer player to Tel Aviv completed stripper, Gila was one of Israel’s first For the first time, the godfathers of trans-gender individuals. A Tel Aviv the Russian underworld tell their story. icon and a living legend who is admired How did these bullies who inspired by the LGBT community. the character of the “bad guy” in so many Israeli movies became respected Teacher Irena business men? המורה אירנה (Ha-Morah Irena( Tladino טלאדינו ,Dir: Itamar Chen Prod.: Naomi Levari Saar Yogev Source: JCS Productions Dir. & Prod.: Gal Shani Source: Gal Contact: +972-3-637-0500, +972-54- Shani, Carmiel Contact annabelle@ 550-5255, [email protected] kapro.com Production status: completed Production status: completed The film tells the story of the Holocaust The lives of 26 children from Jerusalem’s of the Jewish community of Salonika Katamon neighborhood change when through the story of Alberto Matarasso, they meet their new teacher, Irena. a retired Haifa dock worker. 57 Torn To Love Sophia לאהוב את סופיה קרוע (Karu’a) (Le’ehov et Sofia) Dir. & Prod.: Ronit Kertsner Source: Dir. & Prod.: Ohad Itach World Sales: Hedva Goldschmidt, go2films Contact: www.ruthfilms.com Contact: +972- hedva@go2films Production status: 50-759-0060, [email protected] completed Production status: completed Budget: 12 years after he was ordained as 600,000 NIS a Polish-Catholic priest, Romuald Coming to Israel from Moldova in Waszkinel found out that he was the 1990s left Sophia unstable and born to Jewish parents, that his name yearning for more. Her well-educated was Jakub Weksler. The film follows parents are unable to control their only his amazing journey from conducting daughter as she rapidly descends from mass in a church in Poland to life as singer in a rock-band to drug addict an observant Jew in a religious kibbutz and prostitute. in Israel. Torn between two identities, he is unable to give up either one, and is therefore not accepted by either Turbulence מערבולות .religion or by the State of Israel (Ma’arbolot) Dir. & Prod.: Kobi Davidian, Roni To Remove the Veil Livneh Source: Kobi Davidian, Roni ,Livneh Contact: +972-50-756-7867 להסיר את הרעלה (Lehasir et ha-Re’ala) [email protected], livnehroni@ Dir.: Racheli Schwartz Prod.: Shelomy gmail.com Production status: post- Afryat Source: Topline Contact: Production +972-54-488-5078, +972-77-500-5078, After 26 years of a life sentence for [email protected] Production the rape and murder of a Jewish girl status: post-production Budget: 320,000 in 1982, bedouin Kamal Subhi contacts NIS Ariel Livneh, a retired secret services The unbelievable story of Ralia Sfadi, agent and criminologist, asking him to a 38-year-old Druze woman from the re-open his file. Ariel dives in, wipes village of Mas’ada in the Golan Heights, the dust off of old documents, digs who decides to go out on a crusade to through archives, makes notes, locates realize her political and social dream. police officers, and examines every detail, leading him after 3 years to appeal for Kamal’s release.
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Tzion Neighborhood out about their exile and imprisonment at t the British in the four years leading up to נחלת ציון (Nachalat Tzion) Israel’s War of Independence. Dir. & Prod.: Eli Levy Source: ELP TV Contact: +972-50-759-4031, levyeli@ The Uzbek Trilogy הטרילוגיה האוזבקית hotmail.com Web site: www.elptv.co.il Production status: completed (Ha-Trilogiya ha-Uzbekit) The film reveals the stories, prayers, Dir. & Prod.: Avishai Sivan Source: music, tastes, and rare atmosphere Avishai Sivan Contact: +972-50-640- of Jerusalem’s Nahlaot neighborhood, 6836, [email protected] documenting the community that Production status: completed came from Aleppo, Syria to Jerusalem Three generations of men of Uzbek on donkeys bringing with them their origin, a grandfather, father, and prayers of supplication. grandson, and their respective efforts to integrate into Israeli society. Under the Rug Violins in Wartime מתחת לשטיח כינורות במלחמה (Mitachat la-Shatiach) Dir.: Aya Somech, Haggi Linkin Prod.: (Kinorot be-Milchama) Yoav Roeh, Aurit Zamir Source: Gum Dir.: Yael Katzir Prod.: Dan Katzir films Contact: +972-52-336-5572, info@ Source: Yael Katzir, New Love Films gum.com Production status: completed Contact: +972-3-642-1648, +972-52-220- The story of Maya Linik, whose eldest 7949, [email protected] Production son died 40 years ago, raises forbidden status: completed