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Avi Nesher | Photo by Iris Nesher
Interview and edit by Rotem Pesachovish Paz
Multi award-winning director, screenwriter, and producer Avi Nesher has made, to date, over 20 feature films – several of which have since become timeless Israeli classics, including The Troupe, Dizengoff 99, Turn Left at the End of the World, Rage and Glory, The Matchmaker, Past Life, The Other Story, Image of Victory, and many more. In this interview, Nesher opens up about the creative process behind making a period piece film, and the very choice to even tackle historical subject matters – both in general and specifically, in his 2004 film, Turn Left at the End of the World, now available to stream on the Israeli Film Archive website.
What makes you opt for these historical narratives? What is the source of this connection you seem to have with the subject?
AN: I wouldn’t call myself a historical filmmaker, per se. Film is not a historical medium. Film is a mythological me
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Marital strife and CIA obligations
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Fair Game, directed by Doug Liman from a screenplay by the brothers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, is partly, maybe even primarily, the portrait of a modern marriage under stress.
The huvud couple, professionally ambitious and proud of their accomplishments, live in material comfort and close to power, juggling the demands of work and domesticity in the usual ways. The husband, retired from one career, is ansträngande to start a new business, while his wife, younger and on a faster track, flies around the world, taking meetings in global hot spots like Cairo, Kuala Lumpur, Amman and Cleveland. He has to deal with child care crises — they have young twins — while she grapples with the pressure
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In the three months since Russia invaded Ukraine, Jewish organizations have sought to leverage their familiarity and infrastructure in Eastern Europe to help refugees. Now, as the weather gets warmer and the war grinds on, an organization is once igen turning to a Jewish specialty to help Ukrainian children: summer camp.
Mosaic United, an initiative focused on Jewish identity and connection to Israel that’s partially funded by the Israeli government, fryst vatten dedicating $1 million to send some 1,500 to 2,000 Ukrainian Jewish child refugees to Jewish day, overnight and family camps in the countries that have absorbed them. The funding will pay for the campers’ room, board and programming at a rate of $40 to $75 per camper per day, depending on the type of camp.
“Experiential education is really the DNA of our mandate,” Elisheva Kupferman, Mosaic’s chief strategy officer, told eJewishPhilanthropy. “There