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My Fantasia
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Special Channuka offer, View My Fantasia: MY FANTASIA (full feature documentary)General Information |
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| Israel, 2001 | Documentary, 54 min., | Video Director: Duki Dror Sponsors: Makor Foundation for Cinema and TV Israel Broadcasting Authority |
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The Darwish brothers fled Baghdad to Israel in the 1950s and established “Fantasia” - a menorah factory in Tel Aviv`s industrial zone. The film`s director is the son of the youngest of the three brothers. Faced with the reclusive silence of his father, Dror digs up bits of information about the family`s past. Finally, his reluctant father divulges a long kept secret. A revelatory family portrait that balances humor with pain. |
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Encounters South Africa International Documentary Festival 2001 Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, Germany 2001 Sephardic Film Festival, New York 2001 |
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Credits |
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| Production Company: Zygote Films, Ltd. Camera: Duki Dror, Philippe Bellaiche Editor: Sara Solomon Original Music: Israel Bright Original Language: Hebrew Subtitles: English, French |
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"A moving and sharp video-diary that moves in several layers, and comes to an end in a climatic dual between the director, armed with his microphone, and the father, armed with his silence." -Ma`ariv |
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Cafe Noah
In 1948, many Jewish musicians arrived to Israel from Baghdad and Cairo -- the Arabic music they played, however, was not welcomed in their new homeland. 
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