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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 19:30 Awards Ceramony + Klondike Screening and Event Information Tickets 16:30 Docummunity | Screening and Conversation with the Filmmakers Israeli Films: Community Cinema Information Tickets 19:00 The Game of Their Lives | Screening and Conversation about Sport & Human Rights International Films Information Tickets 20:00 Atomic Hope International Films 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 17:00 No Place for You in Our Town International Films Information Tickets 19:00 A Safe Place | Premiere Israeli Films Information Tickets 21:00 Klondike International Feature Competition Information Tickets 17:45 The Wind Blows The Border | Screening and Conversation with ׳Standing Together' Movement International Films Information Tickets 20:15 Kashmir: Journey to Freedom | After the Screening there will be a Zoom Conversation with Udi Aloni, Hillel Cohen and Altaf Khan, one of the film's protagonists Radical Grace: a Tribute to Udi Aloni 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 2 Cinematheque 3 18:00 Ithaka International Films Information Tickets 20:15 Our Bodies are Your Battlefields International Films Information Tickets 22:15 Paris in Harlem International Feature Competition Information Tickets 20:00 Opening Event: The New Greatness Case International Documentary 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 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

Special Event TLV Cinematheque Children Screening: Monster Family 2 Monster Family 2 (also known as Monster Family 2: Nobody's Perfect and released as Happy Family 2 in Germany) is a 2021 German-British computer animated horror comedy film directed and produced by Holger Tappe and written by David Safier. Screenings: Sat 3/12 | 11:00 | Cinematheque 3 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 17:45 Delikado | Screening and Conversation with Ex-PM's Dov Khenin and Sondos Saleh International Documentary Competition Information Tickets 20:30 Kapernick and America International Films Information Tickets 17:00 NAFKOT - YEARNING | Screening and Conversation with the Filmmakers Israeli Films Information Tickets 19:30 WHY IS WE AMERICANS? | Screening and Conversation with Udi Aloni and Slavoj Žižek Radical Grace: a Tribute to Udi Aloni Information Tickets

חזרה לדף הקודם Sport & Human Rights Often the biggest drama in football happens neither on the pitch nor during the ninety minutes of the game itself. The films of this year's festival deal with the power of the most beloved game in the world, and the power of sports in general, and of athletes, to bring about social and personal change. Soccer teams from distant countries, record-breaking runners, and fearless fans – all harness the sparkling hope of sports for a better and more just future.

חזרה לדף הקודם Environment & The Climate Crisis Extreme environmental change and the climate crisis are no longer just news stories or ominous statistical projections: they are already happening today. In different corners of the world farmers and people from all walks of life are paying the price of global warming and face the force of intensifying natural disasters. The films of this year's festival deal with the various prices that we pay today for harming the earth and tell the stories of the people who dare to try and reduce the damages of this ever-increasing disaster.

