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ONE OF SEVEN _
A Film by Goel Pinto / Israel 2010 _
Produced for NOGA Communications --Channel 8: by Goel Pinto _
Documentary 50 minutes. French, Hebrew. English subtitles. _
SYNOPSIS _ ''One of Seven'' is a fascinating journey of journalist and film critic Goel Pinto's life stations. Goel, born to an Oriental religious family, 'one of seven' children, in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv.
Going back to his childhood memories, the director, along with his mother Monique, peel off the layers of his past, in order to get to the root of the lack of identity that accompanies him, he tries to reconcile the different elements that shape his being: religion, ethnicity, homosexuality and the memory of the holocaust.
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Festivals and Awards:
* Berlin Jewish Film Festival - Germany 2011
* Boston Jewish Film Festival - USA 2011
* Cape Winelands Film Festival, Cape Town - South Africa 2011
* Fipatel (selective market screening) : FIPA International Film Festival, Biarritz - France 2011
* ''Jewish Identity": Haifa International Film Festival - Israel 2010
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Boston Jewish F.F.SYNOPSIS: Goel Pinto, former Ha'aretz film critic, explores what
makes him feel "different." Besides his homosexuality, his family's North African origins make him feel like an Israeli second-class citizen. But Pinto tips the balance when he discovers a Sephardic great-aunt who died in the Holocaust. In making his first documentary, Pinto draws closer to his mother, confronts his past as a molested boy at an Orthodox yeshiva, and faces his fractured relationship with his religious father._
Berlin Jewish F.F.SYNOPSIS: A journalist and film critic who sets out to make a documentary about the Holocaust and North African Jews ends up turning the camera on himself and the mother of his six siblings. Pinto's candid inquiry into religious identity, ethnicity, and his own homosexuality reveals poignant truths about estrangement and exclusion, whether in family or a fragmented Israeli society. _
HAIFA F.F.SYNOPSIS: ''One of Seven'' is the filmmaker's story as he labors to peel away the layers of his life and find the calm center. He tries to reconcile the different elements that shape his being: religion, ethnicity, homosexuality and the memory of the holocaust. Goel Pinto is a journalist and film critic. This is his directing debut._
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