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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 491

Best Documentary Oscar

Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, January 12, 2009, from "The Bibi Files." (Jigsaw Pictures)
December 18, 2024, 12:39 am
‘The Bibi Files’ makes Academy Awards shortlist for best documentary
Film is one of several Israel-related movies to advance to next round of voting, including Norwegian-Palestinian documentary ‘No Other Land’ about West Bank settler violence
By Jessica Steinberg, Agencies and ToI Staff
From 'Mrs. G.' a documentary being shown at the 2019 Docaviv about Lea Gottlieb, the designer and founder of Gottex Swimsuits (Courtesy DocAviv)
May 22, 2019, 1:48 pm
Variety is in the spotlight at Docaviv, Tel Aviv’s annual film fest
130 documentaries to be screened at the event, including two competitions of top Israeli offerings
By Jessica Steinberg
Joe Feingold and Brianna Perez in the Oscar-nominated short documentary 'Joe's Violin.' (Screenshot via JTA)
February 11, 2017, 3:32 am
Try not to cry during this Oscar-nominated film about a survivor and his violin
The short documentary by former Daily Show co-executive producer Kahane Cooperman is not specifically a Holocaust film, but about ‘human connection and hope’
By Curt Schleier
'Chasing Asylum' addresses the issues facing refugees who fled to Australia and the secretive camps established in 2013 to hold them offshore in Papua New Guinea and Micronesia. (Screenshot, courtesy)
July 15, 2016, 6:01 am
Oscar-winning filmmaker exposes the dark underbelly of Australia’s refugee policies
Daughter of Holocaust survivors Eva Orner uncovers a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions in documentary ‘Chasing Asylum’
By Ori Golan
A still from 'Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah' (Courtesy: HBO Documentary Films)
February 27, 2016, 3:58 am
Will ‘Lanzmann’ finally win an Academy Award?
An interview with Adam Benzine, the young first-time director whose award-winning take on the famed veteran filmmaker is up for an Oscar on Sunday
By Lisa Klug
Filmmaker Adam Benzine, left, and acclaimed documentarian Claude Lanzmann in 2013. (Jet Black Iris America via JTA)
February 26, 2016, 3:25 am
Oscars feature shorts on Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah,’ Palestinian nuns
Palestinian filmmaker explores humorous clash of Jewish, Arab commitments; second film looks at documenting the Holocaust
By Tom Tugend
Evgeny Afineevsky, second from right, in Kiev's Maidan Square in 2013. (Courtesy of Evgeny Afineevsky)
February 25, 2016, 6:08 am
Expat Israeli director takes Ukraine revolution to the Oscars
The Russian-born IDF veteran says he tried to focus on the unity achieved at Maidan — a lesson he hopes will be learned in Israel
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The late Amy Winehouse is the subject of Asif Kapadia's emotional documentary "Amy." (Mark Okoh, Camera Press)
December 2, 2015, 9:37 pm
Amy Winehouse documentary named semifinalist for Oscar
Jewish filmmakers Davis Guggenheim and Joshua Oppenheimer also make cut, with biopic on Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzu
By JTA
Malik Bendjelloul at the 2013 Writers Guild Awards, JW Marriott, Los Angeles, CA. (Photo credit: Malik Bendjelloul image via Shuttershock.)
May 14, 2014, 4:18 am
‘Searching for Sugar Man’ director dies at 36 
No foul play suspected in death of Malik Bendjelloul, who won 2013 Oscar for film on American singer Sixto Rodriguez
By AP
Egyptian activist Ahmed Hassan in Jehane Noujaim’s documentary 'The Square.' (photo credit: Courtesy Noujaim Films)
February 25, 2014, 2:33 pm
Thanks to YouTube, Egyptians can see Oscar-nominated film
‘The Square,’ documenting Egypt’s 2011 uprising, earned the nation its first-ever Oscar nod — but has been blocked to locals until now
By Debra Kamin
Alice Herz-Sommer (photo credit: courtesy)
February 16, 2014, 3:40 am
Life and laughter from Oscar-nominated film about survivor, 110
Alice Herz-Sommer, a concert pianist in Theresienstadt, takes center stage in ‘The Lady in Number 6’
By Tom Tugend
Leonard Retel Helmrich, acclaimed Dutch filmmaker, will teach a master class. (photo credit: Wikimedia)
November 14, 2013, 11:54 am
Documentary, my dear Watson
Israel’s New Council for Film and Television is kicking off its 20th anniversary this week with a documentary film conference in Tel Aviv
By Debra Kamin
Sixto Rodriguez performs at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, in September 2012 (Barry Brecheisen/Invision/AP)
March 28, 2013, 2:19 pm
In the second coming of Rodriguez, a Passover parable
Stephen Segerman, the Cape Town record store owner who led the hunt for a lost singer-songwriter, tells ToI the story behind the Oscar-winning documentary ‘Searching for Sugar Man’
By David Horovitz
Except for asking an occasional follow-up question, "The Gatekeepers" director Dror Moreh lets his subjects speak for themselves. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
January 11, 2013, 4:25 pm
How I persuaded six intelligence chiefs to pour out their hearts
Dror Moreh, whose The Gatekeepers has been nominated for an Oscar, tells the Times of Israel how he conducted the revelatory interviews in his acclaimed documentary, and the impact the spy heads’ revelations had on him
By Mitch Ginsburg
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