Haim Watzman I proudly present an animated short by my daughter, Mizmor, now entering her third year in the animation program at Sapir College.

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Haim Watzman Leeor Kaufman’s Destiny Hills, screened at the Jerusalem film festival this week, documents the struggle of Mohammad of the al-Talalqa Bedouin tribe of the Negev to assert his right to live on his tribe’s ancestral land. In cinematic terms the film is impressively accomplished, and Mohammad, his wife, his four sons, and the [...]

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Haim Watzman Can Jewish and Arab Israeli film students understand each other better if they watch a 50-year old French film about race relations in the Ivory Coast? Filipa César, a Portuguese artist, had the idea of showing a multi-cultural collection of film students in this country Jean Rouch’s Cinéma-vérité work The Human Pyramid and [...]

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Haim Watzman When Chaim Elbaum stood up to field questions last night, he said that Kehilat Yedidya, is the first Israeli Orthodox community to ask him to come to screen and speak about his short film And Thou Shalt Love , and about his personal decision to accept his homosexuality while insisting on remaining an [...]

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A nice new original Israeli animation (with subtitles) about a bored grandmother in heaven, by Maya Weksler of Goldfish Animation. (Thanks to my daughter Mizmor, beginning her second year of animation studies, for showing it to me!)

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