Love Inventory Explained

Love Inventory
aka Reshimat Ahava
Director:David Fisher
Starring:Estee Fisher
David Fisher
Gideon Fisher
Ronel Fisher
Amnon Fisher
Music:Amnon Fisher
Doron Shenkar
Cinematography:Itzik Portal
Editing:Tali Halter-Shenkar
Runtime:90 minutes
Language:Hebrew
French subtitles
German subtitles
English subtitles

Love Inventory aka Reshimat Ahava (Hebrew: רשימת אהבה) is a 2000 Israeli documentary film, written and directed by David Fisher and produced by Yahaly Gat and David Fisher. This is the First film in the family trilogy [1] created by director David Fisher followed by Mostar Round-Trip (2011) and Six Million and One (2011).

Plot summary

After the death of their parents, Filmmaker David Fisher feels that his family has grown apart and that his siblings are focused on their careers and relationships with their spouses and children. Fisher believes that a search for their sister, who was allegedly taken from their parents at birth, will help them bond.Fisher and his four siblings, whose parents were Holocaust survivors, set out on a journey that deals with both family dynamics and the history and establishment of the State of Israel. The siblings become amateur detectives, searching for any evidence that might lead them to their sister.[2]

It is a story of five siblings looking for a lost sister who end up finding themselves.[3]

Production

The film was shot on Standard-definition television and a 35mm print of the film was made. The film was produced for Noga Communications Channel 8 with the support of The New Fund for Cinema and Television (NFCT) and the Israeli Film Council. The film was broadcast by ARTE[4] in Europe and on 73 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) channels in the United States in the framework of the Independent Lens series.[5] The film had limited theatrical release in Israel[6] and in German speaking countries in Europe by Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek.[7] The film is distributed to institutions and individuals in the US by the National center for Jewish films.

In 1999 before the film was released, and as part of the production of the film, an imaginary composite portrait of the missing sister was published in the daily newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth.[8] The portrait was composed of the common characteristics of the five Fisher siblings and was issued as an attempt to draw the attention of the missing sister, if she was indeed alive as was suspected by the Fishers.

Additional production credits:

Festivals and awards

The film won the following awards:

The film was selected and screened at the following International film festivals:

Critical reception

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/net/ViewEntry.aspx?entryId=2286873&skip=1
  2. Zimmerman, Dana, A Portrait of a Missing Woman, Haaretz, May 16, 1999.
  3. Stav, Yehuda, Yedioth Aharonoth, May 18, 2001.
  4. http://www.arte.tv/fr/documentaires-et-reportages/2153166,CmC=2153154.html
  5. https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/loveinventory/
  6. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-709469,00.html
  7. http://film.fluter.de/de/3/kino/311/
  8. Peled, Asafa, We have a sister, and she has no name, Yedioth Aharonoth, June 8, 2001
  9. http://www.jff.org.il/?CategoryID=461
  10. http://www.israelfilmacademy.co.il/?CategoryID=177&ArticleID=880
  11. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-132230,00.htm
  12. http://www.jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/loveinv.html
  13. http://www.jff.org.il/?CategoryID=461
  14. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2001/02_programm_2001/02_Filmdatenblatt_2001_20010474.php
  15. http://www.jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/loveinv.html
  16. https://web.archive.org/web/20090622192616/http://www.hkiff.org.hk/en/index.php
  17. http://www.chicagodocfestival.org/love.html
  18. https://worldfest.org/ Worldfest Film Festival, Huston website
  19. http://www.input-tv.org/history/1999_2009/2001/
  20. http://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/download/Publikationen/DokFest_2004_Katalog.pdf
  21. http://bifilmfestival.com/
  22. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-1337328,00.html
  23. http://www.cinemanila.org.ph/
  24. http://www.isratim.co.il/archive/2002/docu2002/inventairedamour.htm
  25. http://www.jtnews.net/index.php?/news/item/seattle_international_film_festival_presents_handful_of_jewish_films
  26. http://www.vjff.org/festival/2000-2006-festivals
  27. http://www.sfjff.org/film/detail?id=1309