Tantura
Screening Information
Film Details
| Country | Israel | |
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| Year | 2022 | |
| Running Time | 94 MIN | |
| Languages | Hebrew, Arabic, English | |
| Subtitles | English | |
| Director | Alon Schwarz |
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Description
Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival. Director Alon Schwarz’s (Aida’s Secrets) provocative new documentary examines the established narrative that has shaped Israeli society since its inception. In 1998, graduate student Teddy Katz published his Masters thesis about a massacre that allegedly took place in the village of Tantura in 1948. Initially received with distinction, his work was later discredited, but 140 hours of audio testimonies remain. Director Schwartz confronts former Israeli soldiers of the Alexandroni Brigade, now in their 90s, with these tapes. What emerges are complicated, sometimes contradictory accounts that call into question the nature of memory, testimony and even archival footage that has long been part of Israel’s founding myth.
Nominee, Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival
Presentation Details
| Live Zoom Q & A With | Director Alon Schwarz on Wednesday, June 22nd @ 7:00PM. JOIN Q & A HERE |
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