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Documentary The Flat wins an Ophir Award 2011
Last Thursday-evening 98 minutes documentary The Flat, directed by Arnon Goldfinger received the Award for Best Documentary at the Ophir Awards 2011 (the ‘Israeli Oscars’). It is the story about the grandparents of Arnon, who were living on the 3rd. floor of a Bauhaus building at 31, Gordon Street in Tel Aviv. Arnon says about his documentary: “…My grandparents lived on the 3rd. floor since 1935, when they immigrated to Palestine. The flat was furnished with … Read entire article »
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Oscar for Short documentary about Tel Aviv: Strangers No More [with trailer]
Breaking News: A few hours ago the short documentary: ‘Strangers No More’, directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon (from New York: the Simon & Goodman Pictures Company) received an Academy Award (Oscar) for ‘Best Short Documentary’. It is the story about the Bialik-Rogozin School, a unique school in South-Tel Aviv (near the Central Bus station) with children from more then 48 countries around the world, most of them refugees. Karen & Kirk: Congrats !! More (former) Oscars … Read entire article »
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Transparent Black, a short film by Roni Geffen
The short movie ‘Transparent Black’, directed by young Israeli director Roni Geffen did a great job at last month ‘FlickerFest’, the 20th. International Short Film Festival at Bondi Beach in Sydney. There were 1790 worldwide entries for the festival: Roni’s short was one of the 108 screened and she had a ‘tough battle’ with a Polish entry for the ‘National Geographic Award for Best Documentary’. Her short is about the African refugees in Tel Aviv. At … Read entire article »
Joshua Faudem in Cinematheque Tel Aviv
Scriptwriter and film-director Joshua Faudem (‘Blues by the Beach’) will screen his documentary: ‘A Will to Dance’, which he shot in Praque, at Cinematheque Tel Aviv on August 29th. at 18:00. The screening is a part of a Czech film week, sponsored by the Czech Embassy and the Czech Center. At this moment Joshua is developing his first feature film, based on ‘A Will to Dance’. (the feature will be called ‘Aftermath’). After the screening of his documentary, Joshua will have a Q&A session and he will talk about this new big project he gonna shoot. We wish Josh success with his new feature… … Read entire article »
77 Steps, a love story in Tel Aviv
“It’s a story of love in the city, far away from home and family, chasing dreams on the gritty pavements, walking up endless flights of stairs, looking from dilapidated balconies into the brilliant white Mediterranean sun, surrounded by crowds, looking for a friend, a job, an apartment, creating live. At night the colors of the city creating live, there’s a party on the roof, the music is right and the meet…” wrote Ayelet Dekel in a review about 77 Steps, a documentary directed by Ibtisam Mara’ana, that was screened a few days ago at the 27th Jerusalem Film Festival. It is a love story of the (woman) director, moving from a Muslim village in the North of the country to Tel Aviv and her Jewish-Canadian neighbor Jonathan. The documentary is fast-paced, … Read entire article »
Coffee Project at Cinematheque Tel Aviv
Eleven filmakers, Israeli and Palestian, embarked on a journey to create short films – fiction and documentary – inspired by… coffee. The project called : Coffee Between Reality and Imagination will be screened at Cinematheque Tel Aviv on Monday June 7th. (19:00a cocktail and 20:00 for the first screening ). The Shorts are: Audition by Eti Tsicko Sense of Morning by Maysaloun Hamoud Eva is leaving by Aya Somech A Trip to Jaffa by Eitan Sarid Wajeh by Morad Nasser Last Day of a Mug by Mattan Harel Fisch The Man and the Clock by Gazi Abu Baker Tasnim by Elite Zexer Mactub by Rotem Yaron A Cup Coffee from Palestine by Kareem Kragah, Ameer Ohamaro and Murad Nassar A ‘must’ for all cinema-lovers…support this young filmmakers.. … Read entire article »
There must be Another Way
This Sunday-evening, December 6th,the international premiere of Another Way, directed by Yariv Mozer, took place in the Cinematheque Tel Aviv. Another Way is a powerful, sometimes emotional documentary with a strong message. It is the story of Noa and Mira Awad, an Israeli Jew and Israeli Arab duo, who went to the Eurovision Songfestival 2009, during the last Israeli military operation in Gaza and strong resistance from the left and right in Israel. It was the first time that Israel did send a Jewish/Arab duo to the Eurovision. Noa and Mira are showing, altough all the ‘troubles’, that there must be Another Way !! … Read entire article »
The Dunes in New-York
The documentary Legend in the Dunes, directed and produced by Ya’acov Gross, will be screened in New-York on the 6th, 9th and 13th of December at the Israel Film Festival. This extraordinary film, using rare archival film documentaries made between 1897 and 1949, chronicles the miracle of the establishment of the first Hebrew city on the shore in the Land of Israel, now called Tel Aviv. … Read entire article »
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International premiere of Another Way in Tel Aviv
On Sunday, December the 6th, the international premiere of Another Way – Noa and Mira Awad on the way to Eurovision 2009, directed by Yariv Mozer, will take place at the Cinematheque Tel-Aviv at 20:00. Another Way is a Channel 1 (IBA-Israeli TV) production. … Read entire article »
Jerusalem Moments /09 in Tel Aviv
Last Thursday,November the 12th, the Cinematheque Tel Aviv screened the Tel Aviv premiere of Jerusalem Moments/09, a documentary that leaves you speechless, from artistic director Yael Perlov and produced by Yariv Mozer. Jerusalem Moments/09 shows you 7 short documentaries directed by 7 Palestinian and Israeli directors (Momen Shabaneh, Liviu Babic, Sabri Markesto, Avi Goldstein, Yasmine Novak, Radwan Duha and Daniel Gal). The premiere screenig was attended by representatives of the Embassies of Egypt, Finland, Germany, Italy and Australia. Guests of honor were a group youngsters from Ramallah (Westbank) and East, Arab Jerusalem and Ilan de Vries, director of the Jerusalem International Film Festival. A special quest was the 82 years old Mr. Muhammad al-Dajani from East-Jerusalem, the main character of the short made by director Radwan Duha: In … Read entire article »