Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan, 26, has lived in Paris for the last five years in what he calls a "voluntary exile" from his homeland. Born in Haifa and raised in Jerusalem, he identifies with the extreme left of the Israeli political spectrum. In 1981, he was one of a group of 27 high school students who declared that they would refuse to do their army service; he avoided prison after being given a psychological deferment. Sivan went on to direct the television ads of the Jewish-Arab "Progressive List for Peace" party in the last Knesset election campaign. He will be returning from his "exile" to present at the festival his second film, "Izkor: The Slaves of Memory." a documentary about both the Jewis..
Source : Calev Ben-David and Eldad Beck — The Jerusalem Report, 11.07.1991