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International Films Delikado United States, Philippines, Great Britain, Australia, Hong Kong, 2022, 94 min Director: Karl Malakunas Language & Subtitles: English, Filipino; subtitles in Hebrew and English Producer: Esther Takac Production: Festivals: Dokufest, Sydney (Sustainable Future Award), South Korea DMZ, DOK Leipzig Screenings: Sun. 4.12 | 17:45 | Cinematheque 1 Tickets Tue. 6.12 | 18:00 | Cinematheque 1 Tickets 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. Greedy corporations, an unrestrained government and drug dealers – all these are drawn into the war on Palawan. The film by director Karl Malakunas follows the struggle of three fearless warriors: a militia commander looking for redemption, a lawyer experienced in these sorts of battles and struggles, and a smiling grandmother who has become the mayor of the city. The three of them will do everything to restore hope to the island. 4.12.22 | Screening and Conversation with Ex-PM's Dov Khenin and Sondos Saleh

International Films Klondike Ukraine, Turkey 2022, 100 min Director: Maryna Er Gorbach Language & Subtitles: Ukranian, Russian, Chechen, German; subtitles in Hebrew and English Writer: Maryna er Gorbach Producers: Svyatoslav Bulakovskiy, Mehmet Bahadir Er, Maryna er Gorbach Cast: Oxana Cherkashyna, Sergiy Shadrin, Oleg Scherbina, Oleg Shevchuk, Artur Aramyan, Evgenij Efremov Production: Festivals: Sundance Film Fstival (Winner, World Dramatic Directing Award), Berlin (2nd Prize, Audience Award; Winner, Ecumenical Jury Prize Award), Seattle International Film Festival (Grand Jury Prize), Sarajevo Film Festival (Heart of Sarajevo Best Director), Fribourg Film Festival (Grand Prix Winner, Critics Best Film Winner, Young Jury Special Mention Prize Winner), Istanbul Film Festival / National Competition (Best Film, Best Cinematographer), Santiago Festival Internacional de Cine (Best İnternational Film, SIGNIS Best Film), goEast Wiesbaden Film Festival (3Sat Broadcasting Award), South East European Film Festival (Outstanding Acting Achievement), NEISSE–NYSA–NISA FILM FESTIVAL (Jury Special Prize), Film Festival Freistadt (Jury Special Prize), Film by the Sea (International Youth Jury Award), Heimat Europa Film Festival (Best Film), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Durban International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival Screenings: Sat. 8.12 | 19:30 | Cinematheque 1 Tickets Mon. 5.12 | 21:00 | Cinematheque 1 Tickets 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. Irka, a woman in an advanced stage of pregnancy, is trapped in the shelling area alongside her husband Tulik. Although their home was damaged during the war, Irka refuses to evacuate, while Tulik refuses to join the pro-Russian separatist forces despite heavy pressure from his brother. The crash of a Malaysian plane near the village increases the tensions between the residents, and intensifies the conflicts between Irka and Tulik. The couple is forced to face the difficult and poignant questions that arise from the destructive war outside within their home. 8.12.22 | Festival's Award Ceremony and a special screening of Klondike

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

חזרה לדף הקודם Poverty, Refugees & Migrant Workers The political upheavals of the last twenty years have created massive flows of refugees and asylum seekers who have been torn from their homelands and found themselves in the heart of the West. They fled wars, natural disasters or poverty and set out on a journey to win a better life. At the same time, the exploitation never ceases to exist – it merely takes on new forms. In the richest countries and in the most neglected and poorest corners of the globe, workers of all professions find themselves deprived of their most basic rights. This year's festival films showcase the most powerful and courageous struggles of workers for equality and human rights, which often begin in the lowest and darkest of places alongside feature films and documentaries from around the world that tell the stories of work immigrants – about the hopes and disappointments of new beginnings, and the extreme powers that try to stop them, from xenophobia to manipulative regimes.

חזרה לדף הקודם International Films Features Competition Documentaries Competition All International Films The Ants and 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. Information Tickets Forest for the Trees In the heart of Canada's dense forests, a group of tree planters take an honest look at their lives and work, against the backdrop of the intensifying climate crisis. Information Tickets Band The band at the center of this docu-fiction film is a young female group in search of elusive success. The members of the band do not go on concert tours in large stadiums, and are forced to perform in front of a limited audience in a small club. Information Tickets This Is National Wake "National Wake" was a wild and boundless punk rock band that came up precisely in the heart of the fascist apartheid regime of the 1970’s in South Africa. 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. Information Tickets The Killing Of A Journalist Following the brutal murder of a young investigative journalist and his fiancée in their home, the largest protest in Slovakia since the fall of communism upsurges, eventually leading to the overthrow of the government. 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. For Semret, the hard work is a necessary price to ensure a better life for Joe, a life that is not contingent upon the heavy price that Semret paid in her past. Information Tickets Salute One moment at the height of the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City was engraved in the history of the Olympic Games. Two of the winners of the 200-meter race decided to raise their fists on the podium, in salute and tribute to black power. Information Tickets Paris in Harlem In 1926, New York City banned dancing in restaurants and bars, as part of an attempt to regulate and restrict black life. 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". Information Tickets Melting Dreams Three Afghan girls dream of becoming professional skiers and representing their country in the Olympic Games. They are convinced that in Europe they will be able to train and fulfill their dreams, but even after they arrive on the continent, they face prejudices and deep cultural gaps. 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. Information Tickets 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. Information Tickets Ithaka John Shipton is a 76-year-old retired builder, a polite and modest man who shies away from the limelight. However, Shipton is also father to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks and the world's most famous political prisoner. Information Tickets Atomic Hope The climate crisis is getting out of hand, endangering the lives and safety of people around the world. In Europe, Asia and America, companies and governments are rushing to build wind turbines, solar panels, and hydropower facilities. Information Tickets No Place for You in Our Town A documentary that follows different moments in the lives of three hooligan football fans, who will do anything to support their team in the mining town of Pernik, located far from the center - on the outskirts of Bulgaria, at the outskirts of Europe. Information Tickets The Game of Their Lives The North Korean soccer team arrived at the 1966 World Cup held in England without any remaining hopes, as befits a tyrannical communist country without a soccer tradition and devoid of resources. 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 The Wind Blows The Border The border between Brazil and Paraguay stretches over 1,524 kilometers. When Luana Ruiz, a rich heiress of vast lands, covets the green lands on this border, she provokes a war against the native inhabitants. Information Tickets The Narrow Bridge Bushra, Rami, Meital and Bassam lost close family members – their children or parents – and joined the long list of victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Information Tickets Spanton vs The French Police 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. 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 Our Bodies are Your Battlefields As in many other countries around the world, Argentina is also in the midst of a persistent struggle for transgender rights. Violeta and Claudia are two trans women who identify as transvestites, and fight for their rights and identity. 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 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 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. Information Tickets Kapernick and America American football player Colin Kaepernick had it all: a multi-million dollar contract with a top team, passionate fans and a promising sports career. Nevertheless, in his protest of police violence against blacks, Kaepernick chooses to kneel during the playing of the national anthem before the game. 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. Information Tickets Erasmus in Gaza European students who are sent to student exchange programs usually expect to be in a smiling sunny city, get to know a foreign culture and travel in a peaceful and colorful country. Information Tickets

