EXCLUSIVE: Alon Schwarz’s hard-hitting documentary Tantura, revisiting the conflicting accounts around an alleged massacre of the residents of a Palestinian village by Israeli fighters in 1948, will open the 16th edition of New York’s Other Israel Film Festival.
The festival run by The Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan (MMJCCM) will showcase more than a dozen works exploring Israeli and Palestinian societies.
Schwarz’s documentary world premiered at Sundance. It explores a contested massacre during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, touching on how the different narratives around that period feed into the Middle East conflict to this day.
Other Israel Film Festival executive director Isaac Zablocki, who is also head of MMJCCM’s film center, acknowledges the film could prove a controversial choice for the opening film but emphasized he hopes it will prompt “proper debate”. “It raises important questions in such a way that starts a conversation as opposed to a way that is preaching at you.
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