Contact 1-10.7.21DOCAVIV - THE TEL AVIV INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL May 26 to June 5 TicketsFilm ListTrailerהרחבהDirector: Tal Alkalay SlideDOCAVIV - THE TEL AVIV INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVALFilm List May 26 to June 5 Director: Tal Alkalay Trailer Docaviv Winners For The winners list and jury's justification Do You Want to Cross the Sea? For the first time, Noureldin Musa can start the life he has always imagined, yet something is missing. Tickets Purple Bells A journey of the film's director to learn about his family immigration story from the collapsing USSR Tickets The Camera of Doctor Morris Dr. Morris left his wife and children hours of documentation in 8 mm which re-tells their bittersweet story. Tickets Requiem for a Whale From the fabric of responses, a collective experience shines, regarding the dialogue between life and death Tickets What Remains on the Way Lilian and her four children are walking from Guatemala to the US, joined by thousands of fellow dreamers Tickets Lost Angeles — Documentary Musical A musical tale of a town left behind and one watchmaker fighting against time. Tickets Everybody Knows Jack Orr, a student diagnosed with Autism, documents the gentle bond between a father and his ill stepson Tickets Children of the Mist Di, a 12-year-old Hmong girl from North Vietnam, must face the possibility of her childhood coming to an end Tickets Tantura A portrait of Israeli society and its inability to come to terms with its founding myths and dark history. Tickets Fragile Memory As the memory of an elderly cinematographer slowly fades, his grandson pores over his crumbling old film rolls Tickets Gods of Mexico The sound of the Mexican laborers’ slow, painstaking toil produces a near-religious immersive experience Tickets Geamăna The last resident of a mud-flooded Romanian village recalls her life there before she has to leave forever Tickets The Artist’s Daughter, Oil on Canvas A visit to her father's self-portrait exhibition, renews their relationship. But not in the way she expected. Tickets In Flow of Words At an international war crime tribunal, the interpreters express other people’s emotions, but hide their own Tickets Ultraviolette and the Blood—Spitters Gang Letters that lay hidden for decades reveal the passionate secret love affair between Emma and Marcelle Tickets Last Chance to Watch Unseen Skies Trevor Paglen’s art persistently exposes invisible means of mass surveillance Tickets Songs for Drella (1990) A masterful digital restoration of Lou Reed and John Cale’s one-off intimate performance Tickets Trenches A French military journalist spent months in the trenches with Ukrainian soldiers, as war loomed over them Tickets What’s Happening to Me Lately? Israeli cultural icon Rivka Michaeli seeks a bridge between her family in America and her beloved homeland. Tickets Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel Manhattan may have replaced bohemia with real estate, but the residents of the Chelsea Hotel refuse to give in Tickets Eat Your Catfish An intimate, sober, painful, yet loving and humorous portrait of one family and its heart, a mother with ALS Tickets Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time The extraordinary life story of Kurt Vonnegut, told by the filmmaker who slowly became his close friend Tickets We Met in Virtual Reality When the real world went into lockdown, it was the virtual world where a rare kind of intimacy could be found Tickets The Camera of Doctor Morris Dr. Morris left his wife and children hours of documentation in 8 mm which re-tells their bittersweet story. Tickets The Velvet Queen A journey through the beautiful-yet-inhospitable Tibetan plateau, in search of the rare snow leopard Tickets Mini DV Four LGBTQ adults confront their pasts and sexual identities through watching home videos they shot as youths. Tickets Midwives Two midwives, a Buddhist and a Muslim, run an obstetrics clinic in strife-ridden Myanmar Tickets We Feed People At the height of his career, Chef José Andrés goes out into the world to feed humanitarian disaster survivors Tickets Nothing Lasts Forever The dazzling diamond industry clings desperately to its throne, threatened by a younger, lab-grown contender Tickets Tantura A portrait of Israeli society and its inability to come to terms with its founding myths and dark history. Tickets TOP 10 ONLINE Three Minutes — A Lengthening A rare short film roll showing a Jewish town before the Holocaust raises questions about memory and oblivion Tickets Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time The extraordinary life story of Kurt Vonnegut, told by the filmmaker who slowly became his close friend Tickets The Balcony Movie Passersby in Warsaw tell a stranger with a microphone their secrets and personal stories Tickets Cesária Évora The rocky life story of Cesária Évora, the Barefoot Diva, who touched millions of hearts around the world Tickets The Velvet Queen A journey through the beautiful-yet-inhospitable Tibetan plateau, in search of the rare snow leopard Tickets All That Breathes Two brothers rescue the exhausted birds of prey that fall from New