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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
Category: Children and Youth / Education / History / Identity / Israeli Society / Judaism and Jewish Culture / Religion / Zionism
Tag Words: Brotherhood coming-of-age Jewish Education Midrashia Religion The Midrashia Yeshiva Zionism
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
Category: Children and Youth / Education / History / Identity / Israeli Society / Judaism and Jewish Culture / Religion / Zionism
Tag Words: Brotherhood coming-of-age Jewish Education Midrashia Religion The Midrashia Yeshiva Zionism