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(6/30/2009)
Voices from El Sayed accepted to DokuFest Kosovo
The festival will take place this August, 2009. 
(6/30/2009)
Two legacies, Gevald!, Family on the Edge, Last Day and Faith accepted to Jewish Eye Film Festival
 
(6/21/2009)
Desert Brides accepted to Parnu Film Festival in Estonia
The film has been selected for the competition category.  
(6/15/2009)
Voices from El Sayed and Desert Brides accepted to Golden Apricot Armenia Int. FF
To take place from the 12-19 of July 2009  
(6/15/2009)
Pinchas won the Audience Award at the Brooklyn Int. FF
Watch a trailer here 
(6/1/2009)
Girls from Brzail accepted to Sao Paulo Israeli FF
The screening will take place on 9 June 2009  
(1/6/2009)
Menachem and Fred and Desert Brides will be screened at the San Fransisco JFF
To be helo from the 23-30 July 2009 
(1/6/2009)
Go2films at LA Israeli Film Festival
Several of our films will be screened including: Desert Brides, Srugim, The Mystery of Aris San and Voices from El Sayed  
(1/6/2009)
Arab Labor, Like a Fish out of Water and Refusenik at Sao Paulo Jewish film festival
 
(1/6/2009)
Eli and Ben accepted to Hamburg Children`s and Youth Film Festival
To be held in Spetmeber in Hamburg, Germany  
(6/1/2009)
Voices From El Sayed to be screened at One World in Slovakia
As part of a tour of the One World Human Rights Festival of Prague 
(1/6/2009)
Refusenik to be screened at numerous festivals
Cleveland JFF, Miami Jewish federation, Sonoma County JFF, Berkshire JFF and Sao Paulo JFF  
(1/6/2009)
Arab Labor and Sisai to be screened at the Centre Communautaire Laïc Juif in Brussels
In October.  
(1/6/2009)
Melchet Street Witch accepted to Istanbul Children`s Film festival
To be held this coming October in Istanbul, Turkey  
(5/17/2009)
Shining Stars and Voices from El Sayed accepted to Kos International health film festival.
To be held from the 1-6 September in Greece. 
(5/7/2009)
Pinchas selected as a finalist for the 2009 Student Academy Awards
The award winning flim has also been recently selected for the Brooklyn Internaitonal Film Festival  
(5/8/2009)
Pinchas wins the Bronze Award
at the Warsaw Jewish Motifs Film Festival, held in May 2009. Ths is the third international award for the film. 
(4/23/2009)
Shining Stars awarded first prize at We Care Filmfest, India.
The film wonthe first prize in the feature length category
Click here to watch the trailer.  
(4/19/2009)
Voices From El-Sayed has been selected for D.C. ASL Film Festival
To be held from May 1 - 3, 2009, hosted by the District of Columbia Association for the Deaf (DCAD). 
(4/30/2009)
Desert Brides selected to Femina- Brazil, International Women`s Film Festival
The festival will take place during June 1-7 in Rio de Janeiro.  
(4/16/2009)
Voices from El Sayed awarded at Full Frame Documentary Film festival.
The film won the Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award.  
(4/30/2009)
The Mystery of Aris San accepted to Cinestrat Int. Music festival.
To take place in Spain from the 5-10 May 2009.  
(2/4/2009)
Newly released at Go2Films: Menachem and Fred.
Winner of the Cinema for Peace Award, Berlin 2009 
(3/30/2009)
Pinchas won the Grand Jury Prize at the OnFilm festival
Pinchas won the prize for best short film at the festival, held in Virginia. Halakeh by Avigail Sperber was also screened at this festival.  
(3/30/2009)
Voices from El Sayed nominated for numerous awards at Full Frame Documentary Festival
Voices from El-Sayed is eligible for:
Full Frame Audience Award
Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award
Full Frame/Working Films Award
The Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award
HBO Emerging Filmmaker Award 
(3/30/2009)
Shining Stars accepted to DOXA- documentary film festival in Vancouver.
Shining Stars will be screened together with "Maytal" the first film from 1997 about Maytal immediately after the Dizengoff terrorist attack. The festival will take place from the 22-31 of May 2009. Click here to watch the trailer  
(4/16/2009)
Pinchas accepted to Oskariada Film Festival in Poland
 
