YOLKI PALKI

Director Alexander Gentelev takes us on a personal journey to seek out fellow passengers from the flight on which he came to Israel in the early 1990s.
Through the stories of Russian immigrants scattered across Israel and outside of it – from a simple kibbutz in the valley to a lavish office atop a Moscow skyscraper – the image of the last great wave of Russian immigration is unfolded in all its facets.
The complexity underlying the stereotypes attached to the Russian immigration, the difficulties, the achievements and the failures, are at the center of this film that painfully confronts the question of what it means to be Israeli and what chance does a public of over a million people have of receiving the stamp of "Israeliness" – a question that has accompanied the director since his arrival in Israel.

Screenings:

The Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival (Israel, Dezember 2007)
FilmFest Hamburg (Deutschland, Oktober 2008)
Best Documentary Series Award at the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers' Forum Competition (Israel, Juli 2008)
WorldFilm-Tartu Festival of Visual Culture (Estland, März 2009)
Manhattan JCC - NY (USA, März 2009)
Berlin & Potsdam Jewish Film Festival (Deutschland, Mai 2009)

Other films on 20. 05. 2009

KosmosTheater:

18:30 - 19:05 Messages from Paradise #1

19:30 - 20:55 Patrasche, a Dog of Flanders

21:10 - 22:10 RapGalsene - Wordpower from Senegal

Café 7*Stern:

20:45 - 21:45 Uhr: Hobby