Despite this week's confrontations with Israeli Arabs and Palestinians, Blayer said that the filmmakers have reaffirmed their plans to attend the festival. BACK on the home front, the documentary film sector appears to be going from strength to strength and 11 Israeli-made documentaries will be shown at the festival. This is a clearly burgeoning sector of the local film industry. The DocuNoga documentary festival has just been held for the fourth successive year, and the New Foundation for Cinema and Television recently instigated a series of documentary film weekends at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque to be held throughout the year. We can be proud of our documentary films.
Documentaries are much cheaper to make than features.
Two of the entries in the documentary category - Point of View and The Queue at Ibn Shadad Street were also shown at last month's DocuNoga Festival, with the latter sharing first prize there. Blayer notes that not only has the quantity of Israeli documentaries increased considerably, the subject matter has also undergone radical changes. I think it's a sign of our growing maturity as a society. Tali Shemesh's Television Dreams is certainly an intimate film, although not as far as Shemesh is personally concerned. The film looks at five Israeli women and the role that TV plays in their lives.