(3/22/2009)
Voices from El-Sayed to be screened at the opening of the Deaf Rochester Film Festival
The screening will be a directors presentation with director Oded Adomi Leshem present at the screening.  
(3/22/2009)
The Quest for the Missing Piece to be screened at LGBT film days in Riga and at Hilversum Jewish film day in the Netherlands
 
(3/22/2009)
Bridge over the Wadi and A Green Chariot to be screened at Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival.
The festival will take place from the 23-26 of April, 2009.  
(3/22/2009)
Pinchas accepted to RiverRun International Film Festival
The 2009 festival takes place April 22-29 in Winston-Salem, NC. 
(3/11/2009)
Avigail Sperber the director of `Halakeh` in the Jewish Weekly Forward
The Jewish Weekly Forward`s Akin Ajayi met with Avigail Sperber,director of the film "Halakeh." Read the full article, Published March 03, 2009.  
(3/10/2009)
Hillary Clinton requested Arab Labor
A private special addition of the award winning series was handed to Ms. Clinton, at her request, during her visit to Israel.  
(3/10/2009)
SideWalk was recently aquired for Cut Up, Arte`s new documentary review
Clips from the film, by Duki Dror, will be shown along with segments from other major international documentaries that have attracted the public attention.  
(3/10/2009)
Desert Brides and Shining Starts purchased by SVT, Sweden
to be broadcasted from March 2009
Both films were recently purchased by several Universities to be screneed during International Women`s month. 
(10/3/2009)
The Path of our Fathers, Two Legacies & You Never Know were recently added to our YouTube Channel
Click to watch trailers!  
(3/1/2009)
Voices from El-Sayed accepted to Full Frame International Documentary Festival.
The festival will take place from the 2-5 of April and has been dubbed "Cannes of Documentary Film" and the most important Documentary festival in the US by the New York Times.  
(1/3/2009)
Pinchas accepted to Mecal International Short Film Festival, 2009
To be held in Barcelona, Spain from the 27th March- 5th April 2009. The flim have won the first Prize in Beijing ISFF and was selected to FIPEM Chidren FF, Canada  
(3/1/2009)
Voices from El-Sayed accepted to the 11th annual One World international Human Rights Documentary festival.
The festival will take place from the 11-19 March in Prauge, Czech Rebublic.  
(1/26/2009)
Desert Brides has been selected to compete for the Maysles Brothers Award at the Belfast Film Festival
The festival takes place in Belfast, Ireland from the 26 March - 4 April  
(1/25/2009)
REFUSENIK won Audience Favorite Award
for best documentary at the Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival 
(1/18/2009)
Pinchas accepted to the Montreal International Children’s Film Festival
which will be held from February 28th to March 8, 2009.  
(4/1/2009)
Two Legacies to premier at the New York Sepharadic Festival
Te festvial will be held in New York from the 12-12 of February 2009 
(4/1/2009)
Srugim and Arab Labor to be screened at Seatle Jewish Film Festival
The festival will be held from April 23- May 3 2009.  
(12/22/2008)
Look me in the Eye and Halakeh to be screened at the Limmud NY Conference
Limmud NY is four days of lectures, workshops, text-study sessions, and discussions, to be held in Januray 09. 
(12/22/2008)
Bridge Over the Wadi and Arab Labor selected for Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival
The festival will take place during March and April 2009.  
(12/22/2008)
Arab Labor accepted to the Maine Jewish Film Festival
To be screened on the 26 of March 2009 
(12/22/2008)
The Quest for the Missing Piece and Parparim accepted to Cherry Hill Jewish Film Festival
The festival will take place from the 22-29 of March 2009  
(12/14/2008)
Go2Films new releases at the Jerusalem Jewish film festival
"Two Legacies", "18 Kilometres" and "The Rebellious Son" will be screened at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival from the 13-19 of December.  
(11/12/2008)
Desert Brides has been selected for Tartu Festival of Visual Culture
To be held in Tartu, 23 – 29
March 2009. Ada Ushpiz has been invited to attend the Festival and to present her film to the audience.  
(11/12/2008)
The Quest for the Missing Piece and Refusenik selected for Tucson Jewish Film Festival.
The festival will run from the 10-22 of January. 
(11/12/2008)
Halakeh and You Never Know selected for the Austin Jewish Film festival.
The festival will run from the 24-30 of January.  
(12/11/2008)
Refusenik accepted to several Jewish film festivals
including; Las Vegas, San Antonio, San Diego and Contra Costa and Miami Jewish Film festivals. 
(11/12/2008)
Arab Labor to be screened at the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival on the 14 of December.
The entire series will also be screened during spring as part of additional festival screenings.  
(11/12/2008)
Pinchas accepted to the Cinemaiubit Short Film Festival, Romania.
The film will be screened as part of a retrospective of the Tel Aviv University films.  
(11/19/2008)
Faith won the first Prize in Rome Israeli Film Festival
The film by Natalie Haziza from the Sapir College Film and Television school, was awarded in attendance of the filmmaker.  
(11/19/2008)
PINCHAS won Best Asian Film in Beijing Student Film Festival
The 30 min short by acclaimed young filmmaker and Israeli actor Pini Tavger have participated in the International film festivals of Hamburg and Montpellier. 
(11/13/2008)
Yoel, Israel and Pashkevils awarded First Prize at Sardinia Ethnographic Film Festival
This is the third international prize awarded to the film, directed by Lina Chaplin.  
(11/13/2008)
Refusenik has recently been selected to the Jewish Festivals of San Diego, Miami, Calgary, Las Vegas and Contra Costa
 
