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A History of Israeli Cinema: Directed by Raphaël Nadjari. With Naftali Alter, Mohammad Bakri, Haim Bouzaglo, Joseph Cedar. The first 1933 - 1978 starts with the Zionist movement and ends with the first re-visitation of that history.
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- Documentary
- Raphaël Nadjari
- 2009
Award-winning filmmaker Raphaël Nadjari (Tehilim, SFJFF 2008) weaves together in-depth research and extraordinary film clips spanning more than 60 years to give us a kaleidoscopic visual retelling of the history of a national cinema.
A History of Israeli Cinema tells the story of the building of a gaze on a society torn by ethnics, religious, and political conflicts. It attempts to understand, to denounce, and to explore these complex subjects, always searching for the right ethic, the right form.
Israel as a nation is far younger than motion pictures; in fact, its modern identity has been formed in parallel with the medium of film.
- 53 sec
- 8K
- Jewish Film Institute
A History of Israeli Cinema is the result of years of researches, studies, documentation, screening, interviews, some recorded, some to learn, to understand, to unfold. Actors, thinkers, producers, filmmakers, professors, critics negotiated to build a narrative that remains fragile and incomplete.
May 28, 2009 · By Alissa Simon. Ambitious two-part docu “A History of Israeli Cinema,” from France-born, Israel-based helmer Raphael Nadjari, offers a chronological consideration of the creation of a national...
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A chronological history of Israel's film culture from 1938 to the present.
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