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.

חזרה לדף הקודם Young Creators Competition Wed. 7.12 | 10:00 | Cinematheque 4 2Me *More Information will be added Soon* The Heart's Outcry *More Information will be added Soon* Keep on Going *More Information will be added Soon* Handicapped in a Gold Cage *More Information will be added Soon* Glory Box *More Information will be added Soon* Kfar Idud *More Information will be added Soon* Behind the Scenes *More Information will be added Soon* #dodged *More Information will be added Soon*

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 16:00 Semret International Feature Competition Information Tickets 18:00 Delikado International Documentary Competition Information Tickets 20:00 Lyra | Screening and Conversation with 'Mekomit' Magazine International Documentary Competition Information Tickets 18:00 Shorts Cluster 2 Short Films Competition Information Tickets 20:00 ART/Violence | Screening and Conversation with Udi Aloni, Rami Younes and Tamer Nafar who would also Perform Radical Grace: a Tribute to Udi Aloni Information Tickets 18:00 Shorts Cluster 1 Short Films Competition Information Tickets

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 11:30 Europe International Feature Competition Information Tickets 13:45 Sansón and Me International Documentary Competition Information Tickets 15:45 Last Flight Home International Documentary Competition Information Tickets 18:00 Erasmus in Gaza | Opening remarks: Andrea Pontiroli, Deputy Head of the European Union Delegation to Israel International Films Information Tickets 21:00 Our Bodies are Your Battlefields International Films Information Tickets 10:00 The Killing Of A Journalist International Films Information Tickets 12:15 Lyra International Documentary Competition Information Tickets 14:15 Ithaka International Films Information Tickets 16:30 Spanton vs The French Police International Films Information Tickets 18:15 Working Class Heroes International Feature Competition Information Tickets 20:15 a Tribut to Judd Neeman: Four Occupation Shorts | Event in Memory of Judd Neeman, with Filmmakers Against The Occupation Forum Screening and Event Information Tickets 11:30 Convenience Store | Screening and Conversation with 'Kav Laoved' Organization International Feature Competition Information Tickets 14:15 Paris in Harlem International Feature Competition Information Tickets 17:00 Band | Screening and Conversation about Music and Women Rights International Films Information Tickets 20:00 Expecting a Revolution | Screening and Event Israeli Films: Community Cinema Information Tickets

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

חזרה לדף הקודם Freedom of Journalism The death of the Palestinian reporter Shireen Abu Akleh this year was another testimony to the prices paid by journalists around the world for their fight for truth and justice. Abu Akleh's story resonates this year in the festival's films dealing with brave journalists, the extreme violence directed against them, and the various forces working against freedom of the press and freedom of speech. Imprisonment, violence and even murder – countless terrible dangers loom over journalists who insist on investigating and reporting from the field.

Tribute to Udi Aloni's Documentary Films edited by Slavoj Žižek Radical Grace "Aloni's secular theology is definitely one of the most fascinating innovations of our time." -Slavoj Žižek Tribute's Films & Events Amal Murkus & Firas Zreik Live a Tribute to Udi Aloni Opening Night: Amal Murkus & Firas Zreik Live After the Concert, we will screen parts of Udi Aloni’s film ‘Left’ and have a coversation with Amal Murkus, Firas Zreik and Udi Aloni 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. After the Screening there will be a Conversation with PM Aida Touma-Suleiman and Dr. Ayelet Maoz 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. After the Screening there will be a Conversation with Udi Aloni, Rami Younes and Tamer Nafar who would also Perform Information Tickets WHY IS WE AMERICANS? 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. Israeli Premiere. After the Screening there will be a Q&A with the philosopher Slavoj Žižek via Zoom. 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. After the Screening there will be a Zoom Conversation with Hillel Cohen and Kashmiri Altaf Khan, one of the film's protagonists Information Tickets Amal's Photo Credit: Ilan Besor Firas's Photo Credit: Angie Assal