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Docaviv Cinema: Oscar Month

The best documentaries of the year that have been shortlisted for the 2020 Oscar.

Midnight Family

Dir.: Luke Lorentzen
| 81 minutes

An award-winning documentary about the Ochoa family’s private ambulance that operates illegally in Mexico City as a vital rescue force. As police corruption soars, they must raise enough money to legalize the family business. 

Advocate

Dir.: Rachel Leah Jones, Philippe Bellaiche
| 108 minutes

Lea Tsemel defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from nonviolent demonstrators to armed militants. As an Israeli lawyer who has represented political prisoners for five decades, Tsemel, in her quest for justice, pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to its limits. 

Aquarela

Dir.: Victor Kossakovsky
| 89 minutes

Acclaimed Russian director Victor Kossakovsky sets out on a breathtaking journey between waterfalls, icebergs, storms, and rivers, taking the viewers on a deep and viscerally thrilling journey.

One Child Nation

Dir.: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang
| 85 minutes

Documentarian Nanfu Wang explores the effects of China’s One-Child policy. By combining her personal story with propaganda material, she reveals human rights violations, including the abandonment of infants and forced abortion. An exemplary work of outstanding significance and emotional force. 

Honeyland

Dir.: Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska
| 85 minutes

Hatidze Muratova climbs the staggering mountains of Macedonia to extract honey from the bee colonies hidden away high up in the crevices. When a family of nomads shows up at her doorstep, they threaten her livelihood but also ease her loneliness. 

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Cinematheque 2
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2025-01-13 18:00:00 2025-01-13 21:00:00 Asia/Jerusalem Design for All: Non-Human Performers in Design <p>Speaker (in Heb.): Rami Tareef</p><p>Tickets: 95 NIS / Members: 85 NIS</p> Cinematheque Jerusalem Cinematheque
Design for All: Non-Human Performers in Design

Apollo 11

Dir.: Todd Douglas Miller
| 93 minutes

On July 16, 1969, the American space program culminated in the launch of Apollo 11. Through a wealth of archive footage, Apollo 11 compresses the eight day journey into an exhilarating, nerve wrecking, spectacle, and delightful 93 minutes cinematic experience.