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Film Info

Turkey, France, Israel, Germany 2020 | 83 min. Director: Eytan İpeker
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Co-Production Company

weltfilm GmbH
Fritz- Riedel-Str. 2
10407 Berlin

Categories

Documentary

The Pageant

Synopsis

Every year since 2011, a unique beauty contest takes place in Haifa. The contestants are female survivors of the Holocaust. In order to become “Miss Holocaust Survivor”, they train with an ex-beauty queen who teach them how to catwalk on the red carpet. At the climatic moment of the night, the survivors have to impress a jury with their life stories and their traumatic memories. This surreal event is sponsored by a right-wing Evangelical organization. Focusing on the story of Sophie Leibowitz who participates to honor her recently deceased sister, “The Pageant” explores how memory, politics and spectacle are interconnected.


Cast & Crew

Festivals/awards

2020
Visions du Réel, Nyon - Compétition Internationale Longs Métrages
Sarajevo Film Festival - Documentary Competition
Jerusalem International Film Festival
Odessa International Film Festival - European Documentary Competition
Istanbul Film Festival - National Documentary Competition
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival - National Documentary Competition
Human Rights Film Festival Lugano
Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote
İstanbul Modern Sinema


Co-Production Company

weltfilm GmbH
Fritz- Riedel-Str. 2
10407 Berlin

Cast & Crew

Eytan İpeker
 Yoel Meranda (yoelmeranda) (Kamara - Turkey), Carine Chichkowsky (Survivance - France), Eitan Mansuri (Spiro Films - Israel), Jonathan Doweck (Spiro Films - Israel), Kristina Konrad (weltfilm gmbh)
 Itay Marom
 Emmanuel Soland

Categories

Documentary
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