Celebrated Israeli filmmaker Matan Yair, whose “Scaffolding” has had festival play at Cannes, Zurich and Singapore, is nearly ready with his new film, coming-of-age drama “A Room of His Own.”
The film, which is in the work-in-progress strand of Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf), follows 17-year-old Uri, who has botched his first army interview. Since Uri’s father moved out, his mother has been sleeping in Uri’s room. However, Uri is seeking his own path and his own room to deal with this world.
“A ‘Room of his Own’ has been accompanying me for many years as a personal story, almost autobiographical, over a period of time when my mother and I shared the same room. My father left home and my mother did not go back to the bedroom that they shared,” Yair told Variety.
“My mother and I continued to stay together and we didn’t...
The film, which is in the work-in-progress strand of Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf), follows 17-year-old Uri, who has botched his first army interview. Since Uri’s father moved out, his mother has been sleeping in Uri’s room. However, Uri is seeking his own path and his own room to deal with this world.
“A ‘Room of his Own’ has been accompanying me for many years as a personal story, almost autobiographical, over a period of time when my mother and I shared the same room. My father left home and my mother did not go back to the bedroom that they shared,” Yair told Variety.
“My mother and I continued to stay together and we didn’t...
- 3/15/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Sagafilm and Film Produkcja produce. Arri Media handles sales.
Shooting is underway in Iceland on Wolka, a rare Iceland-Poland co-production.
The crime drama is directed by Iceland’s Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson, whose credits include Thicker Than Water, Undercurrent and family animation Ploey – You’ll Never Fly Alone.
Producers are Hilmar Sigurðsson and Beggi Jónsson at Iceland’s Sagafilm and Stanislaw Dziedzic at Poland’s Film Produkcja. Co-producers are Human Ark and Sound Making are co-producing. International sales are handled by Munich-based Arri Media International.
The 22-day Icelandic shoot started on August 6 in the Westman Islands. It will next move to...
Shooting is underway in Iceland on Wolka, a rare Iceland-Poland co-production.
The crime drama is directed by Iceland’s Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson, whose credits include Thicker Than Water, Undercurrent and family animation Ploey – You’ll Never Fly Alone.
Producers are Hilmar Sigurðsson and Beggi Jónsson at Iceland’s Sagafilm and Stanislaw Dziedzic at Poland’s Film Produkcja. Co-producers are Human Ark and Sound Making are co-producing. International sales are handled by Munich-based Arri Media International.
The 22-day Icelandic shoot started on August 6 in the Westman Islands. It will next move to...
- 9/1/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦39¦
- ScreenDaily
The film follows a group of washed-up pop musicians trying to stage a comeback.
Tel Aviv-based companies Green Productions and Sushi and Bourekas have released a first look image of Boaz Armoni’s upcoming musical comedy The Electrifiers about a group of washed-up pop musicians trying to stage a comeback.
Zvika Nathan, who also takes producer and co-writer credits, stars alongside Uri Hochman and Sharon Alexander as the members of a revival band alongside a host of real-life 1980s Israeli pop icons.
Israeli TV stars Tal Friedman and Eli Yatzpan make an appearance as the band’s agents and nemesis.
Tel Aviv-based companies Green Productions and Sushi and Bourekas have released a first look image of Boaz Armoni’s upcoming musical comedy The Electrifiers about a group of washed-up pop musicians trying to stage a comeback.
Zvika Nathan, who also takes producer and co-writer credits, stars alongside Uri Hochman and Sharon Alexander as the members of a revival band alongside a host of real-life 1980s Israeli pop icons.
Israeli TV stars Tal Friedman and Eli Yatzpan make an appearance as the band’s agents and nemesis.
- 8/3/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The Jewish Chronicle by Ben WeichAn Act of Defiance recounts the story of a mixed group of black and Jewish men who were arrested in 1963 for conspiring to commit sabotage against the South African state
A movie about Jews’ role in opposing apartheid rule in South Africa took home the best film award as the UK Jewish Film Festival (Ukjff) drew to a close.
An Act of Defiance (aka Bram Fischer), directed by Jean van de Velde, recounts the story of a mixed group of black and Jewish men who were arrested in 1963 for conspiring to commit sabotage against the South African state.
The film won the 2017 Dorfman Best Film award, it was announced last night at the festival’s closing event.
The decision was reached by judges Simon Chinn, Henry Goodman, Daniel Gordon, Kate Muir and Ben Steele, who agreed unanimously that the award go to the historical courtroom drama.