Delhi’s smog-choked skies Tickets Children of the Mist Di, a 12-year-old Hmong girl from North Vietnam, must face the possibility of her childhood coming to an end Tickets My Old School The incredible story of a Glasgow high school student who hid his true identity from all for two whole years Tickets Geographies of Solitude Wild horses, seals, and one woman. The beautiful intimate portrait of a naturalist on a remote island Tickets Young Plato Who can shape school boys in Belfast into moral philosophers? A highly unconventional Headmaster Tickets Film critics recommend Three Minutes — A Lengthening A rare short film roll showing a Jewish town before the Holocaust raises questions about memory and oblivion Tickets Cesária Évora The rocky life story of Cesária Évora, the Barefoot Diva, who touched millions of hearts around the world Tickets The Velvet Queen A journey through the beautiful-yet-inhospitable Tibetan plateau, in search of the rare snow leopard Tickets We Feed People At the height of his career, Chef José Andrés goes out into the world to feed humanitarian disaster survivors Tickets Turn Your Body to the Sun Back from Nazi captivity, he got sent to Siberia. Now, his daughter tries to piece together his silenced story Tickets Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down Gravely wounded by an assassin’s bullet, Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is determined to make a comeback Tickets After the Rain A sensitive, intimate film about families trying to heal and rebuild after an earthquake took their children Tickets Nothing Compares A deeply thoughtful, intimate look at Sinéad O’Connor’s life, work, protest, and political struggles Tickets Israeli Competition Mosinzon The writer Yigal Mosinzon reinvented himself frequently yet kept it a secret, until today. Tickets The Bankers Trial Five penniless citizens set on a crusade against the most powerful figures of the financial system in Israel Tickets The Camera of Doctor Morris Dr. Morris left his wife and children hours of documentation in 8 mm which re-tells their bittersweet story. Tickets Mini DV Four LGBTQ adults confront their pasts and sexual identities through watching home videos they shot as youths. Tickets In Case You’re Still Around A dive head first into the depths of the soul, and a long, clear look at the fear of death. Tickets Lost Angeles — Documentary Musical A musical tale of a town left behind and one watchmaker fighting against time. Tickets Children of Peace Children from the only community in the world where Palestinians and Israelis chose to live together in peace Tickets Tantura A portrait of Israeli society and its inability to come to terms with its founding myths and dark history. Tickets The Artist’s Daughter, Oil on Canvas A visit to her father's self-portrait exhibition, renews their relationship. But not in the way she expected. Tickets The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes Eichmannn’s Lost Confession reveals his true face and the international motives to hide them. Tickets H2: The Occupation Lab How a one-kilometer long street in Hebron fuels the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tickets The Seven Years of Absalon Meir Eshel reinvented himself as an artist called Absalon - and rose to international art-scene stardom. Tickets 1341 Frames of Love and War A complex love letter to the power, beauty and horror of photographic imagery Tickets Icons Rewind and Play Instead of storming out of the studio, Thelonious Monk sat down at the piano and played (phenomenally!) Tickets Unseen Skies Trevor Paglen’s art persistently exposes invisible means of mass surveillance Tickets My Name Is Pauli Murray The story of Pauli Murray, a Black and queer lawyer, activist, priest, and trailblazer Tickets Songs for Drella (1990) A masterful digital restoration of Lou Reed and John Cale’s one-off intimate performance Tickets The Computer Accent What happens when an American pop group entrusts an AI with the task of composing its new album? Tickets What’s Happening to Me Lately? Israeli cultural icon Rivka Michaeli seeks a bridge between her family in America and her beloved homeland. Tickets Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel Manhattan may have replaced bohemia with real estate, but the residents of the Chelsea Hotel refuse to give in Tickets Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time The extraordinary life story of Kurt Vonnegut, told by the filmmaker who slowly became his close friend Tickets Getting It Back: The Story Of Cymande They sang about peace and love back when the UK was very White, conservative, and racist. Now they’re back Tickets Cesária Évora The rocky life story of Cesária Évora, the Barefoot Diva, who touched millions of hearts around the world Tickets Mosinzon The writer Yigal Mosinzon reinvented himself frequently yet kept it a secret, until today. Tickets Navalny Aleksei Navalny vs. Putin: a drama so dark and thrilling it's hard to believe it isn't fiction Tickets Anonymous Club Courtney Barnett, on and off the stage, accompanied by a personal audio log she recorded over a 3-year period Tickets We Feed People At the height of his