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Ruth Diskin Films is proud to announce that Palestine in the South by Ana Maria Hurtado has won First Prize in the New Horizons Section at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival, Doha.
Iraq N' Roll by Gili Gaon just won the special Ger Orchestra Award at the Jewish Motifs Film Festival in Warsaw.
New Zealand TV has just licensed three of our titles: Lone Samaritan, The Human Turbine and Sayed Kashua - forever scared. First transmission: July, 2012.
Filmmaker Eli Tal El will be present in the screenings of his film The Name My Mother Gave Me at the Addis Ababa International Film Festival, which opens tomorrow.
The Flat is the opening film of the Dok Munich Film Festival, which starts on May 2nd. Filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger will attend the Screening.
The following twenty films were recently acquired by Snagfilm and are now available online for North American viewers only: Eyes Wide Open, The Name My Mother Gave Me, These Are My Names, Jubanos: Jews of Cuba and Enta Omri.
Yad Va'Shem Visual Center has just acquired educational rights of some 20 films, including: Kafka's Last Story, From Hell To Paradise, Who Killed Walter Benjamin, Salonika, City of Silence, Ingelore, to name a few.
Four of our titles have been selected for the Upcoming Toronto Jewish Film Festival which opens on May 3rd. The films are : The Flat, Kafka's Last Story, Around Trip and Stitches.
Kafka's Last Story will be screening at the Jacob Burns Film Center on May 1st.
The Zagreb Jewish Film Festival is showing five of our films this month: The Phoenixes, Here I Learned to Love, Homecoming, Dubak – a Palestinian Jew and The Human Turbine
Auf Wiedersehen - Till We Meet Again will have its Danish premiere at the Copenhagen Jewish Film Festival at the end of May.
The Flat will be taking part in the international competition at the Krakow Film Festival in Poland
The Flat has taken the Best Editing Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, closed last night. Kudos to editor Tali Halter, as well as to the Director Arnon Goldfinger, Co-Producer Thomas Kufus, and the rest of the Team. For further info, check: http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/war-witch-wavumba-una-noche-clean-up-at-2012-tribeca-film-festival-awards#
Ruth Diskin is proud to add to its selective catalogue the wonderful new film Lea and Daria by Filmmaker Branko Ivanda from Croatia.
The Flat will be the opening film of Munich Documentary Film Festival, to take place next month.
The Flat has been selected for the Competitive Section of Krakow International Film Festival, which takes place in June, 2012.
The Flat is one of 5 films taking part in the Documentary Competition at the Minneapolis Film Festival this month
Filmmaker Ohad Itach (Loving Sophia) will be on the jury of the Mediawave Film Festival in Hungary.
The Bucharest Jewish Film Festival will be screening Lea and Daria, Kafka's Last Story and I Was There in Color in the presence of filmmaker Avishai Kfir.
Children Without a Shadow will have its American Premiere at The Fifth Avenue Synagogue in NYC on April 24 n the presence of film subject Prof. Shaul Harel and the Consul General of Belgium in New York, as well a special showing at the Cooper Union College on April 29.
We're thrilled to announce that The Flat by Arnon Goldfinger has been selected for the Tribeca International Film Festival – Official Competition. The Festival takes place next month, and Filmmaker Goldfinger will be present in the Screenings. http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/flat-film42535.html#.T3ATUNW-2kQ
Ruth Diskin Films is proud to add to its selective catalogue the award-winning documentary The Flat by Arnon Goldfinger.
Kafka's Last Story was just licensed by Spanish TV. First transmission: June, 2012.
Ruth Diskin will serve on the jury of Visions du Reel Film Festival, to take place in Nyon next month - www.visionsdureel.ch
Ohio State just purchased 10 of our titles, including Deadly Honour, Jewish Transit Berlin, Just Like the Queen of England, New Homes to name a few.
