HAPPY JEWS

SZCZĘŚLIWI ŻYDZI

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: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 6
  • Year: 2008

Director: Jonathan Rozenbaum

DOP: Itay Gross

Editing: Eva Kaplon

Production company: Instytut im. Adama Mickiewicza, Transfax Film Production

About the director:

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:

9. International Film Festival Era New Horizons, Wrocław, Poland, 2009 (competition)

6th Jewish Eye - World Jewish Film Festival, Ashkelon, Israel, 2009 (competition)

DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2009 (screening)

East Silver Market 2009, Czech Republic, 2009 (screening)

13th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, 2009 (competition)

16th Sheffield International Documentary Festival, 2009 (competition)

The New York Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2010 (competition)

Ljubl­jana Indepen­dent Documen­tary Film Festival DOKUBAZAAR, Slovenia, 2010 (screening)

10th Tabor Film Festival, Croatia, 2012 (screening)