The IIJS Film Series continued with Zorki, a documentary from Zohar Wagner, on Monday, October 30.
Zohar Wagner, then 34, used her documentary camera to tear away the cloak of silence that enveloped her bourgeois family. Her mother had a five-year affair with a man ten years her junior, and Zohar, at the age of twelve, was an accomplice to the secret. Twenty years after the difficult episode that had torn the family apart, Zohar's mother is selling her childhood home and Zohar gathers her family to open their personal Pandora’s Box. The resulting film is called “Zorki,” the family nickname for Zohar. (54 minutes; Hebrew with English subtitles; 2006)
On October 30, the Institute hosted a virtual Q&A with Zohar Wagner, the writer and director of Zorki.
Zohar Wagner directs feature and television documentaries in Israel, which have screened at festivals worldwide. Savoy opened at the 2022 Jerusalem Film Festival and won awards for Best Documentary Director and Best Editing. It also won Israeli Film Academy Awards for Best Editing and Best Makeup, with nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Actress.
If you would like to view Zohar Wagner’s most recent film, Savoy, it is available at the following link: https://vimeo.com/643056899 (Password: savoy270770).
Zohar Wagner’s October 30 Q&A is available to view in full below.
This event was made possible by the generosity of the Appel and Kaye families.
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