page_title: Yulie Cohen
section_title: Film career
hierarchical_section_title: Yulie Cohen / Film career
caption_attribution_description: עברית: מתוך הסרט "האח שלי" של יולי כהן
context_page_description: Yulie Cohen is an Israeli documentary filmmaker.
context_section_description: In 1993, Cohen became an independent filmmaker. The first work she created was called Einayim Sheli (My Eyes), a series of short, 5-minute documentary films about children's hobbies from around Israel for the Second Authority for Television and Radio. The first documentary film she produced was about the moshav Patish, in the Negev, for Channel 2. It was directed by Yvonne Miklush. Between 1993–1995 Cohen produced five 30-minute documentary films for Channel 2, one of which, Hemdat Yamim, was her directorial debut.
  In 1995, Cohen joined a group of journalists, including Rafi Reshef and Raudor Benziman, who submitted a bid for Radio Tel Aviv (102FM), and won. Benziman became the station's CEO, and Cohen the Vice President. Three years later, in 1998, Cohen sold her shares and left the station. That same year, she co-produced the political satire Circus Palestine, directed by Eyal Halfon. The film was nominated for seven Ophir Awards (the Israeli Academy awards), and won five, including Best Feature Film.
  In 1999 Cohen produced and directed Golden Cage, a 30-minute documentary featuring journalist Gideon Levy. The film is about a Palestinian expatriate in the Netherlands, who was detained by Israeli security forces after being accused of membership in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and then deported. In 2000, Cohen was elected as chairperson of the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum. In 2000–2001 she co-produced the full-length documentaries by Michal Aviad, Lev Ha'aretz (Ramla) for Channel 8.
  In 1999, Cohen began working on her documentary My Terrorist, which premiered in 2002. It is the first in a trilogy of films, and describes her reconciliation process with Fahad Mihyi, the PFLP member who shot her in London in 1978. The film describes how Cohen started out as an avid patriot who wanted to become an officer during her military service, and became, after the shooting, an anxious mother who was afraid to let her daughters out by themselves, lest they become victims of a suicide terrorist attack. Nevertheless, years later, she felt compelled to reexamine Israel's history since her childhood in the 1960s, and came to some very different conclusions about the politics of her homeland. The film shows her efforts to secure Mihyi's release from prison as a political act, and her goal to stand up as a survivor and call for reconciliation on both sides.
  My Terrorist won a special jury award at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2002, was nominated for the Silver Wolf Award at IDFA, received the Provincia di Cuneo film award, and won the Ilaria Alpi Journalistic Television Award in 2004. It was broadcast in more than 20 countries, translated into 20 languages. Cohen went on a university speaking tour with the film, which included Harvard, Berkeley, and University of Chicago. The film was also on permanent display on the International Museum of Women in San Francisco website.
  Her next film was My Land Zion (2004), the second in the trilogy. The film depicts Cohen's personal journey across Israel, through three generations of two families: Her parents, from the Palmach generation, and her daughters; Shula Golani, a Holocaust survivor, and her historian son, Motti Golani; and Ruti Gilis, who lives in the illegal settlement Karmei Tsur. The film premiered at the Rehovot International Women's Film Festival, and went on to screen at dozens of international festivals around the world. Yaron London said of My Land Zion: "This is a film worth seeing and then asking difficult questions... Many powerful scenes. It is a film about the cruelty of Zionism."
  My Brother, the third installation of the trilogy, came out in 2007. It follows Cohen's attempts to reconcile with her brother, who became baal tshuva (adopting orthodox religion and lifestyle) in the 1980s, and lives in Bnei Brak, an extremely orthodox city, with his six children, and their children. Cohen and her brother have no contact. The film was funded by Reshet (Channel 2), and received high ratings upon broadcast. It also participated in the Haifa International F
caption: Photograph of Cohen and her estranged brother as children; from the film ''My Brother'' (2007)
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