Nurith Aviv Filmes

  • 1980
    Weekend Circles

    Weekend Circles

    Weekend Circles

    51980HD

    Four young women spend a long weekend in Tel Aviv. Dorit is an outgoing swinger; Tamara is a depressed divorcée; Lior is the experimenting...

    Weekend Circles
  • 2002
    Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection

    Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection

    Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection

    82002HD

    A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq.

    Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection
  • 1998
    Work, Place

    Work, Place

    Work, Place

    01998HD

    Foreign labour, a phenomenon typical of the 1990s, is examined here in one village in the Jordan valley. Until the intifada, Palestinians from a...

    Work, Place
  • 1989
    Pour un oui ou pour un non

    Pour un oui ou pour un non

    Pour un oui ou pour un non

    8.21989HD

    Two childhood friends who have not seen each other for a long time decide to meet again. They talk and look for what could have caused their...

    Pour un oui ou pour un non
  • 1979
    La fille de Prague avec un sac très lourd

    La fille de Prague avec un sac très lourd

    La fille de Prague avec un sac très lourd

    71979HD

    Who is Milena whose arrival is announced to Sophie and Nicolas by postcard? The train from Prague brings for three weeks, the time of a visa, this...

    La fille de Prague avec un sac très lourd
  • 2004
    From Language to Language

    From Language to Language

    From Language to Language

    02004HD

    For centuries, Hebrew was a sacred language, a written language of prayer and scripture. But today it is also the language of everyday life in...

    From Language to Language
  • 1988
    Body Body

    Body Body

    Body Body

    01988HD

    In his film, Josef Aichholzer observes the search for the perfect body, the golden calf of the leisure society: Meditation, sport, medicine or gene...

    Body Body
  • 2015
    Poétique du cerveau

    Poétique du cerveau

    Poétique du cerveau

    62015HD

    A documentary about brain, his capacities and his poetical aspect using testimonials from researchers around the world.

    Poétique du cerveau
  • 1970
    Son Portrait, Mon Portrait

    Son Portrait, Mon Portrait

    Son Portrait, Mon Portrait

    01970HD

    The film is about portraying while being portrayed. Painter Liliane Klapisch sketches a portrait of Aviv in a sketchbook while Aviv films. Klapisch...

    Son Portrait, Mon Portrait
  • 2008
    Sacred Tongue, Profane Language

    Sacred Tongue, Profane Language

    Sacred Tongue, Profane Language

    02008HD

    The film, the second in a trilogy, containing "Misafa Lesafa" (2004) and "Traduire" (2011), deals with what became of Hebrew, the sacred language of...

    Sacred Tongue, Profane Language
  • 2000
    Circumcision

    Circumcision

    Circumcision

    02000HD

    Circumcision is not a trivial act. For those parents, mostly "mixed" couples from different religious origins, a choice has to be made before the...

    Circumcision
  • 1999
    A Fleeting Passage to the Orient

    A Fleeting Passage to the Orient

    A Fleeting Passage to the Orient

    5.81999HD

    Images of Egypt: prolonged tracking shots through the streets of Cairo, cafes, bazars, hotels and gardens, footage of the desert and the sea. Ruth...

    A Fleeting Passage to the Orient
  • 2018
    Signing

    Signing

    Signing

    52018HD

    By taking an interest in sign languages, Nurith Aviv invites us to expand our perception of the human langage. Three generations of deaf and hearing...

    Signing
  • 1995
    Nerve

    Nerve

    Nerve

    01995HD

    Psychiatric patients refer to themselves as survivors, victims, former inmates, consumers, or users. "Nerve" potraits four persons from Vienna and...

    Nerve
  • 1990
    Lung Ta: The Forgotten Tibet

    Lung Ta: The Forgotten Tibet

    Lung Ta: The Forgotten Tibet

    01990HD

    The life of the Tibetan people, forty years after the Chinese invasion. Filmed in Amdo and Kham, regions forgotten by the world and absolutely...

    Lung Ta: The Forgotten Tibet