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חזרה לדף הקודם Women & LGBTQ Rights Film's ability to join the great struggles for women's rights and LGBTQ+ rights, and illuminate these never-ending struggles with cinematic force, by depicting personal stories from original angles, receives a special expression this year at the Solidarity Festival. As "old" struggles for rights and equality are renewed, the festival program dedicates a special place to cinematic works that fight their way for a more just and better society for all human beings - of all sexual and gender identities - in Israeli premieres of award-winning international feature films and documentaries.

International Film Competition | Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival 2022 חזרה לדף הקודם International Competition Feature Films Convenience Store Deprived of ceremonious decorum, in a convenience store at the edge of Moscow, a modest wedding is held. The bride, an Uzbek migrant worker named Mukhabat, is pregnant, a pregnancy which will shake up her life and alter her destiny. For Mukhabat, the world begins and ends in that small convenience store, thousands of miles away from her homeland. Information Tickets Paris is in Harlem In 1926, New York City banned dancing in restaurants and bars, as part of an attempt to regulate and restrict black life. Now, just before this antiquated law is repealed, a series of characters from all parts of American society, from an academic lecturer to two outlaws, find themselves inside a bar in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, and discover how a single gunshot will forever change their lives. Information Tickets Klondike Summer 2014 – the war in Ukraine has already begun. After Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula and invaded two districts in the east of the country, residents of one Ukrainian village near the border are subjected to incessant bombing. Information Tickets Europe Zohara, an immigrant from Algeria who lives in a small town in France, travels to work every day on a bus line called "Europe". By following her story, the feature film of director Philip Scheffner, who previously focused on documentaries, presents the struggles of immigrants throughout Europe, and their complex integration into a new and different reality. Information Tickets Working Class Heroes Lydia works on the fringes of the real estate industry. Her role is to bribe and cheat as much as necessary so that the company she works for can continue to operate a dangerous construction site, on which one day a luxury residential project will be built. Information Tickets Semret Semret is an Eritrean immigrant who lives and works in Switzerland. She works around the clock at the hospital to fulfill her dream of becoming a midwife, raising her daughter Joe alone. Information Tickets Documentaries International Competition Documentary Films Delikado With its white beaches, beautiful turquoise waters and wild green forests, the island of Palawan is like heaven. But powerful and corrupt forces want to enslave the virgin island and loot its natural treasures. Risking their lives, three environmental activists decide to fight to save their home – the last remaining piece of nature in the Philippines. Information Tickets Last Flight Home After a long life and dealing with serious illness, Eli Timoner decides to end his life by medical means. Timoner is a husband, father and successful businessman, and his decision to end his life generates emotional and thought-provoking reactions from the people close to him. The loving and supportive family accompanies the dying father in the few days he has left until the end of his life. Information Tickets Sansón and Me The film's director Rodrigo Reyes first meets the boy Sanso when he acts as an interpreter for him during his criminal trial in California. Sanso was sentenced to life in prison for his membership in a gang that committed a shocking murder, but the sentence and Sanso's personality continued to trouble Reyes, and he renewed contact with him. Information Tickets The Ants & The Grasshopper Anita Chitaya, a social activist from Malawi East Africa, is fighting to achieve gender equality in her country and to find solutions to the harms of the climate crisis. To promote the change, she travels to the United States in an effort to convince farmers that the climate crisis is real, and that its consequences are destructive. Information Tickets Eternal Spring In March 2002, a group of Falun Gong practitioners take over a state television station in China, infuriating the authoritarian and rigid regime. In the following period, the Chinese government carries out a series of brutal police raids against Falun Gong practitioners. One of them, a comic book illustrator named Daxiong, had to flee to Canada. Information Tickets Lyra With deep roots in the working class of war-torn Belfast, Lyra McKee became a nationally renowned investigative journalist. She did not cease to expose the consequences of the conflict days in Northern Ireland and demanded a proper response to the crimes that were forgotten after the peace agreement. Her life was cut short in 2019, when she was murdered during riots by members of the IRA organization opposing the Good Friday Agreement. Information Tickets The New Greatness Case Anna is a 17-year-old girl who loves animals and likes to talk about ecology and politics. One day she enters an internet chat with other young people her age. They begin to meet and talk about life in their country, but in today's Russia such conversations are no simple matter. A secret agent from Vladimir Putin's brutal intelligence forces infiltrates the chat. Information Tickets

