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By Eytan IPEKER

GO2FILMS - as SALES

Social issues - Completed 2020

Festivals
& Awards

Visions du Réel 2020

Compétition Internationale Longs Métrages

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Social issues
- Countries
- GERMANY, FRANCE, ISRAEL, TURKEY
- Languages
- ENGLISH, HEBREW, RUSSIAN
- Duration
- 83 mn
- Director(s)
- Eytan IPEKER
- Producer(s)
- Yoel MERANDA (KAMARA), Carine CHICHKOWSKY (SURVIVANCE), Eitan MANSURI (SPIRO FILMS), Jonathan DOWECK (SPIRO FILMS), Kristina KONRAD (WELT FILM)
- Synopsis
- Beauty contests, with their proven sexist aspect, can irritate. But that which has been taking place since 2012 in Haifa can arouse horror. Sponsored by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, a right-wing evangelist organisation, and a great supporter of the annexationist policy of the current leader of the Likud party, this competition aims to elect a “queen” chosen among women living in a retirement home that only accommodates survivors of the Holocaust. Sophie Leibowitz, octogenarian, entering the running for the 2016 edition, is participating with reticence (in memory of her sister) in what must really be called the manipulation of a traumatic past, and of which she gradually becomes aware. Eytan İpeker followed her from the rehearsals led by Heli Ben-David (ex-Miss Israel 1979) to the escorting of the participants, by limousine, to the ceremony itself. By using anti-dramatic choices of framing and editing, the filmmaker clinically observes the behind-the-scenes of a show that exploits the survivors of the Shoah in the service of ultranationalist ideology.
  
  Emmanuel Chicon