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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 375

DocAviv Festival

From 'Billy and Molly: An Otter Love Story,' being screened at May 2024 Doc Aviv film festival (Credit: National Geographic/Charlie Hamilton James)
May 15, 2024, 10:27 am
Life’s pain and beauty on show at Tel Aviv’s 26th DocAviv
Annual documentary film event offers week of screenings of works from Israel and around the world
By Jessica Steinberg
Singer Yehuda Poliker performs on May 11, 2023, at the opening night of the 25th Docaviv Film Festival which is screening 'The Child Within Me,' about his life. (Courtesy: Docaviv)
May 13, 2023, 4:37 pm
Singers, eco-activists, designer dreams: True tales at 25th Docaviv
Dozens of documentaries being screened at 10-day film festival hosted by Tel Aviv Cinematheque
By Jessica Steinberg
Roman Vishniac and his daughter Mara c. mid-1930s. (© Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley)
May 11, 2023, 10:29 pm
Daughter helps turn lens on pioneering photographer father Roman Vishniac in new film
In ‘Vishniac,’ screening at DovAviv from May 11, filmmaker Laura Bialis shows a man who documented pre-Holocaust European Jewry, then reinvented himself as a self-styled scientist
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A clip of security camera footage used in 'Closed Circuit,' the documentary film about the 2016 Sarona Market attack, which premiered at DocAviv in May 2022 (Courtesy Closed Circuit)
June 3, 2022, 1:54 pm
Podcast: Spielberg-produced documentary dissects 2016 Tel Aviv terror attack
Nancy Spielberg and filmmaker Tal Inbar discuss ‘Closed Circuit,’ which uses security camera footage to understand how events unfolded at the Sarona Market on that fateful night
By ToI Staff
Adolf Eichmann during his trial in Jerusalem. (Public domain)
May 22, 2022, 12:41 pm
New film brings Eichmann’s Holocaust confessions to life using his own voice
Original recordings are dubbed over actors portraying senior Nazi figure and his interviewer before Israel put him on trial; he expresses pride in genocide, says has no regrets
By Stuart Winer
Sperm donor Ari Nagel who has helped create more than 100 children is the focus of documentary 'The Baby Daddy' screening at the DocAviv film festival opening May 26, 2022 (Courtesy YouTube screen shot)
May 9, 2022, 5:50 pm
Ukraine and Russia to take spotlight at 24th DocAviv film fest
Over 100 films covering nature and climate change, war and peace, music and art will screen at Tel Aviv’s annual celebration of documentary cinema
By Jessica Steinberg
View of the northern Israeli city of Ma'alot-Tarshiha, on February 7, 2019. (Courtesy Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 28, 2021, 5:43 pm
After COVID break, documentary film festival returns to north
DocAviv to once again run in Ma’alot-Tarshiha in Galilee
By Jessica Steinberg
From 'Babylon Dreamers,' a film about immigrants to Israel from the Soviet Union, being screened as part of DocAviv's DocOlim film festival, October 7, 2021 (Courtesy DocAviv)
October 5, 2021, 5:25 pm
DocOlim film fest focuses on modern Israeli immigrant experience
Event hosted by DocAviv opens October 7 in Tel Aviv Cinematheque
By Jessica Steinberg
Attorney Lea Tsemel in a trailer for the documentary "Advocate." (Screen capture/YouTube)
September 30, 2021, 4:35 pm
Israeli biopic about lawyer representing Palestinians wins Best Documentary Emmy
‘Advocate,’ on Lea Tsemel, has caused controversy back home since it follows her court defense of two accused terrorists
By ToI Staff
From 'The Pianist from Ramallah,' a documentary about Muhammad 'Misha' Alsheikh, a teenage pianist living between Palestinian, Russian and Jewish cultures, screening at the National Library of Israel's Docu.Text film festival, August 15-19, 2021 (Courtesy PR)
August 12, 2021, 9:23 pm
National Library’s Docu.Text opens with music and archives
August 15-19 will see screenings of documentaries about David Grossman, Hannah Senesh, Shoshana Damari, Mikhael Gorbachev and others
By Jessica Steinberg
Ehud Banai (left) with Shlomo Bar, from 'Shlomo Bar -- A Musical Documentary' being featured at the 23rd Docaviv Festival, July 1-8, 2021 (Courtesy Docaviv)
July 1, 2021, 1:45 pm
Featuring musical documentaries, Docaviv festival launches with 116 films
Israeli and international films being screened during 10-day event in Tel Aviv, held in person after last year’s online edition
By Jessica Steinberg
The Alaev family from the documentary film, 'The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev,' which will be screened at the digital version of the sixth Docu.Text Film Festival from the National Library of Israel (Courtesy Ori Ackerman)
November 13, 2020, 3:25 pm
Authors, poets, musical families headline National Library film fest
This year’s Docu.Text offers digital option for international and local viewers, with screenings and discussions online
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: From 'Til Kingdom Come,' a new documentary about the unlikely relationship between Jews and evangelical Christians, premiering on Kan 11 on October 28, 2020 (Courtesy Maya Zinshtein)
October 28, 2020, 11:34 am
Documentary eyes Evangelicals: Trump’s 2016 win, Jerusalem embassy and beyond
2 Israeli filmmakers do a deep dive into the Evangelical Christian community and its Jewish connection in ‘Til Kingdom Come
By Jessica Steinberg
American author Paul Auster will speak in a webinar as part of Docustream, the October 2020 screenings produced by the DocAviv Festival that will show 'Paul Auster: What If' (Courtesy Docustream)
October 25, 2020, 2:16 am
Paul Auster to discuss his dream of America with Israelis
A webinar with the writer alongside a screening of the documentary ‘Paul Auster: What If’ is scheduled for October 28
By Jessica Steinberg
From 'Tea Time,' a 2014 Chilean film about five women and the decades-long friendship around the tea table, being shown on Docustream, the DocAviv online festival happening October 1-31, 2020 (Courtesy Docustream)
October 2, 2020, 11:32 pm
Tel Aviv documentary festival launches streaming service
DocAviv offers 31 days of documentaries online, just for viewers in Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
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