WomanFilms Documentary Hub

Nine women filmmakers will present their documentary projects in development, including trailers, in front of an audience and will receive feedback from a panel of commissioning editors and other professionals, including the NFCT Artistic Director, Mr. Ron Goldman and Docaviv Artistic Director Mrs. Karin Rywkind Segal.
The event will be moderated by NFCT Executive Director, Ms. Dorit Inbar.

Program Director: Irit Shimrat
Program Producer: Astar Goldberg
Program Mentors: Noit Geva, Vidi Bilu, Jasmine Kainy

WomanFilms Hub Supporters: The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, The Azrieli Foundation, The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, The Fidelio Foundation, Ms. Anat Kerem-Angel, Ms. Ora Stibbe (Anata), EMID/Matanel

Participating Projects

A Donkey's Tale

Michal BenTovim

A herd of wild ass in the Negev monitored by a group of scientists, a Bedouin shepherd riding his donkey and an animal sanctuary that will send the donkeys as far as France in order to provide for their well-being.

Free Radical - Dov Or Ner

Noga Chevion

Dov, an 85-years-old Holocaust survivor, dressed as Hitler, walks the streets of Tel Aviv. The life of the artist Dov Or-Ner, who burns and buries his art, is a symphony of creation and destruction. An intimate detective journey will resurrect his controversial life’s work.

The Lake

Helen Yanovsky

The Sea of Galilee is a witness of visible and invisible processes that take place around and within it. The film will follow diverse characters around the lake whose lives are deeply connected to it. A poetic portrait of a pivotal place located at the crossroads of past, present and future. Photo credit: Helen Yanovsky

100 Men

Hadas Neuman

A filmmaker walks around the sunny streets of her childhood neighborhood, meeting men and wonders: after 99 of them -will she have the courage to meet her father - the 100th man, whom she does not know and is forbidden to meet?

The Woman Who Didn’t Know How to Love

Rotem Dimand

A smiling blond woman in a dress smoking a cigarette - my mother calls her “a witch who didn't know how to love”. She doesn't know that at the end of her days, my grandmother drank brandy at night and poured her secrets into a tape recorder. The tapes reveal a different woman than the one my mother speaks about.

RECORD-PAUSE-STOP

Tamar Peled

In the last year of her life, Tarin (22) meets her father and her six sisters for the first time. After her death, her best friend sets out to complete the gaps in Tarin's video diary she had started, together with the broken family members, who are dealing with feelings of guilt and loss.