Danae Elon
Danae Elon directs and produces documentaries. After attending New York University, where she graduated with honours in 1995, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. Several of her films have been screened at prestigious festivals including TIFF, IDFA, Berlinale, Hot Docs, and RIDM, and have won numerous awards. Among them, Never Again Forever, co-directed with Pierre Chainet in 1995, traces the history of the Jewish Defense League, Another Road Home (2003) focuses on the relationship between an Israeli and a Palestinian family in light of the conflict between these peoples. She also directed It's a Boy (2009), P.S. Jerusalem (2016) and The Patriarch's Room (2017). Her latest documentary, A Sister's Song (2018), won the Iris Award for best cinematography at the Gala Québec Cinéma as well as the AIDC award for innovation in documentary film. Danae has taught documentary film in Israel and the United States. Since 2013, she lives in Montreal.
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P.S. Jerusalem
Filmmaker Danae Elon began to film her three young sons as soon as she and her partner Philip decided to leave New York and return to Jerusalem. The decision was prompted by the death of her father, leading Israeli intellectual and writer Amos Elon. It was his dying wish that Danae not return, but her attachment to the place she always called home was stronger. On a journey back Danae’s camera ...
Another Road Home
Shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967, Danae's Jewish parents, renowned author Amos Elon and former literary agent Beth Elon, hired Musa Obeidallah, a Palestinian father of eleven, to look after their only six-month-old daughter on a daily basis. He would remain there for 20 years, until Danae left to study in the United States. After losing touch with each other, not least because of growing p...
It's A Boy
To circumcise or not to circumcise, that is the question pondered by filmmaker and future mother Danae Elon and her husband Philippe. The couple, who hope to discover the sex of their baby at birth, are on two sides of the issue. Philippe, who is himself circumcised and a Jew of Algerian decent, explains that it is a cultural tradition for him. For Danae, submitting a newborn to this ritual wou...
A Sister’s Song
Can we ever truly know what's in a loved one’s heart? A Sister’s Song is the intimate story of two sisters, Marina and Tatiana, who are separated by Tatiana’s choice to become a nun. Marina, who has barely seen or spoken to her sister in twenty years, senses that something is now wrong. She journeys to a cloistered monastery in Greece to find the sister she has lost. A dramatic turn of events w...
The Patriarch's Room
"Jaffa Gate Is Ours!” screamed the headlines in 2005. Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos was accused of selling church property to Jewish settlers. He denied all of the accusations. But for the first time in the church’s 2000-year history, its leader was ousted. For 11 long years, Irineos was imprisoned in his chambers. In this first-person account, filmmaker Danae Elon unravels what really ...
Life of a Dog
Two Montreal women filmmakers from different backgrounds combine their voices with fragments of their daily lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, poetically revealing this unprecedented moment in their lives.
P.S. Jerusalem
Filmmaker Danae Elon began to film her three young sons as soon as she and her partner Philip decided to leave New York and return to Jerusalem. The decision was prompted by the death of her father, leading Israeli intellectual and writer Amos Elon. It was his dying wish that Danae not return, but her attachment to the place she always called home was stronger. On a journey back Danae’s camera ...
Another Road Home
Shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967, Danae's Jewish parents, renowned author Amos Elon and former literary agent Beth Elon, hired Musa Obeidallah, a Palestinian father of eleven, to look after their only six-month-old daughter on a daily basis. He would remain there for 20 years, until Danae left to study in the United States. After losing touch with each other, not least because of growing p...
It's A Boy
To circumcise or not to circumcise, that is the question pondered by filmmaker and future mother Danae Elon and her husband Philippe. The couple, who hope to discover the sex of their baby at birth, are on two sides of the issue. Philippe, who is himself circumcised and a Jew of Algerian decent, explains that it is a cultural tradition for him. For Danae, submitting a newborn to this ritual wou...
A Sister’s Song
Can we ever truly know what's in a loved one’s heart? A Sister’s Song is the intimate story of two sisters, Marina and Tatiana, who are separated by Tatiana’s choice to become a nun. Marina, who has barely seen or spoken to her sister in twenty years, senses that something is now wrong. She journeys to a cloistered monastery in Greece to find the sister she has lost. A dramatic turn of events w...
The Patriarch's Room
"Jaffa Gate Is Ours!” screamed the headlines in 2005. Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos was accused of selling church property to Jewish settlers. He denied all of the accusations. But for the first time in the church’s 2000-year history, its leader was ousted. For 11 long years, Irineos was imprisoned in his chambers. In this first-person account, filmmaker Danae Elon unravels what really ...
Life of a Dog
Two Montreal women filmmakers from different backgrounds combine their voices with fragments of their daily lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, poetically revealing this unprecedented moment in their lives.
