An Israeli film about a massacre in '48 will open the docu-competition at the Sundance Film Festival
The Israeli docu-film "Tantura" by director Alon Schwartz, which deals with the massacre that allegedly took place in the village of Tantura in 1948, will open the global docu-competition of the Sundance Film Festival
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19/01/2022
Wednesday, 19 January 2022, 13:50 Updated: 13:58
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Teddy Katz (Photo: Yonatan Weizman)
The Israeli docu-film "Tantura" about the massacre that allegedly took place in the village of Tantura in 1948 will open the world docu-competition of the Sundance Film Festival. The festival, which opens tomorrow, will take place this year in digital format following the spread of the corona. The film was directed by Alon Schwartz and it goes back to the Alexandroni Brigade in order to re-examine what happened in Tantura in 1948 and how different narratives can shape history. The film will also be broadcast later this year on HOT8.
In the late 1990s, Teddy Katz, a graduate student at the University of Haifa, investigated a massacre that allegedly took place in the village of Tantura in 1948. The validity of the facts in his work provoked a heated academic, legal, social and media debate.
His work was disqualified and his research master's degree was revoked.
Katz recorded dozens of Jewish and Arab witnesses during his research.
Filmmaker Alon Schwartz returns to those 140 hours recorded from the 1990s that have never been heard in public and with the help of combining them in videotaped interviews and playing the recordings for soldiers - who are now over ninety - manages to tell the village story and the story of that war.
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