SHOOTING

International premiere at the Telluride Film Festival ✧ Winner of the Jury Prize at the Docaviv Festival

Composed out of three stories, the movie centres around the relationship between Israel’s film and television industry and the military and police forces.
The film raises questions about art and violence, ethics and documentation, and the ways in which the realities of conflict in Israeli society infiltrate, and distort, the cinematic gaze.
Following the screening we had a conversation with film creator Netalie Braun and Karmit Galili.

Written, directed and produced by: Netalie Braun
Co-producer: Tal Barda
Cinematography: Itai Marom
Editing: Nili Feller
Music: Ofir and Yonatan Leibovitz
Sound design: Aviv Aldema⁩

״Coexistence, My Ass!״

95 min ✧ English, Arabic & Hebrew ✧ Subtitles in Arabic & Hebrew

COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! follows Israeli activist-comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi as she creates a comedy show by the same name. Shot over five tumultuous years, the film traces Noam’s personal, professional, and political journey in tandem with the region’s steady deterioration. Raised in a bilingual Israeli-Palestinian village -the only intentionally integrated community in the country – Noam grows disillusioned with traditional peace activism. She pivots to stand-up and quickly attracts attention across the Middle East. But as her star rises, everything around her falls apart. With biting satire, Noam pushes her audiences to face difficult truths that aren’t always funny but do remind us that another reality is possible.
Director/producer: Amber Fares Writer/Producer: Rachel Leah Jones Editor/writer: Rabab Haj Yahya Cinematography: Philippe Bellaiche, Amber Fares, Amit Chachamov

Following the screening, a conversation was held with Noam Shuster-Eliassi and Lisa Hanania, joined by the film’s writer and producer, Rachel Leah Jones.

Noam Shuster Eliassi
A comedian, performer, activist, and former UN employee who once thought she would make big positive changes to advance justice, peace, and coexistence. Haha. The first Jewish comedian to ever perform in the Palestine Comedy Festival, Shuster Eliassi grew up in the only intentionally mixed Palestinian-Jewish community in Israel. Noam performs and writes in Hebrew, Arabic, and English. The film “Coexistence, My Ass!”, which follows Noam Shuster Eliassi, has been shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Lisa Hanania
Lisa Hananiais the director of Jaffa Culture Well House, a cultural center operated by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality that integrates artistic and educational activities to promote shared living in Jaffa. In her role, Lisa leads cultural initiatives that connect the city’s diverse communities, emphasizing values of equality, diversity, and cultural preservation. Previously, she managed digital marketing at Mishlama for Jaffa and served as the political advisor for Arab society affairs at the British Embassy in Israel. Lisa holds a Bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University in the U.S., where she studied on a full scholarship awarded for her social activism. In 2018, she was named one of The Marker‘s “40 Under 40” promising young leaders. Born and raised in Jaffa, Lisa was a founding member of the city’s bilingual school and the Forum for the Advancement of Public Arab Education in Jaffa. She is married to Aouni and the mother of Jude and Naya.

Live from Jaffa (Video, 13min, 2026) 

Voice of the Next State – Omer Krieger and Hillel Roman

Earlier this January, we hosted a joint evening at Magasin III Jaffa together with Standing Together, attended by over 80 people. The event included a screening of the film “Live Broadcast from Jaffa” by The Voice of the Next State (Omer Krieger and Hillel Roman), followed by a series of short conversations on activism with activists from different fields within art and culture.

Many thanks to all the participants in the discussion: Abed Abu Shahadeh (Chair of the Muslim Council in Jaffa, host of the Al-Midan podcast, and former member of the Tel Aviv–Jaffa City Council), Inas Usruf Abu-Seif (artist and Standing Together activist), Ariel Dokleski and Lahali Motola (nonviolent direct action), Oded Yedaya (photographer, director of Minshar School of Art, and Protective Presence activist), Uri Kochavi (musician and member of Jordan Valley Activists for Protective Presence – JVA) and Holden Cole (dancer, Batsheva Dance Company).

It was an evening of listening, asking important questions, mobilization for action, responsibility, and hope – not as a slogan, but as something practiced here and now, through people.
Thank you to everyone who joined us. We will continue to try to create a space here for dialogue, encounter, and shared reflection.

Talia Israeli, “And All the Paintings Will Not Cover” | Friday, 2.1 | 11:00–14:00

Dr. Noam Israeli will speak about the visible and hidden aspects of the human in Talia Israeli’s work.

Yali Sobol will perform a song from his new album “Water on the Rock”.

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The artist’s book “And All the Paintings Will Not Cover” brings together nearly a decade of Israeli’s paintings. The book features images of works from three solo exhibitions, as well as wall paintings that were created and later erased in various exhibitions throughout these years. The paintings are the result of an extended investigation into the medium, which led to a significant evolution and transformation in her artistic practice.

The book focuses on a process centered around working with spray paint and methods that developed from large-scale mural paintings into small-scale wall works and a painting technique applied to alternative surfaces such as old cabinet shelves. Many of the paintings were inspired by Israeli travel guides and hiking books. The book’s visual design draws from the worlds of guidebooks and travel literature, such as “Every Place and Site”. A substantial section is dedicated to work processes and behind-the-scenes glimpses into the studio.