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

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

Festival Winners 2022 International Feature Competition International Feature Films Competition Jury: Pini Schatz (Chair), Andrea Kuhn International Feature Competition: 1st Place Klondike Maryna Er Gorbach; Ukraine, Turkey 2022, 100 min Jury Statement: This poetic and imaginative film conveys the surreal atmosphere of the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014. A great script, spectacular cinematography and fine acting are not only excellent elements of this work, but are integrated precisely and correctly into a fierce film about the war, which presents the feminist view of wars in general. At the end of the film, amidst all the destruction and death, hesitation turns into resistance and life finds its way into the world. Information International Feature Competition: Special Mention Paris in Harlem Christina Kallas; United States, 2022, 111 min Jury Statement: This is a brave film about racism, feminism and Cancel culture with a great jazz soundtrack; it combines cinematic originality with multiple parallel stories brilliantly performed by actors and musicians. Information International Documentary Competition International Documentary Films Competition Jury: Sivan Arbel (Chair), Sinai Abt, Zohar Wagner International Documentary Competition: 1st Place Lyra Alison Millar; Great Britain, 2022, 91 min Jury Statement: The winner of Best International Documentary Film award is the film that succeeds in weaving the story of the young activist journalist Lyra McKee, who was killed in the riots in Northern Ireland in 2019. She is a captivating cinematic heroine, but more than that, a real-life heroine. The film is superbly edited. By incorporating materials shot, reported and recorded by Lyra, it manages to give the viewers a feeling that she is still alive. The film gives hope to the free press and strengthens the hands of anyone who wants to change the world, as Lyra tells in the film: "Some mothers saying all they can hear in their sleep is 'Mommy, Mommy'; all she'd ever hear is 'Why?! Why?!'" At a time when journalists are persecuted all over the world, "Lyra" calls upon us to persist and to act. Information International Documentary Competition: Special Mention The New Greatness Case Anna Shishova; Finland, Norway, Croatia, 2022, 92 min Jury Statement: A Special Mention is awarded to the creator of the film "The New Greatness Case", Anna Shishova, who risked her life in the very act of making the film in which she fiercely and fearlessly criticizes the regime in Russia. At the center of the film is a young woman who fights for her freedom; the film itself is not only about activism but is a brave action in itself. Information International Documentary Competition: Special Mention Sansón and Me Rodrigo Reyes; Mexico, United States, 2022, 83 min Jury Statement: How can you make a film about a protagonist who is not allowed to be filmed at all? A Special Mention is awarded to "Sansón and Me", and to its director Rodrigo Reyes, because even though the face of the protagonist who was sentenced to life in prison for murder is not visible on the screen, he manages to tell the story of a Mexican immigrant in an original way by using an unusual cinematic solution. Information Israeli Short Films Competition Israeli Short Films Competition Jury: Ari Davidovich (Chair), Rana Abu Fraiha, Artyom Dubitski, Adi Mishnayot Israeli Short Films Competition: 1st Place Umm al-Hiran Ruqayah Abu al-Qian & Ayshah Abu al-Qian; Israel, 2022, 11:30 min Jury Statement: This is a sensitive and powerful documentation, which deals, among other things, with memory and its erasure. The filmmaker commemorates her home and the process of its destruction, the longing for home while it is being trampled. In the act of documenting, the ilmaker presents the story of the Bedouin society, together with her private and personal history, of her home, of her children. In a rare and unique way, the film manages to combine images of pain and destruction, with a poetic language that is full of beauty and even inspires hope. Information Israeli Short Films Competition: Special Mention Nabut Ido Chen & Ilan Bar; Israel, 2022, 29 min Jury Statement: This is an original and fascinating story about a post-traumatic young man, who chose to withdraw from the terror of the oppressive society, but was forced to return and face its laws. The filmmaker, who also plays the lead role, leads a poignant, moving and well-made drama that explores social issues through the emotional and immersive world of characters on the fringes of society. Information Israeli Short Films Competition: Special Mention Teeth Alma Ganihar; Israel, 2022, 18 min Jury Statement: A winding journey between the realistic and the fantastic - full of creativity, humor and a wink - towards the discovery of a dark secret in the life of the protagonist. With an impressive performance by the actress who plays the main character, and the original points of view of the filmmaker, the film illustrates the ability of cinema to touch even the deepest wounds of the soul. Information Israeli Student Films Competition Israeli Student Films Competition Jury: Ari Davidovich (Chair), Rana Abu Fraiha, Artyom Dubitski, Adi Mishnayot Israeli Student Films Competition: 1st Place Silent One Naama Shmueli; Israel, 2022, 15:30 min Jury Statement: This original and powerful film captures the mental story of a woman who was the victim of an act of rape and discovers that the young man who raped her is in the same space where she is going to spend the weekend. The filmmaker demonstrates an admirable mastery of the means of cinematic expression that shapes the shaken inner world of the protagonist, and manages to use it to raise poignant questions about the female gaze and the male gaze, as well as about the cinematic gaze and social cost, in a drama that does not need to spare many words. Information Israeli Student Films Competition: Special Mention Sentence (Mishpat) Or Getz; Israel, 2022, 19 min Jury Statement: With courage and sensitivity, the film brings the phenomenon of stuttering to the screen and to the discourse, from an unexpected point of view - the point of view of the mother, who is portrayed in an exemplary and moving manner by the actress Rotem Abuhab. Through the mother's journey with her daughter who stutters, the film touches on complex issues such as social diversity, mother-son relationships, and even intergenerational trauma. The filmmaker observes growing up in the shadow of abnormalities and trauma from a surprising point of view, and succeeds in formulating a surprising and moving statement, while impressively controlling the means of cinematic expression. Information Israeli Student Films Competition: Special Mention Arak, Cigarettes and Demons Eliav kikus; Israel, 2021, 6:40 min Jury Statement: This animated documentary brings to the screen an original and powerful story about the intergenerational transmission of PTSD. With direct and heartfelt sincerity, the creator weaves together the monologue of the father and the monologue of the son into an impossible dialogue about unspoken pain. The impressive and fast-paced visual language creates a claustrophobic feeling that highlights on the background of the recorded evidence the protagonist's experience of being torn apart and the difficulty of dealing with reality in the shadow of the unrelenting memories of war. Information

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