Documentary Shorts Program. These are short documentary finalists for our annual Short Documentary Award.
Featuring:
The entertaining story of Eddy Goldfarb, a 98-year-old working toy inventor, best known for the iconic Yakity Yak Teeth and nearly 800 classic toys. He designed his first toys while on submarine duty during WWII, launching his 80 year career as an independent toy inventor.
After four years of being indoctrinated by Nazi ideology, a victim of kidnapping and systemic propaganda, Lars Aanning spent his adult life reconciling his childhood trauma and perceived role perpetrating the Nazi dogma as a small child, with his efforts to be a good father, grandfather, and accepting and hardworking member of society in the U.S.
For 50 years a family archive sat in the dark, until Rotem persuaded her mother Varda to watch her childhood anew. 8mm films were discovered as documentation of an amateur filmmaker, Varda's mother, who documented her life in Tel Aviv in the late 1960s. The films shed light on past memories mixed with the present and of mother-daughter relationships.
A few years ago in Jerusalem, when Lukasz was visiting Israel, he came across Joza - an unusual tour guide who caught his attention. During our work on the film, a dig in the archives of an Israeli magazine has revealed that Joza was a well-known society member in Tel-Avivian bohemia of the 80s, as well as Israel's biggest cocaine dealer of that time.