Meet the Master: Eyal Sivan
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Izkor, Slaves of Memory
Israel, France | 1990 | 97min
Thu 26.1.2012 19:00
Sat 28.1.2012 15:00
Spring in Israel is a time of remembrance. Celebration dates like Easter and the country’s Independence Day are close to one another and in-between those the school children learn about the nation’s history. The stamping of a collective memory onto the children and youth... -
Jaffa, the Orange's Clockwork
Belgium, Israel, France | 2009 | 88min
Wed 25.1.2012 19:00
Fri 27.1.2012 19:15
The startling essay film tells the story of the Jaffa orange – how it became an Israeli export and a trademark of Zionism. Israel exports tons of crates labelled “Jaffa”, but none of the fruit are actually shipped from the Jaffa Port anymore.
Photography...
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Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel
Belgium, United Kingdom, France, Germany | 2003 | 272min
Fri 27.1.2012 14:00
Ethnical “cleansing“ is such a despicable atrocity as it lacks pretence to spare the innocent. It cannot be amended.Following Israel’s borders of 1947, the two filmmakers travel in the war-zone. Their old map is superimposed on the... -
The Specialist, Portrait of a Modern Criminal
Belgium, Israel, Austria, France, Germany | 1999 | 128min
Sat 28.1.2012 12:30
The images of Adolf Eichmann sitting in a glass booth in a Jerusalem courtroom in 1961 have become symbols of international war crimes trials. The directors have turned the 350 hours of trial footage into a documentary that makes the viewers reflect on the evil in humans...
