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the 12th annual Israel Film Center Festival features highlights from the 2023 Other Israel Film Festival. Don' miss it June 4-10.
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the 12th annual Israel Film Center Festival features highlights from the 2023 Other Israel Film Festival. Don' miss it June 4-10. https://ifcf.eventive.org/films
Closing Night: Lady Amar
We close the festival tonight with LADY AMAR. An elderly woman is kidnapped, and the three "kidnappers" claim she is their mother, who lost her mind after her husband’s and son’s deaths.
Thu, Nov 10 | 6 pm Reception | 7 pm Screening
TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3TLO7xz
Followed by Q+A with co-director Noam Gil. Moderated by Isaac Zablocki.
The Forgotten Ones
THE FORGOTTEN ONES follows filmmaker Michale Boganim on a road trip through Israel’s history. In the 1950s, immigrating Mizrahi Jews were forced to move into development towns in the Negev Desert, and 70 years later, their descendants are still impacted by this.
Wed, Nov 9, 7:30 pm
TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3SzbE34
Screening followed by Q+A with Michale Boganim. Moderated by Michal Aviad.
The Last Chapter of A.B. Yehoshua
THE LAST CHAPTER OF A.B. YEHOSHUA is a rare and striking look into the life of one of Israel’s most beloved writers, who passed away in June 2022.
Wed, Nov 9, 5:30 pm
TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3eZC3cF
Followed by Q+A with director Yair Qedar.
The Samaritans
THE SAMARITANS: A BIBLICAL PEOPLE looks at the lives of a community of 850 Samaritans and their 3,500-year-old biblical tradition as they try to preserve the community, the Torah, and their Holy Mountain.
Tue, Nov 8, 7 pm
TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3f3jVPi
Followed by Q+A with director Moshe Alafi and Professor Steven Fine. Moderated by Helen C. Evans.
Boycott
BOYCOTT tells the stories of a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona, and a speech therapist in Texas who are told they must choose between their jobs and their political beliefs. Their legal battles expose an attack on freedom of speech through anti-BDS laws across the US.
Mon, Nov 7, 5:30 pm screening, followed by reception
TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3DoNLXQ
Followed by Q+A with director Julia Bacha, producer Daniel Chalfen, producer Suhad Babaa, and subject Brian Hauss. Moderated by Rabbi Margo Hughes-Robinson.
The Devil's Drivers
THE DEVIL’S DRIVERS is an immersion into life under occupation, documenting car chases and perilous trips in breathless suspense. Hamouda and Ismail navigate the Israel-Palestine border and smuggle Palestinian workers who need to provide for their families.
Mon, Nov 7, 7:30 pm
TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3TN5X2H
Followed by Q+A with co-director Daniel Carsenty. Moderated by Matt Nosanchuck.
Dead Sea Guardians
DEAD SEA GUARDIANS tells the story of three men—a Jordanian, an Israeli, and a Palestinian—who join forces on a heroic journey to prevent the Dead Sea, one of the wonders of the world, from disappearing.
Sun, Nov 6, 4:30 pm
TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3sqe89s
Followed by Q+A with co-director Ido Glass. Moderated by Udi Urman.
Razzouk Tattoo
In RAZZOUK TATTOO, the heir of a 500-year lineage of Christian tattoo artists in Jerusalem goes on a quest to find missing ancient stencils, and instead discovers dark secrets and an unsolved murder.
Sun, Nov 6, 2 pm
TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3gDFo1G
Followed by Q+A with director Orit Ofir Ronell. Moderated by Erica Shaps.
H2: The Occupation Lab
H2: THE OCCUPATION LAB tells the story of 54 years of military occupation by looking closely at a one kilometer-long street. Segregated, highly surveilled, heavily filmed, and intensely guarded, a single neighborhood in Hebron fuels the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Sat, Nov 5, 7 pm
TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3N2y63m
Followed by Q+A with co-director Noam Sheizaf. Moderated by Libby Lenkinski.
A Reel War: Shalal
In A REEL WAR: SHALAL, a filmmaker stumbles across reels from a long-lost PLO archive seized by Israel during the 1982 Lebanon War and wrestles to expose their untold history.
Sat, Nov 5, 2 pm
TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3TmaObb
Screening followed by Q+A with director Karnit Mandel. Moderated by Najla Said.
1341 FRAMES OF LOVE AND WAR has been named to the shortlist for the International Documentary Association (IDA)'s Best Feature Documentary Award! Based on an archive of over half a million negatives taken by Israel‘s most celebrated war photographer, this film is a complex love letter to the power, beauty, and horror of photographic imagery. Fri, Nov 4, 6 pm TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3TmuNqn Screening followed by Q+A with producer Yael Melamede. Moderated by Andrea Meislin.
Other Israel Film Festival trailer
The OTHER ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL returns this November! Tickets are now on sale for the 16th annual festival, taking place in person November 3–10 and streaming November 3–13.
Read more about the festival here:
https://deadline.com/2022/10/explosive-israeli-doc-tantura-new-york-other-israel-film-festival-1235133694/
For the full list of films and events, visit otherisrael.org.
This delicious Other Israel favorite is Playing Sunday and Tuesday at Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan www.jccfilm.org #moviearebettertogether
With No Land Trailer
From the director of Fig Tree, WITH NO LAND uses firsthand testimonies and unique archival footage tells the history of the Jewish Ethiopian community and the efforts made to bring them to Israel.
Watch the sneak preview in-person at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan on Tue, Nov 9, 8:15PM or virtually Nov 4-11.
Get tickets below.
https://bit.ly/3jkYOXC.
Through a tapestry of biographical passages, literature, and conversations with significant people in his life, Amos Oz tells his last story. Catch our sneak preview screening of THE FOURTH WINDOW on Wed, Nov 10, 6PM. Also streaming Nov 4-11. Get tickets below. https://bit.ly/3vIjy0x
A Reel War (Shalaal) trailer
While researching footage for a documentary, an Israeli archive researcher comes across a box of tapes titled “Loot”—a lost Palestinian film archive seized by the Israeli military in A REEL WAR: SHALAAL.
Buy your tickets for the Mon, Nov 8, 6:15PM screening: https://bit.ly/3aXOccG
The First 54 Years clip
Through the testimonies of the soldiers, the inner workings of colonialist occupation are explored in The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
Tickets: https://bit.ly/3vwBRFR