Tantura (2022)
92%RT Audience Score:
Awards & Nominations: NA
Tantura dives into a man’s struggle to reckon with events that some may call means to freedom and others a massacre — the birth story of many, if not all, civilizations.
Tantura takes you on a wild ride through a dude’s journey to come to terms with some pretty intense stuff. Some folks might see it as a path to liberation, while others might call it a total bloodbath. Either way, it’s a tale as old as time – the origin story of pretty much every civilization out there. Get ready to have your mind blown!
Production Company(ies)
Foreign Language, Social
Distributor
Reel Peak Films
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
Filming Location(s)
MPAA / Certificate
NR
Year of Release
2022
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Aspect ratio:NA
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Runtime:1h 35m
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Language(s):English, Arabic, Hebrew
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Country of origin:Israel
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Dec 2, 2022 Limited
Genre(s)
Documentary
Keyword(s)
documentary, Tantura, Teddy Katz, Alon Schwarz, Halil Efrat, Shaul Schwarz, Maiken Baird, Reel Peak Films, War of Independence, Al Nakba, Palestinian villages, massacre, Israeli society, Alexandroni Brigade, audio testimonies, graduate student, history, power, silencing, protected narratives, cultural amnesia, psychology, perpetrators, expert testimonies, archive footage, photographs, kibbutz, colliding perspectives, accounts, means to freedom, birth story, civilizations, critics, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Variety, Vox, reviewed by Carlos Aguilar, Ben Kenigsberg, Owen Gleiberman, Alissa Wilkinson, MPAA rating, budget, box office performance, produced by, directed by, written by, starring
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Budget and Earnings Details
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Alon Schwarz – Director, Writer
Halil Efrat – Writer
Shaul Schwarz – Writer
Maiken Baird – Producer
Director(s)
Alon Schwarz
Writer(s)
Halil Efrat, Alon Schwarz, Shaul Schwarz
Producer(s)
Maiken Baird, Alon Schwarz, Shaul Schwarz
Film Festivals
Sundance
Awards & Nominations
NA
Academy Awards
All Critics (27) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (2)
A damning exposé of a nation unwilling to admit its primordial sins.
December 2, 2022
Carlos Aguilar
Los Angeles Times
TOP CRITIC
When “Tantura” finally moves into its final act, the wider emotional ripple effects of its subject matter are difficult to avoid, as the question shifts from what is remembered to who is allowed to remember (and be remembered) in the first place. December 1, 2022 | Rating: B-
Siddhant Adlakha
indieWire
TOP CRITIC
Not simply a persuasive augmentation of Katz’s argument, but also a disturbing portrait of how very human impulses — passivity, rationalization, social pressures — can shape the writing of history.
December 1, 2022
Ben Kenigsberg
New York Times
TOP CRITIC
Schwarz does a fine job of selectively expanding the scope of Katz’s story from a highly subjective he-said/they-said dispute into a bigger story about cultural amnesia.
November 28, 2022
Simon Abrams
TheWrap
TOP CRITIC
The film works on two levels: one is about the massacre; the other is about the psychology employed not only by perpetrators, but by the powerful forces that back them up.
February 14, 2022
Alissa Wilkinson
Vox
TOP CRITIC
“Tantura” is far from the last word on the subject. It’s more like a salvo blast that, for Israel, raises the stakes of truth.
February 1, 2022
Owen Gleiberman
Variety
TOP CRITIC
Schwarz’s documentary, conversely, provides enough political doublespeak to engage in it with caution and skepticism, but this all feels like a morbid PR stunt.
December 2, 2022
Zachary Goldkind
In Review Online
Not a movie that will please an Israeli audience. That’s a compliment.
November 27, 2022 | Rating: B+
Harvey S. Karten
Big Apple Reviews
Tantura is an extremely well-researched film and is very competently put together, with numerous expert testimonies and priceless, previously unseen archive footage and photographs that leave little doubt as to what essentially happened…
October 18, 2022
Vladan Petkovic
Cineuropa
A hugely compelling story about how power tries to silence all other narratives.
October 18, 2022 | Rating: A-
Ned Booth
The Playlist
Not the least disturbing element here are interviews with elderly, still-kicking founders of a kibbutz…
July 27, 2022
Dennis Harvey
48 Hills
The colliding perspectives and accounts are fascinating, if a bit messy, in execution and yearn for a more cohesive assembly.
June 8, 2022
Josh Parham
Next Best Picture…
Plot
Israelis call it “The War of Independence,” and Palestinians call it, “Al-Nakba” (The Catastrophe). This is the story of the 1948 war between Jews and Palestinians, and the silencing of graduate student Teddy Katz who in the late 1990’s exposed an alleged massacre that took place in the Palestinian village of Tantura only one week after the founding of the state of Israel.
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