{"id":90715,"date":"2021-11-11T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=90715"},"modified":"2021-11-11T08:08:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T06:08:34","slug":"15-00-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=90715","title":{"rendered":"Largest US Documentary Festival Features Six Films With Jewish, Israel Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Largest US Documentary Festival Features Six Films With Jewish, Israel Focus<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Townspeople of the predominantly Jewish village of Nasielsk, Poland in 1938 as seen in Bianca Stigter\u2019s \u201cThree Minutes \u2013 A Lengthening.\u201d Photo: Courtesy of Family Affair Films, US Holocaust Memorial Museum.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Six films that center on Israel or Jewish-related topics will be screened at America\u2019s largest documentary festival,\u00a0DOC NYC<\/strong><\/span>,<\/a>\u00a0beginning Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThree Minutes: A Lengthening<\/a>,<\/strong><\/span>\u201d which made its\u00a0world premiere<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0at the Venice Film Festival in September, is a 69-minute documentary that focuses on three minutes of a color home video that is believed to be the only footage left of the predominately Jewish village of Nasielsk, Poland, before the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also being screened is \u201cCharm Circle,<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u201d in which Jewish director Nira Burstein revisits her childhood home in Queens, New York, as she \u201cattempts to bridge the fractured relationships\u201d between herself, her parents and her two sisters. The 79-minute documentary includes home videos from Burstein\u2019s family.<\/span><\/p>\n

DOC NYC will additionally feature the US premiere of the Hebrew and French-language documentary \u201cThe Forgotten Ones<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u201d by French-Israeli director Michale Boganim. The film highlights the discrimination Jews from North African and Arab countries faced in Israel when they arrived in the Jewish state in the 1950s and \u201960s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Making its world premiere at the festival, \u201cBoycott<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u201d by award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha, examines the legislation adopted by over 30 states in the US that penalizes individuals and businesses that boycott Israel. Bacha, who does not support anti-boycott laws, looks at the cases of a publisher, attorney, and teacher who question the impact of the legislation on freedom of speech and their careers.<\/span><\/p>\n

The festival will also showcase \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Drivers<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201d by director Mohammed Abugeth. Filmed over the course of eight years, the documentary follows two drivers who smuggle Palestinian workers by car from the West Bank to their job sites in Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ticket holders will also able to to see \u201cA Tree of Life,<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201d in which Emmy-winning director Trish Adlesic speaks with survivors of the 2018 deadly shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Adlesic explores how the tragedy changed the lives of the survivors, and examines \u201cthe hate-based crisis stemming from the political climate.\u201d The documentary was co-produced by Michael Keaton and Mark Cuban, who are both from Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 12th annual DOC NYC will take place in-person, Nov. 10-18, at three theaters in Manhattan \u2014 the IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Cin\u00e9polis Chelsea \u2014 and also online. The festival is also an Academy Award-qualifying festival for short films, with its winning short earning consideration to be nominated in the Documentary Short Subject category.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Largest US Documentary Festival Features Six Films With Jewish, Israel Focus Shiryn Ghermezian Townspeople of the predominantly Jewish village of Nasielsk, Poland in 1938 as seen in Bianca Stigter\u2019s \u201cThree Minutes \u2013 A Lengthening.\u201d Photo: Courtesy of Family Affair Films, US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Six films that center on Israel or Jewish-related topics will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90739,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90715\/revisions\/90739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}