Budget: 430,000 NIS questions about a mother’s love for (estimated) her children The power of music as a symbol of sanity in a time of war. Amnon The Underground in Weinsten is a violin-maker who works the Tunnel of Time with his son Avishai. When the Second Lebanon War breaks out in summer המחתרות במנהרת הזמן (Ha-Machtarot be-Minheret ha-Zman) 2006, Amnon struggles to keep his Dir.: Benny Ori Prod: Yehuda Bitton international materclasses for young Source: Yehuda Bitton Productions, Ltd. violinist from being cancelled, while Contact: +972-52-261-2667, ybitton@ also worrying about Avishai, who is netvision.net.il Production status: drafted into the war. completed The families of former fighters in the Jewish undergrounds go to Africa to find 59 Violinists What am I, Farag? מה אני פרג’? הכנרים (Ha-Kanarim) (Ma Ani Faraj?) Dir.: Alexander Gentelev Prod.: Nurit Dir.: Kobi Farag Prod.: Noa Maiman Kedar Source: Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2 Source: Added Value – Creation House Films Contact: [email protected] N.M. LTD Contact: +972-9-960-6688, Production status: completed [email protected] Web Site: www. The Sisyphean, uncompromising avchouse.com Production status: pre- journey of ten-year-old children from production Tiberias who play the violin remarkably. A feature documentary about an eldest son who succeeded in turning his first name – Farag – into a word Wandering Eyes synonymous with photography, and to .the name of a whole family גם כשעיני פקוחות (Gam Keshe-‘Einay Pekuchot) Dir.: Ofir Trainin Prod.: Shahar Ben-Hur Source: Clemantina Films Contact: Who Are You For Me? מי אתה בשבילי? [email protected] ,+972-3-685-1633 Production status: completed (Mi Ata Bishvili?) A soul-searching musical journey Dir: Dror Reshef Prod.: Hedva centered on Gabriel Belhassan, a Goldschmidt Source: Hedva musician from the south of Israel, Goldschmidt, Go2 Films Contact: dror. known as the founder of the rock [email protected] , [email protected] , band, “Aljir.” www.go2films.com Production status: completed A girl with an intellectual disability War Matador leads a quiet everyday life, until by chance she meets a young man. She מטאדור המלחמה (Matador ha-Milchama) waits for her parents to return home Dir.: Avner Faingulernt, Macabit Abramson so she can get their blessing for the Prod.: Avner Faingulernt Contact: new relationship. What she doesn’t +972-54-675-5272, [email protected] understand is that her parents perished Production status: completed in a car accident a few years ago. A road trip along the borderline between Israel and Gaza during the Gaza War of winter 2009.
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Where is My Stuff When Israel Went Out בצאת ישראל איפה הדברים שלי (Eifo ha-Devarim Sheli) (Betzet Yisrael) Dir. & Prod.: Zohar Kaniel Source: Zohar Dir.: Meni Elias Prod.: Micha Shagrir Kaniel Contact: +972-54-552-2955, Source: Shiba Productions Contact: [email protected] Production +972- 8-675-0089, +972-52-253-1481, status:completed Budget: 300,000 NIS [email protected] Production status: (estimated) completed The film follows the relationship Over two decades after the operations between the director and his 70-year- bringing Ethiopian Jewry to Israel, the old mother, an obsessive collector who Ethiopian-Israeli community remains goes through a trauma when she has apart, misunderstood, and not an to leave her apartment of 35 years – integral part of Israeli society. Despite and her stuff – behind to move into this, most in the community see Israel assisted living. as their home. The time has come for the State of Israel to recognize them. What Makes Leibi Run? Wisconsin מה מריץ את לייבי? ויסקונסין (?Ma Meritz et Leibi) Dir.: Menachem Roth Prod.: Ron Ofer Dir.: Jonathan Ben Efrat Prod.: Nir Source: Ron Ofer Contact: +972-52- Nader Source: Video 48 Contact: 380-3981, [email protected] Production +972-3-537-3269 Production status: status: in production completed Director Menachem Leibi Roth (35) Wisconsin is a dramatic documentary abandoned ultra-Orthodox life as that follows the implementation and a young man. Leibi wants to start a implications of the Wisconsin Plan in family with his girlfriend, but before Israel. he can settle down he must come to terms with the sexual abuse he suffered in an ultra-Orthodox boarding school. He plans to present his abuser with the chronicle of his life on film, to confront him with the enormous damage he caused.
