The Joan Sourasky-Constantiner Jewish & Holocaust Cinema Foundation and the Yad Vashem Visual Center Present The Awards in The Jewish Experience Competition:
THE LIA AWARD
For films dealing with Jewish heritage
THE AVNER-SHALEV-YAD VASHEM CHAIRMAN’S AWARD
For artistic achievement in Holocaust-related film
Kindly endowed by Michaela and Leon Constantiner, USA
A documentary about Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the pioneering sexologist who became a household name in the 1980s and continues to work incessantly. The film tells the story of her childhood in which she escaped the Nazis but lost her parents.
After secretly getting a driver's license, Israel returns home from his yeshiva. While preparing for Shabbat, he discovers his strict father doesn't intend to let him hit the road.
Israeli Short Film Competition - Program 2
Directors Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska base their bold film on Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s monumental novel. This is a horror movie shot in 8mm and in silent film format. Winner of the International Federation of Film Critics Award at the Berlinale.
Senior German documentary filmmaker, Thomas Heise, uses materials from his private archive to weave together the story of his family. His personal narrative reflects and uncovers the tumultuous national narrative of modern Germany.
Summer 2014. Uri, an IDF soldier, is shot and wounded in the Gaza war. In the hospital, he is welcomed as a hero. Between treatments and high-profile visitors, Uri has to deal with his new status.
In 1950s France, a romance between a young woman from a provincial town and wealthy Parisian man ends abruptly, despite the woman’s pregnancy. Thus begins an intelligent, sweeping melodrama based on a celebrated novel.
Years after leaving the orthodox Jewish world, Menachen returns to Bnei Brak to face a dark secret from the past. His journey sheds light on a repressed and particularly disturbing phenomenon. An award-winning documentary.
In Oscar winner (Son of Saul) László Nemes’s new film, a young woman arrives in Budapest in 1913 to work at a store that her deceased parents had once owned. Instead, she becomes caught up in a tempestuous journey on the eve of WWI.
Shmuel's desire for Chana is full of fear. Wandering the streets at night, he looks for solace.
Israeli film editor Ziva Postec worked in France in the 1960s and 70s with leading directors, such as Alain Resnais and Orson Welles. This film focuses on the highlight of her career—six years during which she edited Claude Lanzmann’s monumental film, Shoah.
