Director Profile
Nurit Kedar
Position: Director
Country: Israel
Nurit Kedar is a producer and director of documentary films. She has worked as Senior Producer at the CNN Bureau in Jerusalem and Senior Producer for Israeli Television Channel 2 (for which she produced and directed 12 films and 5 documentary series). She directed the award winning documentaries Borders (2000), Lebanon Dream (2001), Asesino (Best Documentary Script, Jerusalem Film Festival, 2001 and Art of Cinema Award, Jerusalem Film Festival, 2002), On The Edge (2004), One Shot (winner of three international awards, 2004) and Hanuszka (2006). Wasted is her most recent film, showing in film festivals worldwide.
Nurit will be in attendance in San Francisco and Berkeley screenings.
Films in the Festival
Borders
Filmmakers Nurit Kedar and Eran Riklis teamed up to make Borders, a riveting documentary that puts a human face on the neighbors who live alongside Israel's 1,171 kilometers of borders. The film deftly explores the political, cultural and geographical divisions that separate Israelis, Lebanese, Jordanians, Syrians, Egyptians and Palestinians from one another. Some of these borders are peaceful and quiet; others are fraught with fear. But the people who live and work near the borders - an Israeli soldier who "adopts" an Arab family, a Druze bride who leaves her family in the Golan to marry in Lebanon (the real-life story behind Riklis's Syrian Bride), or the Lebanese merchant importing luxury goods from Israel into Southern Lebanon we will meet again in Lebanon Dream - navigate these artificial boundaries with a combination of emotional and physical effort. Director Nurit Kedar will be in attendance.
Lebanon Dream
Veteran filmmaker Nurit Kedar's two documentaries Borders and Lebanon Dream explore the meaning of borders and the travails of those who cross them.
Wasted
Nurit Kedar's Wasted is a candid look at Israeli soldiers who served in the fortress of Beaufort in Southern Lebanon before Israel's withdrawal in 2000.