THE PAGEANT

documentary, 83 min - 2020

directed & edited by Eytan Ipeker

 

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 sponsored by an Evangelical Christian organization, the personal traumas of the survivors remain as deep as ever. A documentary about how memory, politics and spectacle are interconnected.

 

 

 

• Visions du Réel - Intl. Feature Film Competition  ( WORLD PREMIERE)

• Sarajevo Film Festival - Documentary Competition

• Odessa International Film Competition - European Documentary Competition

• Rhode Island International Film Festival

• Istanbul Film Festival - National Documentary Competition

• Antalya Golden OrangeFilm Festival - National Documentary Competition

• Human Rights Film Festival Lugano

• Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote

• Traces de Vies - Compétition 2021 / Regard Documentaire Hors Frontières

• Documentarist

• Istanbul Modern Cinema

• Turkish National Critics Association - Best Feature Documentary Nominee

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Best Turkish Films of 2020 - Yiğit Atılgan (Bantmag)

Best Turkish Films of 2020 - Burcu Aykar (Altyazı Film Magazine)

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"The film accuses without a word, in a very efficient and intelligent way, the radical strangeness, not to say the sweet obscenity, of its subject."

Jacques Mandelbaum - Le Monde

 

Complex and nuanced.

Cineuropa

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Deliberately creates associations that make you shiver

Anne Küper - critic.de

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Non-conclusive, humbly observational manner that never presumes to condemn the choices of its subjects.

Carmen Gray - Modern Times Review

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