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Synopsis
Jerusalem-born trauma expert Ofra Bloch forces herself to confront her personal demons in a journey that takes her to Germany, Israel and Palestine. Set against the current wave of fascism and anti-Semitism sweeping the globe, AFTERWARD delves into the secret wounds carried by victims as well as victimizers, through testimonies ranging from the horrifying to the hopeful. Seen as a victim in Germany and a perpetrator in Palestine, Bloch faces those she was raised to hate as she searches to understand the identity-making narratives of the Holocaust and the Nakba, violent and non-violent resistance, and the possibility of reconciliation. The film points towards a future – an “afterward” – that attempts to live with the truths of history in order to make sense of the present.
Past Screenings
Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
Special Skype Q&A with Director Ofra Bloch
Sunday, February 2nd, 2020
Special Q&A with Director Ofra Bloch in-person
Saturday, January 25
Q&A with co-writer/producer Jack Riccobono
Monday, January 20th at 7:30pm
Special Q&A with director Ofra Bloch and moderated by Julia Turner, Deputy Editor of Art & Entertainment at the Los Angeles Times.
Tuesday, January 21st at 1:00pm
Monday, January 20th at 7:30pm
Tuesday, January 21st at 1:00pm
Monday, January 20th at 7:30pm
Tuesday, January 21st at 1:00pm
Monday, January 20th at 7:30pm
Tuesday, January 21st at 1:00pm
January 17th to January 23rd
January 10th to January 16th
Tel Aviv Cinematheque
Monday, December 9th, 2019 at 7:00pm
Special Q&A with Director Ofra Bloch in-person
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019 at 4:30pm (United Nations Secretariat Building)
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019 at 7:15pm (AMC Rolling Hills)
Friday, July 26th, 2019 at 1:15pm (Castro Theatre)
Saturday, July 27th, 2019 at 4:00pm (Albany Twin Theatre)
Saturday, June 1, 2019 at 5:30pm
Sunday, June 2, 2019 at 2:00pm
Sunday, April 14th, 2019 at 7:10 pm
Monday, April 15th, 2019 at 7:10 pm
Thursday, April 11th, 2019 at 4:00pm
Friday, April 12th, 2019 at 8:30pm
Saturday, April 13th, 2019 at 1:30 pm
Sunday, April 7th, 2019 at 7:00pm
Sunday, April 14th, 2019 at 8:00pm
Tower City Cinemas
Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 12:05 PM
West Coast Premiere
Awards
The 2019 Greenwich International Film Festival Award for the Best Social Impact Film
The 2020 Jonathan Daniels Award is sponsored by the Jonathan Daniels Center for Social Responsibility and the Monadnock International Film Festival and is given to a filmmaker whose film demonstrates artistic excellence combined with awareness around a social justice issue. The award is in memory of Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a young Episcopan seminarian, who travelled to Alabama in 1965 to assist with voter registration efforts and who during confrontation sacrificed his life to save the life of fellow protestor Ruby Sales, a sixteen-year-old African American girl.
Press
Now This
Israeli-Born Filmmaker Ofra Bloch Puts Holocaust Alongside Palestinian Conflict in 'Afterward
der Freitag
With her documentary Afterward (2019), the Israeli-American psychoanalyst Ofra Bloch delves into perpetrator-victim relationships and trauma among Germans, Israelis and Palestinians.
Live Q&A w/Monadnock International Film Festival
A live discussion with AFTERWARD director Ofra Bloch, 2020 Jonathan Daniels Award winner. Moderated by Mary E. Jensen, Ph.D. from the Jonathan Daniels Center for Social Responsibility.
NPR
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Ofra Bloch about her documentary Afterward. Having grown up surrounded by Holocaust survivors, Bloch decided to examine her long-held belief that Germans were bad.
Room
I wanted to stop the cycle of hate and othering before I passed it on to my own sons, to the next generation.
The New York Times
A documentary seeks to find out what people think of Jews, the Holocaust and history.
Los Angeles Times
Review: ‘Afterward’ analyzes the legacy of trauma, fascism and anti-Semitism
Filmmaker Magazine
“The Act of Listening Requires a Sort Of Surrender to the Narrative of the Other”: Ofra Bloch on Afterward
Palestine-Israel Journal
The growth of political polarization and tribalism worldwide, and what I was learning in my psychoanalytic practice, led me to question my own demonization of Germans.
International Documentary Association
In this edition of "The Feedback," we spotlight Ofra Bloch’s Afterward. Bloch is a filmmaker and psychoanalyst based in New York City.
The Hollywood Reporter
Abramorama has nabbed the North American rights to Afterward, director Ofra Bloch's documentary that is executive produced by filmmaker and activist Abigail Disney, whose great-uncle was Walt Disney.
