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Avner Faingulernt is a filmmaker from the south of Israel. He was Born on 22.12.1961 in Kibbutz Bror-Hayil. Head of the Film and TV department at Sapir Academic College. Initiator and director of Cinema South Festival, Chief editor Cinema South Notebook magazine and the Curator Book of Cinema South Festival. Producer/ director : 2011 - war Matador, 2010 Matador of War (cinematic installation), 2006 - Matador of Love; 2005 - Men on the Edge – Fishermen’s Diary; 2002 -Eva; 1997- The First will be the Last. Avner hold a BA from Tel Aviv University, Department of Film and Television and the Department of Psychology and a PHD from The University of East London. His PhD thesis "The Father's Return in the Modern European Cinematic Odysseys" explores the father's figure in modern European Journey films.

Film Career
War Matador – 2011 War Tourism Journal at the border of Gaza during winter 2009 that picture an intimate portrait of Israel in a time of crisis. It explores the phenomenon of "war tourism" which flourished during the war on the Sderot-Gaza border, when people from all over the country swarmed in to observe the shelled Gaza.observation at the fissures in Israeli society, which ties military strength with Messianic beliefs. War ecstasy and the euphoria of power accompanying it are likened to the spectacle of the Corrida - the arena of a cruel struggle for life or death. Cinama South Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival. Supported by Channel 1 Israel, Rabinovich fund and Gesher fund- Producer, Director, Script Writer and Cinematographer

Matador of War cinematic installation – 2010 A cinematic installation at Petach Tikva Museum unfolding a journey along the Gaza-Israel border during Operation Cast Lead, the travelogue sketches an intimate portrait of a vulnerable border area, striving to introduce a profile of Israel in a time of crisis. Parts of the film projected in three different screens that divide the creation like in a bull fight ring where the audience observe the rises smoke over Gaza. - Producer, Director, Script Writer and Cinematographer

Matador of Love – 2006 Film and dance on the same stage, with actor Alon Abutbul and dancer Anat Shamgar. A journey of a woman in the Land of Israel, as she undergoes an intense relationship with a man whom she desperately longs for, as a metaphor for the vicious and inescapable circle of the relations between the matador and the bull in the Spanish Corrida. Cinema South festival (2006), Khan Theatre in Jerusalem and Suzanne Dallal Centre in Tel Aviv (2007). - Producer, Director, Script Writer and Cinematographer

Men on the Edge – Fishermen’s Diary – 2005 A documentary feature film that was shot over a period of four years. Intimate fishermen’s diary of Palestinian refugees and Israeli settlers – tough men from two hostile nations who maintain a delicate and fragile coexistence. Produced in collaboration with the New Fund for Cinema and Television, and the Television and Radio Channel 2 Authority. 2005 - the opening film in the fifth Cinema South Festival; commercial screening in the Lev cinema in Tel Aviv; screening in all cinemateques in Israel. Screened in dozens of film festivals all over the world, among them: Visions Du reel – Nyon,; Cinemed - Montpellier, Medimed - Barcelona ;Cinema dos Mediterraneo – Portugal - 1st award at the Documentary competition ;International Prize for Mediterranean Documentary and (with CMCA) Winning of the "RAI SAT CINEMA PREMIUM" ; Reportage Sole e Luna DOC FEST-Italy-1st award of the Mediterranean Category ; Documenta-Madrid; Human Rights Watch IFF-NY 2006 ;Human Rights Watch IFF-London 2007; Sao Paulo international film festival-Brazil; Human Rights Watch IFF -Buenos Aires; États Généraux du Film documentaire-France; International Film Festival El ojo cojo-Spain; Recontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal-Canada; Mediterraneo Video Festiva, September 2006 Italy; UK Jewish Film Festival-London; Israfest – USA. - Producer, Director, Script Writer and Cinematographer

Eva – 2002 A full-length documentary film that tells the story of Eva, who has paid a heavy price in her personal life, when, in her Communist past, she had elected to abandon her only daughter, rather than betray the memory of her dead lover. Co-production of “Orna Yarmouth Productions” of Channel 1 and “Gravity Post Production”. Screened in “Doc Aviv” in 2002, Cinema South Festival, Channel 1 and in cinemateques and cinemas throughout Europe. - Producer, Director, Script Writer and Cinematographer

My Na’an – 2001 Produced within the framework of the “Place” project, this is a Short experimental film that tells of an internal rift in the world of the script writer, of kibbutz Na’an, who was staying with her mother at the same time that Shani, a girl also from the same kibbutz, was murdered on the nearby lawn by a man who was obsessively in love with her. Film produced by Amit Goren and Channel 8, with the New Fund for Cinema and Television. Screened in 2001-2002 on Channel 8 in 2002 in “Doc Aviv”, and in various events of art and cinema in Israel and throughout the world, in museums, galleries, and artistic biennales. - Producer, Director, Script Writer and Cinematographer

The First will be the Last – 1997 A full-length documentary film that tells the story of the collective memory of the Maronite Christian community that was evicted from its village of Bir’am in the Galil, during 1948. Produced with the participation of the New Fund for Cinema and Television and the Council for Culture and Art. Screened in 1997 on Channel 2, and in the Jerusalem Film Festival, in the “freedom of the spirit” category. - Producer, Director, Script Writer

Lev, Hurt and Silence – 1995 First documentary film that deals with the bereavement of families who immigrated from the former Soviet Union over their sons who fell in military service. (Lev here is one of those sons who fell). cable TV Channel 3. - Director, Script Writer

Come Call the Wind – 1994 A personal documentary film about the rebuilding of a personal and social identity, due to the social crisis in his kibbutz and in the kibbutzim as a whole. Won first prize of the Aliza Shagrir Fund, received grants from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the America-Israel Cultural Fund, the Fund for encouraging producers in the kibbutzim, and the Gershoni Fund. Screened in 1995 in Augsburg Festival in Germany, Haifa and Jerusalem Festivals, and on Channel 2. - Producer, Director, Script Writer

Edge of a String – 1993 A Short feature film starring Kaipu Cohen (The Summer of Aviah), that recites the story of a girl who comes of age during a single journey on the Tel Aviv to Jerusalem train. Screened in 1994 in the students’ film festival in Munich, the Oberhausen Short films festival, and Haifa Film Festival. - Producer, Director, Script Writer