Pitching - the incubator for developing documentary films combined with artificial intelligence

Presentation of 8 projects developed in the joint incubator of the Makor Film and Television Fund, KAN – the Israel Broadcasting Corporation, the Documentary Forum in Israel, and Postudio.

Artistic direction: Dr. Michal Ben-David | Producer: Evelyn Kluger Kadish | Moderator: Lior Elefant, CEO of the Documentary Forum in Israel.

The winners will be awarded a Mekor Film and Television Fund Development Grant and a KAN – the Israel Broadcasting Corporation Development Grant.

The event is open to the industry and the public.

The Shadow, Shir Newman and Noga Or-Yam 

Exactly at the moment when she thought of putting down the camera, the director receives into her hands the family photo archive, which turns into an investigation of intergenerational inheritances in a lineage of photographers.

Under the Lamppost, Yfat and Amit Kedar

Young German woman caught in a love triangle with her husband and his brother on a kibbutz. Exposed secrets force impossible choices. 

Sons of Abraham, Danna Hacohen and David Deri

A research film reveals for the first-time testimonies from Jews and Muslims about the relationships that existed between them, and presents the potential for a much less conflicted reality.

Golem 2.0, Daniel Najenson and Elad Asulin

A filmmaker creates an AI partner to explore the connection between AI and the golem story. As their relationship evolves, the question "will the golem rise against its creator" becomes personal.

EXTERIOR. STREET. DAY, Yair Luria and Tamir Sasson

I lived in 24 different houses without any archives. No photographs to bear witness. Only memory, and memory is unreliable. So, I decided to build one for myself.

Fragments of a Lunar Landscape, Maya Zaydman and Yshay Nikomarov

A collection of Dead Sea future stories and possible paths.

Forget, Yoav Brill and Dotan Goldwaser

A Be’eri-born filmmaker revisits archived films and stories to confront the rewritten history of his kibbutz.

Reconstructing Hanna, Tal Shefi and Idan Glikzelig

Determined to finish their last conversation, the daughter of the deceased Israeli Scientology leader recreates her mother’s consciousness using AI.