FICTION & DOCUMENTARY
FICTION & DOCUMENTARY
FICTION & DOCUMENTARY
FICTION & DOCUMENTARY
Miss Holocaust Survivor
Documentary, 75 min, 2020
Synopsis: Every year since 2011, a unique beauty contest takes place in Haifa. The contestants are female survivors of the Holocaust. In the midst of this flashy spectacle, their personal traumas remain as deep as ever.
Director and Editor: Eytan Ipeker
Producer: Yoel Meranda (Kamara - Turkey)
Co-Producers: Eitan Mansuri and Jonathan Doweck (Spiro Films - Israel), Kristina Konrad (Welt Film), Carine Chichkowsky (Survivance - France)
Supported by New Film Fund (Turkey)
Selected to Sheffield/Doc MeetMarket 2018
Selected to Meetings on the Bridge 2019 (winner of Color-Up Award)
(currently in production)
EXPERIMENTAL VIDEOS
Awards
Video Art Special Award - 9th International Panorama of Independent Film & Video (Greece)
Best Experimental & Animation Film - 30. IFSAK National Short and Documentary Film Festival (Turkey)
Screenings (partial list)
Toronto International Film Festival • Edinburgh International Film FestivalChicago Onion City Experimental Film Festival • Rome Abstracta Film Festival • Experiments in Cinema 5.1, USA • Pera Museum • Fresh Abstractions, Thailand • Lucca Film Festival • International Panorama of Independent Film & Video, Greece • Hallwals Contemporary Arts Center, USA • Platforma Zero Five, Greece • Festival Miden, Greece • 27th Ankara International Film Festival
Click here for detailed screening list
Important Note: Most of the videos are abstract & silent. They are best experienced in a silent darkened room, on full-screen mode
Reviews & Program Notes
Visual Music Masters online publication (brief mention on p.105) - Visual Music Masters / January 03, 2018
Program Notes by Efe Murad for FOL Screening - FOL / October 13, 2017
Comments by Lines of Landscape Blog on "Three Warning Signs" - Lines of Landscape / July 01, 2012
Review of "Three Warning Signs" by A. Robertson (negative but I appreciate it) - Eye for Film / June 29, 2012
Film critic Fred Camper's comments on "Cloud" - Chicago Reader /June17, 2010
Curator Lara Fresko's notes on "Peeling" - m-est editor / May 17, 2012
TIFF Program Notes on "Science Lab" - Screen Anarchy / August 17, 2010