Red Leaves
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Israel 2014
88 min, Amharic, Hebrew, English Subtitles
Broadcasters and Funds
Israel Film Fund
Avi-Chai foundation
Gesher film-fund
The Israeli cable & satellite council
The pais council for art and culture
Yes
Awards
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Best Leading Actor Golden Leopard Award, at the Canada International Film and Television Festival, November 2015
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Winner of the Anat Pirchi Award for Best Debut Film, Jerusalem Int'l Film Festival, Israel, 2014
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FIPRESCI - the International Federation of Film Critics Award, 2014
Festivals
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BFI London International Film Festival
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Congregation Beth El in Bethesda
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Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
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Africa International Film Festival
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Boston Jewish Film Festival
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UK Jewish Film Festival
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Australia Jewish Film Festival
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Cinemed Montpellier IFF
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Film Africa London Film Festival
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Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
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Matatu International Film Festival
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FilmInitiativ Koeln- Filme aus Afrika
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San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
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Jewish Community Center Manhattan
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New York African Film Festival
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Jerusalem International Film Festival
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Cinema South IFF
Cast
Debebe Eshetu - Meseganio
Hanna Haiela - Zeahva
Meir Desse - Baruch
Solomon Mersha - Moses
Shula Mola - Orly
Ruti Asarsai - Bosana
Crew
Director: Bazi Gete
Line Producer: Boaz Vexler
Screenplay: Bazi Gete
Director of photography: Edan Sasson
Editor: Lev Goltser
Music: Dror H. Shiman
International sales
Meseganio Tadela, aged 74, is a hard, obstinate, and nervous man.
He immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia 28 years ago with his family.
He chosen to zealously retain his original culture, talks very little, and hardly speaks Hebrew.
After he lost his wife He is also scared, scared from dying, from being alone.
Meseganio sets out on a journey that leads him through his children’s homes.
He comes to realize that he belongs to a rapidly disappearing variety that believes in retaining the Jewish Ethiopian culture and values and that he thought that he had managed to pass on to his children. But the harsh reality hits him in the face. The disappointment and the ensuing waking up are too difficult to bear.
Meseganio, having come to know some of life’s new realities, tries to survive according to his own ways.
Inertia
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Israel 2015
72 min, Hebrew, English Subtitles
Broadcasters and Funds
The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation
Festivals and Awards
Berlinale - Forum
t-mobile new horizons FF
Haifa International Film Festival
Utopia Festival - Special Jury Mention
Cast
Ilanit Ben Yaakov-Mira
Mohammad Bakri- Max
Galia Yshay-Salin
Ami Weinberg-Gidi
Loutof Nousser-Ihab
Crew
Director Idan Haguel
Line producer Amit Eran
Director of photography Edan Sasson
Editor Dafi Farbman
Music Zoe Polanski
Screenplay Idan Haguel and Ifat Makbi
Sound design & mix Erez Eyni Shavit
Colorist Ron Ben Meir
International sales - Oration Films
Mira Segal wakes up screaming one morning to discover that her husband has disappeared. The police open a Missing Person file and advise her to wait. As weeks turn into months, Mira continues to search for him while exploring her own desires and the guilt of not wanting him back.
The Interrogation
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Israel / Germany 2016
84 min
German and Polish, English Subtitles
Brodcasters and Funds
IBA - Channel 1
The New Fund for Cinema and TV
Pais Culture and art council
Festivals and Awards
Goa IFF
Minsk IFF - Listapad
Warsaw JFF
Cast
Romanus Fuhrmann – Rudolph Höss
Maciej Marczewski - Albert Piotrowski
Jacek Brzostynski - Tadeusz Cyprian
Shira Dotan - Girl in the hotel
Crew
Director - Erez Pery
Line Producer - Amit Eran
Screenwriter - Erez Pery and Sari Turgeman
Cinematography - Boubkar Benzabat
Art director - Yoram Shayer
Editor - Lev Goltser
Sound - Ben Levi, Ori Tchechik
Costume design - Chen Gilad
Casting - Sharon Ryba Kahn, Anja Dihrberg
Production Company - Daroma Productions, Filmbase Berlin
International Sales - Wide
In 1946, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, the longest serving commander of Auschwitz concentration camp, is awaiting trial in a Polish prison. Albert, a young and successful Polish investigation judge, is appointed to interrogate Höss and get a perfect confession out of him. The encounter between the two men will unveil the frightening routine and banalization of evil that took place in the camp.
By introducing the use of Zyklon B in Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss carried out the most efficient mass killing process ever known, which claimed the lives of approximately 1.1 million people. The film is based on the memoirs Höss wrote before his execution.
