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463:. A cannily droll mix of social commentary and modern fable follows the adventures James, a devout wide-eyed young man from the imaginary village of Inchongua attempting a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Jailed by the immigration authorities upon his arrival in Tel Aviv, this contemporary Candide is miraculously bailed out by a shady small-time businessman only to become part of his migrant labor pool. Undeterred, James perseveres in his religious quest, until he gets a taste of fortune by exploiting his employer's friends and colleagues for his own profit. Alexandrowicz filters an astute exploration of the economic, moral and spiritual hypocrisies of Western society through an evocative portrait of modern Israel's cultural and generational divisions. 540:
thoughts and feelings in real time. Maia is an enthusiastic supporter of Israel, and the images in the videos, depicting Palestinian life under Israeli military rule, contradict some of her deep-seated beliefs. Empathy, anger, embarrassment, innate biases, and healthy curiosity — all play out before our eyes as we watch her watch the images created by the Occupation. As Maia navigates and negotiates the images, which threaten her worldview, she also reflects on the way she sees them. Her candid and immediate reactions form a one-of-a-kind cinematic testimony to the psychology of the viewer in the digital era.
503:, Alexandrowicz set out to explore the question ‘How can a modern democracy impose a prolonged military occupation on another people while retaining its core democratic values?’. The film is based on over 5 years of research of military court files, which Alexandrowicz translates into film by creating a cinematic courtroom. In a unique studio set-up he brings together interviews with the military judges, heads of the Military Advocate General, headed by 186: 66: 25: 425:
which portrays the story of a group of Palestinians, who join a three day sight-seeing bus tour through the state of Israel. Whether on a beach, in an archaeological site, a historical museum, or a nightclub, the protagonists experience the country they are sight-seeing in a different way than anyone
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In Israel the film had a broad educational audience. It was screened in high schools, police units, to lawyers, public defenders and prosecutors among many others. While on such speaking tours, Alexandrowicz began to wonder about the nature of documentary work that aspires to change reality. In '50
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In 1998, Alexandrowicz began to spend time in the Palestinian Occupied Territories and Gaza, doing research for a documentary about the Israeli detention camp for Palestinian political prisoners, K’Ziot. The documentary fell through, but the stories he had heard during his research stayed with him
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recounts a unique encounter between a filmmaker and a viewer — exploring the way meaning is attributed to non-fiction images in today's day and age. In a lab-like location, Maia Levy, a young Jewish American woman, watches videos portraying life in the occupied West Bank, while verbalizing her
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and had remained to live in the town of Dachau for the rest of his life. With simple equipment and a small crew of volunteers, Alexandrowicz filmed the man for a few days that unfolded in an unexpected way. In the two and a half years that followed, Alexandrowicz looked for a path through the
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else would. And through these dozens of eyes looking out of the bus windows, a new, unique portrait of Israel is created. Released in the midst of the second Intifada, the film created controversy in Israel but finally was screened on Israeli television. Outside Israel,
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as a Judge Advocate General in 1967 designed the legal infrastructure of the military rule, images of legal files, and historical footage that show the enactment of these laws upon the Palestinian population.
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Alexandrowicz, Ra’anan (2018), Ristovska, Sandra; Price, Monroe (eds.), "50 Years of Documentation: A Brief History of the Audiovisual Documentation of the Israeli Occupation",
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and he began to think about creating a movie that would speak to Israelis about the Palestinian experience and would tell of different perspectives on the Oslo "peace process".
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In film school, Alexandrowicz focused on fiction filmmaking, but on a trip to a film festival in Germany he met a man named Martin, who had survived the
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in the series "Geography Lesson", that premiered in Cannes' 'Directors’ Fortnight' and at the Toronto International Film Festival and received several
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chaotic footage, he developed a passion both for working in nonfiction and for trying to find innovative modes of expression in the documentary form.
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was regarded as a rare document of the deepest roots for this painful conflict and was screened in dozens of festivals around the world (
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won the "Special Jury Prize – International Feature"; in 2013 Alexandrowicz received the Peabody award, and many others more.
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Years of Documentation' (Alexandrowicz, 2018) is an analysis of the unique nature of political documentation with film.
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and received several international awards. He also directed the 2019 documentary film
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which follows a three-day trip of a group of Palestinians from Israeli territories.
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Filmed just a few months before the out-break of the second Intifada in 2000,
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and Israelis to counter the Israeli nationalist reactions aroused by the
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Alexandrowicz has an ongoing collaboration with composer and singer
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The film won the Best Documentary Prize, the Van Leer Institute in
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In 2003 he wrote and directed the full-length feature film
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