A movie about Jews’ role in opposing apartheid rule in South Africa took home the best film award as the UK Jewish Film Festival (Ukjff) drew to a close.
An Act of Defiance (aka Bram Fischer), directed by Jean van de Velde, recounts the story of a mixed group of black and Jewish men who were arrested in 1963 for conspiring to commit sabotage against the South African state.
The film won the 2017 Dorfman Best Film award, it was announced last night at the festival’s closing event.
The decision was reached by judges Simon Chinn, Henry Goodman, Daniel Gordon, Kate Muir and Ben Steele, who agreed unanimously that the award go to the historical courtroom drama.
- 12/2/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
For his modest and emotionally raw feature debut, Israeli writer-director Matan Yair focuses on a turbulent young man whose life is upended by an inspirational schoolteacher.
But Scaffolding (Pigumim) — whose title describes its 17-year-old hero’s day-job working in construction for his dad — is no Stand and Deliver or Dead Poets Society, with a second-act twist that takes the teacher out of the equation and leaves a difficult student to fend for himself. By turns rough and poignant, with strong performances from all three leads, this Toronto Discovery selection already won several prizes at the Jerusalem Film Festival and...
But Scaffolding (Pigumim) — whose title describes its 17-year-old hero’s day-job working in construction for his dad — is no Stand and Deliver or Dead Poets Society, with a second-act twist that takes the teacher out of the equation and leaves a difficult student to fend for himself. By turns rough and poignant, with strong performances from all three leads, this Toronto Discovery selection already won several prizes at the Jerusalem Film Festival and...
- 9/15/2017
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Festival reveals the award winners from its 34th edition.
Scaffolding has won the best Israeli feature film prize at the 34th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival.
The debut feature from director Matan Yair – produced by rising Israeli production outfit Green Productions – takes home a prize worth $28,000 (100,000 Ils).
Scaffolding also scooped the best actor prize for debutant Asher Lax and an honorary mention in the best cinematography category for DoP Bartosz Bieniek.
A jury consisting of Elle producer Saïd Ben Saïd, artist Yael Bartana, cinematographer Agnès Godard and Cíntia Gíl, director of film festival Doclisboa, said of the film: “For a film that combines the reality of a group of teenagers and the will of questioning cinema and the role of filmmaking. For its capacity of capturing the tenderness sometimes behind these kids’ violence, their capacity for love, their surprising imagination, in a society that places them in a marginal role forever.”
The festival...
Scaffolding has won the best Israeli feature film prize at the 34th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival.
The debut feature from director Matan Yair – produced by rising Israeli production outfit Green Productions – takes home a prize worth $28,000 (100,000 Ils).
Scaffolding also scooped the best actor prize for debutant Asher Lax and an honorary mention in the best cinematography category for DoP Bartosz Bieniek.
A jury consisting of Elle producer Saïd Ben Saïd, artist Yael Bartana, cinematographer Agnès Godard and Cíntia Gíl, director of film festival Doclisboa, said of the film: “For a film that combines the reality of a group of teenagers and the will of questioning cinema and the role of filmmaking. For its capacity of capturing the tenderness sometimes behind these kids’ violence, their capacity for love, their surprising imagination, in a society that places them in a marginal role forever.”
The festival...
- 7/20/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Festival selects 12 titles for second edition of competitive strand.
Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, the Safdie Brothers’ Good Time, and François Ozon’s Amant Double (The Double Lover) all of which played in competition at Cannes, have been selected for this year’s international competition at the Jerusalem Film Festival (July 13-17).
Returning for a second time after launching in 2016, the festival’s international competition has picked a total of 12 titles and will again award a prize of $20,000 to the winning film.
Joining the aforementioned are: Hong Sang-soo’s On The Beach At Night Alone, Cãlin Peter Netzer’s Ana, Mon Amour, Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß’s My Happy Family, Ferenc Török’s 1945, Valeska Grisebach’s Western, Fellipe Barbosa’s Gabriel And The Mountain, Mohammad Rasoulof’s A Man Of Integrity, Stéphane Brizé’s A Woman’s Life, and Lav Diaz’s The Woman Who Left.
As previously announced, the festival...
Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, the Safdie Brothers’ Good Time, and François Ozon’s Amant Double (The Double Lover) all of which played in competition at Cannes, have been selected for this year’s international competition at the Jerusalem Film Festival (July 13-17).
Returning for a second time after launching in 2016, the festival’s international competition has picked a total of 12 titles and will again award a prize of $20,000 to the winning film.
