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Avner Faingulernt
IL DE CA 2024 52' 90'
⚬ History ⚬ Human Interest
Set against the tranquil backdrop of an ancestral farm, a German aristocratic family grapples with their complex role during the Holocaust. Wendi, the strong-willed matriarch, inherited the farm from her uncle, Hitler's first foreign minister, and used her privileged position to save Jews from a concentration camp that was erected on their land. We follow three generations of women as they seek to reconcile their family's complicated legacy while wrestling with themes of guilt, redemption, and fractured relationships.
Director | Avner Faingulernt |
Producer | Hagar Saad Shalom |
Production Company | Skene Border Films |
Co-Production Company | Filmoption International Canada, Neue Celloloid Fabrik |
Cinematography | Avner Faingulernt |
Editor | Lev Goltser, Avner Faingulernt |
Music | Jean Olivier Begin |
Sound | Yuri Priymenko |
The Dov Yudkovsky Award for Best Israeli Documentary Film | DocAviv 2024 |
| Runtime | 52' 90' |
| Spoken Languages | English, German, Hebrew |
| Production Countries | Israel, Germany, Canada |
Avner Faingulernt is a filmmaker and scholar, who lives in Netiv HaAsara, at the Gaza border. Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the HaKibbutzim College in Tel Aviv; founder and Chair Emeritus of the School of Audio and Visual Arts at Sapir College; initiator and founder of Cinema South international Film Festival at Sderot Cinematheque; guest lecturer at Columbia University in New York, FAMU film school in Prague, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Duke University USA; His Ph.D. dissertation at the University of East London presented a Lacanian reading of European cinematic odysseys.
Among his films: In the Desert – A Documentary Diptych, comprising Avidan’s Dream and Omar’s Dream (2018), awards for Best Cinematography and Best Director at the Doc Aviv 2018.