career, Chef José Andrés goes out into the world to feed humanitarian disaster survivors Tickets Loving Highsmith The renowned author’s unpublished diaries reveal her turbulent family relations, her identity, and her love Tickets Award Winners My Name Is Pauli Murray The story of Pauli Murray, a Black and queer lawyer, activist, priest, and trailblazer Tickets Trenches A French military journalist spent months in the trenches with Ukrainian soldiers, as war loomed over them Tickets Shabu 14-year-old Shabu dreams of becoming a rap legend and never growing up Tickets Eat Your Catfish An intimate, sober, painful, yet loving and humorous portrait of one family and its heart, a mother with ALS Tickets Penelope, My Love After 18 years of filming her autistic daughter, director Claire Doyon made a deeply sensitive film about love Tickets The Balcony Movie Passersby in Warsaw tell a stranger with a microphone their secrets and personal stories Tickets Navalny Aleksei Navalny vs. Putin: a drama so dark and thrilling it's hard to believe it isn't fiction Tickets The Pawnshop As the Polish pawnshop runs low on cash, tensions run high but kindness runs higher. How will it stay afloat? Tickets Mr. Landsbergis The complete, riveting, manifold, loaded story of how Lithuania broke away from the USSR. Winner of IDFA 2021 Tickets The Velvet Queen A journey through the beautiful-yet-inhospitable Tibetan plateau, in search of the rare snow leopard Tickets Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987) A stirring, absorbing elegy for justice unserved in the murder case of a Chinese-American in Detroit in 1982 Tickets Midwives Two midwives, a Buddhist and a Muslim, run an obstetrics clinic in strife-ridden Myanmar Tickets Mutzenbacher Men of all ages audition by reading an infamous erotic text that evokes curiosity, awkwardness, and passion Tickets What Remains on the Way Lilian and her four children are walking from Guatemala to the US, joined by thousands of fellow dreamers Tickets A Night of Knowing Nothing Forbidden love and ideological struggles weave together into a spellbinding story about social change in India Tickets Israeli Films Nothing Is Always The complex relationship between a single mother and her only daughter is revealed in a small hotel room. Tickets Do You Want to Cross the Sea? For the first time, Noureldin Musa can start the life he has always imagined, yet something is missing. Tickets What’s Happening to Me Lately? Israeli cultural icon Rivka Michaeli seeks a bridge between her family in America and her beloved homeland. Tickets Purple Bells A journey of the film's director to learn about his family immigration story from the collapsing USSR Tickets The Other City An intimate and bittersweet documentation of the rise and fall of a group of artists in downtown Haifa Tickets Mosinzon The writer Yigal Mosinzon reinvented himself frequently yet kept it a secret, until today. Tickets Savta A young boy documents his grandmother’s last chapter in life. A riveting story full of laughter and loss. Tickets The Elected — Chapter 1 Israeli female politicians tell their stories of representation, legislation, and leadership. Tickets The Bankers Trial Five penniless citizens set on a crusade against the most powerful figures of the financial system in Israel Tickets The Camera of Doctor Morris Dr. Morris left his wife and children hours of documentation in 8 mm which re-tells their bittersweet story. Tickets Dad’s Camera A daughter unknowingly documents her father's last years through his own eyes as he learns how to film again Tickets Words That Remain Six people recall the languages that cradled their childhoods: Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian. Tickets Mini DV Four LGBTQ adults confront their pasts and sexual identities through watching home videos they shot as youths. Tickets Requiem for a Whale From the fabric of responses, a collective experience shines, regarding the dialogue between life and death Tickets In Case You’re Still Around A dive head first into the depths of the soul, and a long, clear look at the fear of death. Tickets Across the Universe A Marble Travelogue What do the Parthenon, a Chinese factory, and influencer twins have in common? Marble. But wait, there’s more! Tickets Facing Monsters What pushes Kerby Brown to try and conquer the world’s mightiest (and most spectacular) waves? Tickets Party Poster In preparation for the festival of Ganesh, laundrymen in Mumbai design a poster to get their moment of fame Tickets Crows Are White Director Ahsen Nadeem is living a double life. Will a remote Japanese monastery provide the solution he seeks? Tickets Cesária Évora The rocky life story of Cesária Évora, the Barefoot Diva, who touched millions of hearts around the world Tickets The Velvet Queen A journey through the beautiful-yet-inhospitable Tibetan plateau, in search of the rare snow leopard Tickets Midwives Two midwives, a Buddhist and a Muslim, run an obstetrics clinic in strife-ridden Myanmar Tickets This Stolen Country of Mine Will activists in Ecuador be able to prevent China’s financial takeover of their country? Tickets What Remains on the Way Lilian and her four children