Avner Faingulernt

• Film name and release year — Synopsis and screenings — Roles • It Happened on Our Ground (2024) — Three generations of women grapple with their family's legacy of the Holocaust, its affiliation with the Nazi regime, and their resistance. IT HAPPENED ON OUR GROUND is a sensitive exploration on guilt, memory, and the strength needed to heal. Best Israeli film, Docaviv, Tel Aviv, 2024 — Director and cinematographer • In The Desert – A Documentary Diptych (2018) — A project of 5 years of shooting, developed to 2 documentary features: Omar's Dream and Avidan's Dream. Omar's Dream – The story follows Omar, A Palestinian man from Yatta, who re-settles his two wives and children from a comfortable house to his birth village at the desert. Avidan's Dream – The story follows Avidan, a Jewish man from Susya who establishes an illegal farm with messianic purpose on lands that have been confiscated from Palestinians. "The Best Cinematography Award" and "Best Director Award of Fipresci" at the "20th Docaviv", Tel Aviv May 2018; Filmfest Hamburg 2018; Doc Buenos Aires Fest 2018; Viennale – Vienna International Film Festival – 2018; Caligari cinema Ludwigsburg 2018; Millennium Documentary Film Festival Brussels 2019; AFO Olomouc Czech 2019; FAMU Prague 2019; JFF Berlin 2019, Reel Israel Documentary Film Festival 2020 Chelsea Theatre Chapel Hill, USA. Cinematheques of Tel Aviv; Haifa; Jerusalem; Sderot; Ofakim; Hulon; Rosh Pina; Arad; Bet Gavriel; Inbal Cultural center Tel Aviv. Supported by Kan 11, Gesher Fund, Pais (Lottery – Israel). — Co Producer, director, Writer and cinematographer • War Matador (2011) — War Tourism Journal at the border of Gaza during winter 2009 that picture an intimate portrait of Israel in a time of crisis. It explores the phenomenon of "war tourism" which flourished during the war on the Sderot-Gaza border, when people from all over the country swarmed in to observe the shelled Gaza. An observation at the fissures in Israeli society, which ties military strength with Messianic beliefs. War ecstasy and the euphoria of power accompanying are likened to the spectacle of the Corrida – the arena of a cruel struggle for life or death. Screened in Cinema South Film Festival and Jerusalem Film Festival. Supported by Channel 1 Israel, Rabinovich fund and Gesher fund. — Writer, director, producer and cinematographer (alongside Macabit Abramson) • Matador of Love (2006) — Film and dance on the same stage, with actor Alon Abutbul and dancer Anat Shamgar. A journey of a woman in the Land of Israel, as she undergoes an intense relationship with a man whom she desperately longs for, as a metaphor for the vicious and inescapable circle of the relations between the matador and the bull in the Spanish Corrida. Cinema South festival (2006), Khan Theatre in Jerusalem and Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv (2007). — Producer, director, Script Writer and cinematographer (alongside Macabit Abramson). • Men on the Edge – Fishermen's Diary (2005) — A documentary feature film that was shot over a period of four years. Intimate fishermen's diary of Palestinian refugees and Israeli settlers – tough men from two hostile nations who maintain a delicate and fragile coexistence. Produced in collaboration with the New Fund for Cinema and television, and The Second Authority for Television and Radio. 2005 – the opening film in the fifth Cinema South Festival; commercial screening in the Lev cinema in Tel Aviv; screening in all cinematheques in Israel. Screened in dozens of film festivals all over the world, among them: Visions Du reel – Nyon; Cinemed – Montpellier, Medimed – Barcelona;Cinema dos Mediterraneo – Portugal – 1st award at the Documentary competition;International Prize for Mediterranean Documentary and (with CMCA) Winning of the "RAI SAT CINEMA PREMIUM"; Reportage Sole e Luna DOC FEST-Italy-1st award of the Mediterranean Category; Documenta-Madrid; Human Rights Watch IFF-NY 2006; Human Rights Watch IFF-London 2007; São Paulo international film festival-Brazil; Human Rights Watch IFF -Buenos Aires; États Généraux du Film documentaire-France; International Film Festival El ojo cojo-Spain; Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal-Canada; Mediterraneo Video Festiva, September 2006 Italy; UK Jewish Film Festival-London; Israfest – USA. — Producer, director, Script Writer and cinematographer (alongside Macabit Abramson) • Eva (2002) — A full-length documentary film that tells the story of Eva, who has paid a heavy price in her personal life, when, in her Communist past, she had elected to abandon her only daughter, rather than betray the memory of her dead lover. Co-production of "Orna Yarmouth Productions" of Channel 1 and "Gravity Post Production". Screened in "Doc Aviv" in 2002, Cinema South Festival, Channel 1 and in cinematheques and cinemas throughout Europe. — Director, Script Writer and cinematographer (alongside Macabit Abramson). • My Na’an (2001) — Produced within the framework of the "Place" project, this is a Short experimental film that tells of an internal rift in the world of the script writer, of kibbutz Na’an, who was staying with her mother at the same time that Shani, a girl from the same kibbutz, was murdered on the nearby lawn by a man who was obsessively in love with her. Film produced by Amit Goren and Channel 8, with the New Fund for Cinema and Television. Screened in 2001–2002 on Channel 8 in 2002 in "Docaviv", and in various events of art and cinema in Israel and throughout the world, in museums, galleries, and artistic biennales. — Co-Director, Co-Writer and cinematographer (alongside Macabit Abramson) • The First will be the Last (1997) — A full-length documentary film that tells the story of the collective memory of the Maronite Christian community that was evicted from its village of Bir’am in the Galil, during 1948. Produced with the participation of the New Fund for Cinema and Television and the Council for Culture and Art. Screened in 1997 on Channel 2, and in the Jerusalem Film Festival, in the "freedom of the spirit" category. — Producer, director and writer (alongside Maya Bar). • Lev, Hurt and Silence (1995) — First documentary film that deals with the bereavement of families who immigrated from the former Soviet Union over their sons who fell in military service. (Lev here is one of those sons who fell). cable TV Channel 3. — Director and writer. • Come Call the Wind (1994) — A personal documentary film about the rebuilding of a personal and social identity, due to the social crisis in his kibbutz and in the kibbutzim as a whole. Won first prize of the Aliza Shagrir Fund, received grants from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the America-Israel Cultural Fund, the Fund for encouraging producers in the kibbutzim, and the Gershoni Fund. Screened in 1995 in Augsburg Festival in Germany, Haifa and Jerusalem Festivals, and on Channel 2. — Producer, director writer and editor. • Edge of a String (1993) — A Short feature film starring Kaipu Cohen (The Summer of Aviah), that recites the story of a girl who comes of age during a single journey on the Tel Aviv to Jerusalem train. Screened in 1994 in the students’ film festival in Munich, the Oberhausen Short films festival, and Haifa Film Festival. — Producer, director and writer.