Coming this summer to the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

USA premiere of Mr. Cortisone, Happy Days

and a sneak preview of Side Walk

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Best Cinemtography Award for SIDE WALK at DocAviv 2007

The Jury:

“A unique look at the slippery moments of childhood...both magical and menacing.”

Seven parallel stories of children, making their way to school and back home, interweave into a cinematic poem about childhood. Alone, between the parent and the teacher, danger and curiosity, dependence and independence, children experience life unprotected and unrestricted. In the gap between the familiar and the unpredictable, between the trivial and the traumatic, the film traps pure and irreversible bits of time. The playful, the stressful, the cruel, the magical and the thrilling moments of this daily journey, become a lucid voyage of an illuminating and injuring experience.

SideWalk was produced with the support of Makor Foundation for Cinema for Yes Documentary Channel

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The Journey of Vaan Nguyen

Screening at MOMA New York, Thursday, February 22, 6:45 PM

Coming soon to:

Singapore Indie Documentary Festival, March 6-10, 2007.

Houston Jewish Film Festival, March 15-25, 2007.

Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, March 22-April 1, 2007.

ReelWorld Film Festival, Toronto, April 11-15, 2007.

Ashland Independent Film Festival, Oregon, April 12-16, 2007

“A poignant portrait of the kind of cultural displacement only history can create...first rate doc.”
Dennis Harvey, Variety

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“Has the flavors of a cinematic feature…
it is visually stunning and dramatically captivating...”
Read full review by Rinat Abulafia, Globes

“One of the best and most powerful documentary films created here in recent years...”
Read full review by Yuval Rivlin, Makor Rishon

In production :

A Positive Story

The Story of Tagbo Aitso, an Ethiopian-Jew with HIV, and his attempt to stop the disease from spreading both in his body and in his community.

A co-production with Channel 2 Israel

Still Life Moving

Still Life Moving sketches a portrait of an artist whose life and creation were a reflection of the dramas that took place in the first half of the 20th century. From the architectural shrine of the new age of science – the Einstein Tower in Potsdam, through his classic works in Berlin, Jerusalem, London and San Francisco, to the uncanny German Village replica in the Utah desert - used to test urban bombings by the US army – Mendelsohn’s career was as enigmatic and tragic as the path of the century.

A co-production with Channel 2 Israel, The National Film Board of Canada and The New Foundation for Israeli Cinema

Produced for Israel channel 2

Other Films

A GENERAL’S STORY

Winner of Best Documentary at Girona International Film Festival

Michael Levi wakes up and marches out for his daily routine dressed up as a Lieutenant-General. He is a flower-shop deliveryman, living a military routine in his own mind. Michael is the only civilian in Israel who can disguise as an army officer by a court decision. Somewhere down the road he has lost his own identity. Following Michael’s routine we discover the story of a man who went through a complex absorption process as a Moroccan immigrant, grew up in a conflict zone by Israel’s Northern boarder and has experienced a traumatic terror attack. Michael lives in an imaginary world, but when his son’s Bar-Mitzva comes up, he becomes a sober, protective and loving father…until a terror attack hits again. A film about fatherhood, manhood and lose of identity in a militaristic and power-driven society that is constantly under threat.

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Raging Dove

From The New York Times: "This bruising but illuminating documentary considers how nationalism flattened one young, sure-footed boxer. In "Raging Dove," which opens today... " Read the full review

From the New York Post: "An Israeli Arab who had emigrated to the United States, he became the world welterweight boxing champion, married an American and bought a horse farm in Tennessee. Then everything went wrong, thanks to Middle East politics — as the moving documentary "Raging Dove" shows... " Read the full review

Mr Cortisone, Happy days

screening at MedFilm, Rome

FESTIVALS:

• Cinema Du Reel 2004 – World premiere

• Doc Aviv Israel, 2004
Special Citation Award

• Documenta Madrid, International Documentary Festival, Spain, 2004
Winner of the Gandhi Award

• EBS Seoul International Documentary Festival Korea, 2004
Winner of the Audience Award

• Kasseler Dokumentarfilm Germany, 2004

• Taiwan Documentary Festival, Taipei

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