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
Asa lives with his demanding father in a small town. The day before his Bar-Mitzvah, Asa must deal with growing social pressures.
The incredible story of Avraham Sutskever, the greatest Yiddish poet, who saved manuscripts from the Nazis, survived WWII due to Stalin’s special rescue plane, testified in the Nuremberg Trials, and died anonymously in Tel Aviv.
In the early 1970s, an Afro-American police officer notices an ad for the Ku Klux Klan and contacts the advertisers. What starts out as a joke becomes an infiltration operation into the racist organization. Grand Jury Award at Cannes.
Based on archival footage from German films produced between 1933-1945, this documentary debates the entertainment industry’s submission to Nazi demands and ponders its double role as a propaganda mouthpiece and escapist space.
An 80-year-old man sets out to take revenge on the SS officer who executed his parents, but instead, finds his 70-year-old son who avoided his father throughout his entire life. The two old men embark upon a bittersweet journey to meet surviving witnesses of the wartime tragedy.
A poignant drama surrounding the life of author Romain Gary and his complex relationship with his mother—from his poor childhood in Poland and teens in sunny Nice, to flying school in Africa and the final days of his life.
As 17 year old Benny’s extremist father becomes more and more obsessed with a red heifer that he believes will bring the redemption, she drifts further away and into the arms of Yael, a new young woman in her life.
Menachem, a former frontman for a rock band, is now religious. When his daughter is diagnosed with cancer, he must find a creative solution to fund the treatments. Menachem reunites his band for one last tour.
Elka is a new immigrant to Israel who is not good at keeping her mouth shut. During the "Shabbos Kallah" for her best friend, she tries to prove her value – especially as a sex expert.
A man escaping Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation adopts a dead author’s identity. In Marseilles, he meets a woman looking for her husband—the very man he impersonates. A brazen adaptation of Anna Seghers’ novel placing characters from 80 years ago in contemporary Marseilles.
Decades after leaving entertainment to become a Rabbi, Uri Zohar, a pioneer of Israeli cinema, is directing once again. As he tells the story of a dancer who discovers her faith, we get a glimpse into his own personal journey.
