Our goal is to evoke empathy, deep thought processes and to promote dialogue between various communities through film.
Jacob de Haan: A Voice Out of Time
Winner of the Beverly Hills International Film Festival
Winner of the Festival du Cinéma Israélien de Paris
Winner of the Intercultural Dialogue award, JFBB – Berlin
For extreme Jewish sects in Jerusalem, he is considered a martyr. For radical gays in Amsterdam, a groundbreaking forefather. And in the eyes of Zionists – a threat. Who, in 1924, ordered the killing of Jacob Israel de Haan?
“A groundbreaking documentary… Gripping”
- Jacob Wirtschafter, Moment Magazine
“An incredible film. Almost unbelievable”
- Maya Sela and Yuval Avivi, Kan culture
An exclusive look inside “conversion therapy”. Lev and Ben attend conversion therapy in Israel, hoping to ultimately marry a woman. Lev struggles to make it work. Ben tries to leave, but finds that the way out is harder than he imagined.
Winner of the Special Jury Award, DocAviv film festival 2021
Recipient of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Grant
“A documentary that will shatter your heart into thousands of pieces”
- Goel Pinto, Kan culture
“Utterly exposed and shaking”
- Liat Regev, Rheshet Bet.
“A powerful film. An intimate and sensitive access. A human story presenting a very important and relevant subject”.
- Jury’s award justification, Docaviv film festival
Zvi Landsman is the founder and head of Tree House Productions.
He graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem with honors in 2013.
His latest documentary film JACOB DE HAAN: A VOICE OUT OF TIME won awards at the Beverly Hills International Film Festival, the Festival du Cinéma Israélien de Paris and the Berlin Jewish Film Festival.
His film THE THERAPY, documenting two and a half years of gay conversion therapy, received the Sundance institute’s production grant and the jury award at DocAviv, and is available on Amazon Prime under the title ALL OF ME.
His short AFTER ALL received honorable mentions in Tel Aviv and Munich student film festivals and accumulated over 35 million YouTube views.
Among his films as cinematographer: THE MUTE’S HOUSE, shortlisted for THE OSCARS in 2017.
Zvi Landsman produced his own films, a film for PBS (“After October 7th”, reaching over 2.5 million views in the US), and acted as head of production in Israel for films for Arte, BBC, France 5 and PBS.
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