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Garden to be screened in New York 2007.

Garden to be screened in Taiwan 2006.

Garden to be screened in Sardinia 2006.

Garden & Diamonds & Rust on the Sundance Channel through out May 2006.

Garden screened on YLE, Finland.
Garden screened on ARTE France with great success.

Garden to be screened on ARTE, France on the 23rd of January 2006.

Garden Wins Best Documentary Award and Best Director Award at the Madrid Gay & Lesbain Film Festival.

Garden Wins Prize of Excellence at Yamagata Film Festival, Japan
Garden wins the 2005 Prize of Excellence at Yamagata Film Festival, Japan.
Yamagata Awards

Coming soon GARDEN on DVD
To our dearest viewers thank you so much for your patience, Garden will be released on DVD in a few weeks. Further notice will be announced here in the news section. You may already send your requests to:
info@figfilms.com

Garden Wins Best Documentary
Garden has won Best Documentary
in the Turin International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
http://www.turinglfilmfestival.com/

Diamonds and Rust on TV
Diamonds and Rust will air on the Sundance Channel on the following dates: Monday 11.15.04 9:00 PM
Monday 11.22.04 12:00 PM
Sunday 11.28.04 9:00 AM
For more information:
The Sundance Channel

Garden Wins Honorable Mentions
Garden receives Honorable Mentions at two prestigious film festivals: the Seville International Film Festival and the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
For more information:
Seville International Film Festival
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

Garden mentioned on MSNBC.com/Newsweek's Periscope column
Garden receives a favorable writeup under the Movies section of MSNBC.com/Newsweek's Periscope column.
"Nobody wants to help them, everybody wants to use them... It is indescribable how bad life is for these people."
Indescribable, perhaps, but the documentary does a convincing job of portraying the netherworld these youngsters inhabit."
Read the full story here.

Garden wins Best Documentary prize at NewFest Film Festival, New York
"The Best Documentary Feature Award, sponsored by Avis, went to:
GARDEN, directed by Ruthie Schatz & Adi Barash, for its respect for and access to subjects placed within a personal, political, and cultural conflict, and for its overall cinematic excellence.
- presented at the Closing Night Gala of NewFest: The 16th New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, June 13, 2004. More here.

Garden to be screened in Berlin this summer

The German screening will take place July 8 and 12 at the Berlin cinema Filmkunsthaus Babylon.

Garden featured on Sundance Channel's DOCday

For the month of June, Sundance Channel's DOCday premieres address issues of interest to the GLBT (gay lesbian bi transgender) community. This focus is in keeping with Sundance Channel's month-long tribute to gay pride month called "Out Loud".

June 7th at 9:00 pm
Garden (U.S. Television Premiere) - Directed by Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz. An affecting account of the friendship between Arab teenagers Nino and Dudu, who fled abusive households and now work as male prostitutes in a seedy neighborhood known as "the garden" in downtown Tel-Aviv.

Their unpredictable lives and daily struggles unfold against the larger landscape of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and Nino's status as an illegal immigrant makes him especially vulnerable. But over the course of a year that includes eviction, jail and drug problems, Nino and Dudu worry most about one another.

Garden premieres on June 7th at 9:00 pm and also airs on the 10th at 11:00 pm, the 14th at 11:00 pm, and the 30th at 4:00 am.