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Once Upon a School

Once Upon a School

This is the story of The Midrashia, the mothership of religious Zionism in Israel, “the Mother of all high school yeshivas”. It’s a story about an educational start-up, founded before the establishment of the State, having produced thousands of quality students that placed themselves in all the centers of power in Israel. This is a story about a school that in a complicated and surprising process, changed it’s manner, and from an elitist and luxurious school that educated successful and dedicated students – became an anarchist and wild place. This is a chilling and unbelievable story about an educational vision that collapsed, about brotherhood, the loss of control, coming-of-age, and about the human spirit in which the good and bad, cruelty and grace, are mixed together.

Festivals and Awards:

Docaviv Film Festival 2023, Tel Aviv, Israel

Director: Tal Becher, Yair Agmon

Producer: Omri Uzrad, Yoav Zeevi, Tal Becher, Yair Agmon

Production Company: Zeevi/Uzrad, Yalla Films

Cinematographer: Gal Rumbak, Yaniv Linton

Editor: Sharon Elovic

Soundtrack Editor: Jungle Sound

Original Soundtrack: Ophir Leibovich

Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, KAN – Israeli Public Broadcast Corp

Script: Tal Becher, Yair Agmon, Netanel Yamin, Sharon Elovic

Subtitles: English, Hebrew

Film Name in Hebrew: המדרשיה

This is the story of The Midrashia, the mothership of religious Zionism in Israel, “the Mother of all high school yeshivas”. It’s a story about an educational start-up, founded before the establishment of the State, having produced thousands of quality students that placed themselves in all the centers of power in Israel. This is a story about a school that in a complicated and surprising process, changed it’s manner, and from an elitist and luxurious school that educated successful and dedicated students – became an anarchist and wild place. This is a chilling and unbelievable story about an educational vision that collapsed, about brotherhood, the loss of control, coming-of-age, and about the human spirit in which the good and bad, cruelty and grace, are mixed together.

Festivals and Awards:

Docaviv Film Festival 2023, Tel Aviv, Israel

 
Once Upon a School

Director: Tal Becher, Yair Agmon

Producer: Omri Uzrad, Yoav Zeevi, Tal Becher, Yair Agmon

Production Company: Zeevi/Uzrad, Yalla Films

Cinematographer: Gal Rumbak, Yaniv Linton

Editor: Sharon Elovic

Soundtrack Editor: Jungle Sound

Original Soundtrack: Ophir Leibovich

Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, KAN – Israeli Public Broadcast Corp

Script: Tal Becher, Yair Agmon, Netanel Yamin, Sharon Elovic

Subtitles: English, Hebrew

Film Name in Hebrew: המדרשיה

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