Project of the Month


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Raanana Cinema Club

Monthly screening of acclaimed documentary films at 20:00 at Yad Lebanim, Raanana,
Tickets: NIS 60; ESRAcards NIS 50. Reservations in advance from ESRA 09-748 2957.
You can see a list of all the films shown at the ESRA Raanana Cinema Club by clicking on the link below.



2011 season

December “The Champagne Spy” - Director and Writer, Nadav Schirman, spoke after the showing.
Oded breaks a long silence and journeys into his father's real and covert identities as a Mossad secret agent, (aka Wolfgang Lotz - ex Nazi millionaire and horse breeder) revealing the heavy price paid by his family, trapped in the shadows of espionage.    

November “Life In Stills” - Best Israeli Film, DocAviv Film Festival 2011.
Miriam Weissenstein at age 96, and her grandson, Ben, join forces to save The Photo House, her late husband’s life’s work, and its nearly one million negatives that document Israel’s defining moments.

May and September    Strangers No More   directed and produced by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon,  won an Oscar in 2011 for Best Documentary Short Subject.
The tale of children from 48 different countries who attend the Bialik-Rogozin School in south Tel Aviv.

February 'Precious Life'  Director, Shlomi Eldar will lead the discussion after the film.

January 'A Film Unfinished' Yael Hersonski's powerful documentary with its penetrating look at another (unfinished)  Nazi produced propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto.