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71 minutes

A Tribute to the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School on its 30th Anniversary

Until the early 1990’s, Jerusalem in short and feature films was a void. Since its inception 1989, the JSFS has proposed an alternative to “Tel Aviv cinema.” Out of the hundreds of films students shot in Jerusalem, JSFS founding director Renen Schorr selected five films which best portray Jerusalemite characters, locations, and light; set in the neighborhoods of Katamon, Ein Karem, Givat Hamatos, Kiryat Hayovel, and the separation barrier. These are stories about a looser-waitress, a toothless foreign worker on Valentine’s Day, a determined fighter against the monopoly of the local electric company, a borderline wanders looking for redemption before Shabbat, and the timeless Don Quixote who comes to Jerusalem ready to fight.

 

Don Quixote in Jerusalem

Dir.: Dani Rosenberg | 2005 | 4 min.| In 2005, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are positioned on a hill in Jerusalem overlooking the dividing wall between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Despite the difficulties, Don Quixote is determined to attack.

 

Plus Minus

Dir.: Shahar Cohen | 2001 | 20 min. | Shaul, an ex-guitarist and a serial inventor, is torn between his love for Yael and his war on the Electric Company, which disconnects their power supply.

 

Sliding Flora

Dir.: Talya Lavie | 2003 | 12 min. | Flora was born in the field, that’s what she keeps telling everyone. She’s a waitress in a coffee shop that requires complex acrobatic skills. Flora cannot take it anymore. But she still hasn’t lost her dramatic touch….

 

Tolya

Dir.: Rodeon Brodsky | 2006 | 9 min. | On International Women’s Day, when all his fellow alien workers call their distant wives to greet them, Tolya remains speechless as he calls Natasha, his wife. He can’t enunciate anything but a whistling mumble with his toothless mouth. Tolya is ready to give up on words, but not on his romantic message.

 

Anthem

Dir.: Elad Keidan | 2008 | 36 min. | Sometimes, even the most unassuming of days takes a surprising turn, as one middle-aged suburban bachelor discovers when he sets out to buy milk in a Jerusalem neighborhood on the eve of the holy Sabbath.