Audience Award – Israfest Film Festival, NY, 2008
Grand Prix – The 6th Warsaw International Jewish Film Festival, Poland, 2008
Best Documentary Award – The 6th Warsaw International Jewish Film Festival, Poland, 2008
Best Sound - The 6th Warsaw International Jewish Film Festival, Poland, 2008
Best Documentary - The Israeli Academy Awards, 2008
FIAT Award for Best Use of Archival Footage - The International Federation of Television Archives, Germany, 2008
Best Documentary - The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008
Best Directing - The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008
Best Production - The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008
Best Editing - The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008
Best Original Score - The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008
Best Sound Track - The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008
Best Research - The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008
Wolgin Award for Best Documentary Film – The Jerusalem International Film Festival, 2007
Best Editing Award – The Jerusalem International Film Festival, 2007
The Audio-Visual Award by the Forum for the Preservation of Audio Visual – Jerusalem Film Festival, 2007
Congregation Beth Am, USA, 2012
Israeli Cultural Center, Beverly Hills, LA 2011
Culturescapes Showcase, Switzerland, 2011
Stockholm Israeli Film Week, Sweden, 2010
De Hague Israeli Film Week, The Netherlands, 2010
Copenhagen Israeli Film Week, Denmark, 2010
Transylvania Int'l Film Festival, 2010
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA, 2009
Cherry Hill Volvo Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2009
Winnipeg Jewish Film Festival, Canada, 2009
Detroit Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2009
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Temple Emeth, Brookline, USA, 2009
Hillel at San Francisco, USA, 2008
Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, Poland, 2008
Festival of Jewish Cinema, Australia, 2008
Nashville Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2008
Kehilath Jeshurun Congregation, USA, 2008
Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, USA, 2008
Berlin Jewish Film Festival, Germany, 2008
Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2008
Maryland Jewish Museum, USA, 2008
Forum of Israeli Cinema, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2008
Rochester Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2008
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Input Int'l Conference, South Africa, 2008
Hong Kong Int'l Film Festival, 2008
Istanbul Int'l Film Festival, Turkey, 2008
Memorial Museum of Holocaust, Paris, 2008
The Israeli Showcase, UK, 2008
La Famis Film School, France, 2008
L.A. Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2008
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Toronto Jewish Film Festival, Canada, 2008
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JCC of Greater Washington, USA, 2008
Temple Beth Shalom, Livingston NJ, 2008
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JCC Berlington, USA, 2008
Ocean County Jewish Federation, USA, 2008
Jacob Burns Film Center, USA, 2008
Seattle Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2008
Brandeis Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2008
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2008
Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA, 2007
Official Selection of the Toronto International Film Festival, 2007
Jerusalem International Film Festival – The Wolgin Award Competition, 2007
The children of the sun were born into the kibbutzim of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, they were intended to be everything they parents dreamed of. This is their story
Documentary, 72 min.
Video, Beta SP
Language: Hebrew
Subtitles: English
World Sales- http://www.ruthfilms.com/
Directed by - Ran Tal
Produced by - Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait, Ran Tal
Script by - Ran Tal, Ron Goldman
In participation with
Lama Films, yes Docu , ITVS, The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts – Cinema Project, The Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, The Marc rich foundation, Fortissimo Films
Editor - Ron Goldman
Original Music - Avi Belleli
Sound Designer - Alex Claude
The children of the sun were born into the kibbutzim of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and they were intended to be everything they parents dreamed of. They grew into the suit of the new human - a healthy human in both body and spirit, diligent and moral, ready for a life of cooperation and labor. They were born in a group, grew up in a group, matured in a group, they had fights and disputes and love affairs and they left a group and died in a group. They did not choose to be part of their parents' fascinating revolution; they were born into it and grew up in it. They lived in an upside down world in which the traditional family was replaced by the collective one and the will of the individual was subordinate to the good of the group. A world full of hope, an unusual and wonderful world, until today they carry its mistakes and wounds and long for it.
Today the "children of the sun" are no longer children. The oldest of them are septuagenarians and the young ones are nearing their fifties. Today the charged world of terms they grew up on seems so far away and strange. Sometimes is seems as if it can be told as a mysterious legend.
"The Children of the Sun" is a very personal story of growing up, maturing and growing old on the kibbutz. Unlike their revolutionary parents or deconstructing children, those children of the revolution couldn't help but to try and realize their parents' dream.
Today, from the distance of the years, a lot of the passion has subsided, but even nostalgia cannot completely hide the pain, anger and old accounts. Being after the kibbutz's demise but only at the start of the bereavement process, this is the time to confront the pictures of the past with the current memories.