Three accompanying texts are interwoven throughout the book, each reflecting on these bodies of work from a distinct and complementary perspective: material/medium, literary, and research-based. The medium-focused text, written by painter and writer Yair Garbuz, examines the conceptual, formal, creative, and historical aspects of the series “One Of The Mountains” (2020). Additional texts are written by author Oded Wolkstein and curator-architect Einat Gabay-Levy.

The book offers a concluding overview of a major artistic process, bringing together over 100 works that engage with the local landscape and articulate, through the format of the book, new reflections on contemporary painting and on the intense experience of life in Israel. The book was designed by artist and designer Or Segal.

Closing Event of the Exhibition Counter Landscape and Presentation of Nurit David’s Work Jean Brodie
 

Thursday, 1.1 | 18:00–20:00

We are happy to invite you to join us in marking the beginning of 2026 and in wishing for a quieter, better year ahead.

During the evening, Magasin III Jaffa will present for one time only, a unique textile work in which David transformed Landscape Painting No. 7  into a two-dimensional garment. The piece was created for the controversial character of teacher Jean Brodie, the protagonist of Muriel Spark’s novel. Both the painting and the figure of the teacher are immersed to the core in European culture – in its wonders as well as its horrors.

Hanukkah and Christmas
Each family will receive a map and a flashlight, and with its light you’ll help us find the characters from the exhibition’s painting, who have gone missing!
Admission is free.

The activity is self-guided and takes place inside Magasin III Jaffa, with no need to register or wait for a group to form – you can come whenever it suits you and begin.

18–19.12, Thursday and Friday, during our opening hours –
Thursday: 14:00–20:00
Friday: 10:00–12:00
Olei Tzion 34, Jaffa

Snapshot ✧ Carmela Ben Shitrit Book launch

Carmela Ben Shitrit is an independent artist who has been working in the field for many years. Her first artist’s book, Snapshot, was created under the guidance of artist-printmaker Wanna Schaub. The process began about a year ago, following Carmela’s attempt to process the personal trauma she and her daughter’s family experienced (as residents of Kibbutz Nirim). She started by gathering her thoughts, desires, emotions, and frustrations into a single jar that became a vessel for everything she couldn’t yet contain. From there, she moved into a printmaking process. The book opens with three large, central prints and continues with postcard-size-prints of random images forming a kind of stream of consciousness.

At the book launch event, Carmela and Wanna will speak about their collaborative work, about transforming trauma into creation, and about the craft of printmaking.

✧ From Artist Book to Exhibition ✧ Karen Dolev in conversation with Anna Reich ✧

Anna Reich, a member of the Magasin III Jaffa team, will speak with artist Karen Dolev just before the closing of her beautiful exhibition The Twelve Healers, currently on view at the Eretz Israel Museum. Dolev’s exhibition is part of the exhibition Body Becomes a Place curated by Ravit Harari and presented within the Dana Gallery’s Art Greenhouse program of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai. Dolev’s exhibition is a direct continuation of her artist book The Twelve Healers, which is available at the Magasin III Jaffa artist-book shop.

In the conversation, Dolev will share the journey of The Twelve Healers – from the pages of the artist book to the museum exhibition space – exploring how a book can be translated into an exhibition format, and what this process looks like from the artist’s perspective.

Over the weekend of October 23–25, we’ll be joining the “Loving Art.Making Art” events taking place across the city – this year with a special focus on Jaffa – and offering a series of free-admission activities (In Hebrew)!

Dana Yoeli & Nana Ariel : Why Make Books?

At times, the act of creating a book may appear almost an act of madness. Art books have little demand; the world has turned digital; political upheavals consume cultural energy – and the book seems like a remnant of yesterday’s world. But is that truly the case? Are we moving toward an era without printed books, or rather toward the revival of the printed book? What possibilities open up when books are produced in small editions and through a local approach? Is there meaning, or even purpose, in making such books today? In other words – why make books?

Artist Dana Yoeli and researcher and writer Nana Ariel meet for a conversation at Magasin III Jaffa Books.

Dana Yoeli is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Tel Aviv. She holds both a BFA and MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and also studied at HAW Hamburg, Germany. Her fourth artist’s book, The Terror of the Void, was self-published in December 2024, following her previous artist’s books Olympia, Aleph-Bet, and Spruce.
Yoeli’s practice weaves together styles and techniques grounded in meticulous craftsmanship and painterly skill. Her work encompasses artist’s books, panoramic paintings, monumental still-life compositions, finely detailed drawings in colored pencil and graphite, miniature maquettes, porcelain fountains, and large-scale concrete wall pieces.

Nana Ariel is an author, scholar, and lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University. Her fifth book, Clichés We Live By: From Modernity to AI – co-authored with philosopher of language Dana Rizel – will soon be published by Oxford University Press. Her essays have appeared in both local and international journals and magazines.
Together with her partner, Ori Yoeli, she founded Dfus Beit (“Home Press”), a boutique publishing house and book workshop operating from their home in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. She is also a children’s author, known for The Most Boring Book in the World and The Strange and Unbelievable Story of Comma and Period (Asia Publishing), both of which she also designed.