Iraq N' Roll and History's Ultimate Nomads will be screened at the New York Sephardic Film Festival, to take place later on this month.
Filmmaker Shem Shemy will be in NYC for two screening of his film Por El Flamenco; one at the IARPP Conference and the other at the Centro Espanol, both will take place in the beginning of March, 2012.
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival is showing Iraq N' Roll on March 15.
Sayed Kashua - forever scared & The Worst Company in the World were just licensed by Canadian TV. First transmission: March, 2012.
Arizona State University has purchased 20 of our latest titles, including: the mimi series Culture Heroes, Iraq N' Roll, Auf Wiedersehen - Till We Meet Again, to name a few.
French TV just licensed The Volunteers. First transmission: June, 2012.
The Human Turbine has been selected for the Paris Environmental Film Festival FIFE that is taking place in Paris next week. Mrs. ERELLA DUNAYEVSKY, one of the main protagonists of the film will be a guest of the festival.
Two of our films, Homecoming and The Hilltops are just finishing their screenings at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
The Denver Jewish Film Festival is screening The Human Turbine later this month.
Director Gili Gaon will be in New York to attend the New York Jewish Film Festival where her film Iraq N' Roll will be screening twice at the Lincoln Center.
Palestine in the South has been licensed by ARTE. First transmission: June, 2012.
Ruth Diskin Films is proud to add to its selective catalogue the newly-released mini-series: History's Ultimate Nomads, by Shaul Kesslassi.
15 of our latest films were just purchased by the library at Harvard University.
Ruth Diskin to attend the Berlinale and the EFM next month.
Our titles will be shown in no less than 30 Jewish Film Festivals taking place in the next three months, amongst: NY JFF, Seattle JFF, Maine JFF, Minneapolis JFF, East Bay JFF, NY Sephardic FF, Denver JFF, Detroit JFF to name a few.
Ruth Diskin is proud to add to its selective catalogue the following new titles: Palestine in the South by a Chilean Filmmaker, Here I Learned to Love by an Israeli Filmmaker and Carrying the Light by a British Filmmaker.
Deadly Honour was just licensed by Belgian TV. First transmission: December, 2011.
Who Shot My Father: The Story of Joe Allon to have its US Premiere at the Washington Jewish Film Festival on December 6, 2011. Screening will take place in the presence of Filmmaker Liora Barmatz and Joe Allon's two daughters.
No Full Stop, Carrying the Light and Here I Learned to Love will have their Israeli Premiere at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival taking place later this month at the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
Iraq N' Roll to have its NY Premiere at the New York Jewish Film Festival on January, 2012.
The Human Turbine is one of four films selected to compete in the Mediterranean Challenges section at CMCA - Mediterranean Center for Audiovisual Communication in Marseilles this month.
Two of our films, The Human Turbine and Back and Forth are screening this week at What Can Cinema Do? in Paris
Ruth Diskin will be attending IDFA's Docs For Sale, with seven of our latest titles: Concrete, Here I Learned to Love, The Hilltops, Kafka's Last Story, Iraq N' Roll, Palestine in the South and Who Shot My Father.
Kafka's Last Story won the Best Author's Approach Award at the Montenegro TV Festival last week.
Filmmakers Doron Tsabri and Ori Inbar will be attending the Screening of their film Revolution 101, which will open the Israeli Season at the Luxembourg Cinematheque on November 15, 2011.
I Was There in Color was just licensed by French TV. First transmission: January, 2012
Filmmaker Lipika Pelham will be attending the screening of her film Deadly Honour at the Festival des Libertes, to take place in Brussels later this month.
The Fire Within is taking part in the Australian Jewish Film Festival in Sydney and Melbourne .
The Other Israel Film Festival will be hosting Noa Maiman and Yehuda Bitton for discussions and screenings of both Homecoming and The Human Turbine.
