DOCUMENTARY
The Green Dumpster Mystery (2008) 50minDIR: Tal Haim Yoffe
During Passover 2007, traveling on my scooter through southern Tel Aviv's Florentine industrial zone, I suddenly noticed a very old photograph inside a green dumpster.
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During Passover 2007, traveling on my scooter through southern Tel Aviv's Florentine industrial zone, I suddenly noticed a very old photograph inside a green dumpster. Upon removing it from the container, I noticed that underneath the photograph were additional ones, as well as a couple of documents. I took my findings home and "Googled" the names of the people mentioned in the documents. I could only find reference to one of the documents, so to trace the others, I had to implement "real detective work." The Green Dumpster Mystery became a docu-detective film, slowly unwinding a tragic family history beginning in ?odz, Poland, transversing a Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the "Gordonia" kibbutz movement in Frankfurt, a Haha'apala ship embarking from an Italian port, a single-room apartment in a deserted Arab building in Jaffa, and an absentee IDF soldier somewhere in the sands of the Sinai Peninsula. Just an anonymous family, this family's saga could be fodder for ten heroic genre Hollywood motion pictures, or, alternatively ten Greek tragedies.
| Date |
Screening |
Venue |
Tickets |
Tue 6/9 |
5:00pm |
Fine Arts Theatre |
Sold Out |
Thu 6/11 |
5:00pm |
Laemmle's Fallbrook |
Sold Out |
Sun 6/14 |
12:30pm |
Laemmle's Fallbrook |
Sold Out |