(11/13/2008)
Go2Films at the GA: A special session will be dedicated to Arab Labor!
From the GA website:“Arab Labor,” the first Arab-language sitcom to become a top-ten hit in Israel" (Building a Shared Israeli Society, Hall N, Nov. 17th, 11:30 am)  
(11/13/2008)
You Never Know & The Path of our Fathers awarded Special Jury mention
at the Religion Today Film Festival, Italy. The ceremony took place at the Vatican Radio, October 29th.  
(10/11/2008)
Desert Brides selected for Watch Docs Human Rights in Film Festival, Poland
The festival will take place between the 5-14 of Decmber and the director Ada Ushpiz has been invited as guest of the festival.  
(10/26/2008)
Sisai and Arab Labor selected for the UK Jewish Film Festival.
The festival will run from the 8-20 of November 
(10/26/2008)
Pinchas selcted for the Beijing International Student FF
Director Pini Tavger has been invited to the festival to take place from the 9-15 November.  
(10/24/2008)
SideWalk has been selected for DocsBarcelona International Film Festival
Duki Dror, director of the film is invited to the festival, to be held in January 2009. 
(10/24/2008)
Arab Labor and 18 Kilometers have been selected Cinema Tout Ecran - Geneve TV Market
to take place in Geneva in November.  
(10/22/2008)
Go2Films is proud to announce: 17 of our filmmakers touring the US and Europe this month
5 Israeli Filmmakers in NY, October 27th - Movember 14th: Ada ushpiz with "Desert Brides", Ohad Ofaz with "The Boys from Lebanon",Boaz Shachak with "You Never Know".
Oded Lotan with "The Quest for the Missing Piece" & Laizy Shpiro with "SRUGIM" 
(10/24/2008)
Coming Soon at Go2Films in December!
Two Heritages and 18 Kilometers will be premiered at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival. Family on the Edge will be premiered at the Washington JFF with director Gili Goldschmidt attending the festial.  
(12/10/2008)
The award winning series "Arab Labor" has been selected for Cinema Tout Ecran – Geneve Select Market 2009.
The series has been screened in numerous festivals as well has been awarded several awards including the Accolade for outstanding drama series as well as the first prize for Best Israeli Drama Series at the Jerusalem Film festival.