Concrete, by Nurit Kedar will be taking part in the Exground Film Festival, in Weisbaden Germany
Por El Flamenco to be screened at Caja Granada de Memorial Andalusia on October 24th, 2011, in the presence of Director Shem Shemy.
Oy Mama was just license by Polish TV. First transmission: January, 2012.
Concrete was pre-bought by CBC Radio Canada. First transmission: November, 2011.
Por El Flamenco has been selected for the Competitive Section of the Marbella Film Festival, to take place later this month in Spain. Co-producer Ilan Kirmayer will attend the Screening and hold a Q & A following it. For further information, check: http://www.marbellafilmfestival.com/index.php/en/doco2011.html
Kafka's Last Story and The Human Turbine will have their London Premiere at the UK Jewish Film Festival, to take place next month.
Duke University Library has purchased the entire series Culture Heroes.
Loving Sophia will be taking part in the VERZIO International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival next month in Budapest
Four of our films: Back and Forth, Wandering Eyes, The Human Turbine and Loving Sophia will be screening this month at TRANZYT Documentary Film Festival in Poland .
Very pleased to announce that Revolution 101 won the first prize as well as a money-prize at The Mediterranean Film Festival in Široki Brijeg, Bosnia , closed last night.
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. just acquired 20 of our carefully selected Holocaust titles, amongst: Auf Wiedersehen - Till We Meet Again, The Woman from Sarajevo and The Last Fighters.
DOK Leipzig will have the international premiere of Kafka's Last Story in October, 2011.
Lipika Pelham's documentary Deadly Honour was selected for the Festival des Libertés in Belgium , to take place in November in Brussels.
Iraq N' Roll will be screening at the Vermont International Film Festival in October .
We are proud to introduce a new film which recently screened at the Jerusalem Film Festival: Iraq N' Roll. This is a moving documentary about one musician and his family's deep roots in music. A beautiful illustration of the link between music, identity and ethnic heritage in Israeli society.
Ingelore was licensed by Swedish TV. First transmission: January, 2012.
Library of Congress recently purchased some 20 titles, including: Fence, Wall, Border, Oy Mama and Eyes Wide Open.
Estonian TV has licensed Daddy's Girls. First transmission: September, 2011
Loving Sophia has been selected for the Official Competition at DOCSDF in Mexico City as part of the Best Documentary made for TV section.
Revolution 101 will be taking part in the 12th Mediterranean Film Festival in Bosnia-Herzegovina this month
Worst Company in the World in the World will be screening at the Israeli Film Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil .
The Hilltops will be aired on CBC's Documentary Channel of Canada on July 17, 2011.
Ruth Diskin Films is proud to represent yet another excellent title by acclaimed Filmmaker Nurit Kedar, entitled Concrete. This title joins Nurit's former titles that we are representing: One Shot, Chronicle of a Kidnap, Wasted, Hanuszka and more.
Hong Kong public broadcaster just licensed Revolution 101. First transmission: August, 2011.
The Human Turbine has been selected for two film festivals to take place in Italy next month: Sole Luna and Ischia Film Festival.
Harvard University just purchased 20 of our recent titles, including the wonderful new series Culture Heroes and the award-winning documentary Ingelore.
Swiss TV licensed Daddy's Girls. First transmission: September, 2011.
Por El Flamenco and Daddy's Girls have been selected for the Competitive Section at the Parnu International Film Festival, to take place in Estonia as of July 4th, 2011. For further information, check: http://www.chaplin.ee/filmfestival/ff-kataloog2011_web.pdf
Loving Sophia has taken the Best Documentary Award at the Mediawave International Film Festival, closed last night in Hungary.
Homecoming and The Human Turbine were just licensed by ARTE. First transmission: July, 2011.
Homecoming will have its US Premiere at the Gold Coast International Film Festival. Filmmaker Noa Maiman to attend the Screenings.
Director Ohad Itach to attend Mediawave International Film Festival in Hungary, where his film - Loving Sophia will be part of the International Competition.
