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AICE Israeli Film Festival - Double Feature plus Q&A with Barak Heymann

Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Barak Heymann of the renowned Israeli company, Heymann Brothers Productions will present two wonderful one-hour documentaries with each screening is followed by a Q&A session with Barak!

ALIZA (60 minutes) 7pm Aliza Rozen has a long list of credits in the Israeli film and TV industry: she most recently appeared on screen in FarewellParty (2014). Here she is the subject of a biographical piece by Tomer Heymann , one of Israel’s best known documentary film makers. Using material he shot in 1995 as a young student Heymann returns 20 years later to Rozen to make a professional film and persuade his reluctant subject into the spotlight. Director: Tomer Heymann

ALMOST FRIENDS (60 minutes) 8.30pm Less than 70 kilometers separate Lod and Tlamim, but the residents are a world apart. Through an education program aimedat bridging gaps in Israeli society, sixth grade students from a secular schoolin the impoverished city of Lod and a religious school in the settlement ofTlamim are paired as online pen pals. Samar, an Arab girl from Lod and Linor, asettler who lived in Gush Katif, represent the extremes of these differences. Directors: Barak Heymann and Nitzan Ofir

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