EXCLUSIVE: Israeli director Dani Rosenberg (The Demise of Cinema and My Father Too, The Vanishing Soldier) has prepared his later movie with Alexander Rodnyansky’s AR content material. The movie, which Rosenberg wrote with Ori Avinoam and Itai Tamir, is known as Of Canines and Males and AR Content material will manufacture with Tamier (Beneath a Blue Solar) of Laila Movies.
The tale follows 16-year-old Dar, who returns to her kibbutz to search for her canine who was once misplaced all over the fear assault of October 7. She navigates in the course of the horrors etched upon the park and at the faces of society she meets month encountering the stark fact of the unfolding emergency past the fence. Between those that search revenge and the ones whose religion in mankind remainder confident, Dar will attempt to search out her personal expression.
Financed by way of AR Content material, Of Canines and Males was once shot in October and November 2023 within the kibbutzim lining the border with Gaza. Even though the tale is fictional, it stars non-actors and was once shot on-location with a little group who lived in or have been provide within the patch on the past. To painting the truth of the patch, it includes a luminous digital camera, most commonly improvised discussion and disagree built units.
“I have been living about a 50-minute drive away from hell on earth,” stated Rosenberg. “A place where families were burned alive or buried under their houses, women were raped and kidnapped and babies die of starvation. A place where refugees roam without a future on the horizon. We started filming knowing one thing for certain – it wouldn’t be right to invent fictional characters or artificial sets. I decided to film real people who are essentially part of the locations and the real events and to improvise all interactions, so that I don’t put a single world into their mouths. The film has one anchor that connects it to the world of fiction: the protagonist, Dar, and her fictitious story, which is the frame for today’s unfolding reality.”
Rodnyansky added: “Throughout my career I have been supporting talented filmmakers and today I feel that it is important to help give voice to the Israeli artists and through their work fight the rising tide of global anti-semitism. Of Dogs and Men is a unique and beautiful film that focuses on the fragility of life and the horror of war. The reason I immediately fell in love with his film was that it provides a very humane message. Watching the film, it is obvious that while Dani, like many Israelis, is devastated by the tragedy of October 7th, he feels the pain of the innocent victims from both sides.”
Rosenberg’s debut component, The Demise of Cinema and My Father Too was once a part of the Legitimate Variety in Cannes in 2020 and received the award for Best possible Israeli Constituent on the Jerusalem Movie Competition. His 2d component movie, The Vanishing Soldier, was once a part of the Legitimate Variety on the Locarno Movie Competition in 2023 and received the award for Best possible Israeli Constituent Movie on the Haifa Movie Competition, the Critic Award at Cinemed, and in recent years has been dispensed effectively round France in dozens of cinemas around the nation, with raving critiques.
His snip and medium area motion pictures were proven in diverse world gala’s together with the Cannes Cinéfondation, Berlinale, HotDocs, and IDFA. His comedy-drama layout “Milk & Honey” has been bought for adaptation in Germany and France.
AR’s tide slate comprises: Kornel Mundruczó & Kata Wéber’s On the Sea starring Amy Adams, Laszlo Nemes’ Orphan, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi’s Career, and Kantemir Balagov’s Butterfly Jam.