Spanton vs The French Police International Films Spanton vs The French Police France, 2022, 70 min Director: Ovidie Language & Subtitles: French; subtitles in Hebrew and English Producers: Marc Berdugo, Barbara Conforti Production: Festivals: Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, CPH:DOX Screenings: Sat. 10.12 | 16:30 | Cinematheque 2 Tickets Tickets In 2014, Canadian tourist Emily Spanton enters a bar in Paris. The events of that night have been covered and discussed in France repeatedly over the years that have passed since then: according to Spanton, she met a group of French policemen in a bar who brutally raped her, while the policemen for their part vehemently deny all accusations. The case soon reaches the media and goes through the courts. The film presents the complainant's version, the defendants' version, and the stormy investigation and trial. From article to article, from conviction to acquittal, the dramatic turns that characterized the rape case in that bar in Paris changed the attitude towards rape victims in France, while illustrating the ongoing struggle of the #metoo movement.

My Land Zion Yulie Cohen's Tribute My Land Zion Israel, 2004, 56 min Director: Yulie Cohen Language & Subtitles: Hebrew; subtitles in English and Hebrew Yulie Cohen Production: Festivals: Broadcasted in the Women Film Competition of the Rehovot International Film Festival Broadcasted and Screened in many Countries, Universities and Film Festivals around the world Screenings: Sat. 3.12 | 17:00 | Cinematheque 1 Tickets Tickets What young woman would leave New York to have her first child in a war zone? Who would choose to give birth in a place where kids get blown up riding on school buses or sitting in cafés? Where thousands of eighteen-years-olds kill or get killed as soldiers? I am that woman. I went home to give birth to my daughters in Israel. Screening and a Conversation with Yulie Cohen, David Zonshine and Dr. Mram Masarwa

Eternal Spring International Films Eternal Spring Canada, 2022, 86 min Director: Jason Loftus Language & Subtitles: Mandarin; subtitles in Hebrew and English Producers: Jason Loftus, Masha Loftus, Yvan Pinard, Kevin Koo Production: Festivals: FISCHER AUDIENCE AWARD, HELLENIC PARLIAMENT HUMAN VALUES AWARD (THESSALONIKI); GRAND JURY PRIZE AWARD SPECIAL MENTION, ACTIVIST AWARD NOMINEE, STUDENT’S CHOICE AWARD NOMINEE (MOVIES THAT MATTER), HOT DOCS AUDIENCE AWARD, ROGERS AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY (HOT DOCS), AUDIENCE AWARD (DANCES WITH FILMS), BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (DEADCENTER), DOCUMENTARY JURY AWARD (LIGHTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL), DOCUMENTARY AUDIENCE AWARD (LIGHTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL), JURY AWARD BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (MAMMOTH LAKES), AUDIENCE AWARD BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (MAMMOTH LAKES) Screenings: Fri. 2.12 | 12:00 | Cinematheque 4 Tickets Fri. 9.12 | 12:00 | Cinematheque 1 Tickets In March 2002, a group of Falun Gong practitioners take over a state television station in China, infuriating the authoritarian and rigid regime. In the following period, the Chinese government carries out a series of brutal police raids against Falun Gong practitioners. One of them, a comic book illustrator named Daxiong, had to flee to Canada. For him, the takeover of the TV station was an unnecessary provocation that ruined his life. Another accomplice also manages to escape from China. Meeting him challenges Daxiong's views and makes him reexamine the events that shaped his life. The film uses unique animation to depict a story of struggle against the ruling forces and the heavy human cost of fearless defiance. 9.12.22 | After the Screening we will screen a Recorded Conversation with the Director of the film