 
(9/17/2008)
If Man Could Fly selected for Planet in Focus, Toronto
The festival runs October 22 through October 26 in Toronto with over 80 of the world`s best films on a wide range of environmental themes.  
(9/17/2008)
Arab Labor has been selected for numerous festivals
including Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, Boston Jewish Film Festival, San Fransisco Jewsih Film Festival, Chicago Festival of Israeli Film, Other Israel Film Festival and more. 
(9/17/2008)
Bridge Over the Wadi has been selected for the Other Israel Film Festival and the Boston Jewish Film Festival.
that will open on November 2008  
(9/17/2008)
Pinchas has also been selected for the Montpellier International Film Festival
for medditeranean cinema to be held in France, from October 24th.The director; Pini Tavger has been invited to attend the festival. 
(9/17/2008)
Go2films is proud to represent Pinchas, a new short film by Pini Tavger. The film premiered at the Jerusalem International Film Festival in the official competiotion.
 
(9/17/2008)
Hedva Goldschmidt has been invited as a special guest of the Hamburg International Film Festival
whichs opens Sep. 25th. Pinchas and Your Younger Daughter Rachel will be screened in the festival. 
(9/17/2008)
Desert Brides and The Boys From Lebanon selected for Miradas Market
The market will be in held at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain from the 31 Oct - 8 Nov. and is dedicated to social films.  
(9/17/2008)
6 of our films has been selected Films for Medimed Market
Desert Brides, The Boys from Lebanon, Gole Sangam, If Man Could Fly, Eight, Twenty, Eight and The Paths of Our Fathers will participate in the market to be held in Sitges, Spain from the 10-12 of October. 
(1/8/2008)
Desert Brides Wins Best Cinematography Prize
in the Israeli Documentary Awards Ceremony, held in July 31th. The film, by Ada Ushpiz, won the first prize in Docaviv and is nominated for two awards in the Israeli Women FF  
(7/27/2008)
Arab Labor awarded Best Israeli Series at the Jerusalem Film Festival
The series has also been selected to the coming Jewish Film Festivals in Boston, Washington, UK, Palm Beach and more...
Click to watch a trailer!
 
(7/31/2008)
Yoel, Israel and Pashkevils & SideWalk selected to Sardinia International Film Festival
to be held in September 2008  
(7/22/2008)
Promised Land to be screened at the AICE Festival in Australia
The Festival will take place in August and September in Melbourne and Sydney 
(6/25/2008)
You Never Know, Gole Sangam & The Quest for the Missing Piece all have sold-out screenings at the recent Los Angeles Israeli Film Festival
The Festival ran from June 11-26.  
(6/17/2008)
The Quest for the Missing Piece accepted to the Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
The festival will run from July 10-22, 2008 in the U.S. 
(5/28/2008)
Go2Films is proud to represent three of the films nomimated for Israeli Television Academy Awards.
Wasserman-the Rain Man by Idit Shechori, Like a Fish out of Water by Leon Prudovsky and Arab Labor, created by Daniel Paran and Sayed Kashua and directed by Roni Ninio.  
(5/28/2008)
Desert Brides by Ada Ushpiz and In Freiman`s Kitchen by Hadar Bashan are both nominated for Israeli Documentary Academy Awards
The closing Award Ceremony will be held in July 2008 in Tel Aviv. 
(5/27/2008)
Review of Arab Labor on spiegel online, Germany`s most important online news Magazine.
The film opened the Berlin JFF with attendance of producer Danny Paran and writer Sayed Kashua.  
(5/25/2008)
Israeli Film Festival in LA and NY accepts Gole Sangam,The Quest for the Missing Piece, & You Never Know
The Los Angeles Festival will run June 11-26, and the New York Festival will run November 5-20, 2008. 
(12/5/2008)
The Economist has written an article on Israeli Documentaries, including The Boys From Lebanon
The article says the film, "examines the status of Israelis who, being neither Palestinian nor Jewish, fall between the cracks of identity, with Kafkaesque results."  
(7/5/2008)
CNN International to televise a five-minute piece on cutting-edge new series, Arab Labor
The piece will air internationally on Thursday, May 8th at 4:30 p.m. Israel time. 
(4/28/2008)
The Quest for the Missing Piece awarded Special Mention at Torino GLBT Film Festival
The Festival ran in Italy from April 17-25, 2008.  
(10/4/2008)
Desert Brides awarded first prize at DocAviv
The film, directed by Ada Ushpiz, is a Go2Films new release.
 
