HOLOFICTION to Premiere in Israel at Docaviv 2026
We are pleased to announce that HOLOFICTION has been selected for the International Competition of Docaviv 2026 – the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival.
Following its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, HOLOFICTION will have its Israeli premiere in Tel Aviv as part of the festival’s prestigious international competition program.
Screenings
28 May 2026 | 18:00
Tel Aviv Cinematheque – Hall 1
Following the screening, director Michal Kosakowski will participate in a Q&A moderated by Dr. Roni Dorot.
31 May 2026 | 10:00
Tel Aviv Cinematheque – Hall 4
At 11:50, Michal Kosakowski will also take part in the public panel discussion:
The Attack on the Image: The Collapse of Cinematic Space
Organized in collaboration with The Intangible Cinema Project and The Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum, the discussion will explore the impact of artificial intelligence, digital image production, and the rapidly changing relationship between cinematic images and reality.
We are honored to be part of the International Competition and look forward to presenting HOLOFICTION to Israeli audiences and participating in these important conversations about cinema, memory, and the future of the moving image.
“What happens when you take one hundred years of films about the Holocaust apart and reassemble them into a single film?
Holofiction does exactly that. Through a montage encompassing approximately 3,000 feature films and television series produced over the past century, it reveals the visual language through which the rise of Nazism, the Second World War, and, above all, the Holocaust have been represented on screen.
This monumental project stitches together scenes from different places, periods, and contexts into what becomes the ultimate Holocaust narrative. In doing so, it examines how our visual imagination—and the collective iconography of one of the darkest chapters of the twentieth century—has been shaped by images that have been endlessly repeated and reproduced: marching boots, rising smoke, shattered windows.
Through dazzling editing and without the aid of words, Holofiction weaves an extraordinary cinematic tapestry and creates an intertextual dialogue that invites viewers to reflect on the responsibility of the media in shaping our understanding of history.”
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