Israeli Films | Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival 2022 חזרה לדף הקודם Israeli Films Feature Films A Safe Place World Premiere 511 students attend "Hayarden," an elementary school for refugee and immigrant children in south Tel Aviv. In a year in which fellow foreign and immigrant workers and families are being expulsed from his neighborhood, one of the classes is chosen to participate in a unique cinematic project: They are asked to create a short drama film about their lives. Information Tickets East Jerusalem, West Jerusalem Special Screening and a Meeting with David Broza In early 2013 Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza went to a Palestinian studio in East Jerusalem, together with American, Israeli and Palestinian musicians – including Steve Earle, Mira Awad and Muhammad Mughrabi – pursuing his years-old dream to make music a bridge-builder between Palestinians and Israelis. Information Tickets Kashmir: Journey to Freedom In a rare look at the region, Udi Aloni filmed his protagonists as they launched their new struggle. Finally refused re-entry by the Indian government, Aloni was forced to tell the rest of this story far from the land and people he had come to admire creation, a feast for the senses which capable of restoring our faith in the human spirit. Information Tickets WHY IS WE AMERICANS? Israeli Premiere After the Screening there will be a Q&A with the philosopher Slavoj Žižek via Zoom. This film is an in-depth, cinematic exploration of Newark’s legendary Baraka family and its patriarch, Amiri Baraka, one of the most prodigious African American poet/playwright/activists of our time. Information Tickets Four Shorts about the Occupation In this special event held in commemoration of film director and scholar Judd Ne'eman, we offer an opportunity to watch rarely screened four Israeli shorts about the occupation of the West Bank and participate in a discussion organized in collaboration with the Israeli Filmmakers Forum Against the Occupation. Information Tickets My Land Zion What young woman would leave New York to have her first child in a war zone? Who would choose to give birth in a place where kids get blown up riding on school buses or sitting in cafés? Where thousands of eighteen-years-olds kill or get killed as soldiers? I am that woman. I went home to give birth to my daughters in Israel. Information Tickets Docummunity TBA Information Tickets Don’t Touch My Holocaust This cinematic adaptation of the award-winning play, “Arbeit Macht Frei”, accompanies the Acre Theater Group as it probes the innermost recesses of the Israeli psyche in the generation after the Holocaust. Information Tickets NAFKOT - YEARNING Israeli Premiere An Israeli anthropologist travels to meet a hidden Jewish community in northern Ethiopia. Together with the members of the community, they tell the story of their survival against all odds. Information Tickets Sand Flakes World Premiere David is a sensitive and creative boy who lives in peripheral southern Israel with his MS sick mother and his father. He comes across an online writing forum, fakes his identity and under a fictitious name publishes his short stories. As he gets entangled in his lies, he is afraid of losing his friends and being exposed. Information Tickets Local Angel Moved by the destruction on Sept. 11 Aloni returned to Israel/ Palestine to grapple with the concepts of sacrifice and the sacred embedded in the history of a much more ancient edifice - the Temple Mount. The heart of the film is Udi's effort to understand the theological-political background he inherited from his mother, Shulamit Aloni. Images of mutations of Walter Benjamin's angel haunt the film from beginning to end. "Local Angel" is both challenging to the observer, and deeply moving. Information Tickets ART/Violence Art/Violence follows two of his students from Jenin as they redefine their identity as artists and women after his death. Facing military occupation and societal oppression, they surround themselves with a group of young and radical Palestinian artists armed with fidelity to art, sisterhood and Palestine. Information Tickets My Terrorist In 1978, filmmaker Yulie Cohen was wounded in a terrorist attack by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. A stewardess for the Israeli airline El Al, she was attacked along with other crewmembers when getting off the bus to the hotel in London. In a remarkable twist of faith, twenty-three years later Cohen began questioning the causes of violence between Israelis and Palestinians and started to consider helping release the man who almost killed her, Fahad Mihyi. Information Tickets My Brother More than twenty-five years have gone by since my brother turned ultra-orthodox Jew and there is no contact between us. Our Mom and Dad are over seventy-five years old and are about to sell the house we grew up in, and I recently got divorced after twenty years of marriage. Information Tickets Even If You Shoot Me Suzan Jaber is an event photographer, but living in the heart of Hebron has driven her to document what goes on outside her window. Between Israeli settlers threatening Palestinians and soldiers raiding homes, her hand-held camera also captures a dream of another future. Information Tickets Expecting a Revolution TBA Information Tickets Photo Credit: Nachum Mochiach