61 The Woman Who Knew World Class Kids שלום כיתה ב’ Too Much (Shalom Kita Bet) האישה שידעה יותר מדי (Ha-Isha she-Yada’a Yoter Miday) Dir: Netta Loevy Prod.: Edna & Elinor Dir.: Yarin Kimor Prod.: Dorit Stark Kowarsky Source: Eden Productions Source: IBA Cannel 1 Contact: +972- Contact: +972-3-527-3403, 52-836-2222, +972-52-286-0007 +972-50-530-5155, info@edenproductions. Production status: completed co.il Production status: completed An investigative documentary into the Second graders from diverse ethnic reasons behind the death/murder of and religious backgrounds in a school Jenny May, who was found hanged in the center of Tel Aviv contend with on the Tel Aviv beach. A transnational a stormy school year, war, and a investigation that takes us through nationalistic curriculum. Jenny’s connections with the CIA and the Israeli defense services, to intelligence agencies in Africa, Russia, Yorek יורק .and other places Dir.: Yalon Gurevich Prod: Itzhak Rubin Production status: completed Women of Hamas The film tells the life story of Yorek, the 81-year-old Holocaust survivor known נשות החמאס (Neshot ha-Hamas) as the “wolf boy” from the Warsaw Dir.: Suha Arraf Prod.: Suha Arraf, Philippa Ghetto, whose heroic youth was Kowarski Source: Belssan Productions immortalized in many stories. / Cinephil Contact: +972-3-566-4219, [email protected] Production status: post-production Budget: 176,013 euro The film follows three Hamas women to try and understand how an Islamist political party, operating in a very conservative society, allows its women to become political, social, and even military leaders.
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Young Cameri The Zilber & Me אני והזילבר קאמרי הצעיר (Kamera ha-Tzair) (Ani ve-ha-Zilber) Dir. & Prod.: Ella Zaharano Source: Ella Dir: Roei Zilber Prod: Yoram Ivry, David Zaharano Contact: +972-50-455-4687, Noy Source: Cinemax Productions [email protected] Production status: Contact: +972-3-731-1267, +972-52-264- completed Budget: 60,000 euro 2787 Production status: completed Rubinstein, the director, conducts Roei Zilber has always felt trapped one-on-one meetings with the under the “family spell”: emotionally members of the Young Cameri repertory detached and musically obsessive, theater. She asks them to cooperate in the estranged son of a rock-star. exposing intimate details of their lives. His father, Ariel Zilber, revolutionized Based on these personal stories she Israeli music with his offbeat melodies writes a play inspired by scenes from and his eccentric behavior. The rift Shakespeare’s plays. between father and son became more complicated when Ariel decided to become ultra-Orthodox and right wing....
63 LISTING OF FILM & TELEVISION INDUSTRY BODIES
Jerusalem Film Center (JFC) Channel 10 Jerusalem Cinematheque • Israel Tel.: +972 (0)3-733-1000 Film Archive [email protected] http://www.jer-cin.org.il Tel: +972 (0)2-565-4333 Israel Broadcast Authority (IBA) Tel: +972 (0)2-501-5555 Ministry of Industry, Trade and [email protected] Labor http://www.tamas.gov.il The Second Authority for Television Tel: +972 (0)2-666-2000 and Radio Tel: +972 (0)2-655-6222 The Israel Export and International http://www.rashut2.org.il Cooperation Institute http://www.export.gov.il Channel 8 – Noga Communications Tel: +972 (0)3-514-2816 Tel: +972 (0)3-684-9978 [email protected] Ministry of Culture & Sport http://www.noga.co.il http://www.most.gov.il Tel: +972 (0)2-560-1740 Hot Tel: + 972 (0)77-707-8093 Reshet [email protected] Tel: +972 (0)3-769-0000 [email protected] Yes Tel: +972 (0)9-761-6175 Keshet [email protected] Tel: +972 (0)3-767-6428 [email protected]
64 FILM FUNDS Gesher Multicultural film fund Tel.: +972 (0)2-622-8061 http://www.gesherfilmfund.org.il
Israel Film Fund Tel.: +972 (0)3-562-8180 http://www.filmfund.org.il
Jerusalem Film and Television Fund Tel.: +972 (0)2-625-0855 http://www.jerusalemfilmfund.com
The Joshua Rabinovich Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts – Cinema Project Tel.: +972 (0)3-525-5020 http://www.cinemaproject.org.il
Makor Foundation for Israeli Films Tel.: +972 (0)3-566-4746 http://www.kerenmakor.org.il
New Israeli Foundation for Cinema & TV Tel.: +972 (0)3-522-0909 http://www.nfct.org.il
65 Jerusalem Film Center (JFC) Israel Film Archive • Jerusalem Cinematheque Lia van Leer Founder & President Yigal Molad Hayo Acting Director Avinoam Harpak Program Director Gilli Mendel Director of Education Department & Special Professional Projects Costel Safirman Head of Research Center Nirit Eidelman Israeli Cinema Manager Meir Russo Archive Director Aviva Meirom Main office Manager & Events Coordinator Navot Barnea Monthly Program Editor Ilil Wiser Manager of Axelrod Collection Rebecca Levy Head of Video Department The Joshua Rabinovich Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts Giora Einy General Director Yoav Abramovich Director of Productions The JCC in Manhattan Isaac Zablocki Director of film programs, Director of the Israel Film Center Ravit Turjeman Dragoman Films Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vered Heller Head of Film Section Uri Amitai & Anita Mazor Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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