Huffington Post
An exclusive clip from the new documentary Afterward.
FF2 Media
Anyone who has ever looked at the world (both past and present) and asked why and how people are capable of such acts of horror will be entranced by this psychodynamic documentary.
American Jewish World
There is increasing recognition that this psychological disruption reverberates through generations.
Lilith Magazine
A Filmmaker Listens to Germans, Jews and Palestinians
The Hollywood Reporter
Ofra Bloch's documentary deals with the lingering trauma suffered by Israelis, Palestinians and Germans as a result of such events as the Holocaust and the Nakba.
The Independent
A preview of DOC NYC 2018
Unseen Films
Looking to end the hate at DOC NYC 2018
Women & Hollywood
DOC NYC 2018 Women Directors: Meet Ofra Bloch – “Afterward”
YNET
In a special interview, she talks about the creepy journey documented in the film, and the encounter between second generation Holocaust survivors and second generation Nazi soldiers.
Moment Magazine
Israeli Documentary ‘Afterward’ Is a Guiding Light in a World of Trauma
Email: info@afterwardthefilm.com
Team Bios
Ofra Bloch
Director, Writer
is a filmmaker and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She grew up in Israel, where her deep interest in the short and long-term effects of trauma originated. She has volunteered with Doctors of the World, where she interviewed victims of torture, and wrote their affidavits. She began making short documentaries 10 years ago. AFTERWARD is her first feature documentary.
Jack Riccobono
Producer, Co-Writer
has written, directed and produced a wide range of work across the five boroughs of his native New York City and around the world. His critically acclaimed documentary feature THE SEVENTH FIRE premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and received a NYTimes Critics’ Pick during its theatrical release in North America and the UK. A graduate of Harvard’s VES Film Production Program and Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School, Jack’s films have screened at festivals and venues including New Directors/New Films, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the New Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. In 2008, Jack launched the production company All Rites Reserved, dedicated to producing films with global reach that push visual and conceptual boundaries.
Abigail E. Disney
Executive Producer
is a filmmaker, philanthropist, activist, and the Emmy-winning director of THE ARMOR OF LIGHT. As president and CEO of the documentary production company Fork Films, she produced the groundbreaking PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL and co-created the subsequent PBS series WOMEN, WAR & PEACE, which looks at women in modern war as active agents for peace and positive change makers in their communities. She is also the founder of the nonprofit Peace is Loud, which uses storytelling to advance social movements, focusing on women’s rights and gender justice.
Adam Schlesinger
Executive Producer
is an award-winning independent filmmaker. Most recently, he directed and produced RESTLESS CREATURE: WENDY WHELAN, which had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival ahead of an exclusive release on NETFLIX. Schlesinger has also produced many critically acclaimed documentaries, including AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY (IFC/Sundance Selects), the Emmy-nominated SMASH HIS CAMERA (HBO, Magnolia Pictures), and the Emmy-nominated PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES (Magnolia Pictures, Participant Media).
Michael J. Palmer
Editor, Co-Writer
has collaborated with accomplished directors on complex, far-reaching documentary films since 2007. After a stint as a professional musician, he was assistant editor on Martin Scorsese’s two-part George Harrison documentary, LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD. He joined teams of editors on Alison Ellwood’s epic rock-doc, HISTORY OF THE EAGLES, THE 50 YEAR ARGUMENT, co-directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi, and THE SEVENTH FIRE, a raw, vérité look at Native American gangs directed by Jack Pettibone Riccobono. Michael has cut several films for Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, including the Emmy-nominated ELIÁN, and STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE, on which he also served as co-producer.
Alex Stikich
Cinematographer
is an award-winning freelance cinematographer based in New York. He works professionally on a wide range of documentary, narrative, commercial and corporate projects around the world, ranging from issues like economic development in Africa/Europe, to life aboard US NAVY aircraft carriers, to a science series about infrastructure networks (food / transportation / manufacturing / energy). Recently, he has done work for BOMBSHELL a documentary about the lesser known inventions of Hedy Lamarr and LINCOLN, a project exploring the legacy of Lincoln as it pertains to the current state of the GOP.
Lucas Lechowski
Composer
started his musical journey as a classical violinist at the age of four, eventually graduating from the Conservatory of Music in Katowice, Poland. In the field of composition Lechowski has scored over 50 projects, including feature films, documentaries and theatre plays. Lechowski is a Fellow of the Sundance Institute Composers Lab and the Berlinale Talents alumnus. He was selected for the leading film scoring workshops including ASCAP/Columbia University Film Scoring Workshop, the NYU/ASCAP Television & Film Scoring Workshop and the Society of Composers and Lyricists Mentorship Program.
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