(4/3/2008)
The Boys From Lebanon and Desert Brides to be screened in Official Competition of DocAviv
The Festival will run in Tel Aviv from April 3-12, 2008.  
(3/27/2008)
Eight Twenty Eight accepted to Documenta Madrid Film Festival
The film will be shown on May 5 & 6, 2008 in Madrid, Spain. 
(3/27/2008)
You Never Know accepted to Palm Beach International Film Festival
The festival, held in Florida, will screen the film on April 15, 2008.  
(2/21/2008)
Yoel, Israel & The Pashkavils accepted to Jean Rouch International Film Festival
The film will be shown on March 17, 2008 in Paris. 
(11/3/2008)
Living With Death and You Never Know accepted to Warsaw Jewish Motifs Film Festival
The Festival will run from April 22-27, 2008 in Poland.  
(2/21/2008)
Vancouver International Jewish Film Festival accepts four Go2Films
Stalin`s Forgotten Zion; Yoel, Israel & The Pashkavils; Parparim & White Balance will be shown when the Festival runs from March 27-April 6, 2008. 
(2/21/2008)
Sidewalk to be screened at the UK Jewish Film Festival.
The film will be shown on April 4, 2008 in London.  
(2/21/2008)
Gole Sangam and Eight Twenty Eight accepted to Wisconsin Film Festival.
The Festival will take place from April 3-6, 2008 in the US. 
(2/21/2008)
Six Go2Films accepted to Thessaloniki Doc Market
If Man Could Fly, Sidewalk, Paths of our Fathers, You Never Know, Gole Sangam and Eight Twenty Eight will be screened at The Market, a part of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, which will take place March 7-16 in Greece.  
(1/20/2008)
Eight Twenty Eight accepted to Punto De Vista International Documentary Film Festival
The Festival will take place in Pamplona, Spain from Feb. 15-23, 2008. 
(1/20/2008)
And Behold, There Came A Great Wind & Yoel, Israel & The Pashkavils accepted to Worldfilm 2008 - Tartu Festival of Visual Culture
The Festival will be held in the Estonian National Museum in Tartu, Estonia from March 24-30, 2008.  
(1/27/2008)
Sidewalk accepted to Madison Jewish Film Festival
The film will be screened on February 27, 2008 in Madison, Wisconsin. 
(1/24/2008)
You Never Know and Sidewalk to be screened at East Bay JCC
The screening of You Never Know will be on March 13, 2008 and Sidewalk will be shown in mid-August 2008. The JCC is in Berkeley, California.  
(4/30/2007)
Your Younger Daughter Rachel, selected to the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival
The film, produced by Sapir College, was selected from over 1000 films, and will participate in the Cinéfondation category for student films. 
(4/11/2007)
Yoel, Israel and the Pashkevils selected to Krakow International Film Festival
The film will participate in the official competition of the festival, to be held in May 2007.The film will also participate in the competition of the Warsaw Jewish Motives Film Festival.  
(3/28/2007)
The Journey of Vaan Nguyen to be screened at Indianapolis International Film Festival
The Festival runs from April 25 - May 4, 2007 
(3/27/2007)
Sisai Awarded Best Documentary at Seattle Jewish Film Festival
The festival took place March 17-25  
(3/27/2007)
Wasserman will open the Israeli Film Festival in Hanoi
The film is the only TV Drama to be accepted to the Festival, which will run in Vietnam from April 23-26, 2007.Director Idit Shchori invited to open the festival with the films. 
(3/21/2007)
Palm Beach International Film Festival to screen And Behold, There Came A Great Wind and Yedidiah`s Collection
The Festival runs from April 19-26 in Florida.  
(3/21/2007)
Side Walk awarded Best Cinematography at DocAviv
The film, which premiered March 18 at the Festival, is the newest release from filmmaker Duki Dror. 
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