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About Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival is a unique event that raises awareness on significant socio-political issues through screenings of groundbreaking films on human rights in Israel and around the world, films that promote peace, democracy and human rights alongside equality and social justice. Solidarity, the only Israeli film festival fully dedicated to human rights, takes place at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque since 2010. The Festival's international program shows award-winning narrative and documentary films, including works by Palestinian filmmakers, providing contexts for issues related to social and political struggles, among them: democracy, globalization, refugees and asylum seekers, the occupation of the West Bank and the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, hunger, poverty and food security, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, children's rights, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, environmental justice and the climate crisis. The 2022 International program offers film competition for narrative and documentary films – all of them shown as Israeli premieres – as well as special screenings of international films, most of them as Israeli premiere, including two Academy Awards nominations for Best International Feature Film. The program focuses on a wide array of topic, from Russia and Ukraine to sports, music and human rights – and offers Q&A, workshops and discussions with experts and filmmakers. ​The 2022 Israeli program includes premieres and a selection of some of the best Israeli films in the field of human rights, showcases special programs and retrospectives dedicated to Israeli filmmakers – Udi Aloni and Yulie Cohen – and a film competition for shorts, student films and for films by high school students, aiming to encourage local filmmakers to engage with human rights issues. ​ The Solidarity Festival Founder and Director is Dani Vilenski, the Artistic Director is Gidi Avivi, and the festival is organized by the Solidarity for Art, Activism and Human Rights Association. This is the Solidarity Festival's 10th anniversary, and we continue to believe in the power of cinema to be thought provoking and to spark activism towards the creation of a better future for all of us in Israel, in the region, and worldwide. In the current political climate, when the very notion of democracy is under threat, it is important for us to stand up and make our voices heard clearly, bravely and freely. Festival's Staff Dani Vilenski Founder and Festival Director Gidi Avivi Artistic Director Shira Rausnitz Producer Ohad Ephrath Traffic and Technical Director Tal Korjak Technical Consultant Noam Sheizaf, Eitan Bekerman, Dan Geva Content Consultants Rani Avgar, Sigal Vanunu Gadish Special Consultants Shani Kiniso, Agam Kedem Levi Synopses and Texts Jonathan Joel Language Editor As'ad Odeh Translation into Arabic Shani Noy Translation into English Bimot Digital – Golan Reis, Tal Gershon Social Media Ora Lapidot PR – Ora Lapidot, Ofira Botto PR and Comminications Itamar Liebergall Graphic Design Ronit Shaked Graphic Design Consultant Dana and Dan Shaham Logo Design and Visual Language Sapir Ben-Hilel Video Royal Titles – Roy Pitluk Films Translation Staff Dolev Amitai, Gidi Avivi, Guli Dolev-Hashiloni, Yuval Parnass-Mader, Dani Vilenski, Ruthy Wischnevsky, Rachelle Yair International Films Competition Selection Committee Sivan Arbel (Chair), Sinai Abt, Zohar Wagner International Documentary Films Competition Jury Pini Schatz (Chair), Andrea Kuhn International Fiction Films Competition Jury Nana Traub Israeli Films Competition Coordinator Gidi Avivi, Irit Gal, Guli Dolev-Hashiloni, Dani Vilenski, Ruthy Wischnevsky Israeli Feature Films Competition Selection Committee Irit Gal, Alon Garbuz, Ronen Zaretzky, Rachelle Yair Israeli Short Films Competition Selection Committee Shani Kiniso, Yael Kipper, Ruthy Wischnevsky Israeli Student Films Competition Selection Committee Ari Davidovich (Chair), Rana Abu Fraiha, Artyom Dubitski, Adi Mishnayot Israeli Short Films Competition and Student Films Competition Jury Dr. Evanna Ratner, Itai Ken-Tor Israeli High School Students Film Competition Yifat Solel (Chair), Yasser Abu Areesha, Arnon Ben Haim, Merav Ben Shlomo, Guli Dolev-Hashiloni, Shimon Elad, Erez Lotan, Julie Schles Solidarity for Art, Activism and Human Rights Association TLV Cinematheque General Manager - Dina Peled, Artistic Director - Dana Morag, Program Manager - Pini Schatz, Marketing Manager - Smadar Bracha Partners Partners This website was created and maintained with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union

a Tribute to Yulie Cohen 's Trilogy Tribute's Films My Terrorist In 1978, filmmaker Yulie Cohen was wounded in a terrorist attack by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. 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 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

