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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 566

Canadian Jewish filmmakers

Igal Hecht at the 'car graveyard' during filming of 'The Killing Roads' in March 2024. (Courtesy of Chutzpah Productions)
October 5, 2024, 9:45 am
In ‘The Killing Roads,’ filmmaker Igal Hecht confronts the visceral pain of Oct. 7
The powerful new documentary, its release set to coincide with the massacre’s anniversary, focuses on the Hamas slaughter on the south’s main arteries. To combat deniers, it is available for free
By Robert Sarner
Albert Rosenberg image designed by Josh Sinclair. (Courtesy Melbar Entertainment Group)
February 17, 2023, 5:36 am
In ‘The Talented Mr. Rosenberg,’ a con artist tale so strange it’s hard to believe
Acclaimed filmmaker Barry Avrich covers what might be his most peculiar subject to date: Albert Rosenberg, a charlatan with so many cover stories, even his family doesn’t know him
By Rich Tenorio
Jason Sherman wanders through an Israeli pine forest in search of his tree, as seen in 'My Tree' documentary film. (John Minh Tran)
October 2, 2022, 1:44 am
In search of ‘his’ tree in Israel, a Canadian filmmaker unearths unsettling issues
After learning a sapling planted through JNF for his bar mitzvah is in a forest where once stood a Palestinian village, Jason Sherman asks himself if he is complicit in a cover-up
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Film director Daniel Roher takes a break from editing his new documentary, 'Once Were Brothers,' at the post-production studio in Toronto, Ontario, August 29, 2019. The film will open the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, September 5. (Etye Sarner)
September 3, 2019, 4:03 am
26-year-old Jewish-Canadian director to launch Toronto Film Festival
On September 5, Daniel Roher’s latest documentary about a maverick musician, ‘Once Were Brothers,’ will make him one of the youngest filmmakers to open the prestigious event
By Robert Sarner
Filmmaker and photographer Ezra Soiferman at Tweed's Smiths Falls, Ontario facility (Bilal Rizack, ©Perpetuum Productions)
May 6, 2017, 8:05 am
As artist-in-residence at a cannabis company, a photographer’s creativity is sparked
At Tweed, Jewish Canadian Ezra Soiferman communes with plants for his ‘macrojuana’ shots
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Alex Ozerov and Sasha K. Gordon in 'Natasha' by David Bezmozgis (Menemsha Films)
April 28, 2017, 9:30 am
Author David Bezmozgis brings his steamy ‘Natasha’ off the page and onto the screen
Mainly Russian-language film updates award-winning short story, spotlights lives of former Soviet Union Jewish immigrants to Canada
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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