Joining the aforementioned are: Hong Sang-soo’s On The Beach At Night Alone, Cãlin Peter Netzer’s Ana, Mon Amour, Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß’s My Happy Family, Ferenc Török’s 1945, Valeska Grisebach’s Western, Fellipe Barbosa’s Gabriel And The Mountain, Mohammad Rasoulof’s A Man Of Integrity, Stéphane Brizé’s A Woman’s Life, and Lav Diaz’s The Woman Who Left.
As previously announced, the festival...
- 6/28/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Israeli drama scores key deal.
Israeli drama Scaffolding, which premiered in Cannes Film Festival’s Acid strand this month, has had its France distribution rights snapped up by Les Acacias.
Sales agent New Europe Film Sales struck the deal on the title, which follows an impulsive troublemaker who forges a special connection with his literature teacher before an unexepected tragedy occurs.
Screen’s review called the film “a sharply drawn study of the father-son dynamic”.
The film is the debut feature from director Matan Yair, who also penned the screenplay. It stars Asher Lax.
Scaffolding was produced by Gal Greenspan and Roi Kurland of Green Productions in co-production with Stanislaw Dziedzic of Film Produkcja and United King.
It was supported by the Israeli Film Fund and the Polish Film Institute. In 2016, the project won the first pitching prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
New Europe is also reporting that further deals and festival selections are in...
Israeli drama Scaffolding, which premiered in Cannes Film Festival’s Acid strand this month, has had its France distribution rights snapped up by Les Acacias.
Sales agent New Europe Film Sales struck the deal on the title, which follows an impulsive troublemaker who forges a special connection with his literature teacher before an unexepected tragedy occurs.
Screen’s review called the film “a sharply drawn study of the father-son dynamic”.
The film is the debut feature from director Matan Yair, who also penned the screenplay. It stars Asher Lax.
Scaffolding was produced by Gal Greenspan and Roi Kurland of Green Productions in co-production with Stanislaw Dziedzic of Film Produkcja and United King.
It was supported by the Israeli Film Fund and the Polish Film Institute. In 2016, the project won the first pitching prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
New Europe is also reporting that further deals and festival selections are in...
- 5/31/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
This year’s Cannes Film Festival may still be searching for a new feature than can provide the sort of pure pleasure that Maren Ade’s breakout “Toni Erdmann” did in 2016, but fans of nuanced cinema about fraught relationships will be able to tap into something slightly similar in the latest from producers Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Michel Merit, Ben von Dobeneck, Bruno Wagner and Ade herself.
Hailing from some of the same producers of “Toni Erdmann,” Valeska Grisebach’s Un Certain Regard entry “Western” shines a light on the unnerving xenophobia that is still prevalent in parts of Europe.
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
Per the film’s official synopsis, “A group of German construction workers start a tough job at a remote site in the Bulgarian countryside. The foreign land awakens the men’s sense of adventure,...
Hailing from some of the same producers of “Toni Erdmann,” Valeska Grisebach’s Un Certain Regard entry “Western” shines a light on the unnerving xenophobia that is still prevalent in parts of Europe.
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
Per the film’s official synopsis, “A group of German construction workers start a tough job at a remote site in the Bulgarian countryside. The foreign land awakens the men’s sense of adventure,...
- 5/17/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Inspired by his own experiences teaching, Matan Yair’s Cannes-bound “Scaffolding” follows an already fraught familial relationship that’s strained by the addition of a gentle new role model, one who shows his teenage student the full scope of the possibilities of being a man.
Debuting in the Acid section later this week, Yair’s feature springs from a very personal place. As the filmmaker explains in the film’s official press kit, “For the past nine years, I have been teaching literature in high school…Almost without exception, these kids are from working class backgrounds.”
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
He continued, “For years I tried to believe that the lessons might be able to inspire the students to read, to love literature and to find its beauty. However, I was haunted by the more likely outcome: that when high school ended,...
Debuting in the Acid section later this week, Yair’s feature springs from a very personal place. As the filmmaker explains in the film’s official press kit, “For the past nine years, I have been teaching literature in high school…Almost without exception, these kids are from working class backgrounds.”
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
He continued, “For years I tried to believe that the lessons might be able to inspire the students to read, to love literature and to find its beauty. However, I was haunted by the more likely outcome: that when high school ended,...
- 5/17/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: The project is co-written byDogtooth writer Efthimis Filippou.
Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has signed Babis Makridis’ black comedy Pity for world sales. The director’s follow-up to 2012 Sundance selection L is co-written by Makridis and Yorgos Lanthimos’ screenwriting collaborator Efthimis Filippou (Dogtooth, The Killing of a Sacred Deer).
