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The 74th
Israel, 2004, 16min

Director: Haggai Arad

Script: Haggai Arad
Producers: Sapir academic college, Haggai Arad, Diti Horwits, Naama Nagar
Photographer: Ariel Glikson
Editors: Daniel Weil, Michal Ben-Zvi
Sound recordist & designer: Alfred Tesler, Oren Traitel

Synopsis: In winter 1997, two army helicopters, crashed above the Lebanese border. 73 soldiers found their death. "The 74th" confronts with that night, in which I was sent to remove the bodies. “The 74th” is about loss and search. The loss of naivete’, childhood , security. The loss of faith – in the country, in the good, in mother. Search for memories, words, sounds, pictures and feelings. Search for compassion.

Haggai Arad,
23, December, 1975

1991-1993 - "Sha'ar Ha'Negev" High School
1994-1997 - combatant military service at the Infantry
1997-2004 - working at the Kibbutz with children
1999-2004 - film school in Sapir academic collage

FILMOGRAPHY

"Like Sobnaboola" - 8 minutes, documentary, detailing the relationship between 2 women; one is an old, European woman and a holocaust survivor, and the other a young woman taking care of her, from a nearby town. Role: editor. "Looking for the I" - 8 minutes, plot, about a young man returning from India and looking for his spiritual path. Role: editor
"Panki" - 6 minutes, plot, a young man loses both the woman his with and the cat that was supposed to be a replacement for love. Roles: screenwriter, director and cameraman
"Love in a Salad" - 2 minutes, animation - a love story between a cucumber and a tomato.
"Three points" - 10 minutes, documentary, regarding the education system in the Bedouin sector. Role: editor
"Your open, wide, full hand" - 6 minutes, documentary, my first attempt at dealing with memory and trauma. The movie deals with my relationship with my grandmother. Roles: scriptwriter, director, editor.
"Multi Dimension" - 19 minutes documentary - an obese woman, in doubts regarding her weight, on the background of her family who's also obese and happy, and her friend expecting her to be thin. Role: editor
“The 74th”- 16 minutes, documentary, 16 mm. Script writer, director & producer.
The script of “The 74th”, took part in non-pitching in bonn festival, 2002.

Festivals:
South film festival- sderot, Israel,2004
International students film festival-pisek, czech republic,2004
The 1st international of short film festival, Luxemburg, 2004
Int'l Film Festival, Fano, Italy, 2004
Int'l film ferstival, Ankara, Turkey, 2005
Int'l children films festival& congress, Istanbul, Turkey, 2005
Doc Aviv, Int'l doc festival-student category, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2005
Int'l short film festival, Huesca, Spain, 2005

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