The Green Dumpster Mystery
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The Green Dumpster Mystery
Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula.
Festivals and Awards:
Yad Vashem Award, Jerusalem International Film Festival 2008 (Chairman’s Award for Artistic Achievement in a Holocaust-Related Film); Jerusalem International Film Festival, 2008; IDFA – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, 2008; Palm Springs International Film Festival, 2008; National Center For Jewish Film Annual Festival, USA, 2008; Washington Jewish Film Festival, 2008; Toronto Jewish Film Festival, 2008; Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival; Calgary Jewish Film Festival, 2008; Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, 2008; Syracuse International Film Festival, 2008
Director: Tal Haim Yoffe
Producer: Tal Haim Yoffe
Production Company: One Man Films
Cinematographer: Ari Amit
Editor: Anat Lachovitz
Original Soundtrack: Dani Reichental
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, NOGA Communications - Channel 8, Yohanna Ferner Foundation.
Distributor: Cinephil
Subtitles: English, French , Italian
Film Name in Hebrew: תעלומה במכולה הירוקה
Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula.
Festivals and Awards:
Yad Vashem Award, Jerusalem International Film Festival 2008 (Chairman’s Award for Artistic Achievement in a Holocaust-Related Film); Jerusalem International Film Festival, 2008; IDFA – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, 2008; Palm Springs International Film Festival, 2008; National Center For Jewish Film Annual Festival, USA, 2008; Washington Jewish Film Festival, 2008; Toronto Jewish Film Festival, 2008; Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival; Calgary Jewish Film Festival, 2008; Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, 2008; Syracuse International Film Festival, 2008
Director: Tal Haim Yoffe
Producer: Tal Haim Yoffe
Production Company: One Man Films
Cinematographer: Ari Amit
Editor: Anat Lachovitz
Original Soundtrack: Dani Reichental
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, NOGA Communications - Channel 8, Yohanna Ferner Foundation.
Distributor: Cinephil
Subtitles: English, French , Italian
Film Name in Hebrew: תעלומה במכולה הירוקה
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