Polish TV just licensed five of our titles: Revolution 101, Ingelore, Gut Shabbes Vietnam, Loving Sophia and Just Like Home. All to be aired on September, 2011.
UCLA just purchased 15 of our titles, including: Back and Forth, My Flag, Tarab, These Are My Names and The Worst Company in the World.
Ingelore by Frank Stiefel has taken the Best Film Award at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival closed last night, as well as a money-prize of 5000 USD.
Ruth Diskin will attend INPUT Conference in South Korea, to open next week. Ruth will present Revolution 101, which was selected along with two other projects from Israel. The Screening will be followed by a discussion about the role of public broadcasting.
Homecoming and The Human Turbine were just licensed by ARTE FRANCE. First transmission: July, 2011.
Two of our films will have their world premiere at the DocAviv Film Festival May 12-20th. Both Kafka's Last Story and LONGING are taking part in the official competition.
University of Florida just purchased 20 of our titles, amongst: The Film Class, First Lesson in Peace, These Are My Names, and the entire series of Did Herzl Really Say That?
6 of our Films have been selected for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, to open on May 7th. The titles are as follows: Ingelore, I Was There in Color, Jubanos: Jews of Cuba, The Human Turbine, Kleine Miriaml and Sliding Flora. Filmmaker Frank Stiefel and the main Protagonist - Mrs. Ingelore Honigstein will attend the Screening of Ingelore; Filmmaker Avishai Kfir will attend the Screening of I Was There in Color.
Swiss TV just licensed Daddy's Girls. First transmission: September, 2011.
Kafka's Last Story was just bought by Polish TV. First transmission: September, 2011.
University of Pennsylvania recently purchased 25 of our latest titles, including: Jubanos: Jews of Cuba, Ingelore, Leap of Faith, New Homes and Revolution 101.
Ida's Dance Club has been licensed by Swedish TV, and will be aired in May, 2011.
Filmmaker Ohad Itach to attend the Screening of his documentary Loving Sophia at the Moscow Int'l Detective Film Festival, to take place in the end of this month in Russia.
Filmmaker Doron Tsabari to attend the Screening of Revolution 101 at Planete Doc Film Festival, to take place in Warsaw next month.
Por El Flamenco has been selected for the NY Independent Film Festival, to take place in April, 2011. Director of Photography, Guy Assal, to attend the Screening.
Must-seen documentary Ingelore has received the President’s Choice Award at the Shreveport Jewish Film Festival.
Our leading titles in DVD sales for home use only are: Leap of Faith, Jubanos: Jews of Cuba, The Fire Within and The Beetle. Come join many others who are the proud owners of these unique documentaries.
We are proud to add to our catalogue the terrific 12 part series Cultural Heroes. Please take a moment to learn more about the richness of Israeli culture – from Zubin Mehta to Amos Gitai.
Revolution 101 has been selected for three major festivals in the upcoming months. We are pleased to announce that the film will be presented at the INPUT Conference in Seoul South Korea, at the Istanbul International Film Festival and at Planete Doc in Warsaw
Loving Sophia will be screened at the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto Canada on March 18, 2011
The Wisconsin Film Festival will be screening The Worst Company in the World at the beginning of April
Ida's Dance Club will be taking part in the Filmmor Film Festival, Istanbul Turkey. Filmmaker Dalit Kimor to attend.
Four of our films will be taking part in the Israeli film festival in Paris – Isratim: Loving Sophia, The Human Turbine, Revolution 101 and Sayed Kashua - forever scared
Ingelore was just licensed by HBO. It will premiere on Mothers Day May 8th, 2011.
Princeton University just purchased ten of our titles including: Back and Forth, Revolution 101, Tarab, and The Underground in the Tunnel of Time.
A terrific article about filmmaker Uri Rosenwaks and his two films The Film Class and Back and Forth is in the current issue of the Jerusalem Report. To read the full article please follow this link: http://www.backandforthmovie.
