The Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, in collaboration with the Anda Zimand Film Archive at the Tel Aviv University, invite you to the screening of the documentary film “Independence for a day” (2003, Israel, 50 minutes), directed by Liviu Carmely.
The screening, In Hebrew with English subtitles, will take place Thursday, April 27, 2017, at 17:00 at RCI Tel Aviv (8 Shaul HaMelech Blvd, Beit Amot Mishpat, 6th floor) and will mark the anniversary of 50 years since the Six-Day War (June 5-10, 1967).
Before the screening, there will be a round table on the perspective of Romanian-born Israelis about the phenomenon of the Six-Day War, form a cultural and social point of view. Participants: Liviu Carmely, filmmaker and director of the Anda Zimand Film Archive, and George Gîlea, reporter for Radio Romania Cultural and editor at the Hasefer Publishing House and “Realitatea Evreiasca” Magazine in Romania.
Free entrance, the number of seats is limited.
Synopsis: According to Jewish tradition, a day lasts from sunset to sunset. On Friday 14.05.1948, in a house on Rothschild St. in Tel Aviv, the ceremony of the declaration of the independence of the new State of Israel was hastily held. The time was 16:30. Several hours later, the Egyptian air force struck Tel Aviv, thus marking the beginning of the Israeli War of Independence. In the meantime, the Sabbath began, a new day commenced and so Israel was "awarded" a single day of independence. As a tribute to this occasion, the movie was filmed during a single Independence Day. The film is a personal and national journey into the cultural, social and historical landscape of ourselves, as it examines the distinctions between the founders' intentions and the result, encounters figures who are part of this landscape and attempts to create an image for remembrance of a state on a day.