My Brother a Tribute to Yulie Cohen Screenings: Fri. 2.12 | 12:00 | Cinematheque 1 Tickets My Brother Israel, 2007, 56 min Director & Producer: Yulie Cohen Language & Subtitles: Hebrew; subtitles in Hebrew Festivals: Haifa International Film Festival More than twenty-five years have gone by since my brother turned ultra-orthodox Jew and there is no contact between us. Our Mom and Dad are over seventy-five years old and are about to sell the house we grew up in, and I recently got divorced after twenty years of marriage. Refusing to accept that one who believes in God is not willing to reach back to his sister although secular, I am reaching out for my brother trying to reconnect. I want to have a family again; I long for unconditional love. I do have two lovable and loving daughters, but I will soon have to let them go as they are nearing the age of eighteen. 'My Brother' is a three-year journey, during which, through looking inward and outward, I find some major answers to my quest: I get to know my Jewish roots profoundly, I understand people's need to believe in God and why they fall in love with orthodoxy, and I find my own inner peace and unconditional love – no matter what. 'My Brother' takes place in the Jewish state of Israel in 2005 – 2007 where the orthodox population is growing, and violence are being fed in the name of God. Screening and a Conversation with Yulie Cohen, Rabi Bezalel Cohen and Israel Frey. Host: Attorney Nitzan Kahana

Local Angel Tribute to Udi Aloni Local Angel Israel, 2002, 70 min Director: Udi Aloni Language & Subtitles: English, Arabic, Hebrew; subtitles in Hebrew and English Festivals: Jerusalem International Film Festival 2002, Toronto International Film Festival 2002, Berlin International Film Festival 2002 "Local Angel", a film described by philosopher Slavoj Zizek as "A masterpiece", is not an easy work to characterize. It's a deeply personal odyssey of discovery, and a surreal work of art combining poetry, music, and images both beautiful and horrific. While its subtitle is "Theological Political Fragments," the film ends by tying its many elements together in ways the viewer may not expect. Moved by the destruction on Sept. 11 Aloni returned to Israel/ Palestine to grapple with the concepts of sacrifice and the sacred embedded in the history of a much more ancient edifice - the Temple Mount. The heart of the film is Udi's effort to understand the theological-political background he inherited from his mother, Shulamit Aloni. Images of mutations of Walter Benjamin's angel haunt the film from beginning to end. "Local Angel" is both challenging to the observer, and deeply moving. It is a generous, lush, imaginative Screening and Conversation with PM Aida Touma-Suleiman and Dr. Ayelet Maoz Amal's Photo Credit: Ilan Besor Firas's Photo Credit: Angie Assal Screenings: Wed. 7.12 | 18:00 | Cinematheque 2 Tickets

A Safe Place Israeli Films A Safe Place Israel, 2022, 50 min Director: Noemie Biegeleisen Language & Subtitles: Hebrew; subtitles in Hebrew Producer: Sylvain Biegeleisen Writers: Noemie & Sylvain Biegeleisen Editing: Miri Laufer - Camera: Noemie & Sylvain Biegeleisen - On Line: Avi Levy - Sound: Nir Gavish - Music: Sefi Zisling Production: Festivals: TBA Screenings: Mon. 5.12 | 19:00 | Cinematheque 1 Tickets Fri. 9.12 | 12:00 | Cinematheque 4 Tickets Angelo is a 12-year-old Filipino boy who studies at "Hayarden," a school for refugee and immigrant children in south Tel Aviv. While fellow foreign and immigrant workers and families are being expulsed from his neighborhood, his class is chosen to participate in a unique cinematic project. They are asked to create a short drama film about a topic close to their hearts. The process of working on the film introduces us to the fears and dreams of Angelo and his classmates. They live in a temporary reality that undermines their sense of security. And although none of the children have a passport or identity card, their journey crosses borders after their film was chosen to represent Israel at the Venice Children's Film Festival. 5.12.22 | World Premiere 9.12.22 | with The Association of Civil Rights in Israel, Emil Grunzweig Award

