The Aner Preminger Collection
ChaiFlicks invites you to explore this collection of award-winning films from the acclaimed Israeli filmmaker and scholar Aner Preminger!
An independent filmmaker and a film scholar, Aner Preminger has been a film director, producer and writer since 1986.
Prof. Aner Preminger (Ph.D) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (tenure position) & Department of Film & Television, Sapir Academic College: (tenure position). He is a films tutor; teaches Cinema Studies and Directing workshops.
In addition, Preminger was:
2012-2014 - Head of Film Track, the department of Film & Television, Sapir Academic College.
2011-2012 - Head of the department of Film & Television, Sapir Academic College.
Preminger’s filmography includes:
Present Continuous (2012); One Eye Wide Open (2009); Moscobia (2001); Ransom of the Father (2000); Last Resort (1999); Learning and Teaching Mathematics (1998); On My Way to Father’s Land (1995). Blind Man's Bluff (1993); Front Window (1990).
His Books include:
Reflection on Cinema and Ethos: Israeli and Other Scenes (Hebrew);
François Truffaut: Cinema as an Act of Love – An Intertextual Approach (English);
François Truffaut – The Man Who Loved Films (Hebrew);
Enchanted Screen: A Chronology of Media & Language (Hebrew).
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Present Continuous
One Friday afternoon, while everyone is asleep, an Israeli mother barricades her home. Ruthy is unable to deal with the stress and anxiety she suffers as a result of the continuous political situation. She decides to protect her family: her 20-year-old soldier son Ofer, her 16-year-old daughter N...
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Last Resort
It is September 13, 1993 – the Oslo Accord has just been signed in DC, Rabin and Arafat shook hands. Enter Noam Wax, the former leader of the Nahal Settlement (the Israeli Army’s communal living experiment) who gathers his old friends together for one night. Noam feels betrayed by them since the ...
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One Eye Wide Open
A fascinating documentation of the craft of artist Zvi Lachman during the years 1998 – 2008. Access into Lachman’s inner world through his works of art reveals and surprisingly discloses that the point of origin of his work is very similar to the director’s. To make room for the physical and ment...
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Front Window
An ode to filmmaking. A still photographer’s car breaks down en route to his wedding. Before him, a bride waits on a balcony – in her wedding gown. The photographer observes reality through his windscreen as it becomes interwoven with the world of film in his imagination, through a series of refe...
