A Massacre. A Cover-up.
And One Man’s Quest to Finally Expose the Truth.
Directed by Alon Schwarz, the documentary Tantura is a gripping investigation of the massacre at the Palestinian village of Tantura in 1948 and the dogged work of one Israeli researcher to finally reveal the truth.
Tantura premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and has since become a controversial sensation in its native Israel. It will open on Friday, December 2 in New York (IFC Center) and Los Angeles (Laemmle Monica) with other cities to follow.
When Israeli graduate student Teddy Katz meticulously documented a massacre of Palestinian civilians surrounding Israel’s independence, he was initially celebrated for his groundbreaking work. But soon, he was stripped of his degrees and was publicly shamed as a fraudulent traitor. Decades later, incendiary new evidence emerges to corroborate Teddy’s initial findings, not just vindicating him, but raising profound questions about how Israelis — and we all — deal with the darker chapters of history.
Watch the trailer for Tantura.