The film by a Ukrainian director is in the program of the retrospective festival “Cannes in Tel Aviv” from November 10 to 20, 2025.

Ukrainian Cinema on the Israeli Screen

In November, Tel Aviv will once again become a cinematic bridge between Israel and Europe: as part of the festival “Cannes in Tel Aviv”, which runs from November 10 to 20, viewers will be able to see three outstanding films that participated in the world’s main showcase — the Cannes Film Festival.
Particular attention is drawn to the film “Two Prosecutors” by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, awarded the François Chalais Prize at Cannes 2025. The screening will take place on November 19, 2025 at the Lev Dizengoff cinema (Dizengoff St 50, Tel Aviv-Yafo) with the participation of the author himself and actor Yevgeny Terletsky.

This premiere will be an important event of the festival, where the Israeli audience will be able to meet the director in person and discuss with him not only the artistic aspects of the film but also themes of memory, guilt, and truth in an era of distorted history.

Festival “Cannes in Tel Aviv”: Retrospective, Dialogue, and Presence

The organizers — Playhouse TLV and the film company KinoRay — conceived the festival as a platform for cultural dialogue. Over ten days, from November 10 to 20, 2025, viewers will see three films that participated in the Cannes Festival 2025, each of which explores the boundaries of human experience in its own way.

The first event was the drama “Mother” (November 11) by Israeli director Or Sinai, starring Evgenia Dodina. It is the story of a woman returning home after fifteen years of separation and her attempts to reconcile with a new reality — a family that has learned to live without her. The screening will take place at Playhouse TLV (Pa’amonit 9, Tel Aviv), followed by a discussion with the lead actress.

The program will conclude on November 20 with the film by Kirill Serebrennikov “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele” — a psychological drama about the escape of a doctor from Auschwitz and the memory from which there is no hiding. The film will be presented by film critic Alina Rebel, a lecturer at Ariel University and a regular lecturer at Playhouse TLV.

All screenings are accompanied by discussions, meetings, and the opportunity to purchase a single ticket for three films with a 20% discount.
More details — on the official festival page playhouse.co.il

Sergei Loznitsa: Chronicler of Memory and Director Who Hears the Era

Sergei Loznitsa, one of the most respected Ukrainian directors of our time, has long been a voice reminding Europe and Israel of the price of truth. His films are a chronicle of pain and human dignity, shot without commentary but with astonishing observational precision.
Loznitsa is a regular participant at the Cannes Festival, the author of documentary masterpieces “Maidan,” “Donbass,” “State Funeral,” as well as feature films “My Joy” and “In the Fog.”

In “Two Prosecutors”, he returns to the Soviet past, exploring the theme of guilt and bureaucratic evil. Based on the prose of GULAG prisoner Georgy Demidov, the film tells the story of a young lawyer, Alexander Kornev, who accidentally finds a prisoner’s letter that miraculously survived among thousands of destroyed letters from 1937. Confronted with the lies and violence of the system, the hero tries to convey the truth to the USSR’s General Prosecutor Andrey Vyshinsky — and becomes its victim.

Starring — Alexander Kuznetsov, Anatoly Bely, Alexander Filippenko, and Yevgeny Terletsky from the Gesher Theater. The screening will be presented by director Sergei Loznitsa and actor Yevgeny Terletsky.

The film, awarded the François Chalais Prize at Cannes, impresses not only with its visual austerity but also with its philosophical precision: it is a film about moral responsibility, about how power turns the language of law into a weapon of fear.

Cultural Dialogue: Israel, Ukraine, and Europe on One Screen

The retrospective “Cannes in Tel Aviv” is not just a screening of three festival films, but an attempt to build a lively conversation between cinemas that, in different eras, sought answers to one question: where is the boundary between the personal and the historical?
The Ukrainian perspective of Sergei Loznitsa, the Israeli emotional honesty of Or Sinai, and the philosophical depth of Kirill Serebrennikov come together in one poster, turning November evenings in Tel Aviv into a kind of film seminar on human experience and memory.

For viewers, the festival is a chance to see not just films, but also the people behind them: directors, actors, critics, who in open Q&A will tell how cinema is born that can speak to the world without translation.

Why It Matters

Against the backdrop of the alarming context of war and growing mutual misunderstanding, cultural meetings like “Cannes in Tel Aviv” sound especially loud.
The Ukrainian film on the Israeli screen is a reminder that the language of art is still capable of connecting.
Cinema, like memory, does not belong to one country: it lives where there is an audience ready to hear the truth.

Addresses and Dates of the “Cannes in Tel Aviv” Festival

• November 11 — “Mother” (Or Sinai)
  Playhouse TLV, Pa’amonit 9, Tel Aviv
  Starts at 19:30 | Discussion with Evgenia Dodina
• November 19 — “Two Prosecutors” (Sergei Loznitsa)
  Lev Dizengoff, Dizengoff St 50, Tel Aviv-Yafo
  Starts at 19:00 | Q&A with Sergei Loznitsa and Yevgeny Terletsky
• November 20 — “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele” (Kirill Serebrennikov)
  Playhouse TLV, Pa’amonit 9, Tel Aviv
  Starts at 19:30 | Discussion with Alina Rebel

Film Festival Website: playhouse.co.il

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