Between Worlds
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Israel 2016
84 min
Hebrew, Arabic, English Subtitles
Broadcasters and Funds
Makor Foundation for Israeli Films
Gesher Multicultural Film Fund
The Jerusalem film &Television Fund
Other Israel Film Festival
Israel Film Fund
Festivals and Awards
Busan IFF
Haifa IFF
Other Israel FF
Cast
Maria Zreik - Amal
Maya Gasner - Bina
Yoram Toledano - Meir
Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum - Esther
Avi Dangur - Adam
Jamil Khoury - Samir
Crew
Director & Screenwriter - Miya Hatav
Line producer - Boaz Vexler
Director of photography - Ran Aviad
Editor - Nissim Massas
Composer - Jonathan Bar-Giora
Sound Design and mix - Michael Emeth
Colorist - Sergio Bezrukoff
Bina (46), religious woman from Jerusalem, arrives panic-stricken at the hospital after her son Oliel (25) was severely injured in a stabbing attack. This is the first time she sees him since he became secular and lost contact with the family. Her husband, Meir (50) comes later only after their daughter Ester’s (28) insistence. At the hospital, Bina meets Amal (24). While Meir searches for answers to revive Oliel, the two despondent women bond with one another. However, Amal hides a secret from Bina and Meir.
While waiting for Oliel’s revival, they will learn about truth, faith, understanding, acceptance, and love that can and maybe should replace fear of the unknown.
Anthrax
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Israel
74 min
Hebrew, English Subtitles
Brodcasters and Funds
The New Fund for Cinema and TV
Pais Culture and art council
Cinema South IFF
Israel Film Fund
Cast
Udi Persi - Noam
Ziv Peleg - Dany
Amit Epshtein - Shai
Lior Hasson - Avivi
Sandra Schonwald - Dr. Yanir
Ortal Ben Shoshan - Michal
Dana Meinrath - Shely
Adi Weiss - Prof. Choen
Crew
Director - Shai Scherf
Line Producer - Amit Eran
Screenwriter - Yael Oron & Shai Scherf
Cinematography - David Michael Shachar
Art director - Tzuf Prag
Editor - Eyal Sibi
Sound - Ori Tchechik, Ohad Stamati
Composer - Ohad Stamati
Conspiracy Thriller based (mostly) on a true story.
The story of reserve soldiers who volunteered to take part in an anthrax vaccine experiment during their military service. 7 years later they discover the vaccine has disastrous side effects. They set out to expose the truth and save their own lives.
Mossad
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Israel 2019
91 min
Hebrew & English
Co-Production with United King
Broadcasters and Funds
Rabinovich Foundation - Cinema Project
Jerusalem Film and Television Fund
Festivals & Awards
one of the most commercially successful Israeli films in Israel for 2019
Tallinn black nights FF - Current waves
Cinema South FF - Opening film
Cast
Guy - Tsahi Halevi
Linda - Efrat Dor
Aharon - Tal Friedman
Shuki - Dvir Benedek
Sharon - Adi Himelbloy
Crew
Writer/Director - Alon Gur Arye
Script & Directing consultant - David Zucker
Director of photography - Ido Berlad
Editor - Eyal Sibi, Isaac Sehayek, Roei Rinat
Art Director - Neria Ben Ari
Action-Comedy, Parody of the Israeli Mossad.
The Mossad and CIA team up to save the world from the “Really Bad Guys” terrorist organization. After an American tech-billionaire is kidnapped in Israel, the Mossad rushes to save him while the CIA send their best agent to help out. The Mossad agent and the CIA agent must work together even though they conflict like everything else in the Middle East.
Should they fail at saving the world, the retiring director of the Mossad will lose his chance to light a torch in the Independence Day torch-lighting ceremony.
The film features wacky humor, stunts, actors, dialogue and even a credit roll at the end.
Herzl's Susita
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Israel, 2018
post production
84 min
Hebrew, English Subtitles
Co-Production with United King
Brodcasters and Funds
Rabinovich Foundation - Cinema Project
Gesher Multicultural Film Fund
Cast
Yigal - Mickey Leon
Crew
Director - David Kreiner
Screenwriter - Michal Vinik & David Kreiner
Cinematography - Yaron Scharf
Art director - Neria Ben Ari
Editor - Era Lapid, Guy Nemesh
Sound Editor - Ami Arad
Composer - Yoram Hazan
Drama
A film teacher had to teach in Sderot and change the lives of his students.
Naked
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Israel 2014
29 min
Hebrew, English Subtitles
Broadcasters and Funds
Makor Foundation for Israeli Films
Festivals and Awards
Winner of Best Middle-Length Film Award at PriFest 2017
Los Angeles CineFest
Film Festival International MILAN
Cast
Renana Raz - woman
Danny Geva - man
Crew
Director & Screenwriter - Yoram Sachs
Director of photography - Amit Yasur
Editor - Mickey Zar
Art Director - Gan De Langa
Composer - Ophir Leibovitch
Sound Design and mix - Yosi Appelbaum
Colorist - Aharon Peer
A man and a woman spontaneously embark on a 24 hour adventure in "Eilat". Their journey into the unknown unleashes their lust and obsession, as they confront the boundaries between fantasy and reality. This adventure opens up a Pandora-box of suppressed urges and tests the connection between love and sexuality.