Jubanos: Jews of Cuba and I Had a Dream have been selected for the NY Sephardic Film Festival, to take place next month in NYC.
Por El Flamenco has been accepted to the main competition section of the Cape Winelands Film Festival , to take place in South Africa during March 2011.
Our titles will be shown in no less than 30 Jewish Film Festivals taking place in the next three months, amongst: Atlanta JFF, San Diego JFF, Seattle JFF, Austin JFF, Santa Barbara JFF, Contra Costa JFF, Westchester JFF, Maine JFF, Denver JFF to name a few.
January 2011
We are proud to add to our selective Catalogue the newly-released powerful documentary Homecoming by Noa Maiman and Orna Ben Dor, which has been selected for the Competitive Section of Fipa Biarritz Int'l Film Festival. The Film is scheduled to be shown twice as follows: on January 27 at 20:15 at Theatre Gamaritzm (Gare du Midi), as well as on January 28th at 13:00 at theatre Rhune (Le Bellevue). Director/Producer Noa Maiman to attend the Screenings.
An eye-opening article about the current state of the Israeli documentary scene was published in the Israeli economics magazine Globes this month. Among others, Ruth Diskin is highlighted as someone who can compellingly paint a picture of the current documentary market and industry: "The situation is encouraging, but the competition at foreign film festivals gets harder from year to year", Diskin says. You can find the full article on our Facebook page as well as by following this link
The Film Class will be screening at the Denver Botanic Gardens at a program sponsored by the International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management http://catalog.botanicgardens.
And filmmaker Uri Rosenwaks is just back from a tour of North American campuses and is available to speak in your community as well. To learn more please follow this link http://www.backandforthmovie.
Deadly Honour was just licensed by Swedish TV. First transmission: February, 2011.
The Human Turbine will be screened tomorrow, January 12 at 7:00 pm at the Willy Brandt Center in Jerusalem, in the presence of Producer Yehuda Bitton. For further information check: http://www.willybrandtcenter.
We are proud to announce that two of our filmmakers have won the prestigious MINISTRY OF CULTURE PRIZE for FILMMAKING. Mazal Tov to Micha Sharir (Eyewitness 60 - Years, I Had a Dream, The Phoenixes, Moments 2004, Moments 2005 and many more) and Tamar Yarom (To See If I'm Smiling).
Loving Sophia was licensed by Swedish TV. First transmission: September, 2011.
Five of our films will be presented at Fipa-Biarritz Film Festival, to take place this month in France. The Films are as follows: Revolution 101, Back and Forth, The Human Turbine, Loving Sophia and Wandering Eyes. Ruth Diskin to attend the Festival.
December 2010
Australia's biggest Jewish Community Library just purchased 20 of our titles, amongst: Children of the Sun, The Woman from Sarajevo, Fence, Wall, Border, Storm of Emotions, Nadia's Friends and Lerner's Revenge.
Daddy's Girls was just licensed by Denmark's public broadcaster DR. First transmission: February, 2011.
Ingelore for a Washington Premiere at the Washington Jewish Film Festival, to take place this month.
The University of Maryland has added 25 of our latest titles to its collection, amongst: Back and Forth, The Human Turbine, Sayed Kashua - Forever Scared and Loving Sophia.
Skirball Cultural Center in L.A. will be showing three of our titles as part of a special month dedicated to South American films. The three selected titles are as follows: The Fire Within: Jews in the Amazonian Rain Forest, Juanos: Jews of Cuba and New Homes.
November 2010
REVOLUTION 101 has just launched its theatrical release in Israel at the Lev Theaters chain. If you are in Israel – go to see the film and join the revolution!
Sweden Public Broadcaster just pre-bought Kafka's Last Story by Sagi Bronstein. The Film will be aired there upon completion.
The Worst Company in the World is San Francisco Jewish Film Festival's Curator Choice for 2010.
