Tantura
Infuriating [and] jaw-dropping.
Tantura
When Israeli graduate student Teddy Katz meticulously documented a massacre of Palestinian civilians surrounding Israel's independence, he was initially celebrated for his groundbreaking work. But soon, he was stripped of his degrees and was publicly shamed as a fraudulent traitor. Decades later, incendiary new evidence emerges to corroborate Teddy's initial findings, not just vindicating him, but raising profound questions about how Israelis — and all of us — deal with the darker chapters of history.
Genre
Jewish Culture,
History,
War
Runtime
95
Language
Hebrew,
Arabic,
Yiddish,
English
Director
Alon Schwarz
Awards:
Nominee, Grand Jury Prize ~ World Cinema: Documentary, Sundance Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox
The man in the backyard is one of many elderly Alexandroni veterans interviewed in 'Tantura,' which is a damning and gobsmacking attempt to untangle, with methodical, surgical incisiveness, what really happened on that day in 1948. But while the film is about the horrific events in Tantura, it’s not ...
Played at
Monica Film Center 12.02.22 - 12.08.22
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