Festival set to open tonight with a screening of Pedro Almodovar’s Julieta [pictured].
The 33rd Jerusalem Film Festival kicks off tonight with the open-air gala screening of Pedro Almodovar’s Julieta, and festival director Noa Regev [pictured right] and artistic director Elad Samorzik are confident the eclectic programme will keep film lovers happy and intellectually engaged over the next 11 days.
For the first time the festival is introducing an international competition, with nine selections from the programme competing for the inaugural Wilf Family Foundation Award. A key motivating factor is to help the chosen films, which include Cannes 2016 selections Sieranevada, by Cristi Puiu, and Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden, secure Israeli distributors. “We’re trying to encourage the distribution of quality films in Israel,” says Samorzik.
Israel’s own vibrant cinema scene is once again showcased in a strong line-up, including in the narrative competition Nir Bergman’s Saving Neta and Eran Kolirin’s Beyond The Mountains And Hills...
The 33rd Jerusalem Film Festival kicks off tonight with the open-air gala screening of Pedro Almodovar’s Julieta, and festival director Noa Regev [pictured right] and artistic director Elad Samorzik are confident the eclectic programme will keep film lovers happy and intellectually engaged over the next 11 days.
For the first time the festival is introducing an international competition, with nine selections from the programme competing for the inaugural Wilf Family Foundation Award. A key motivating factor is to help the chosen films, which include Cannes 2016 selections Sieranevada, by Cristi Puiu, and Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden, secure Israeli distributors. “We’re trying to encourage the distribution of quality films in Israel,” says Samorzik.
Israel’s own vibrant cinema scene is once again showcased in a strong line-up, including in the narrative competition Nir Bergman’s Saving Neta and Eran Kolirin’s Beyond The Mountains And Hills...
- 7/7/2016
- by matt.mueller@screendaily.com (Matt Mueller)
- ScreenDaily
The Jerusalem Film Festival is set to open tonight with a screening of Pedro Almodovar’s Julieta [pictured].
The 33rd Jerusalem Film Festival kicks off tonight with the open-air gala screening of Pedro Almodovar’s Julieta, and festival director Noa Regev [pictured right] and artistic director Elad Samorzik are confident the eclectic programme will keep film lovers happy and intellectually engaged over the next 11 days.
For the first time the festival is introducing an international competition, with nine selections from the programme competing for the inaugural Wilf Family Foundation Award. A key motivating factor is to help the chosen films, which include Cannes 2016 selections Sieranevada, by Cristi Puiu, and Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden, secure Israeli distributors. “We’re trying to encourage the distribution of quality films in Israel,” says Samorzik.
Israel’s own vibrant cinema scene is once again showcased in a strong line-up, including in the narrative competition Nir Bergman’s Saving Neta and Eran Kolirin’s Beyond...
The 33rd Jerusalem Film Festival kicks off tonight with the open-air gala screening of Pedro Almodovar’s Julieta, and festival director Noa Regev [pictured right] and artistic director Elad Samorzik are confident the eclectic programme will keep film lovers happy and intellectually engaged over the next 11 days.
For the first time the festival is introducing an international competition, with nine selections from the programme competing for the inaugural Wilf Family Foundation Award. A key motivating factor is to help the chosen films, which include Cannes 2016 selections Sieranevada, by Cristi Puiu, and Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden, secure Israeli distributors. “We’re trying to encourage the distribution of quality films in Israel,” says Samorzik.
Israel’s own vibrant cinema scene is once again showcased in a strong line-up, including in the narrative competition Nir Bergman’s Saving Neta and Eran Kolirin’s Beyond...
- 7/7/2016
- by matt.mueller@screendaily.com (Matt Mueller)
- ScreenDaily
According to local filmmakers, the recent suppression of documentary Beyond The Fear is just one episode in a quickening erosion of artistic freedom in Israel.
As Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre began to roll on the opening night of the Jerusalem Film Festival in the picturesque Sultan’s Pool amphitheatre in early July, another screening was kicking off just metres above the spectators’ heads.
On a terrace overlooking the event, some 50 film-makers and producers had gathered for a protest screening of Maria Kravchenko and the late Herz Frank’s Beyond The Fear.
They included The Kindergarten Teacher director Nadav Lapid; Keren Yedaya, who won Cannes’ Camera d’Or for her debut work Or; Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, whose credits include the award-winning The Law In These Parts; and Shlomi Elkabetz, co-director of the Golden Globe-nominated Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem which premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in May 2014 and went on to win best film at...
As Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre began to roll on the opening night of the Jerusalem Film Festival in the picturesque Sultan’s Pool amphitheatre in early July, another screening was kicking off just metres above the spectators’ heads.
On a terrace overlooking the event, some 50 film-makers and producers had gathered for a protest screening of Maria Kravchenko and the late Herz Frank’s Beyond The Fear.
They included The Kindergarten Teacher director Nadav Lapid; Keren Yedaya, who won Cannes’ Camera d’Or for her debut work Or; Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, whose credits include the award-winning The Law In These Parts; and Shlomi Elkabetz, co-director of the Golden Globe-nominated Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem which premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in May 2014 and went on to win best film at...
- 7/24/2015
- ScreenDaily
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