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MIZRAHIM, LES OUBLIÉS
DE LA TERRE PROMISE

by Michale Boganim
France, Israel, 2021, 93', color
Screenplay: Michale Boganim
WEDNESDAY 01 SEPTEMBER 2021
19:30 Sala Astra 1 Press, Industry
WEDNESDAY 01 SEPTEMBER 2021
19:45 Sala Astra 2  Press, Industry
MONDAY 06 SEPTEMBER 2021
10:30 Sala Perla All Accreditations
Followed by Q&A
MONDAY 06 SEPTEMBER 2021
10:30 mymovies.it Available by subscription from Italy for 72 hours
WEDNESDAY 08 SEPTEMBER 2021
21:00 Cinema Rossini Tickets

THE FORGOTTEN ONES

cinematography
Nathalie Durand
editing
Pierre Deschamps
music
Joachim Mimouni 

with
Maayane Boganim
Michael Biton
Erez Biton
Shlomi Hatuka
Reuben Abergel
Roy Hassan
Haviva Pedaya
Neta Elkayam
Amit Chai Cohen

producer
Marie Balducchi
production
Ex Nihilo
co-productions
Lama Films
Bonne Nouvelle
Studio Orlando 

with the support of
CNC Aide aux Cinémas du Monde
Institut Français
La Région Ile-de-France
The Israeli New Fund for Cinema & Television
The Rabinovich Foundation for the Art

world sales
Reservoir Docs
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www.reservoirdocs.net

international press office
Christelle Randall
christelle@christellerandall.com
www.christellerandall.com


Israeli society is marked by a taboo, that of the systematic discrimination against Jews from Arab countries on arriving in the Promised Land. It is a wound that has not healed to this day. In the 1970's, a movement inspired by the American Black Panthers emerged in the poor Musrara neighbourhood of Jerusalem, demanding basic rights for the so-called Mizrahim, Jews from North Africa and the Middle East. As she mourns her father, a member of this movement, Michale Boganim, a French-Israeli filmmaker, confronts her personal questions with History, setting off with her daughter to explore the past and meet several generations of Mizrahim. The film is a road movie set in the forgotten lands of Israel's periphery and questions the notions of exile and inheritance.

 

Filmography


2021 Mizrahim, les oubliés de la Terre Promise (doc)
2011 La terre outragée
2005 Odessa... Odessa! (doc)
2004 Macau Sem Regresso (doc)
2002 Mémoires incertaines (doc)
2001 Dust (doc)


"The film will be an intimate journey to the absolutely unknown border cities of Israel, far from the usual clichés. But it will also be a journey in time, to the time of the construction of Israel, when the geographical breakdown between "development cities" and the center contributed to the social discrepancy between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim. The film will also be marked by shifts between one setting and another. Since the family story is made up of trips between Israel and France, the narrative will unfold in the complexity of a gaze marked by exile. This road movie is a journey of exploration into the dusty periphery of a nation. It is a return to the land of an exiled film director who has continually magnified the lost lands of childhood and who returns to confront a reality that she has never wanted to see." [Michale Boganim]

Michale Boganim (Haifa) grew up in Israel, in a Moroccan family. Her father was in the Israeli Black Panther movement. She studied philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and later political science and anthropology at the Sorbonne, where Jean Rouch supervised her Master's degree. She is a graduate of the National Film School in London. Her student film Dim Memories was selected for Directors' Fortnight, Cannes 2002, and won the Gras Savoye Award. In 2005, Boganim's Odessa... Odessa!, a documentary feature, screened at Sundance and won the CICAE Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Her first fiction feature, Land of Oblivion starring Olga Kurylenko, premiered at both the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals in 2011.

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