Photonovela
Synopsis
A 12 year-old girl must complete an ancestry assignment for school, but what begins as a boring task slowly becomes a sweeping drama that unearths the buried secrets of three generations of one family – from before the outbreak of World War II on to the Holocaust and ending with the fall of the kibbutz’s socialist idealism. What does this heavy historical burden mean for a young girl today, one who lives through social networks, soap operas and telenovelas? A first-person documentary about the unsettling thought that life is a chain of events governed by coincidence and not by individual choice.
Credits
Director(s)
Chen Shelach
Producer(s)
Duki Dror
Script
Duki Dror, Chen Shelach
Cinematography
Philippe Bellaiche
Editor
Duki Dror
Original Music
Frank Ilfman
Original Language
Hebrew, Arabic
Subtitles
English, Hebrew
Produced with the help of
Channel 8 Israel, The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and TV
Sound Designer
Ronen Nagel
Script Editor
Galia Engelmayer
Photo Credit
Zygote Films
Festival Highlights
UK Jewish Film Festival, UK, 2013