The Underground in the Tunnel of Time will be shown at the Israeli House of Parliament on Tuesday 9 at 12:15 pm, in the presence of Prime Minister - Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Culture and Sport - Ms. Limor Livnat.
These Are My Names will have its premier at the Jewish Eye World Film Festival in Ashkelon, Israel. To learn more please go to their website http://www.jewisheye.org.il/en
The Human Turbine has taken The Other Israel Documentary Award at the Haifa International Film Festival, closed last week. The Award guarantees the Film's participation at the 2011 Other Israel Film Festival in NYC.
Harvard University Library just purchased some 20 of our titles, amongst: Sayed Kashua - Forever Scared, Lone Samaritan, Daddy's Girls and Deadly Honour.
Ruth Diskin to attend Mipcom Market in Cannes from October 3-7, and Medimed Market from October 8-10.
New Delhi TV just licensed The Beetle. First transmission: January, 2011.
Ruth Diskin Films is proud to represent Doron Tsabari's award-winning film Revolution 101.
The Boston Jewish Film Festival has picked three of our films this year: I Was There in Color, Just Like Home and The Worst Company in the World. The Festival takes place next month.
Four of our recent films are now available also on DVD and can be purchased through our online store: Children Without a Shadow, Ingelore, Leap of Faith, and New Homes.
September 2010
Loving Sophia has taken the Audience Award at the Bosnia & Herzegovina Mediterranean FF, closed last night.
The Danish public broadcaster just licensed Loving Sophia. First transmission: October, 2010.
Arizona State University is purchasing 10 of our latest acquisitions for educational use, among them: Back and Forth, In the Prime of her Life, The Underground in the Tunnel of Time, These Are My Names.
Ruth Diskin Films is proud to announce that it has recently acquired distribution rights for the following two wonderful documentaries: I Was There in Color and Writing as I Should.
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival has chosen The Worst Company in the World as its Curator's Choice for 2010.
August 2010
Wandering Eyes & Lone Samaritan are both finalists, out of five documentaries, in the category of best documentary for the Israeli Academy Awards, 2010
Loving Sophia has been selected for the Competitive Section of The International Mediterranean Film Festival, to take place in September, 2010 in Bosnia Herzegovina.
Ruth Diskin Films is pleased to announce acquiring marketing and distribution rights for Uri Rosenwak's new documentary Back and Forth. This new doc joins Uri's previous award-winning documentary vh.
Ida's Dance Club to compete at the Kos International Film Festival, to take place in Greece in September, 2010 in the presence of Filmmaker Dalit Kimor.
July 2010
The Worst Company in the World has won the best documentary award at the Eco Films Festival in Rhodes, Greece.
Back and Forth to be Premièred on July 12 as part of the "In the Spirit of Freedom" Section of The Jerusalem International Film Festival.
Deadly Honour will be competing at the Sole e Luna Film Festival in Palermo, Italy at the CHIFFS in Korea , and as part of the Panorama at the International Women's Film Festival, Rehovot, Israel.
Sayed Kashua - Forever Scared, The Worst Company in the World, Ingelore and A Guided Tour will be screened at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. Acclaimed Israeli Author Sayed Kashua, Filmmaker Frank Stiefel and Filmmaker Regev Contes to attend the screenings.
Ida's Dance Club will be screened at the Health Film Festival, Kos, Greece
The Beetle for an American TV Premiere on PBS Global Voices on July 4, 2010.
For further information check the following link: http://www.pbs.org/itvs/globalvoices/beetle.html
Ruth Diskin to attend the Krakow Film Festival from June 3-6. Ruth will be on the Special Panel about Israeli Documentary Scene. Also at Krakow FF: The Worst Company in the World (official Competition), and Lone Samaritan (Special Focus on Israel).
The Educational Channel of Sweden has just licensed two of our titles: Daddy's Girls and I Sleep but My Heart is Awake. First transmission: February, 2011.