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חזרה לדף הקודם Occupation & Apartheid Despite the small number of Israeli (and international) films that deal with the ethical and human questions of the occupation in the West Bank, narrative and documentary films about human stories that take place beyond the green line, in Gaza and in East Jerusalem continue to be at the center of the festival program. To mark Solidarity Festival's 10th anniversary, we will showcase local and international films that, despite everything, dared to face questions of oppression and apartheid, rebellion and defiance, reconciliation and recovery.

חזרה לדף הקודם Music & Human Rights In times and places where hardly no one dared to speak, it is music that played in full force and brazenness for human rights. Several of the festival films this year deal with musicians who refused to bow their heads in the face of oppression or tyranny and decided to harness the power of music for social and personal change. Their journeys range between different styles and do not always end in success or fame, however, they do succeed in cracking the thickest of walls.

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 17:30 Salute International Films Information Tickets 16:00 This Is National Wake International Films Information Tickets 18:00 Local Angel | Screening and Conversation with PM Aida Touma-Suleiman and Dr. Ayelet Maoz Radical Grace: a Tribute to Udi Aloni Information Tickets 20:30 East Jerusalem, West Jerusalem | Screening and Meeting with David Broza Israeli Films Information Tickets 10:00 Young Filmmakers Competition Screening and Event Information

חזרה לדף הקודם Short Films Competition Cluster 1 Tue 6.12 | 16:00 | Cinematheque 2 The committee Israeli Shorts: Feature Lev Brodinsky; Israel, 2022, 4 min The year is 1994. A family of immigrants from the former Soviet Union, who currently live in a government built caravan site for immigrants, arrive at an admission committee to a community village, with hopes of bettering their lives. Tickets for Cluster 1 1/0 Scorpion Ascent Israeli Shorts: Feature Yaniv Linton; Israel, 2022, 30 min Sharp ridges. Deep canyons. Steep ascents. Extreme desert sceneries are as wide as the generation gap between a grandfather and his grandson, stuck alone in the infinite desert. Tickets for Cluster 1 1/1 Nabut Israeli Shorts: Feature Ido Chen & Ilan Bar; Israel, 2022, 29 min Nabut, lives in a cave together with his dog Bastian, staying as far away as possible from human culture, of which he committed grave injustices as a soldier. Tickets for Cluster 1 1/1 a dead sea Israeli Shorts: Feature Nahd Bashir; Israel, 2021, 12:22 min Kamel, a Palestinian man in his 50s, suffers from autism and travels with his paralyzed sister to the Dead Sea to receive medical treatment in seawater in the hopes it will treat the psoriasis that has spread through his body. Tickets for Cluster 1 1/0 קצרים 2 Cluster 2 Tue. 6.12 | 18:00 | Cinematheque 2 Living Land Israeli Shorts: Documentary Einat Weizman; Israel, 2020, 12 min The film presents the continous struggle of a small village to protect its lands against powerful colonial forces. The inhabitants of Al-Araqib sit on the lands that were purchased by their ancestors in the northern Naqab. Despite that, the State of Israel defines them as invaders and wages a decades long war of attrition against the villagers, in the attempt to expel them as part of the process of Judaisation and forestation of the Naqab. The film is part of an ongoing artistic collaboration between Aziz A-Turi from Al-Araqib, and Einat Weizman. The film was first presented in the exibition "Dissensus" at Tel Aviv Museum. Tickets for Cluster 2 1/0 Umm al-Hiran Israeli Shorts: Documentary Ruqayah Abu al-Qian & Ayshah Abu al-Qian; Israel, 2022, 11:30 min Ruqaya and Ayshah document their lives and forced expulsion from their home in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran. Their cameras capture their daily lives in a village with no connection to water and electricity supply. Tickets for Cluster 2 1/0 Corridors Israeli Shorts: Documentary Karmit Zilberman; Israel, 2021, 20:17 min The story of refugees stuck between walls and doors. Faiz, Sadiq and Nabila are part of thousands of refugees who fled in 2015 from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other war-torn countries to a place of safety. Tickets for Cluster 2 1/0 Father Tongue Israeli Shorts: Feature Ivgeny Gashinsky; Israel, 2022, 18 min A non-functional relationship between a deaf child and his hard-working father, who struggles to accept his son's deafness. Tickets for Cluster 2 1/1 Teeth Israeli Shorts: Feature Alma Ganihar; Israel, 2022, 18 min Lily, 25, suffers from intense toothache. the dentist tells her she must extract all her teeth and replace them with implants. There's nothing she wants more than that but in order to get the money for the dental care, she must face her traumatic past. Tickets for Cluster 2 1/1