ART/Violence Tribute to Udi Aloni ART/Violence Israel, 2013, 75 min Director: Udi Aloni, Batoul Taleb, Mariam Abu Khaled Language & Subtitles: English, Arabic, Hebrew; subtitles in Hebrew and English Festivals: Cinema Fairbindet Prize – Berlinale 2013 Prize of Juliano – Cinema South Festival, Israel 2013 “Open Eyes Award” – MedFilm Festival, Rome 2013 On April 4, 2011, militant artist Juliano Mer-Khamis was assassinated in front of the Freedom Theatre which he founded in the Jenin Refugee Camp. Art/Violence follows two of his students from Jenin as they redefine their identity as artists and women after his death. Facing military occupation and societal oppression, they surround themselves with a group of young and radical Palestinian artists armed with fidelity to art, sisterhood and Palestine. Screening and Conversation with Udi Aloni, Rami Younes and Tamer Nafar who would also Perform Amal's Photo Credit: Ilan Besor Firas's Photo Credit: Angie Assal Screenings: Tue. 6.12 | 20:00 | Cinematheque 2 Tickets

Working Class Heroes International Films Working Class Heroes Serbia, 2022, 85 min Director: Miloš Pušić Language & Subtitles: Serbian, English; subtitles in Hebrew and English Writers: Dušan Spasojević, Ivan Knežević, Miloš Pušić Producer: Miloš Pušić Cast: asna Đuričić, Boris Isaković, Predrag Momčilović, Stefan Beronja, Aleksandar Đurica, Bojana Milanović, Ervin Hadžimurtezić, Mihajlo Pleskonjić, Filip Đurić, Peđa Marjanović, Marko Vasiljević, Radoslav Vojnović Production: Festivals: Berlin, Belgrade, Subversive, Biografilm Screenings: Fri. 2.12 | 19:00 | Cinematheque 1 Tickets Sat. 10.12 | 18:15 | Cinematheque 2 Tickets Lydia works on the fringes of the real estate industry. Her role is to bribe and cheat as much as necessary so that the company she works for can continue to operate a dangerous construction site, on which one day a luxury residential project will be built. Her responsibility includes employing illegal workers from the fringes of society, who are required to serve the company goals without anyone to protect them, except that the dismissal of one foreman, and the entry into office of a new and subversive manager, lead to a rebellion. The workers embark on a fierce struggle against the company and for their rights and safety. Soon, the tension between the company and its workers escalates – and leads to disaster. Finally, Lydia will be forced to face a difficult dilemma and will be required to pick a side.

Solidarity Film Festival Timetable Screening Schedule 10.12 Sat 9.12 Fri 8.12 Thur 7.12 Wed 6.12 Tue 5.12 Mon 4.12 Sun 3.12 Sat 2.12 Fri 1.12 Thur Cinematheque 1 Cinematheque 2 Cinematheque 4 12:00 Eternal Spring International Documentary Competition Information Tickets 14:30 Melting Dreams International Films Information Tickets 21:30 Atomic Hope International Films Information Tickets 12:00 No Place for You in Our Town | Screening and Conversation International Films Information Tickets 15:30 My Terrorist | Screening and Conversation a Tribute to Yulie Cohen's Trilogy Information Tickets 20:00 Semret International Feature Competition Information Tickets 12:00 A Safe Place | with The Association of Civil Rights in Israel, Emil Grunzweig Award Israeli Films Information Tickets 14:30 Forest for the Trees | Screening and Conversation with 'Good-Energy' International Films Information Tickets