TANTURA

2022, Alon Schwarz
94min.
In Arabic and English with English subtitles

When Israeli graduate student Teddy Katz meticulously documented a massacre of Palestinian civilians surrounding Israel's independence, he was initially celebrated for his groundbreaking work. But soon, he was stripped of his degrees and was publicly shamed as a fraudulent traitor. Decades later, incendiary new evidence emerges to corroborate Teddy's initial findings, not just vindicating him, but raising profound questions about how Israelis — and we all — deal with the darker chapters of Israeli history.

Preceded by the following short films:

A TRIP TO THE MOTHERLAND

A short film in the style of a movie trailer visualizing how it feels to visit the motherland.

2022, dir. Ali Abushama
Canada, Palestine, 3min

I AM FROM PALESTINE

As Saamidah, a young Palestinian-American girl, anxiously starts her first day of school, she finds her identity in question when faced with a world map that doesn't include her homeland.

2022, dir. Iman Zawahry
United States, 6min.

THE LAST DAYS OF APRIL

A documentary tale about the fate of a small Palestinian village, saved from destruction in 1949 thanks to the cunning of a handful of inhabitants.

2021, dirs. Laurence Buelens and Jean Forest
Belgium, 24min