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INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY, 2013

Superjews

An Israeli woman living in Amsterdam investigates why fans of the Ajax football team have appropriated the nickname ‘Superjews’, complete with David Star tattoos, Israeli flags and songs like Hava Nagila. Who is the ‘real’ Jew; the non-religious Israeli woman with an aversion to her own country’s flag, or the ‘Jews’ who flock to the stadium and dedicate their lives to the team? She visits members of F-Side, the group of hardcore Ajax supporters, as well as an Ajax archivist, former Ajax chairman Uri Coronel and a Holocaust survivor. Superjews examines the use of symbols and what it means for signs of Jewish identity to be borrowed and repurposed.

Director
Nirit Peled
Cinematography
Pim Hawinkels
Editing
Paul Delput
Sound
Sander den Broeder
Script
Nirit Peled, Simon van Melick