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חזרה לדף הקודם Russia & Ukraine Stories from the Ukrainian war front, based on the increasingly escalating battles against the Russian invaders, are at the center of the festival this year, along with stories of the internal struggles within Russia itself. The new feature films and documentaries, which deal with the ongoing tragedy of the lives of women and men amidst the violent reality of war and occupation, familiarly resonate with life here, there, and all over the globe.

חזרה לדף הקודם Student Films Competition Cluster 1 Fri. 2.12 | 10:00 | Cinematheque 2 Blind Spot Student Films: Features Maya Louzon; Israel, 2022, 15:20 min A female commander struggles with her position of power. Tickets for Cluster 1 1/0 Jordan Student Films: Features Shira Daniel Hellwing; Israel, 2021, 18 min During a visit in the refugees' preschool where she volunteers, Aria finds out one of the kids wasn't picked up. She decides to take him to her house. There she must deal the consequences of her actions. Tickets for Cluster 1 1/0 Fallen Student Films: Features Chen Rachum; Israel, 2022, 16:43 min Rona is sexually assaulted by her boyfriend. Shortly after, the worst news of all is announced. Tickets for Cluster 1 1/0 Between Her Student Films: Features Bar Cohen; Israel, 2022, 29:55 min Aya is a trans girl who is frustrated by her love life and experiences with men. An accidental encounter with a man from her distant past causes her to reconnect with her identity. Tickets for Cluster 1 1/1 Your'e OK. Student Films: Features Sachar Agranat & Rachel Zilberberg; Israel, 2022, 5:55 min when returning fron a fun night out with her best friend, Tamar is brutally attacked. from this moment she finda herself in a traumatic loop that she tries to break. Tickets for Cluster 1 1/0 Scene no. 4 Student Films: Features David Noy; Israel, 2022, 10 min A conflict between the director, the Jewish actor and the Arabic one. Tickets for Cluster 1 1/0 סטודנטים2 Cluster 2 Fri. 2.12 | 14:30 | Cinematheque 2 The Twinkling Light Student Films: Documentary Reem bisan, Rania Rabah, Shadia Bebar & Dalal Kesrawy; Israel, 2022, 10 min The documentary ‘twinkling light’ describes the way Ganem's family deals with the needs of Sinal, the daughter with Down Syndrome. Tickets for Cluster 2 Arak Cigarettes and Demons Student Films: Documentary Eliav kikus; Israel, 2021, 6:40 min This film tells about my father's post-war trauma due to the First Lebanon War and alongside this a personal crisis in my life when my parents divorced and how the divorce led me to regard life as a war. Tickets for Cluster 2 Silent One Student Films: Feature Naama Shmueli; Israel, 2022, 15:30 min Arriving at a silence retreat in the Jerusalem hills, Maayan could not have imagined who she would encouter there, and the sort of wound from her past she would have to confront. As the silence around her becomes deafening, she must now find a way to stare at the pain straight in the eye. Tickets for Cluster 2 Ohad's Room Student Films: Documentary Naama Remer; Israel, 2022, 26:43 min Ohad’s room remains almost as it was. Seventeen years that no one lives there. And yet, it feels so very present. Not much I know about my older brother. Who was he? And why is he gone? Maybe it was easier if I didn’t know. So I opened the door and I was looking for answers. Tickets for Cluster 2 Her Gaze Student Films: Feature Alma Zalait; Israel, 2022, 11 min Michaela can sense that her male roomate is watching her as she sleeps. She wakes up frightened and shaken. Hoping to gain a sense of stability, she conacts her ex. Tickets for Cluster 2 Sentence (Mishpat) Student Films: Feature Or Getz; Israel, 2022, 19 min On the day of Or’s sixth-grade graduation, his mother Anat learns he won’t speak at the ceremony because of his stutter. Anat feels this is a huge mistake and makes no compromises to ensure he goes on stage. Or fearfully takes the stage with hope of bringing pride to his mother — will he succeed? Will he fail? Tickets for Cluster 2

