Menemsha Films (Firm)
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
עברית
Description
Through a combination of rare archival footage, home movies and private letters, Yitzhak Rabin’s personal and professional dramas unfold. From his childhood as the son of a labor leader before the founding of the State of Israel, through a change of viewpoint that turned him from a farmer into an army man who stood at some of the most critical junctures in Israeli history, through his later years during which he served as Prime Minister and made...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this documentary, survivors from World War II tell their stories as they view themselves on an archive reel shot on April 28, 1945, the day they were liberated from the concentration camps. In the archive film they are anonymous faces in large crowds of refugees. But they all have a name. And they all have a story to tell. Stories about escape, survival and starting life again. Winner of Best Political Film at the **Hamburg Film Festival**.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When two stolen children reappear after 40 years, their eccentric family is thrown into disarray. Attempting to put the past to rest and discover the truth, Ben-Moshe and his family embark on a remarkable journey from Australia, to England and Iran, in an attempt to unravel the dense web of secrets, and put the past to rest. Best Documentary nominee at the **Jewish International Film Festival** and the **UK International Jewish Film Festival**.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A celebration of the all-singing, all-dancing history of Indian cinema, SHALOM BOLLYWOOD reveals the unlikely story of the 2000 year old Indian Jewish community and its formative place in shaping the world’s largest film industry. Official Selection at the **UK Asian Film Festival** and the **UK International Jewish Festival**. "*Lively, upbeat and entertaining.*" - Deborah Young, **Hollywood Reporter**
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Français
Description
From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this epic drama tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times. Nominated for four **César Awards**, including Best Actress (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and Best Adapted Screenplay. "*This offbeat,...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
Based on a true story, FANNY’S JOURNEY is an incredible tale of bravery, strength and survival, a story of a daring young girl. In 1943, 13-year old Fanny and her younger sisters were sent from their home in France to an Italian foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive in Italy, their caretakers desperately organize the departure of the children to Switzerland. When they are suddenly left on their own, these 11 children do the impossible...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Czech
Description
This film explores a young woman’s romantic dilemma: torn between a primal connection and the need to provide for her children, she loves two men. Set in Prague, BEAUTY IN TROUBLE is full of unexpected twists, humor and amazing performances culminating in a surprising ending. Winner of the Krzysztof Kieslowski Award at the **Denver International Film Festival**. Winner of Best International Film at the **Santa Barbara International Film Festival**....
8) Run Boy Run
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Yiddish
Description
A superlative saga of courage and compassion, RUN BOY RUN tells the extraordinary true story of a young Polish boy’s struggle to outlast the Nazi occupation and maintain his Jewish faith through his intrepid will and the kindness of others. Escaping the Warsaw ghetto at the behest of his father, nine-year old Srulik flees to the woods. There, he learns to hide from SS patrols and scour for food, until loneliness and the harsh onset of winter drive...
9) Mr. Kaplan
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Yiddish
Description
Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America during World War II. But now turning 76, he’s become rather grumpy, fed up with his community and his family’s lack of interest in its own heritage. One beach bar may, however, provide him with an unexpected opportunity to achieve greatness and recover his family’s respect in the community: its owner, a quiet, elderly German,...
10) Toman
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating historical drama revolving around the real-life figure of Zdeněk Toman, a Jewish high-ranking official in post-war Czechoslovakia who ran the secret police, helped the communist party to seize power, became a political prisoner, managed to escape to Venezuela and became a financial donor to Israel. Toman is the classic anti-hero - He headed up the state security office yet became the first high-ranking communist official to be jailed...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this riveting historical drama, 10 political activists (including Nelson Mandela and his inner circle of Black and Jewish supporters) face a possible death sentence for conspiracy to commit sabotage after they are arrested by the apartheid South African government during a raid in the town of Rivonia during the summer of 1963. Bram Fischer, a sympathetic lawyer, risks his career and freedom to defend these men. Gold Award winner at the 2017 **Mill...
12) The Testament
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Yoel, an international expert in Holocaust research, has spent over fifteen years diligently studying the Nazi's methods of annihilating Jews in Austria and Hungary. In the course of his research he discovers, almost by chance, classified documents which hint to the fact that his mother is living under an assumed identity. The further he plunges into his research the more he doubts his mother's Jewish identity. Nominated for Best Film at the **Venice...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Based on the true story of Elisabeth Eidenbenz and her female co-workers who saved the lives of almost 600 infants in World War II. In the early 1940's, refugees from all over Europe sought shelter in South Western France, escaping persecution from the Nazis and from Franco's regime in Spain. Among them, were countless women, some of them pregnant, and their young children. Young Red Cross nurse Elisabeth Eidenbenz transformed an old villa into a...
14) 1945
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Russian
Description
On a summer day in 1945, an Orthodox man and his grown son return to a village in Hungary while the villagers prepare for the wedding of the town clerk's son. The townspeople – suspicious, remorseful, fearful, and cunning – expect the worst and behave accordingly. The town clerk fears the men may be heirs of the village's deported Jews and expects them to demand their illegally acquired property back. Nominated for Best Fiction Film at the **Berlin...
15) Budapest Noir
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Hungarian
Description
Budapest, 1936. The Hungarian prime minister returns from Germany in a coffin, his dream of making Hungary into a fascist state snuffed out—for now. Crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon has other things on his mind. A cynic who thinks he has seen it all, a tip leads him to an unusual crime scene in a seedy part of the city - a beautiful, well-dressed young woman is dead, with only a Jewish prayer book in her purse... Investigating the mystery girl's murder,...