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Trailer:
https://vimeo.com/389295018
Atzmor Productions is pleased to present the International Premiere of THE VIEWING BOOTH, the provocative new documentary from Israeli filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz (The Inner Tour, The Law in These Parts), in the Forum section of the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival. The third of Alexandrowicz’s documentaries to be shown in the Berlinale, the film will also be seen in March 2020 at the True/False and CPH:DOX documentary festivals and at the First Look Film Festival at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image.
THE VIEWING BOOTH recounts a unique encounter between a filmmaker and a viewer — exploring the way meaning is attributed to non-fiction images in today’s day and age. In a lab-like location, Maia Levy, a young Jewish American woman, watches videos portraying life in the occupied West Bank, while verbalizing her thoughts and feelings in real time. Maia is an enthusiastic supporter of Israel, and the images in the videos, depicting Palestinian life under Israeli military rule, contradict some of her deep-seated beliefs. Empathy, anger, embarrassment, innate biases, and healthy curiosity — all play out before our eyes as we watch her watch the images created by the Occupation. As Maia navigates and negotiates the images, which threaten her worldview, she also reflects on the way she sees them. Her candid and immediate reactions form a one-of-a-kind cinematic testimony to the psychology of the viewer in the digital era.
THE VIEWING BOOTH is directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz and produced by Alexandrowicz and Liran Atzmor. The film was shot by Zachary Reese and edited by Neta Dvorkis and Alexandrowicz. Executive producers are Annie Roney, Susan Norget and Kirsten Johnson. World Sales: ro*co films.
Ra'anan Alexandrowicz is best known for the documentary The Law in These Parts (2011), which received the Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, a Peabody award, and numerous other prizes. His earlier documentaries, The Inner Tour (2001) and Martin (1999), were shown in the Berlin Film Festival's Forum section and MoMA's New Directors / New Films series. Alexandrowicz’s single fiction feature, James’ Journey to Jerusalem (2003), screened in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and at the Toronto Int’l Film Festival and received several major awards. His films have been released theatrically in the U.S. and Europe, and broadcast by PBS, ARTE, the BBC, as well as other television channels.
71 mins. USA | Israel
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