Due to the current international situation, the 2020 edition of Docaviv International Documentary will take place only online, between September 3-12, 2020.
With the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, there will be presented, in the official competition of the festival, two of the best Romanian films of the year: “Collective”, director Alexander Nanau, and “Acasa/My Home”, director Radu Ciorniciuc. The films are available for online viewing between September 3-12, 2020, only inside Israel.
Collective, director Alexander Nanau (co-production Romania-Luxembourg, 2019, 109 minutes, Hebrew subtitles)
Tickets: https://www.docaviv.co.il/2020-en/films/collective/ (limited number of tickets)
Webinar: filmmaker Alexander Nanau in conversation with Dr. Shmulik Duvdevani (in English) –September 12, at 20:00. Free participation, registration in advance is required: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UT4tMLh8RMWCPuPahr2AUQ
Director: Alexander Nanau
Cast: Tedy Ursuleanu, Mirela Neag, Narcis Hogea
Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-NaUTg45I4
This is the story of a journalistic investigation that quickly escalated into a convoluted thriller complete with intrigue, large-scale corruption, and possibly even murder. A team of journalists in Bucharest receives privileged information: the fire that claimed dozens of lives at the Colectiv nightclub was just the tip of the iceberg—the bottom being a case of embezzlement involving astronomical sums of money and a rotten healthcare system. Defamed, harassed, and painted as public enemies, the relentless journalists follow the chain of evidence to its end, and their discoveries bring down the entire government.
Director Alexander Nanau follows the journalists, the new Healthcare Minister who gets thrown into the storm, and a few of the fire’s survivors. Each has a uniquely human story of struggle, told with tender clarity.
Acasa/My Home, director Radu Ciorniciuc (Romania, 2020, 86 minutes, Hebrew subtitles)
Tickets: https://www.docaviv.co.il/2020-en/films/acasa-my-home/ (limited number of tickets)
Webinar: filmmaker Radu Ciorniciuc in conversation with Dr. Shmulik Duvdevani (in English) –September 5, at 17:00. Free participation, registration in advance is required: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wCZ1U4MESoOIi7lCXMF28A
Director: Radu Ciorniciuc
Cast: Corina Enache, Duca Enache
Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOdUY_sL-ok
The trees, the brambles, the lakes, and the fields were home to the Enache family—a couple and their nine children—for twenty years. Now the city encroaches upon the wilderness, turning it into Europe’s largest urban park. While Bucharest officials tour the area with Prince Charles, the family is evicted from their dilapidated shack and cramped into an apartment in the city, where they must send their children to school, buy groceries (instead of fishing in the stream), wash their hair and take out the garbage.The transition has a dramatic effect on the family’s power dynamic. The children miss their former home but soon become enchanted by culture, whereas the parents find the city just as wild as nature, perhaps more so. The film follows the family over four crisis-fraught years as they adjust and try to redefine their home.
Docaviv – the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival is the largest film festival in the city of Tel Aviv, and the only festival in Israel dedicated exclusively to documentary films. It is among the world’s leading documentary festivals, with over 100 new local and international documentaries screened each year. The program includes several competitions, special tribute program dedicated to the work of esteemed filmmakers, as well as themed programs dedicated to music, art, social issues, virtual reality and new technologies, and other curated programs.Website: https://www.docaviv.co.il/2020-en/
