Joel Basman
10 titles
Filmography
10 results

Dawn
(2015)Set in 1947 Palestine during the British mandate, a young Jewish man faces a crisis of conscience when he’s tasked with assassinating an Army captain.

The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
(2018)Pressured to marry a nice Orthodox Jewish woman, Motti is thrown for a loop when he falls for classmate Laura, who his mother will never approve of.

Clash of Futures (1918-1939)
Set in the 1920s and '30s, this series tells the true stories of people across Europe and the Soviet Union through their diaries and memoirs.

Land of Mine
(2015)Based on extraordinary true events, writer/director Martin Zandvliets multi award-winning historical drama follows a group of captured soldiers in Denmark in the immediate aftermath of WWII. After the Nazi surrender in May 1945, a unit of young Germans most barely out of their teens are put to work by their Allied captors. With minimal training, they are placed under the supervision of a righteous and embittered Danish sergeant, Rasmussen (played by the superb Roland Møller, A Hijacking), and sent to locate and disarm Hitlers munitions that still litter the beaches along Denmarks west coast. Featuring arresting performances from the ensemble cast and breathtaking cinematography, Zandvliets sweeping drama makes for riveting and deeply-affecting cinema that demands to be seen on the big screen.

Adventures of a Mathematician
(2021)After losing his fellowship at Harvard, a 1930’s Polish mathematician is recruited to New Mexico for a top-secret mission to develop the nuclear bomb.

Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps
(2010)A mysterious woman appears in an Alpine village, stirring suspicion that she's a murderous demon or the terrifying embodiment of a local legend.

Stella. A Life.
(2024)Stella Goldschlag (Paula Beer), a young German Jew, grows up in Berlin during the Nazi regime. After being forced to go into hiding, her life soon turns into a culpable tragedy when she is caught by the Gestapo. Tortured and threatened, Stella makes the crushing decision to save her parents and herself from deportation to Auschwitz by becoming a "grabber" and betraying other Jews in hiding.

Puppylove
(2013)When a free-spirited girl befriends a young teenager, they leave childhood behind to embrace a dangerous world of clubbing and sex with strange men.

The Colony
(2021)In this sci-fi thriller, an astronaut shipwrecked on a long-decimated Earth must decide the fate of the wasteland’s remaining populace.
Head Burst
(2019)Markus, a good-looking, likable and respected architect, is a paedophile. He is disgusted by himself, but the arousal is there and there is nothing he can do about it. He senses that he will not be able to keep his desire under control much longer.