THU | 29/5 | 9:00-14:00 | Cinematheque 2 | Closed Industry Event
WomanFilms Documentary Hub Pitching Event
Nine women filmmakers will present their documentary projects in development, including trailers, in front of an industry audience and will receive feedback from a panel of commissioning editors and other professionals, including Docaviv Artistic Director, Michal Weits.
The event will be moderated by NFCT Chairperson, Ms. Dorit Inbar.
Program Director: Irit Shimrat
Program Producer: Astar Goldberg
Program Mentors: Noit Geva, Vidi Bilu, Jasmine Kainy
WomanFilms LabPartners and Supporters: The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, The Fidelio Foundation, Ms. Anat Kerem-Angel, Anatta Foundation, The Azrieli Foundation, and the Shawna Goodman and Todd Sone Family Foundation.
PARTICIPATING PROJECTS:
From the silence
Dana Tal-El
I'm Dana, my twin sister Tamar and I were born deaf.
When we were three years old, we entered the hearing world together.
Now, at 32, I return to our past through videos my father and I took over the years. As I revisit these moments, I reconnect with childhood struggles, the feeling of being different, and my journey to find where I really belong.
A Real Family
Tamar Komem
Obsessed with the disappearance of one boy in the Holocaust – Menachem Mendel – a researcher sets out on a personal journey full of frustration, doubts, and self-deprecating humor, all set against the indifference of her family
A Miracle Will Happen to Me
Tzlil Golov
For 30 years, a girl growing into a young woman, a woman, and a mother within an Orthodox religious society, documents her determined and frantic struggles to be cured of her lesbian sexual orientation and to establish a holy Jewish family.
House of The Rising Sun
Sigi Golan
Tali, the last secular person in her building in Beit Shemesh, refuses to sell her apartment to ultra-Orthodox people constantly knocking on her door. Her daughter, the filmmaker, is determined to convince her to leave the place that no longer wants her, while attempting to figure out how her childhood city has changed beyond recognition.
Photo Credit: Yael Frankel
Censored
Ella Fainaru
Who decides what we’re allowed to watch?
A decades-long clash between freedom of speech and cultural censorship unfolds through the story of Israel’s Film and Theatre Review Board — a body active since the British Mandate. The film explores the evolving limits of artistic freedom in Israel, past and present.
A Perfect Goodbye
Rotem Pesachovish Paz
In an assisted living facility in Jerusalem, the filmmaker documents the stories of elderly women. For them, it is a final opportunity to reveal secrets and lives full of passion. For the filmmaker, it is a chance to find the perfect goodbye—one she never had with her mother, who was killed in a terror attack years ago.
Beautiful End
Galia Zucker
After Marlene, a terminally ill woman, fails in her suicide attempts, her daughter, Galia, commits to helping her die at any cost. On their journey to euthanasia in Switzerland, Galia struggles to understand why her once joyful, vibrant mother insists on dying years before her prognosis runs its course.
Trail of Memory
Rachel Shatz
At the Nova Music Festival site, a memorial for the victims is slowly being built, shaping a collective narrative for the many who visit. Alongside it, personal stories surface—survivors, families, Israelis, tourists—each bound to the trauma in their own way. Every individual brings a distinct emotional hue to the memory, to the place.
''1947''- Igal Allon Secrets
Roni Tamir
An intimate and rare correspondence from 1947 between Yigal Allon, commander of the Palmach, and his wife Ruth, reveals a painful family secret and offers a new perspective on the dramatic events that occurred in the critical year leading up to the birth of the Israeli state.
