Docs Aplenty at the Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles

The 32nd Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the United States and taking place November 6th - 20th, will showcase two U.S. premieres, four West Coast premieres and seven Los Angeles premieres of documentary films. The Festival's Centerpiece will be a screening of the documentary Black Honey: The Life and Poetry of Avraham Sutskever and honoring its director Uri Barbash with the 2018 IFF Artistic Achievement Award.

The documentaries include:

A LAND WITHOUT BORDERS
Dir: Michael Alalu
L.A. Premiere
Nir Baram begins to lose faith in the possibility of a two-state solution, deciding to travel throughout the West Bank to speak with the local populations on both sides of the conflict. He learns that in crucial substantive ways, the two groups don't start from a common foundation. So how can they even participate in the same conversation? | 2017, 62 Min
2018 Israeli Academy Ophir Award Winner - Best Documentary under 70 min

Screens November 12th at 5:00 pm at the Laemmle Fine Arts Theatre, Beverly Hills and

November 14th at 5:00 pm a the Laemmle Town Center, Encino

THE ASSASSINATION
Dir: Avi Weissblei
U.S. Premiere
On Friday, June 16, 1933, while walking with his wife, Sima, on the beach in Tel Aviv, Chaim Arlosoroff-a promising leader and a rising star in the Zionist movement-was shot dead at the age of 34 by two unknown assailants. The assassins quickly fled through the side streets of the city, taking with them the answer to a question that remains unresolved to this day: who killed Arlosoroff? | 2018, 84 Min

Screens November 13th at 7:15 pm at the Laemmle Town Center, Encino and

November 19th at 5:00 pm at the Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts, Beverly Hills

BLACK HONEY, THE LIFE AND POETRY OF AVRAHAM SUTSKEVER
Dir: Uri Barbash
U.S. Premiere - Director's Presentation
Discover the incredible story of Avraham Sutskever. Considered one of the greatest Yiddish poets, Sutskever saved Jewish manuscripts from being destroyed by the Nazis, survived World War II on a special rescue plane ordered by Stalin, testified in the Nuremberg trials, and then died anonymously in Tel Aviv. Director Uri Barbash honors Sutskever's legacy in this compelling portrait. | 2018, 76 Min
Special Guest - Director: Uri Barbash

Screens November 10th at 5:00 pm at the Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre, Beverly Hills,

November 13th at 6:00 pm as the Festival's Centerpiece as part of The Israel Film Festival at the Skirball Cultural Center which also includes a panel discussion and award presentation honoring director Uri Barbash with the 2018 IFF Artistic Achievement Award, and

November 18th at 3:00 pm at the Laemmle Town Center, Encino

FAMILY IN TRANSITION
Dir: Ofir Trainin
West Coast Premiere
The film follows a family from Nahariya (a couple and four children) from the moment the father (Amit) suddenly decides to share his secret desire to become a woman.| 2018, 65 Min
2018 Doc Aviv Winner - Best Film
Special Guest - Director: Ofir Trainin

Screens November 14th at 5:00 pm at the Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre, Beverly Hills

FOREIGN LAND
Dir: Shlomi Eldar
L.A. Premiere
Gassan Abbas and Shlomi Eldar were both at a crossroads. Abbas was once an Israeli sit-com star, while Eldar was an Arab Affairs correspondent for the national news. Things changed: Abbas, a Palestinian, is no longer getting roles, while Eldar's reportage is ushered to the margins of the daily news. Where does life take these men now? | 2017, 74 Min
2018 Israeli Academy Ophir Award Winner - Best Documentary
2017 Haifa International Film Festival Winner - Best Documentary
Special Guest - Producer: Ehud Bleiberg

Screens Sunday, November 18th at 1:00 pm at the Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre, Beverly Hills

IN HER FOOTSTEPS
Dir: Rana Abu-Fraiha
West Coast Premiere
A Bedouin family faces the crucial decision of their mother- raising them in a Jewish community. Her death is approaching. She makes an extraordinary decision, to be buried in the town's Jewish cemetery. Her wish takes the whole family on an emotional and dramatic journey. | 2017, 70 Min
2017 Jerusalem International Film Festival Winner - Best Director

Screens Monday, November 19th at 5:00 pm at the Laemmle Town Center, Encino

INSIDE THE MOSSAD/MOSSAD: IMPERFECT SPIES
Dir: Duki Dror
L.A. Premiere
For years the Mossad, Israel's legendary foreign intelligence agency, has been sealed off from the media. Now, for the first time since its founding, a dozen of Mossad's former spies give us a first-hand recount of their inner work and their moral dilemmas. | 2018, 90 Min

