Director: Haim Gil
With: Ariel Zilber, Shlomo Artzi, Richie Havens, Yehudit Ravitz and Yoni Rechter, David Broza, Svika Pick, Shalom Hanoch
Language: Hebrew
Nuweiba ‘78
The end of summer 1978 was probably the closest to sex, drugs and rock and roll, in the American sense, that Israel ever got to. This rare documentary about the Nuweiba 78' Music Festival was produced at the time for Israeli television. The 1978 Neviot Festival, as it was known, was a pop and rock festival branded as the "Israeli Woodstock". It is said that 10,000 people attended. They came to say goodbye to the Sinai Peninsula, after the Camp David Accords, to party, to smoke something and to see their favorite artists perform live.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Dori Ben-Ze’ev (who hosted the Nuweiba 78' Music Festival), and hosted by Kan88 radio broadcaster Tomer Mulvidzon.
Total duration of the event approx. 90 minutes.
The screening is courtesy of the Kan archive
The screening coincides with the release of a re-issue of the Nuweiba 78’ soundtrack on NMC United.