Planete Poland just licensed three of our titles: Sayed Kashua - Forever Scared, Lone Samaritan and The Worst Company in the World. All three will be aired on Planete in Fall, 2010.
We are proud to add to our selective Catalogue the new powerful documentary by Ohad Itach Loving Sophia, which has taken the Young and Promising Filmmaker Award at the DocAviv Film Festival, 2010.
Ohio State University is purchasing 48 of our titles, for educational/institutional use.
Gut Shabbes Vietnam just licensed by WDR-Germany. First transmission: June, 2010
Deadly Honour Israeli Premiere to take place on Friday May 7 at 6:30 pm at DocAviv International Film Festival
Both Ida's Dance Club and Deadly Honour have taken the Golden Remi Award at the Houston WorldFest, 2010
Lone Samaritan Just licensed by TG4-Ireland. First transmission: May, 2010
The History Channel of Spain just licensed Amos Oz. First transmission: May, 2010
Harvard University just purchased 20 of our titles, amongst: Fence, Wall, Border, I had a Dream, Toledo, Leon, Gut Shabbes Vietnam and The Name My Mother Gave Me.
Jewish Transit Berlin by Gabriel Heim for a US Premiere, organized by the UJA Aspen Valley to take place on March 10 at 5:00 pm
www.aspenvalleyuja.org/specialevents.htm
The Beetle was just licensed by PBS. First transmission: July, 2010.
Penn University has just purchased 25 of our titles, amongst: Skate to Survive, I'm a Civil War - the Life of Chaim Gouri, Just Like Home, Black Over White and I Sleep but My Heart is Awake.
Seven of our titles have been selected for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, to take place in April. The titles are as follows: Ida's Dance Club, Nikita Kino, Lone Samaritan, The Worst Company in the World, Sayed Kashua - Forever Scared, Dubak – a Palestinian Jew and Point of View.
Ruth Diskin to attend the Berlinale and the EFM from Thursday, Feb 11 until Monday Feb 15
The Beetle was recently bought by the Public TV of Taiwan. First transmission: April, 2010
Arizona State University Library has just put in a purchase for almost our entitle catalogue. Among them: Ida's Dance Club, Children of the Sun, Lone Samaritan, Sayed Kashua - Forever Scared, Who Killed Walter Benjamin, The Fire Within, Skate to Survive, to name a few.
Amos Oz was just licensed by the History Channel of Spain. First transmission: May, 2010
The Beetle to open the Athens Jewish Film Festival on February 20th, 2010.
Ruth Diskin is proud to be the exclusive distributor of the ground breaking mini-series Fence, Wall, Border by Eli Cohen and Etty Wieseltier, for educational/institutional use, as well as for DVD sales.
Coming soon to the Ruth Diskin Films Catalouge are the following distinguished titles by non-Israeli filmmakers: Nikita Kino by Vivian Ostrovsky from France, and New Homes by Radames Vieira from Brazil.
The Worst Company in the World has been selected for the Competitive Section of Docudays Human Rights International Film Festival, to take place in Kyiv between March 28 and April 1, 2010.
Newest addition to Ruth Diskin Films: Just Like Home which tells the story of a Moscow's Jewish Orphanage-Home to children who were abused, neglected, and abandoned by the people closest to them.
Lone Samaritan is scheduled to be shown at Fipa-Biarritz International Film Festival on January 27 at 15:15 at the Cinema Le Royal. For updated information about the Upcoming Screening check: www.fipa.tm.fr
Our titles will be shown in no less than 30 Jewish Film Festivals taking place in the next three months, amongst: NY Jewish Film Festival, NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, San Diego JFF, Tucson JFF, Seattle JFF, Kansas City JFF, Pioneer Valley JFF, Philadelphia JFF, Denver JFF, Athens JFF, Contra Costa JFF, to name a few.











