A Sister's Song is the intimate, delicate story of two sisters Marina and Tatiana, who live separated by a choice that Tatiana made when she became a nun.
May 2018
In close proximity and yet without any points of contact: In the West Bank, Israeli settlers and Palestinian farmers live next door to each other - and yet in separate worlds. Omar takes his Palestinian family from their town house to the barren slopes of Mount Hebron, where they are supposed to help look after his sheep farm. The Jewish settler Avidan has settled in the immediate vicinity with a group of like-minded people in order to raise sheep in the desolate land. Avner Faingulernt documents these hermetic worlds in a radical but logical form: as two separate films that only unfold their full effect when viewed as a diptych.
Sep 2018
Rule of Stone is a documentary film that exposes the power of architecture and the role it has played – aesthetically, ideologically and strategically – in the creation of modern Jerusalem after the 1967 war.
Nov 2024
The Israeli-Palestinian question is here addressed through the lens of the mother-daughter conflict faced by filmmaker Danae Elon. Settled on an isolated farm in Israel, her mother, Beth, must move to Montreal, but she clings to her past life as an activist alongside her now-deceased husband, while her daughter wants to leave behind her military past and the decisions that led her to reject her country, as her parents did before her. This exploration of her family history leads her to a reevaluation of her relationship with Israel.
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