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13 Dec Visiting Ben Shemen

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animated documentary by Miriam Harris [16:00] 2022.

A collage still from an animated film: an older woman gestures in front of a painting of two girls ina still life art class.front

Credits: direction Miriam Harris; score Juliet Palmer
Funder: Creative New Zealand

Select screenings: SHIFT Film Festival, CineSud; New Media Film Fest, LA; Jewish Film Festival, UK; Documentary Edge, NZ; Antimatter Media Arts Festival; Indie Shorts Awards NY; Rising of Lusitania AnimaDoc Film Festival; NCCC Film & Animation Festival; Oregon Documentary Film Festival; T.O. International Women’s Film Fest; The Women’s Film Festival, Phuong Nguyen;

Awards: Best Composer, T.O. International Women’s Film Fest; Best Documentary Award, New Media Film Fest, LA; Best Non-Fiction Winner, Short to the Point International Short Film Festival; First Prize, Documentary, NCCC Film & Animation Festival; Best Documentary Short Film, Hamburg Indie Fest; Best Short Documentary, Art Film Awards, Skopje, Macedonia.

Synopsis: In 1946 three Jewish teenagers who had survived the Holocaust met at the Ben Shemen school in Palestine. More than 70 years after, the women, now in their late eighties, recount the unique and healing experience of being at the school.

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