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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

Screening Schedule 10.12 Sat 9.12 Fri 8.12 Thur 7.12 Wed 6.12 Tur 5.12 Mon 4.12 Sun 3.12 Sat 2.12 Fri 1.12 Thur Cinematheque 1 Cinematheque 2 Cinematheque 3 Cinematheque 4 11:00 TLV Cinematheque Children Screening: Monster Family 2 Screening and Event Information Tickets 15:15 The Wind Blows The Border International Films Information Tickets 17:00 My Land Zion | Screening and Conversation a Tribute to Yulie Cohen's Trilogy Information Tickets 11:00 Last Flight Home | Screening and Conversation with Anat Maor and 'Lilach' Association International Documentary Competition Information Tickets 13:30 This Is National Wake International Films Information Tickets 17:00 Even If You Shoot Me | The screening will be followed by a talk with creator and main subject Suzan Jaber Screening and Event with B'Tselem Information Tickets 19:15 The New Greatness Case | The screening will be followed by a conversation between Prof. Dan Geva and the filmmaker, Anna Shishova, followed by a panel discussion organized in collaboration with 'The Association for Civil Rights in Israel' International Documentary Competition Information Tickets 12:00 The Killing of a Journalist International Films Information Tickets 14:30 Convenience Store International Feature Competition Information Tickets 16:30 The Narrow Bridge International Films Information Tickets 18:45 Don't Touch My Holocaust Special Screening Information Tickets 20:30 Amal Murkus & Firas Zreik Live | Concert, Conversation and Screening of inserts from the feature 'Left' Radical Grace: a Tribute to Udi Aloni Information Tickets

December 2022 1-10 Festival Winners 2022 Click Here for the Full List Main Themes International Films Israeli Films

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

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

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 My Brother | a Panel Talk will be held after the screening a Tribute to Yulie Cohen's Trilogy Information Tickets 14:00 Sand Flakes | Premiere, in the presence of the filmmakers Israeli Competition Information Tickets 19:00 Working Class Heroes International Feature Competition Information Tickets 10:00 Students Cluster 1 Student Film Competition Information Tickets 12:00 The Ants and the Grasshopper International Documentary Competition Information Tickets 14:30 Students Cluster 2 Student Film Competition Information Tickets 16:30 Europe International Feature Competition Information Tickets 19:30 Erasmus in Gaza סרטים בינלאומיים Information Tickets 21:30 Melting Dreams סרטים בינלאומיים Information Tickets 12:00 Eternal Spring International Documentary Competition Information Tickets 14:00 Sansón and Me International Documentary Competition Information Tickets