After its world premiere at Sundance 2015, Censored Voices had its European premiere at the International Film Festival Berlin (Berlinale 2015) as part of the programme section Panorama.
Censored Voices
The 1967 ‘Six-Day’ war ended with Israel’s decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking – a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzinks, led by renowned author Amos Oz and Editor Avraham Shapira, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording revealed an honest look at the moment Israel turned from David to Goliath. The Israeli army censored the recordings, allowing the kibbutzninks to publish only a fragment of the conversations. Censored Voices reveals the original recordings for the first time.
Director Mor Loushy: “At school they told me heroic stories of the Six Day War, but out of these recordings appears a different, sad picture. While throughout the country people were dancing in victory, Amos Oz felt the catastrophe and the confusion that Israel was going towards. When we hear these authentic voices (that were so brutally censored at the time), we can understand how that moment changed the face of Israeli society, how our reality could have been different if only we would have listened to these voices back then. Voices of the will to live a life of peace.”
Credits
Director – Mor Loushy
Producers – Daniel Sivan, Hilla Medalia, Neta Zwebner
Co-producers – Melanie Andernach, Knut Losen, Jenny Raskin
Executive Producers – Dan Cogan, Danna Stern, Dagmar Mielke, Nick Fraser, Morgan Spurlock,
Jeremy Chilnick, Ethan Goldman
Editor – Daniel Sivan
Original Score – Markus Aust
Cinematography – Itai Raziel , Avner Shahaf
Sound Design – Yoss Appelbaum
Sound Mixer – Stefan Korte
Writers – Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan
Co-writer & Artistic Consultant – Ran Tal
Editing Consultant – Jean Tsien, A.C.E
Production Company – One Man Show & kNow Productions
Sales: Dogwoof/ Ana Vicente