are walking from Guatemala to the US, joined by thousands of fellow dreamers Tickets We Feed People At the height of his career, Chef José Andrés goes out into the world to feed humanitarian disaster survivors Tickets The Night A night in Hong Hong’s bustling commercial district shows the vibrant city in a new light Tickets Where Are We Headed These curious encounters all took place underground—in the opulent corridors of the Moscow Metro Tickets All That Breathes Two brothers rescue the exhausted birds of prey that fall from New Delhi’s smog-choked skies Tickets Dark Red Forest A beautiful portrait of the annual retreat of thousands of Tibetan nuns on the vast Tibetan Plateau Tickets Children of the Mist Di, a 12-year-old Hmong girl from North Vietnam, must face the possibility of her childhood coming to an end Tickets Family Matters Life Tehran is in lockdown but the filmmaker’s mom comes by anyway. Except old Iggy lives there too—Will mom adapt? Tickets Nothing Is Always The complex relationship between a single mother and her only daughter is revealed in a small hotel room. Tickets Do You Want to Cross the Sea? For the first time, Noureldin Musa can start the life he has always imagined, yet something is missing. Tickets Shabu 14-year-old Shabu dreams of becoming a rap legend and never growing up Tickets Facing Monsters What pushes Kerby Brown to try and conquer the world’s mightiest (and most spectacular) waves? Tickets What’s Happening to Me Lately? Israeli cultural icon Rivka Michaeli seeks a bridge between her family in America and her beloved homeland. Tickets Eat Your Catfish An intimate, sober, painful, yet loving and humorous portrait of one family and its heart, a mother with ALS Tickets Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time The extraordinary life story of Kurt Vonnegut, told by the filmmaker who slowly became his close friend Tickets Penelope, My Love After 18 years of filming her autistic daughter, director Claire Doyon made a deeply sensitive film about love Tickets Purple Bells A journey of the film's director to learn about his family immigration story from the collapsing USSR Tickets Crows Are White Director Ahsen Nadeem is living a double life. Will a remote Japanese monastery provide the solution he seeks? Tickets The Other City An intimate and bittersweet documentation of the rise and fall of a group of artists in downtown Haifa Tickets Strigov A lyrical, artistic farewell to a grandmother and her tiny, traditional, soon-to-disappear Slovakian community Tickets Mosinzon The writer Yigal Mosinzon reinvented himself frequently yet kept it a secret, until today. Tickets Savta A young boy documents his grandmother’s last chapter in life. A riveting story full of laughter and loss. Tickets ACRI - 50 years celebration Hanging On With real estate investors itching for their land, the impoverished residents’ fate is up in the air Tickets Unseen Skies Trevor Paglen’s art persistently exposes invisible means of mass surveillance Tickets My Name Is Pauli Murray The story of Pauli Murray, a Black and queer lawyer, activist, priest, and trailblazer Tickets Returning to Reims An intimate and political story deciphering the history of e French working class Tickets Do You Want to Cross the Sea? For the first time, Noureldin Musa can start the life he has always imagined, yet something is missing. Tickets Getting It Back: The Story Of Cymande They sang about peace and love back when the UK was very White, conservative, and racist. Now they’re back Tickets The Elected — Chapter 1 Israeli female politicians tell their stories of representation, legislation, and leadership. Tickets Navalny Aleksei Navalny vs. Putin: a drama so dark and thrilling it's hard to believe it isn't fiction Tickets The Bankers Trial Five penniless citizens set on a crusade against the most powerful figures of the financial system in Israel Tickets Mr. Landsbergis The complete, riveting, manifold, loaded story of how Lithuania broke away from the USSR. Winner of IDFA 2021 Tickets Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987) A stirring, absorbing elegy for justice unserved in the murder case of a Chinese-American in Detroit in 1982 Tickets Midwives Two midwives, a Buddhist and a Muslim, run an obstetrics clinic in strife-ridden Myanmar Tickets What Remains on the Way Lilian and her four children are walking from Guatemala to the US, joined by thousands of fellow dreamers Tickets We Feed People At the height of his career, Chef José Andrés goes out into the world to feed humanitarian disaster survivors Tickets A Night of Knowing Nothing Forbidden love and ideological struggles weave together into a spellbinding story about social change in India Tickets Treasures of the Archive Rewind and Play Instead of storming out of the studio, Thelonious Monk sat down at the piano and played (phenomenally!) Tickets Three Minutes — A Lengthening A rare short film roll showing a Jewish town before the Holocaust raises questions about memory and oblivion Tickets Returning to Reims An intimate and political story deciphering the history of e French working class Tickets The Camera of Doctor Morris Dr. Morris left his