FICTION & DOCUMENTARY
FICTION & DOCUMENTARY
FICTION & DOCUMENTARY
FICTION & DOCUMENTARY
Miss Holocaust Survivor
Documentary, 75 min, 2020
Synopsis: Every year since 2011, a unique beauty contest takes place in Haifa. The contestants are female survivors of the Holocaust. In the midst of this flashy spectacle, their personal traumas remain as deep as ever.
Director and Editor: Eytan Ipeker
Producer: Yoel Meranda (Kamara - Turkey)
Co-Producers: Eitan Mansuri and Jonathan Doweck (Spiro Films - Israel), Kristina Konrad (Welt Film), Carine Chichkowsky (Survivance - France)
Supported by New Film Fund (Turkey)
Selected to Sheffield/Doc MeetMarket 2018
Selected to Meetings on the Bridge 2019 (winner of Color-Up Award)
(currently in production)
INTERVIEWS
Le Monde (Jacques Mandelbaum) - in French
Cineuropa (Marta Bałaga) - in English
Visions du Réel (Giona Nazzaro) - in English
Il Manifesto (Giovanna Branca) - in Italian
Odessa Intl Film Festival (Lyolya Goldstein) - in Ukranian
Radio Svoboda (Michail Shetkel) - in Ukranian
Istanbul Modern Sinema (Müge Turan) - in Turkish
Bir + Bir (Ayşegül Oğuz & Yiğit Atılgan) - in Turkish
Şalom (Zehra Çengil) - in Turkish
Şalom Dergi (Karen Hodara) - in Turkish
The Pageant
Documentary, 83 min, 2020
Every year since 2011, a unique beauty contest takes place in Haifa. The contestants are female survivors of the Holocaust. In the midst of this flashy spectacle sponsored by an Evangelical Christian organization, the personal traumas of the survivors remain as deep as ever. A documentary about how memory, politics and spectacle are interconnected.
Visions du Réel - International Feature Film Competition ( WORLD PREMIERE)
Sarajevo Film Festival - Documentary Competition
Odessa International Film Competition - European Documentary Competition
Rhode Island International Film Festival
Istanbul Film Festival - National Documentary Competition
Antalya Golden OrangeFilm Festival - National Documentary Competition
Human Rights Film Festival Lugano
Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote
Traces de Vies - Compétition 2021 / Regard Documentaire Hors Frontières
Documentarist
Istanbul Modern Cinema
Turkish National Critics Association - Best Feature Documentary Award Nominee
REVIEWS
"The film accuses without a word, in a very efficient and intelligent way, the radical strangeness, not to say the sweet obscenity, of its subject."
"Complex and nuanced"
"an eye for detail, especially uncomfortable ones"
Cineuropa's review (Marta Bałaga)
"Ipeker deliberately creates associations that make you shiver"
"Ipeker’s approach could not be better suited to his film’s flabbergasting subject"
"Ipeker deliberately creates associations that make you shiver"
critic.de (Anne Küper) - in German
"The Pageant (...) is able to use its feature-length to raise more of the troubling psychological aspects of the event, in a non-conclusive, humbly observational manner that never presumes to condemn the choices of its subjects."
Modern Times Review (Carmen Gray)
Listed as:
Best Films of 2020 - Michael Sicinski
Best Turkish Films of 2020 - Yiğit Atılgan (Bantmag)
Best Turkish Films of 2020 - Burcu Aykar (Altyazı Film Magazine)
TRAILER
IMAGE GALLERY
DISTRIBUTION
North American Distribution by Grasshopper Film
Worldwide Sales by Go2Films
Streaming at Mubi Türkiye
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CREDITS
Directed and Edited by Eytan İpeker
Produced by Yoel Meranda (Kamara - Turkey), Carine Chichkowsky (Survivance - France), Eitan Mansuri and Jonathan Doweck (Spiro Films - Israel), Kristina Konrad (Welt Film - Germany)
Director of Photography: Itay Marom
Sound Design: Emmanuel Soland
Assistant Director: Elina Margolin
Producer’s Assistant: Amitai Pnini
Post-Production: ColorUp (Istanbul), Volte Film (Berlin)
Supported by CNC, Procirep-Angoa, Tënk & Mediapart (France), New Film Fund (Turkey)
Pitched at Sheffield Doc/Fest MeetMarket 2018, Istanbul Meetings on the Bridge Work-in-Progress 2019 (Color Up Award)