a Tribute to Yulie Cohen Screenings: Fri 9.12 | 15:30 | Cinematheque 2 Tickets My Terrorist Israel, 2002, 56 min Director & Producer: Yulie Cohen Language & Subtitles: English, Hebrew; subtitles in Hebrew Festivals: My Terrorist won a special jury award at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2002, was nominated for the Silver Wolf Award at IDFA, and won the Ilaria Alpi Journalistic Television Award in 2004. It was broadcast in more than 20 countries, translated into 20 languages. The film was screened in more than 150 Film festival an d universities including Harvard, Yale, Rutgers, UC Davis, USC, Duke and many others. 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. From the time she was a young girl, Cohen considered herself a staunch Israeli nationalist. Growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Israel (where her neighbors included future Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Arik Sharon, and military hero Moshe Dayan), she patriotically served in the military. After working as an Israel coordinator on a film shoot and visiting the occupied territories, Cohen came to realize that both Israelis and Palestinians played a role in perpetuating the cycle of hostility and bloodshed. It was her goal to stand up as a survivor and call for reconciliation on each side. An inspiring story of forgiveness, Cohen's poignant documentary is a moving testimony of human compassion and a call for peace. Screening and a Conversation with Yulie Cohen, Dr. Dan Geva and Prof. Nava Levit-Binnun

a Tribute to Yulie Cohen Screenings: Sat. 3.12 | 17:00 | Cinematheque 1 Tickets My Land Zion Israel, 2004, 56 min Director & Producer: Yulie Cohen Language & Subtitles: Hebrew; subtitles in Hebrew 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 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. I wanted to raise them in my land Zion, the land of my ancestors, the land that I love. Now, 16 years later, my daughters will soon be old enough to join the Army and be forced to defend a state and its myths that are tearing my homeland apart. Why do I choose to stay? On a journey through rocks and fields, and across three generations of Israelis, I encounter the myths that shaped the state and me. I confront the actions of my parents and the hopes of my daughters. I visit a Holocaust survivor and hear the doubts of her son, a historian and a parent, like me. I confront a Jewish settler whose husband was killed by a militant Palestinian and I meet a Palestinian girl who lives in Israel. It was my choice to live in the land of my ancestors and now it is my daughters' home, too. A state of myths and sacrifices, where our sons and daughters still grow up to kill or get killed. How can I stay in a state that devours its children? Screening and a Conversation with Yulie Cohen, David Zonshine and Dr. Mram Masarwa