DIFFERENT FROM WHAT? FILM FESTIVAL

YOU WANTED TO MAKE A FILM? / "At ratzit laasot seret?"
(Israel, 2008) Director: Gali Weintraub
Documentary, Hebrew w/ English Subtitles, 25 minutes
Student Film

SYNOPSIS
This film portrays the complex relationship between the director, Gali (who was born disabled) and the couple, Zehava (a polio victim) and folk dancer Oren, a son of disabled parents. The couple decides to put on a dance performance together, and this documentary highlights the filmmaker's struggle to be able to make this very film.

FROM THE DIRECTOR
"I was born disabled. For my final project, I've chosen Zehava, a polio victim and Oren, a folk dancer who, since childhood, had watched his father dance in a wheelchair working on a dance performance. I was helped by my mother, who sometimes interfered too much. My relations with the dancing couple encountered difficulties. The mounting tension resulted in their barring me from filming the premiere of the dance they had dreamed about. Two years passed. How will the film end?"

FESTIVALS, SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Festivals/Screenings: Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison (2008); Channel 2 - 2nd Authority Television and Radio, Israel (2008); Brazil TV (2009) (assim vivemos); Students Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Film Festival of Patras City, Greece; Pentedatillo Film Festival, Italy; 9th International Golden Saffron Documentary Film Festival Karaelmas University; IV Festival Cinematografico El Ojo Cojo Madrid, Spain; Human Rights Film Festival Ad hoc: Inconvenient Films, Vilnius, Lithuania; Cyprus International Film Festival; Detroit Docs International Film Festival, Detroit; International Student Film Festival, Hollywood, USA; Startfestival Baku Azarbajan, Documenta, Quito, Ecuador; International Short Film Festival, Cusco, Peru; Asian First Film, Singapur; Human Rights International Festival, Stalker, Moskwa , Russia; Cambofest, Cambodia, Phnom Pen; Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival, India; Picture This Festival, Calgary, Canada; Ljubljana International Short Film Festival, Lubliana, Slovenia; International Short Film Festival, Cyprus (Famagusta, Nicosia); Golden Beggar International Festival of Local Televisions, Kosice, Slovakia; Ahmedabad International Film Festival, India; Portello River Festival, Padowa, Italy; Film for Peace Medea Gorizia, Italy; Kota Festival of Short Films, Skopje Macedonia; Spunepescurt, Bucharest, Romania; 6th European Film Festival ''Integration You and Me'', Koszalin, Poland; DocBoat / Warsaw Nonfiction e-fest, Poland; Off/On Warsaw International Short Film Competition, Poland; International Film Festival, Skopje, Macedonia
Young Cinema Art, Plock, Poland; MIRACLE Faludi International Youth Film Festival and Photo Competition, Hartford International Film Festival

Awards: 3rd place We Care, New Delhi (2008); Mention Speciale Lunel France Semaines du Cinema Mediterraneen; Special Mention Prize, Docudays, Kiev, Ukraine, Human Rights; 1st Prize (undergraduate) International Student Film Festival New Delhi India International; Best Documentary Student Film, Canadian International Film Festival Hamilton, Canada; Special Mention, 19.Temps d'images Lisbon Portugal; Diploma of Honor, "Human in danger" Lodz Poland; Documentary Prize, Euroshorts Festival Warsaw, Poland; Special Prize, International Film Festival Short Documentaries for Young Filmmakers, Poznan, Poland; Fogelson Foundation Prize; Documentary Jury Special Award, Adana Goldenboll Mediterranean Short Film Competition; Special Prize and Best Actress Prize, Bartoszki Film Festival, Tarnobrzeg, Poland; Student Best Director of Documentary Film, 10th Sichuan TV Festival Chengdu Sichuan, China

THE PRODUCTION TEAM
Producer/Director: Gali Weintraub
Editor: Barak Refaeli
Cast: Gali Weintraub, Zehava Padnes, Oren Braier, Liat Gilad, Itzik Braier, Rimona Weintraub, Shalom & Dina Shem Tov

Cinematography: Avinatan Shin'ar, Ana Moravska, Barak Refaeli, Gali Weintraub, Yaniv Gabay, Nikita Feldman, Avihai Falah, Tamar Linder (pub), Amir Pondaminski (performance)
Boom: Beza Nababa, Roy Yardeni, Rimon Weintraub

Sound: Yohai Fahima, Barak Rafaeli
Stills: Efraim Menachimov, Dudi Dayan, Tamar Tal
On-line Editor: Barak Rafaeli

Narrated by: Gali Weintraub