| CoPro 2010 Pitching Projects |
Back to the Scene of the Crime
Producer: Arik Bernstein
Director: Ilan Ziv
Back to the Scene of the Crime will tell the dramatic story of the attempt to assassinate Khaled Meshaal the Hamas leader in light of the latest assassination of the Mossad in Dubai. The story will be told by: Israeli Mossad operatives, Israeli politicians, Jordanian secret service agents, Israel former Mossad chief, Hamas leaders including Khaled Meshaal.
Behind the Scenes of the Celebrations
Producer: Nurit Kedar, Mosh Danon, Talia Kleinhendler
Director: Alex Gentelev
The 2014 Winter Olympic Games, are about much more than sports. With Putin pulling the strings and billions of dollars in play, the preparations have become a tug of war between the government, Oligarchs and mobsters each trying to get a piece of this profitable pie.
The Law in These Parts
Producer: Liran Atzmor
Director: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
How does a modern democratic state create an apparently legal system to advance a goal so clearly in violation of the basic principles the state purports to believe in? Who designed this system, and how does it function? These are the kinds of questions THE LAW IN THESE PARTS aims to explore.
Iran Tweet
Producer: Eli Cohen, Arik Bernstein
Director: Shlomo Hazan
S.H. is one of an international ring of tweeters who, using the web, help Iranian freedom fighters to keep internal and external communications, while the regime fights to block it. They use code names and don’t know each other but relationships are formed- suspicion, trust and comradeship.
5 Broken Cameras
Producer: Guy Davidi
Director: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
Emad is a Palestinian cameraman who decides to film the struggle against the wall in his village side by side to filming his young son growing and his family. This struggle strikes his private life. One Camera after another is damaged and replaced, each unfolds another part of the story. His story is a story of resistance.
Dear Melissa
Producer: Yaron Kaftori
Director: Limor Pinhasov
While being addicted to drugs and acting as strippers in Japan nightclubs, Yael an Israeli photographer, filmed Melissa reviled the stories of her abusive father, and her abandoned kids. Seven years later the two meet again and try to solve the mystery and sins of their past.
White Night
Producer: Nurit Kedar, Mosh Danon, Talia Kleinhendler
Director: Irit Gal
Night after night a group of Palestinian women make the long and treacherous journey from their village, crawling on the ground through a hole in the fence, and then into Jerusalem. Here they transform, blending into their surroundings, ready for a day’s work which will allow them to support their children. On these nightly journeys they share with each other their lives, pain, hopes and dreams, as they tell their stories.
No ”full Stop”
Producer: Yehuda Bitton & Shlomo Slutzky
Director: Shlomo Slutzky
Shlomo Slutzky’s trip to Argentina to cover the case of a former Junta General charged with killings during the 70’s, surprisingly turns into a quest in the steps of Shlomo’s friends, who were imprisoned, exiled or killed after joining guerrilla forces, and accusing Shlomo of treachery for emigrating to Israel.
Heart of the Other
Producer: David Fisher
Director: Harvey Stein
How can change come to the painful stalemate in Israel/Palestine? Khaled Mahameed, a courageous Palestinian-Israeli activist, has an almost mystical belief that overcoming denial and creatively facing the pain of the Holocaust can do it. We follow him as he shows large photos of the Holocaust in West Bank refugee camps and villages, and to Israeli soldiers who guard the Separation Wall. He confronts both Palestinians and Israelis with the “truth power” (Gandhi’s ‘satyagraha’) of the Holocaust.
Being like Avi
Producer: Noam Pinchas
Director: Inbal Sprinzak
Five 17 y/o African refugees struggle against all odds ”to be like Avi” (Formally Ibrahim), their mythological hero: Finish high school, get an Israeli citizenship and join the IDF.
A story of refugees with no family, future or identity who knock on the doors of a country composed of former refugees just like themselves.
Will they find a home in Israel?
The Man Who Would Move A Hill
Producer: Jerrold Kessel & Pierre Klochendler
Director: Jerrold Kessel & Pierre Klochendler
The Man Who Would Move a Hill is Naim Aweisat, a Palestinian entrepreneur from occupied East Jerusalem. His quixotic dream – to turn a barren hillock facing the epicentre of the world’s most disputed holy site into the first country club for the quarter million Palestinians who live in the city...
The Invisible Men
Producers: Yariv Mozer, Ina Fichman
Director: Yariv Mozer
Louie, a gay Palestinian who has been hiding in Tel Aviv for 8 years, as he navigates the complicated reality between Palestine/Israel and seeks political asylum abroad. On that journey, we discover other gay Palestinians in hiding, be they in Tel Aviv, the West Bank’s gay underground, or worse, Gaza’s cage.
A Life less Ordinary
Producer: Aurit Zamir and Yoav Roeh
Director: Ziv Ben Tsvi
The story of the ”Mutoid Waste Company” which travels around Europe with their magnificent, waste-based creations, like a post apocalyptic circus. The film follows them for 20 years, exploring the price of freedom, and how the ideologies of youth withstand the trial of time.
The Walking Man
Producer: Noam Pinchas and Tal Barda
Director: Noam Pinchas
”A purposeless walk as a purpose in itself ”:
A universal and original view on the modern society of the 21st century through the struggle of ’The Walking Man’ (Israeli artist Gilad Kahana), who tries to do a useless, unaccepted and sometimes even illegal act: Walking without knowing where to.
Gora
Producer: Barak Heymann
Director:Tal Shefi
Kaya, a 13-year-old Israeli-Nepalese girl and Soniya, an 18-year-old Indian, meet in a boxing Club in Goa, and become opponents and friends. Their paths separate as Kaya leaves India in search of a home and Soniya is to become a National India Boxing champion.
Turtles without Borders
Producer: Yael Kipper
Director: Ronen Zaretzky
This is a film about people who live beside the Mediterranean Sea they speak different languages and come from different cultures, but they are dedicated to the same cause: saving the last of the Mediterranean Sea turtles which are in danger of extinction.
Irak n’ Roll
Producer: Dani Haimovich
Director: Gili Gaon
The tragic tale of two of the most important musicians in the history of the Arab world dramatically revealed through their grandson’s courageous musical journey into his family’s heritage. Dudu Tassa, one of Israel’s leading Rock stars, begins a brave voyage to discover his roots, and revives his grandfather’s spirit.
The Polgar Sisters
Producer: Amir Harel
Director: Yossi Aviram
The epic saga of the Polgars, a Jewish-Hungarian family from Budapest, centering on the unique story of the three chess players sisters, Judith, Susan and Sophie who acted as human subjects for their father’s controversial experiment: all three were reared from early childhood to be world champions in chess.
Truth, Nothing but the Truth
Producer: Eytan Harris
Director: Eytan Harris
Five Israeli soldiers have sued Mohammed Bakri, the director ”Jenin Jenin” claiming that his film accuses them and the Israeli army of committing horrific war crimes against the Palestinians in Jenin in 2002. Who is telling the truth? What is Truth? Is a filmmaker responsible for what his characters say?
Tell Our Story
Producer: Tzach Nissenboim, Ingun Olsen, Mike Chamberlain
Director: Shira Lavy
After the death of the father of the Abu-Harma tribe, the young generation of a Bedouin family fights against discrimination and tradition to achieve happiness and freedom.
The filmmaker gets to know the Abu-Harma family intimately over 4 years and films the transitions in their lives.
Veterans
Producer: Amir Harel
Director: Tanya Aizikovich
The film will focus on the veterans, once fighters in the Red Army and now uprooted immigrants fighting for their place in society, and will tell their story – a story of the bankruptcy of their glory. In WW2 they fought and defeated the Nazis. Now, 65 years later, they live in Israel and it seems that no one cares about them. However, this group of elderly people, who faced the German enemy, is not prepared to accept the place allocated to them by the Israeli society.
Within the Eye of the Storm
Producer: Shelley Hermon
Director: Shelley Hermon
Bassam and Rami experienced personal tragedies that turned them from enemies into brothers. In a significant moment in their life they deal with challenges that clash with their need to bring about change to the region. Along the way they reveal a friendship and humor that keeps them alive.
Godless
Producers: Osnat Trabelsi, Paul Cadieux, Danae Elon Director: Danae Elon
A secular family returns to “holy” Jerusalem. With no national or religious bias and determined to once again live in the city of her childhood, director Danae Elon comes back after twenty years with a young family to a place changed beyond recognition and taken over by messianic religious extremism.
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