wife and children hours of documentation in 8 mm which re-tells their bittersweet story. Tickets Mr. Landsbergis The complete, riveting, manifold, loaded story of how Lithuania broke away from the USSR. Winner of IDFA 2021 Tickets Mini DV Four LGBTQ adults confront their pasts and sexual identities through watching home videos they shot as youths. Tickets A Night of Knowing Nothing Forbidden love and ideological struggles weave together into a spellbinding story about social change in India Tickets Terra Femme A rare collection of travelogues tells the stories of the 20th century’s first female travelers Tickets Fragile Memory As the memory of an elderly cinematographer slowly fades, his grandson pores over his crumbling old film rolls Tickets Los Zuluagas The son of two guerilla fighters returns to Colombia to try and make peace with his memories Tickets Turn Your Body to the Sun Back from Nazi captivity, he got sent to Siberia. Now, his daughter tries to piece together his silenced story Tickets Fire of Love Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things with a red-hot burning intensity: each other—and active volcanoes Tickets The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes Eichmannn’s Lost Confession reveals his true face and the international motives to hide them. Tickets Ultraviolette and the Blood—Spitters Gang Letters that lay hidden for decades reveal the passionate secret love affair between Emma and Marcelle Tickets O, Collecting Eggs Despite the Times Max Schönwetter dedicated his life to the study of bird eggs, even with war clouds looming overhead Tickets Human/Nature Life Tehran is in lockdown but the filmmaker’s mom comes by anyway. Except old Iggy lives there too—Will mom adapt? Tickets Unseen Skies Trevor Paglen’s art persistently exposes invisible means of mass surveillance Tickets A Marble Travelogue What do the Parthenon, a Chinese factory, and influencer twins have in common? Marble. But wait, there’s more! Tickets Facing Monsters What pushes Kerby Brown to try and conquer the world’s mightiest (and most spectacular) waves? Tickets The Velvet Queen A journey through the beautiful-yet-inhospitable Tibetan plateau, in search of the rare snow leopard Tickets Requiem for a Whale From the fabric of responses, a collective experience shines, regarding the dialogue between life and death Tickets This Stolen Country of Mine Will activists in Ecuador be able to prevent China’s financial takeover of their country? Tickets Heart of Oak Heart of Oak is more than a documentary: It is a real, nature and wildlife opera. Tickets All That Breathes Two brothers rescue the exhausted birds of prey that fall from New Delhi’s smog-choked skies Tickets Hive no. 10 The wish of her son to raise bees forces the director to deal with her own fragile memories from her childhood Tickets A Taste of Whale In the Faroe Islands, the locals still hunt whales. Is this justified, and could it even be moral? Tickets Man’s Best Friend An observation at an pet cemetery where people come and visit their deceased companions. Tickets Haulout A man waits in the desolate expanse of the Russian Arctic. Nothing could prepare us for what he encounters. Tickets Nuisance Bear The obstacle course migrating polar bears must navigate in an attempt to avoid tourists and wildlife officers Tickets Geamăna The last resident of a mud-flooded Romanian village recalls her life there before she has to leave forever Tickets The Cinematic Edge San Vittore The children who visit their parents in San Vittore prison quickly realize that it is not a fairytale castle Tickets San Siro In the giant stadium’s belly, its human and mechanical parts work together with a near-mystical efficiency Tickets Da Vinci From a surgical robot’s perspective, the abdominal cavity resembles a strange, mysterious pulsating landscape Tickets Rewind and Play Instead of storming out of the studio, Thelonious Monk sat down at the piano and played (phenomenally!) Tickets A Marble Travelogue What do the Parthenon, a Chinese factory, and influencer twins have in common? Marble. But wait, there’s more! Tickets The Computer Accent What happens when an American pop group entrusts an AI with the task of composing its new album? Tickets Trenches A French military journalist spent months in the trenches with Ukrainian soldiers, as war loomed over them Tickets We Met in Virtual Reality When the real world went into lockdown, it was the virtual world where a rare kind of intimacy could be found Tickets Letter from Eusapia COVID looms. The filmmaker—who studies a city hidden beneath Brussels—talks to his father, a doctor in Ecuador Tickets Mutzenbacher Men of all ages audition by reading an infamous erotic text that evokes curiosity, awkwardness, and passion Tickets The Night A night in Hong Hong’s bustling commercial district shows the vibrant city in a new light Tickets A Night of Knowing Nothing Forbidden love and ideological struggles weave together into a spellbinding story about social change in India Tickets Everyman and I Can one ever truly know an actor who has to erase his whole being every time he plays a part? 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