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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 2022 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

Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary this year in an expanded edition with 80 events and about 100 films, which will take place for ten days at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque on 1-10.12.2022. December 2022 1-10 Festival Winners 2022 Click Here for the Full List Main Themes International Films Israeli Films

Expecting a Revolution Community Cinema Expecting a Revolution Israel, 2022 Director: Community Cinema Language & Subtitles: Hebrew; subtitles in Hebrew TBA Production: Festivals: TBA Screenings: Sat. 10.12 | 20:00 | Cinematheque 4 Tickets Tickets TBA

Don’t Touch My Holocaust Special Event Don’t Touch My Holocaust Israel, 1994, 180 min Director: Asher Tlalim Language & Subtitles: Hebrew; subtitles in English Producer: Daniel Paran, Danny Seaton Production Company: Set Films Cinematographer: Yoram Milloh, Asher Tlalim Editor: Asher Tlalim Production: Festivals: Winner, Best Documentary, 1994 Israeli Oscars; Berlinale International Film Festival, 1995; San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, 1995; Special Mention at the Jerusalem International Film Festival, 1994; Dublin International Film Festival, 1995; Montreal International Film Festival, 1995 Screenings: Sat. 3.12 | 18:45 | Cinematheque 4 Tickets Tickets 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. The film takes the viewer along the most difficult collective journey faced by Israeli society – the Holocaust – with an impact so sweeping and so real, it can truly be said that all of us – Moroccans, Iraqis, Germans, and even Khaled Abu-Ali, the Palestinian protagonist – are survivors of the Holocaust.

לוח ההקרנות של פסטיבל סולידריות - 9 עד ה18 לדצמבר בסינמטק תל אביב 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

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. 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.

NAFKOT - YEARNING Israeli Films NAFKOT - YEARNING Israel, 2022, 70 min Director: Malka Shabtay Language & Subtitles: Amharic and English; subtitles in Hebrew and English Producer: Malka Shabtay Editing: Miri Laufer Camera: Noemie & Sylvain Biegeleisen On Line: Avi Levy Sound: Nir Gavish Music: Sefi Zisling Production: Festivals: BELIFF - Be Epic! Film Fest LONDON
American Jewish Film Festival 2022 - Best Documentary and Best Israeli Film Paris Women Film Festival - Best Producer Award Cannes World Film Festival - Best Jewish Film Award, Best Documentary Award Screenings: Sun. 4.12 | 17:00 | Cinematheque 2 Tickets Tickets 
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. They arrive at the first hidden synagogue of the community and get to participate in the holy red heifer ritual that has been preserved since the days of the First Temple. 4.12.22 | Israeli Premiere and Conversation with the Filmmakers

Even If You Shoot Me Special Event Even If You Shoot Me Hebron, 2022, 20 min Director: Suzan Jaber Language & Subtitles: Arabic; subtitles in Hebrew and English Filmed by Suzan Jaber Edited by B’Tselem’s Video Department Produced by B’Tselem – the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Production: Festivals: TBA Screenings: Sat. 3.12 | 17:00 | Cinematheque 2 Tickets Tickets 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. The screening will be followed by a talk with creator and main subject Suzan Jaber. 3.12.22 | The screening will be followed by a talk with creator and main subject Suzan Jaber

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

My Terrorist 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

Amal Murkus & Firas Zreik Live Tribute to Udi Aloni Amal Murkus & Firas Zreik Live Israel, 1996, inserts from the Film Director: Udi Aloni Language & Subtitles: Hebrew, Arabic and English Festivals: TBA We are pleased to invite you to a special Event in the 10th Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival: 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. Opening remarks: Mohammad Bakri. Amal's Photo Credit: Ilan Besor Firas's Photo Credit: Angie Assal Screenings: Sat. 3.12 | 20:30 | Cinematheque 3 Tickets