Catalogue des films de « Avi Mograbi »

As the 1996 elections approach, director Avi Mograbi sets out to make a documentary about a figure both admired and disliked, a former minister and a legendary army general, Ariel Sharon. Mograbi, who was a conscientious objector to the 1982...

Filmmaker Avi Mograbi and stage director Chen Alon go off to meet African asylum seekers that the state of Israel detains in a camp in the middle of the Neguev desert. Together, through a workshop inspired by “Theatre of the Oppressed”, they...

"Once I entered a Garden" fantasizes an old Middle East, wherein communities were not divided along ethnic and religious lines ; a Middle East in which even metaphorical borders had no place. In Ali (Avi's Mograbi Palestinian friend) and Avi's...

An Israeli ex-soldier who participated in a revenge operation where two Palestinian policemen were murdered seeks forgiveness for what he has done. His girlfriend does not think it is that simple, she raises issues he is yet not ready to address....

In 1942 the historical narrative of Massada was chosen, enriched and made into the founding myth of the new Jewish community of Israel. It was hoped that, by identifying themselves with the heroes of Massada,the newcomers would find a meaning in...

An ordinary news item in the occupied territories. A Palestinian family wants to go to hospital. An Israeli armoured car blocks the road and prevents them getting past. A face-to-face confrontation between the blind mass of the armoured car and...

"Wait, it’s the Soldiers, I Have to Hang Up Now" is a 13 minute video consisting of one shot of myself during a phone conversation with George Khleifi, a Palestinian friend who lives in Ramalla, during the incursion to the Palestinian cities in...

"August" is a partly documentary and partly fictional film that portrays a month in the life of a filmmaker and his wife. He wishes to document the month of August, since he believes that this month constitutes a metaphor of whatever is hateful...

A documentary film-maker is hired to make a film about the 50th anniversary of the state of Israel. In the course of making the film, he realises there are another two anniversaries to mark : the Nakba – 50 years to the Palestinian catastrophe...

As the 1996 elections approach, director Avi Mograbi sets out to make a documentary about a figure both admired and disliked, a former minister and a legendary army general, Ariel Sharon. Mograbi, who was a conscientious objector to the 1982...