Tantura (2022)

Tantura is a gripping Israeli documentary that confronts a long-suppressed atrocity at the heart of the nation’s founding. Directed by Alon Schwarz, the film revisits the explosive research of Teddy Katz, a graduate student who uncovered testimonies of a 1948 massacre of Palestinian villagers by Israeli forces in Tantura. Through unearthed audio recordings, interviews with surviving veterans, and the silence surrounding Katz’s academic excommunication, the documentary lays bare the machinery of historical denial and the violent erasure of Palestinian memory. As generational myths collide with the testimonies of those who can no longer remain silent, Tantura exposes the foundational trauma buried beneath the narrative of Israeli independence—and the price of telling the truth in a society built on silencing it.