Screens November 10th at 5:00 pm at the Laemmle Town Center, Encino and

November 12th at 9:45 pm at the Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts, Beverly Hills

KISHON
Dir: Eliav Lilti
L.A. Premiere
At the age of seventy, famed Israeli satirist, Oscar-nominated director, and Holocaust SURVIVOR Ephraim Kishon asked journalist Yaron London to help tell his life story. In this intimate documentary, director Eliav Lilti brings their conversations to life through animation, archival footage, and interviews with Kishon's family and friends. | 2018, 87 Min

Screens November 13th at 3:00 pm at the Skirball Cultural Center,

November 15th at 5:00 pm at the Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts, Beverly Hills and

November 17th at 5:00 pm at the Laemmle Town Center, Encino

THE MUSEUM
Dir: Ran Tal
L.A. Premiere
The Museum is a film that seeks to explore the Israeli soul through the galleries, storerooms and visitors of the Israel Museum. The endless sense of sacrifice which is such a powerful part of the Israeli and Jewish experience are reflected in the museum's daily existence. | 2017, 74 Min

Screens November 11th at 1:00 pm at the Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts, Beverly Hills and

November 19th at 7:15 pm at the Laemmle Town Center, Encino

THE OSLO DIARIES
Dir: Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan
L.A. Premiere
1992. Israeli-Palestinian relations are at all all-time low. To stop the bloodshed, a small group of Israelis & Palestinians meet in Oslo - secretly and against the law. The meetings that changed the Middle East forever were never officially sanctioned and were chronicled only by the negotiators' diaries. | 2018, 97 Min
2018 Sundance Film Festival - Official Selection
2018 Jerusalem International Film Festival Winner - Best Screenplay Documentary Film
Special Guest - Director: Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan

Screens November 11th at 3:00 pm at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre, Beverly Hills and

November 18th at 1:00 pm at the Laemmle Town Center, Encino

THE SYRIAN PATIENT
Dir: Racheli Schwartz
West Coast Premiere
Reality surpasses imagination in this documentary that gives a look at the wounded Syrians and the Israeli doctors at a hospital in Israel, where enemies connect-a ray of optimistic light in a harsh reality. | 2017, 55 Min

Screens November 7th at 5:00 pm at the Laemmle Town Center, Encino and

November 13th at 5:00 pm at the Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts, Beverly Hills

TO ERR IS HUMAN
Dir: Yariv Mozer
U.S. Premiere
As of 2016, medical error is the leading cause of death. To Err Is Human reveals for the first time the human aspect - the weaknesses and fears - hidden behind the white coat. | 2018, 52 Min
Special Guest - Director: Yariv Mozer

Screens November 18th at 3:00 pm at the Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts, Beverly Hills

TOUCHING THE SKY
Creator: Ilanit Baumann, Enav Shenhar, Idan Shavit, Tamar Tal-Anati
Network: YES
West Coast Premiere
With the issue of gender still a major topic for cadets, officers and within society at large, we follow the young women who made it to the IAF's most exclusive program, during the intense first six months. From their first day at the academy through the ruthless cuts. | 2018

Screens November 13th at 5:00 pm at the Laemmle Town Center, Encino

Festival screenings will show at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills, the Skirball Cultural Center and the Laemmle Town Center 5 Theatre in Encino. For further information or to purchase tickets for all Festival events, contact the IsraFest Foundation: 310.247.1800 or email info@israelfilmfestival.org. Tickets will also be available to purchase on the website as of October 22nd: www.IsraelFilmFestival.com. Festival 6-pack: $75 (available only at Laemmle Theaters) good for 6 Regular Screenings (must be exchanged for tickets at box office). General Admission: $15; Seniors, Students and Children: $13; Matinee Shows: Monday through Thursday - $10.

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For 32 years, the Festival has presented more than 1,000 feature films, documentaries, television dramas and short films to close to one million filmgoers and brought hundreds of Israeli filmmakers to the U.S. to share their art. The Israel Film Festival is produced by IsraFest Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization created in 1982. Among the Sponsors of the 32nd Israel Film Festival are Adelson Family Foundation, Annenberg Foundation, Bank Leumi USA, Campbell Grobman Films, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Crescent Hotel, David Wiener, Diane & Guilford Glazer Foundation, Disney, Eclipse Advertising, Four Seasons Hotel, Hanna & Bernie Rubinstein, Insync Plus, Israel Consulate in Los Angeles, Israel Film Fund, Israeli Ministry of Tourism, Izek & Aline Shomof, Maurice Marciano Family Foundation, Millennium Media, Molly & Israel Weinberg, Netflix, Rabinovich Foundation, Screen International, Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, The Hollywood Reporter, The Jewish Community Foundation, The Orlando Hotel, Variety and others.

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