Yariv Mozer

Het IDFA toont een aangrijpende documentaire van de joods-Israelische cineast Yariv Mozer, getiteld: 'My first War.' Als u tijd heeft ga de film zien. Het toont uiterst beklemmende beelden van de oorlog in Libanon in 2006, laat zien hoe jonge joods-Israeli's opgeofferd worden in een geopolitieke strijd die hun belangen geenszins dient. Het laat deze jonge mensen zien in al hun angst en zwakte, verdriet en eenzaamheid.

Synopsis

In 2006, Yariv Mozer, like so many other reservists in the Israeli army, was summoned to fight in an abruptly flaring war with Lebanon. On an impulse, Mozer, who owns a film production company, took along his camera. My First War is the reflection of his experiences on the front and the conversations he had there with his fellow conscripts and superiors. Mozer not only brought his camera to capture the war, but also to keep it at a distance. It is a recurrent theme in film: Lieutenant Colonel Ilan Levy is compared to Sean Penn, Private Idan Taler refers to Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan to convey his experiences, and to Mozer himself the first weeks of war feel like a video game, with two sides shooting at each other from a distance. This changes when the troops actually invade Lebanon and the atmosphere grows tenser. Although the war was started to retrieve two captured Israeli soldiers, the disillusioned privates chiefly express their distrust of the army commanders. The film is in the first person, with a voice-over by Mozer, but at the same time speaks for and on behalf of all the soldiers who were there whose stories were ignored in Israel after the war.'

Te zien in: Tuschinski 2
Fri 28-11
12:15

Yariv Mozer, Director / Producer
Yariv Mozer was born in 1978 in Tel Aviv. He is a graduate with distinction of Tel-Aviv University's Film Department. Mozer is also a winner of the America-Israel Cultural Fund Grant, a former director of the Tel Aviv 10th International Student Film Festival, and former Supervising Producer of acclaimed Israeli production company Alma Films Ltd., which specializes in documentaries. In September 2006, decided to establish his own production company, "Mozer Films Ltd.". Since then he has been involved in numerous film and television productions. Since October 2007, he has serves as head of the entrepreneur production studies at the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film and TV School and also teaches creative production studies at the Tel Aviv University Film and TV Department and at the Tel Aviv College of Management Media School. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Motion Picture, the Israeli Film Producers Guild, and the Israeli Documentary Filmmaker's Forum.

2008 "My First War" - Documentary, 80 min.
2006"Calling you" - The First Israeli Gay Music Video / by Jonathan.
2003"Passiflora Waltz" - Short fiction film (16 mm), 15 min.
"Seven Years" Music video by Guy Zu Aretz
2008-2009 (In production)"The Life and Death of Gotel Botel" - Feature Film, 90 min
"Between two Passovers" - Documentary, 50 min.
(In development) "The Inheritance" - feature film, 90 min.

2008
"The House on Tabenkin street" - Documentary , 85 min.
"My First war" - Documentary, 80 min.
"Mexico" - Short, 30 min
"The Heart of Jenin" - Documentary feature film, 90 min.

2007 "The TalkBackers" - Documentary, 60 min.

2006"Monkey Business" - Feature Documentary, 90 min.
"Hummus Curry" - Documentary, 50 min.
"Six Days in June" - Documentary TV series (3*50 min)
"See you in my place" - Documentary Reality TV series (6*50 min)

2005-2006Supervising Producer for Alma Films (Partial list):
"Hot House" - Documentary, 60 min.
"5250" - Documentary, 50 min. "True Grace" - Documentary, 50 min."Yitzhak Rabin – An Unclosed Case" - Documentary, 50 min."Short" - Documentary, 50 min. "The Blue Lamb - Kadishman" – Documentary, 70 min.

2004
Director and Executive producer of "The Tel Aviv 10th international student film festival".
Guests of honour: Richard Gere (USA), Patrice Leconte (France), Catherine Breillat (France), Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark), Nabil Ayouch (Morocco), Adam Greenberg (USA), Ricardo Aronovitch (France), Zvi-Howard Rosenman (USA), Lynn Roth (USA), Dan Gordon (USA).

"People of Hope" Documentary series (50*4 min.) Executive producer.
"Independence for a day" Documentary 50 min.