By Nadav Harel & Tomer Almagor
86 minute documentary, 2018 USA / ISRAEL
KING OF BEASTS
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER:"A work that goes about it's business with a clear-eyed precision". Read full review
NADAV HAREL: producer / co-director / editor / cinematographer
COMPANIES: Urbantales, Creative Monster, Noprocess
DISTRIBUTION: Gravitas Ventures
KING OF BEASTS, is a feature length documentary on wild African lion trophy hunting. Set in the remote wilderness of Tanzania the film follows an American trophy hunter in pursuit of the ultimate trophy; the KING OF BEASTS.
AVATARA
2019, 30 minutes
by Nadav Harel
In a remote valley in north India, this creative documentary is a rare visual insight into the Tribal-Hindu religious mental world of the Himalaya - spirits, demons, gods and goddesses as they manifest in the dreams and daily rituals of villagers and goat herders.
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: NADAV HAREL SCREENWRITER: ARIK MORAN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: SHMULIK NAPARSTEK
CHIDRA
FILM BY NADAV HAREL & ARIK MORAN
2018, 40 minutes
Chidra, "pierced", documents a unique purification rite of the Indian Himalaya, in which the ritual specialist is ultimately offered to the gods in an approximation of ancient human sacrifices. Between mediums and priests, peasants and gods, Chidra explores the social and psychological constructs surrounding the removal of sin along the mountainous frontier of Hinduism.
PRODUCER & DIRECTOR: NADAV HAREL SCREENWRITER: ARIK MORAN ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: SHMULIK NAPARSTEK
NABBIN
DIRECTOR: KAT TOLKOVSKY CAMERA / EDITOR / MUSICIAN: KAT TOLKOVSKY PRODUCERS: NADAV HAREL, KAT TOLKOVSKY
FILM BY KAT TOLKOVSKY
2018, 30 minutes
The documentary is my coming of age among a community of Gypsies in Nabbin, a small village in the Czech Republic. In the film I portray the uninhibited and inspiring friendship with my wild friends. Although this community is socially unprivileged, I’ve come to know people full of generosity and acceptance.
GAUTAM & BUDDHA
2018, 80 minutes
Best friends Gautam and Buddha are the cross-dressing stars of the New Conquerors, a bawdy, all-male traveling theater in rural India.
EDITOR: NADAV HAREL
Nadav Edited the doc KIVALINA
A SAVOR TERRA film, directed and produced by Gina Abatemarco, KIVALINA is a documentary portrait of an inuit community's struggle to maintain their way of life within a landscape and a system that is failing them. DOP: Zoe White. 2016, 64 minutes, USA
AMERICA Re-Framed, CPB, PBS
Festivals: Berlinale, Full Frame, Sheffield, DOXA
Woodstock, Santa Fe, American FF Poland
KIVLINA
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ABSENT GOD
PRODUCED & EDITED BY NADAV
The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas merged the experience of the Holocaust with Talmudic wisdom and contemporary philosophy. The film presents Levinas’ notion of “ethics as optics״.
Festivals: Jerusalem ff - Brusseles Jewish ff - Warshaw Jewish ff - Docuart Berlin
2014, 68 minutes, Israel, France
