Tantura

"The untold story of Israel's foundation"

2022 1h 35m HE

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★7.7TMDB · 25🍅94%Rotten Tomatoes●81Metacritic★8.5IMDB · 2,531

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When, in the late 1990s, Israeli student Teddy Katz exposed the massacre of Palestinian civilians by Israeli forces in the village of Tantura, in May 1948, during the first Arab-Israeli war, he was initially praised for his pioneering work; but he was soon infamous and branded a traitor. Decades later, incendiary new evidence emerges that corroborates Teddy's findings.

“The untold story of Israel's foundation”

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Cast

Yitzhak Pinto
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Rachel Yochne
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Drora Varblovsky
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Tereza Carmi
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Amitzur Cohen
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Mulik Sternberg
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Shimon Kutner
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Haim Levin
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Credits

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Director: Alon Schwarz
Writers: Alon Schwarz, Shaul Schwarz, Halil Efrat
Languages: Arabic, English, Hebrew
Countries: Israel, United States of America

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Released 4 years ago.

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WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Arabic, English, Hebrew.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: Israel, United States of America.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Alon Schwarz, shot by Avner Shahaf. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Ophir Leibovitch. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Halil Efrat shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Yitzhak Pinto and Rachel Yochne and Drora Varblovsky carry the top of the cast.

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ERA

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Marketing tagline: "The untold story of Israel's foundation".

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The take

Alon Schwarz directs. Avner Shahaf behind the camera. Ophir Leibovitch scores. Halil Efrat cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Israel, United States of America. Dialogue in Arabic, English, Hebrew.

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1Released 4 years ago.
2Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Arabic, English, Hebrew.
3International production across 2 countries: Israel, United States of America.
4Directed by Alon Schwarz, shot by Avner Shahaf. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Ophir Leibovitch. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Halil Efrat shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Yitzhak Pinto and Rachel Yochne and Drora Varblovsky carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "The untold story of Israel's foundation".
9IMDB entry: tt16378034 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Only 25 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
11Classified under 9 themes, including "palestinian-israeli conflict", "palestine", "shocking", "arab–israeli war (1948)".

The technical file

Cinematography: Avner Shahaf
Original score: Ophir Leibovitch
Editing: Halil Efrat
Sound: Aviv Aldema
Runtime: 95 min · 1h 35m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: HE
IMDB: Tantura (2022)
Rotten Tomatoes: 94% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 81/100
IMDB rating: 8.5/10 · 2,531 votes
US box office: $6,967

Awards

3 wins & 8 nominations total

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druscilla_of_old2026-08-29
★ 8/10
Rarely does one get to see Zio-Nazis in their twilight years telling the stories of how they "won" their "country" through genocide, ethnic cleansing, torture, and rape - which they call their "war of independence" - and how it traumatized them (and not their victims) all while living in luxury and comfort in lands and homes that they stole as chillingly and as clearly as is shown here. Not only this, but we also get to see how the "country" that is NOT real has been covering up these atrocities, which were carried out on Palestinians in Palestine during the Nakba, for all the years since its "founding" in 1948. In simpler terms, if you want to find out how Nazis would have been living and thinking today in Germany if they had won, watch this documentary. Its only shortcoming is that it was made by "citizens" of the very same "country" that is not real.

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