HAPPY JEWS
POLISH TITLE: SZCZĘŚLIWI ŻYDZI
REPRESENTED BY KFF
An autobiographical film joke. A son of a Polish emigrant provides a perverse commentary on a nostalgic ball of 1968 emigrants organized in the Israeli city of Ashkelon.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 6'
- YEAR:
- 2008
- DIRECTING:
- Jonathan Rozenbaum
- DOP:
- Itay Gross
- EDITOR:
- Eva Kaplon
- PRODUCTION:
- Instytut im. Adama Mickiewicza, Transfax Film Production
Jonathan Rozenbaum »
Born in 1979. He graduated from the Film Department at Tel Aviv University. He has worked as a director’s assistant on Beitar Provence (dir. Ori Inbar) and Gift From Heaven (dir. Dover Kosashvily) awell as a production manager on My Grandmothers Neighbors (dir. Ofra Sarel Coren). He has also directed making-of documentaries.
AT FESTIVALS:
- DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2009 (screening)
- East Silver Market 2009, Czech Republic, 2009 (screening)
- Ljubljana Independent Documentary Film Festival DOKUBAZAAR, Slovenia, 2010 (screening)
- 10th Tabor Film Festival, Croatia, 2012 (screening)
- 9. International Film Festival Era New Horizons, Wrocław, Poland, 2009 (competition)
- 6th Jewish Eye - World Jewish Film Festival, Ashkelon, Israel, 2009 (competition)
- 13th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, 2009 (competition)
- 16th Sheffield International Documentary Festival, 2009 (competition)
- The New York Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2010 (competition)