DOCUMENTARY AND DRAMA FILMS
At the heart of my video editing work is a love of storytelling. Whether through documentary feature films or other projects, I seek to capture the authentic and engaging moments that make stories come to life. Through my work, I hope to inspire and connect with audiences, and create visual journeys that leave lasting impressions. Learn more about my recent projects and see how my expertise can help elevate your next video project.
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Dir. Rom Barnea/Tymur Tsapliienko
PBS channel
Documentary 2023/26 min
Tymur Tsapliienko is a 17-year-old refugee who escaped Ukraine when the Russian army invaded his country. With guidance from film mentor Rom Barnea, Tymur interviews fellow refugees, examining the devastation of war and displacement, the connection between war and fossil fuel dependence, and the ways in which people find solidarity and hope during times of crisis.
88 My love
Dir. Yana Riahi
Documentary 2023/26 min
Under a new management 88FM became a playlist-based radio station and lost its uniqueness. But the loyal listeners didn't give up and went out to the unique struggle for pluralism and music.
Gimpel the Fool Returns to Poland
Dir. Howard Rypp
Documentary 2023/50 min
Gimpel the Fool Returns to Poland” chronicles the tour of the mono-drama based on Singer’s classic story which has inspired audiences throughout the world. It chronicles the journey to different towns that Singer wrote about, while tracing the escape Singer made before the Holocaust until finally finding refuge in America. It also attempts to reconcile the past with the present by confronting the incongruities inherent in modern day Poland.
Soft sign
Dir. Victoria Uchitel
Drama 2022/24 min
Natalie (17), a Russian immigrant and her friend Amir (19), a Palestinian director, are engaged in art, identity and sexuality. As they work on a TV report about the upcoming '96 elections, two young Russians offer new insight as possibilities arise.
Yuli mourns her twin sister, Romy. She nurses her broken parents at their childhood home. Today is their birthday. For dinner, Yuli decides to show up in Romy’s clothes. To her surprise, she allows the family to resurrect Romy, through her own body.
Pleasures of the Flesh in the Sun
Dir. Oshri Zeituni
Drama 2022/17 min
TISFF 24
In a secluded Mediterranean lagoon, Odelia (16) floats peacefully in the water in an oversized gold bathing suit. The sound of boys from her class singing draws her attention, like a promise to alleviate her loneliness. A delicate portrait is drawn between man and nature as Odelia learns that she is the only in the world she can truly rely on.
The film will be pre-premiered as part of the featival's opening event: June 12th at 20:00, in Gan HaPisga, Jaffa.
We used to sing
Dir. Lidiya Morozov
Documentary 2021/31 min
Docaviv 2021
A family story of four Russian women who emigrate from Moscow to a two-bedroom apartment in Tel-Aviv. A unique sisterhood of strong, colourful women form intimate yet complex relationships while they try to set roots - living through their fears, frustrations, longings and above all, hope.
Ecce Hommo
Dir. Aharon Trietel
Documentary 2019/53 min
Docaviv 2019
10 years after leaving the Orthodox lifestyle, Arale goes back to his childhood home to look for Eliezer, his uncle, that was kidnapped as an infant. When it is suspected that Eliezer lives in Canada, the family refuses to contact Eliezer, who is married to a non-Jewish woman. As Arale attempts to reunite the family, past grievances re-emerge, returning to haunt all those involved
Unrecognized
Dir. Anna Oliker
Documentary 2019/48 min
JFF 2019
When the Israeli government forms a plan to urbanize Bedouin villages in the Negev, the lives of 120,000 citizens are on the verge of radical change. Othman, a local young man, is appointed to convince the people of Bir Hadaj to embrace modernization. Soon, he realizes that the true potential for change lies with the village women. Together with his younger sister Aisha, advocating for literacy and integration, the two manage to spark a movement. While the men continue fighting with each other, and with the government, Othman and Aisha start shaping a positive alternative.
The Partisan
The story of an Israeli woman and a mother of two children who went to search for a close relative who disappeared in the chaos of the civil war in the Ukraine. Her journey led her to decide to join the rebel forces and devote herself to a foreign war, far from her home and family.
Death of a Poetess
Dir. Dana Goldberg and Dr. Efrat Mishori
Drama 2017/75 min
JFF 2017
A delicate, poetic cinematic work, consisting of two parallel axes. Lenny Sadeh is a Tel Aviv based scholar who passes through the last day of her life. Yasmin Nasser, an Arab nurse who lives in Jaffa, is interrogated by the police. The worlds of these two women meet for a critical moment and bound together inseparably.
The Island
Dir. Adam Weingrod
Documentary 2017/60 min
Docaviv 2017
"The Island" is an intimate glimpse into the rich human mosaic of terminally ill patients who end their lives inside the St. Louis French Hospital, run by nuns this historical building is situated on the tense seamline between East and West Jerusalem across from the walls of the Old City. Delicate portraits of patients and staff are crafted to convey the LIFE that pulsates within the hospital walls. The hospital windows look out on one of the most contentious areas in the world and there is strong dissonance between Jerusalem's streets, with their ever-present possibility of erupting into violence, and the grace and compassion that fill the hospital.
Art Undercover
Dir. Tamir Zadok
Mocumentary 2017/27 min
Part of the exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Art Undercover is a chronicle about Zadok's quest to find a lost modernist painting, rooted in the story of Shlomo Cohen Abravanel (who will later become one of the heads of the "Mossad" (the Israeli secret service)), who went on an undercover mission in Egypt assuming the identity of a French painter named Charduval.
Tamir Zadok, an Israeli artist, tried to track one of Charduval's oil paintings in Cairo but just as the Mossad agent pretended to be an artist until he became one, Tamir Zadok's work of art leads him to pretend to be a fake secret agent, an artist-spy.
Roots
Observing the present is so simple and so complex of grandma, mom, dad and the filmmaker. Looking at the past, at a childhood memory that continues to be in and within them, and looking at the future, into the unknown, but a little known. Empowering nature also decides where the family's roots will go.
1 building and 40 people dancing
Dir. Miki Polonski
Documentary 2015/48 min
Docaviv 2015
Across from the municipal music hall in Bat-Yam, there is a large, run-down concrete building. It was built as part of the public housing project in the 50s, and most of the tenants have been living there since. The gap between the two buildings is so much larger than the actual distance.
20 years without Soviet Union
Dir. Alexander Gentelev
Documentary television series 2011/14 episodes
Yes channel
Twenty Years Without the Soviet Union is a 14-episode documentary television series aired on the yes Raduga channel.
20 years ago, the Soviet Union disintegrated. The fall of the Soviet empire affected the world even more than its establishment in the early 20th century. The series provides a personal look at the founding events and what happened in Russia in their wake, through the eyes of the narrator, an Israeli of Russian descent who experienced the events at the time they occurred. Now, being outside Russia's borders, he manages to see more than his friends who still live there. An authentic and vivid look at a changed reality.
The lost Temple
Dir. Sergei Grankin
Documentary 2011/60 min
Secrets of the Underground Jerusalem: The Search for the Ancient Jewish Temple Under the Temple Mount. Despite the threats of the Islamists and the warnings of the rabbis. What did the researchers find?
