Menachem Roth

Snow in Jerusalem, 2002 (Israel), 8:00 min
When Jerusalem becomes clad in white, the roads are blocked and the schools are closed. Meandering in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, one can hear Yiddish, and the blend of Yiddish and snow momentarily conjures up a distant memory of a different Jewish life, back in the European shtetl.


Matei Bejenaru 

Maersk Dubai, 2007 (Romania), 8:00 min
Romanian with English subtitles
The video explores the murder of three Romanian illegal immigrants from the Taiwanese ship Maersk Dubai in 1996, analyzing the difficult economical, social, and political situation of Romanians after the fall of communism in 1989.

Oliver Ressler 

The Fittest Survive, 2006 (Austria), 23:00 min
The video The Fittest Survive is based on documentation of a five-day course, "Surviving Hostile Regions," held in January 2006 in Wales, UK by the AKE Group. The course instructors are British ex-special force soldiers. The participants are businessmen preparing to do business in Iraq and other dangerous regions, government officials, and mainstream journalists who, with their dishonest discourse of democracy and human rights, help to legitimize and secure the ideology of market-economy expansion.


Stefanie Busch 

 In Between, 2007 (Germany), 9:22 min
The video work was assembled from 7,000 discrete pictures taken by Stefanie Busch in 2006 on the Lost Highway Expedition, an interdisciplinary urban research project following the path of the highway network built to connect the ex-communist states with capitals of the Western Balkans. She focuses on the reasons why such a proud, independent country as Yugoslavia, the onetime utopia in its unification of different peoples, could have perished. In Between is a personal portrait of the Western Balkans and a search for broken identities and lost illusions.

Dana Levy 

This Was Home, 2005-08 (Israel), 15:55 min
Two chapters about my family members who revisit their childhood home in the Diaspora sixty years later. In the first chapter, my grandfather returns to Sosnowiec, Poland through my initiative, and finds his home. Although he has not been back to Poland in sixty years, he does not seem to have any sentiments for the place or the local inhabitants. He prefers to eat ice cream or smell cheap perfumes sold on the street. Even when the current inhabitant of the house slams the door in his face, he remains indifferent. In the second chapter, my father returns to his home in Cairo after 55 years. The house was deserted and in disrepair. It is now occupied by eight homeless people. My father films the house with a hidden camera, while talking with the squatters.