Films by Sagi Bornstein

2021, 90 min
by Sagi Bornstein, Udi Nir

Follow the journeys of 7 YouTubers through a year like no other, in a bitter-sweet portrait of the Gen Z and our new viral world. Seven young people from across the world shared their exciting plans for 2020 when “virus” started trending online. From the pandemic, through to the BLM movement and on to the US elections – VIRAL DREAMS features over a year’s worth o real-time video posts, and depicts the surprising resilience of a new generation to a global change no one saw coming.

2020, 90 min
by Udi Nir, Sagi Bornstein

VIRAL is neither a collection of video diaries nor a story about exhausted doctors and tragic deaths during the Corona crisis. It is a character-driven, bitter-sweet account of the struggle, ingenuity, perseverance, and creativity in the face of the unexpected. The film follows the lives of 6 protagonists throughout the period of one year, covering the time before, during, and after the height of the outbreak. As our protagonists encounter conflicts and obstacles and find creative ways to overco

Israel, Germany 2019, 87 min
by Shani Rozanes, Sagi Bornstein, Udi Nir

Forty years after her death, Golda Meir’s image is still clouded with controversy. While perceived as a feminist icon in many places in the world, in the country she led as a prime minister for five years she’s seen by many as a total failure, a symbol of disgrace. 'Madam Prime Minister' invites the viewers to walk in her iconic shoes and reexamine her ground breaking and dramatic years as the first and only female prime minister of Israel.Shortly before her passing, Golda Meir was interviewed f

2016, 75 min
by Sagi Bornstein, Udi Nir

Thousands of young Israelis join ’The Journey to Poland‘ each year to learn about the Holocaust. Looking into the journey through the videos they upload on YouTube reviles a moving and troubling image of the Israeli narrative and the way collective memory is formed in the web age. In the YouTube clips they create, students share private and moving moments of fear and despair – unmediated testimonies of themselves trying to make sense of the insane. Using these clips as raw material, we follow th