Avner Shahaf

Películas

Innocence
Director of Photography
Innocence tells the story of children who resisted to be enlisted but capitulated. Their stories were never told as they died during their service. Through a narration based on their haunting diaries, the film depicts their inner turmoil. It interweaves first-hand military images, key moments from childhood until enlistment and home videos of the deceased soldiers whose stories are silenced and seen as a national threat.
The Reason Why
Director of Photography
In 1993, 16-year-old Hanit Kikos disappeared from Ofakim, Israel. A few days later, Suleiman al-Obeid Hoda was arrested, confessing that he raped and murdered her but gave conflicting confessions to investigators. 30 years after his imprisonment, the films with those involved in the affair shine a new light on the case.
The Adventures of Saul Bellow
Director of Photography
A new documentary about the life of Nobel Prize winning American author, Saul Bellow. The film combines interviews with Philip Roth, Martin Amis, and others, and presents rare footage of Bellow in Jerusalem and at Mishkenot Sha’ananim.
Blue Box
Cinematography
The Jewish National Fund's Blue Boxes were a global fundraiser to purchase land in Israel. Weaving a co-founder's diary entries with his descendants' memories, Blue Box investigates the myths that constructed a national icon.
Dirty Tricks
Cinematography
At the elite level, bridge - the world's most popular card game - has become a million-dollar cut-throat business. When the best competitive player is accused of cheating, the ensuing scandal confounds experts, criminal science, celebrities and basic belief in this hilarious true-crime thriller.
Murder At Cinema North
Cinematography
A young Holocaust survivor who descends into crime; an Italian-Jewish engineer who wants to see a movie; a German Christian who forgives her husband’s murderer because of her Buddhist faith; and a Jewish woman who carries on an affair with a Nazi and exposes members of the resistance so that she and her children may survive: their fates intersect when two bullets are fired into a queue of people waiting to see “A Man Escaped” at Tel Aviv’s Cinema North in 1957.
Lieber-man
Cinematography
The meteoric rise of Avigdor Lieberman was the first sign of a new era in the state of Israel - and with it, the fall of "the old elites," the right wing trend, and the emergence of "the second Israel" as the dominant political force. But Lieberman himself, who immigrated at the age of 20, without a penny in his pocket, remains a mystery.
The Oslo Diaries
Director of Photography
A group of Israelis and Palestinians come together in Oslo for an unsanctioned peace talks during the 1990s in order to bring peace to the Middle East.
Muhi – Generally Temporary
Director of Photography
Muhi, a brave and funny Palestinian child, was born in Gaza with a rare, life-threatening medical condition. Confined to an Israeli hospital for the past seven years, his time is running out and Muhi now faces the most critical choices of his life.
The Ancestral Sin
Cinematography
The story of Israel's "development towns" in a chilling documentary, as never told before: Testimonials and previously sealed transcripts reveal a method, an ideology and a cruel practice of law enforcement and decision makers behind the "population dispersal" policies in the first two decades of independence. The director's family, like others, was taken to Yeruham, a development town in the Negev desert. Their personal stories recount of the price immigrant-families pay and the price still paid by Israeli society, unwilling to deal head-on with those early years and forgotten towns.
Zero Days
Director of Photography
Documental sobre una operación de ciberterrorismo diseñada por los servicios de inteligencia estadounidense e israelí para atacar el programa nuclear iraní.
Censored Voices
Cinematography
La guerra de 1967 'de los Seis Días' terminó con la decisiva victoria de Israel; la conquista de Jerusalén, Gaza, el Sinaí y Cisjordania. Una semana después de la guerra, un grupo de kibbutzniks jóvenes, dirigidos por el reconocido autor Amos Oz, grabó conversaciones íntimas con los soldados que regresan del campo de batalla. La grabación revela una mirada honesta, que el ejército israelí había censurado, lo que permite a los kibbutzniks publicar sólo un fragmento de las conversaciones. 'Censored Voices' revela las grabaciones originales por primera vez. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Gatekeepers (Los guardianes)
Cinematography
Ofrece una narración exclusiva de la suma de aciertos y errores de seis ex-directores de la Agencia de Seguridad Interior de Israel, arrojando luz sobre la polémica que rodeó la ocupación resultante de la Guerra de los Seis Días.