How I Learned to Overcome My Fear
and
Love Arik Sharon
Director: Avi Mograbi
With the 1996 election campaign approaching, director
Avi
Mograbi set out to make a film about an infamous and admired
political
figure, former Israeli cabinet minister and legendary army
general, Arik
Sharon. To the filmmaker's surprise, he
finds Sharon extremely likable.
In the course of the
campaign, Mograbi sets aside his leftist political
beliefs and gets
surprisingly close to Sharon.
This ironic fictitious documentary tells the story of the film's making, which turns into a domestic melodrama threaded with nightmares about Sharon and arguments with his wife. The real story is of the impossible close encounter between left and right in present-day Israel. 1997 Berlin Film Festival.
How I Learned to Overcome My Fear
and Love Arik Sharon
was reviewed for the Jewish Bulletin of
Northern California
by Bulletin Correspondent Michael Fox.
Israeli mockumentaries
venerate Ariel Sharon, spoof Galilee 'cult'
appeared in the
July 18, 1997, issue and is available online at the Jewish Bulletin
website.
Followed by:
Song of Galilee
IN PERSON
Director: Daniel Wachsman
Widely acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Dani Wachsman is
no
stranger to San Francisco. Two of his seminal works,
HAMSIN (1984) and
THE APPOINTED (1991)
were presented in past SFJFF Festivals. This time
Wachsman switches
genres, directing a unique drama in a documentary
style.
The story begins with a mysterious death near his northern Israeli home in the Galilee. Purportedly a suicide, many wonder whether it was murder. The prime suspects are all descendants of an ancient Pashor family. As the legend goes, the Pashors were one of the leading high priesthood dynasties that guarded over the Second Temple's treasury before it was plundered by Rome's King Titus in 70 C.E. Through revealing interviews, a conspiracy is uncovered in which the descendants dream of ancient treasures and an independent Galilee. 1996 Haifa Film Festival.
Song of Galilee
was reviewed for the Jewish
Bulletin of Northern California
by Bulletin Correspondent Michael Fox.
Israeli
mockumentaries
venerate Ariel Sharon, spoof Galilee 'cult'
appeared in the July 18, 1997, issue and is available online at the
Jewish Bulletin website.
ORDERING
INFORMATION
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SCREENINGS
Castro Tuesday July 22, 7:45 pm - Ticket code 722B
UC Theatre Wednesday July 30, 7:30 pm - Ticket code 730B
