Daniel Kedem

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.

In 1999, after a 23-year absence, gifted musician Ahuva Ozeri is planning a comeback. She's recording a new album - The Bells are Ringing. Ahuva, considered the queen of the Middle Eastern music, sits at home and makes a living as a cook at a meat restaurant. She hopes to break out again with the new album. But at the end of the recording, she is diagnosed with throat cancer and undergoes surgery where her vocal cords are cut. She loses her voice forever, but the album is very successful. It managed to cross audiences and becomes a consensus. This film is based on rare never before-seen materials, sketching her life's course.

이스라엘 작은 동네에서부터 세계 유수의 무대에 오르기까지, 육체적 한계마저 극복한 이차크 펄만의 음악 선물이 펼쳐진다! 슈베르트부터 스트라우스까지, 바흐부터 빌리 조엘까지, 이차크 펄만의 탁월한 바이올린 연주는 인간 경험의 심연을 울린다. 이 황홀한 다큐멘터리는 소아마비를 극복한 유대인 이민자 출신 바이올린 거장이 분투하는 모습을 다루며, 예술이 인생에서 빼놓을 수 없는 요소인 이유를 떠올리게 한다. 경지에 이른 펄만의 바이올린 연주는 그가 자란 텔아비브의 작은 동네에서부터 세계 유수의 무대까지 그를 이끈다. 음악과 인생에 대한 펄만의 관점도 들어본다. (2018년 제14회 제천국제음악영화제)

It took the Israeli secret service four years to get their hands on right-wing terrorist organisation, the Jewish Underground. After carrying out several attacks on Muslims in the early 1980s, the group plotted to blow up the Dome of the Rock. Director Shai Gal reconstructs the events in the form of a detective story with dramatisations and interviews with key figures, including the perpetrators, who claim they have nothing to hide. With a chilling contemporary relevance, director Gal reveals the ties between members of the Jewish Underground and the Israeli political sphere are stronger than ever.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has lasted 100 years. 100 years of war, bloodshed, bitterness, suffering. 100 years of stalemate, intransigence and failed peace deals. And now, it’s all over! They’ve finally found the solution: A game of soccer. The winner gets to stay. The loser leaves forever. And no whining.

Robert Lachmann was a German-Jewish ethnomusicologist. In the 1930s, his radio show "Oriental Music" explored the musical traditions of Palestine and included regular live performances by musicians from different ethnic and religious groups. Inspired by Lachmann’s musicological studies, Palestinian artist Jumana Manna travels through Israel and the Palestinian territories of today with recordings from the programme. What do these songs sound like now when performed by Moroccan, Kurdish, or Yemenite Jews, by Samaritans, members of the urban and rural Palestinian communities, Bedouins and Coptic Christians?

Born to a Nepalese father and an Israeli mother, Kaya is a foreigner wherever she goes. In Tel Aviv, she is taken for Asian, while in Goa she is perceived as a white person. A few years ago, as a home-schooled child, Kaya looked for ways to connect with her new surroundings and took up boxing at a small club. There, she met Soniya, a Hindu girl who became her close friend and rival in the ring. Now, Kaya and her mother return to India to part from Goa for good. Their journey raises questions of identity, motherhood and responsibility.

유명한 사교댄스 댄서인 피에르는 이스라엘의 팔레스타인, 유대인 두 커뮤니티가 정치적 문화적 차이를 극복하는데 춤이 매개역할을 할 것이라고 믿는다. 그는 두 커뮤니티의 아이들이 댄스교실에 참여하도록 하여, 이들이 함께 춤추는 댄스 교실을 연다. 그리고 피에르가 만든 댄스교실에서는 마법과 같은 일이 일어난다. (2014년 제11회 서울국제사랑영화제)

Alfred Roch, member of the Palestinian National League, is a politician with a bohemian panache. In 1942, at the height of WWII, he throws what will turn out to be the last masquerade in Palestine. Inspired by an archival photograph, A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade) recreates an unconventional bon vivant aspect of Palestinian urban life before 1948. Posing silently for a group photo, the unmasked and melancholic pierrots accidentally personify the premonition of an uncertain future.

The suspenseful chronicle of how the prodigious Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman helped save Europe’s premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis during World War II. In three years, he transformed from a world renowned violinist to a humanitarian racing against time.