Pity is billed as the absurd story of a lawyer who feels happy only when he is unhappy. When his wife falls into a coma, he notices how much better his life is when the people around him pity him. When she recovers, he becomes obsessed with being sad again.
Set for delivery later this year, the film is a Greek-Polish coproduction between Neda Film, Faliro House Productions, Madants and Beben Films, supported by Eurimages, The Onassis Foundation, Ert Sa, the Greek Film Center, & Polish Film Institute.
New Europe Film Sales’ past sales line-up has included Cannes Acid selection Scaffolding by Matan Yair, Berlinale Generation...
Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has signed Babis Makridis’ black comedy Pity for world sales. The director’s follow-up to 2012 Sundance selection L is co-written by Makridis and Yorgos Lanthimos’ screenwriting collaborator Efthimis Filippou (Dogtooth, The Killing of a Sacred Deer).
Pity is billed as the absurd story of a lawyer who feels happy only when he is unhappy. When his wife falls into a coma, he notices how much better his life is when the people around him pity him. When she recovers, he becomes obsessed with being sad again.
Set for delivery later this year, the film is a Greek-Polish coproduction between Neda Film, Faliro House Productions, Madants and Beben Films, supported by Eurimages, The Onassis Foundation, Ert Sa, the Greek Film Center, & Polish Film Institute.
New Europe Film Sales’ past sales line-up has included Cannes Acid selection Scaffolding by Matan Yair, Berlinale Generation...
- 5/17/2017
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
The lineup for the 2017 Cannes Acid has been announced.Feature FILMSThe Assembly (Mariana Otero)Before the end of the summer (Maryam Goormaghtigh)Belinda (Marie Dumora)The starry sky above my head (Ilan Klipper)Coby (Christian Sonderegger)Kiss and Cry (Lila Pinell & Chloe Mahieu)Last Laugh (Zhang Tao)Without adieu (Christophe Agou)Scaffolding (Matan Yair)Special SCREENINGFor the comfort (Vincent Macaigne)Acid Trip # 1: SERBIARequiem for Mrs. J. (Bolan Vuletić)The humidity (Nikola Ljuca)Short FILMSDas Patrias (Kosta Ristić)Transition (Milica Tomović)Emergency exit (Vladimir Tagić)A Handful of Stones (Stefan Ivancić)If I Had It My Way I Would Never Leave (Marko Grba Singh)...
- 4/26/2017
- MUBI
Exclusive: Israeli drama acquired by New Europe.
New Europe Film Sales has picked up Israeli debut Scaffolding, which has been selected for this year’s Cannes Acid selection.
Written and directed by Matan Yair, the film follows a 17-year-old boy who is an impulsive troublemaker at school.
While his strict father sees him as a natural successor to his scaffolding business, the boy forges a special connection with his literature teacher Rami and begins to see new possibilities for himself, until an unexpected tragedy occurs.
Newcomer Asher Lax stars in the lead role.
Scaffolding was produced by Gal Greenspan and Roi Kurland of Green Productions in coproduction with Stanislaw Dziedzic of Film Produkcja and United King.
The film had support from the Israeli Film Fund and the Polish Film Institute. In 2016, the project won the first pitching prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
New Europe also had Israeli title One Week And A Day on its roster...
New Europe Film Sales has picked up Israeli debut Scaffolding, which has been selected for this year’s Cannes Acid selection.
Written and directed by Matan Yair, the film follows a 17-year-old boy who is an impulsive troublemaker at school.
While his strict father sees him as a natural successor to his scaffolding business, the boy forges a special connection with his literature teacher Rami and begins to see new possibilities for himself, until an unexpected tragedy occurs.
Newcomer Asher Lax stars in the lead role.
Scaffolding was produced by Gal Greenspan and Roi Kurland of Green Productions in coproduction with Stanislaw Dziedzic of Film Produkcja and United King.
The film had support from the Israeli Film Fund and the Polish Film Institute. In 2016, the project won the first pitching prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
New Europe also had Israeli title One Week And A Day on its roster...
- 4/21/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Screen investigates which films from around the world could launch on the Croisette, including on opening night.
With just over a month to go before the line-up for this year’s Cannes Film Festival is unveiled in Paris, Croisette predictions and wish lists are hitting the web thick and fast.
Screen’s network of correspondents and contributors around the world have been putting out feelers to get a sense of what might or might not make it to the Palais du Cinéma or one of the parallel sections.
Just like the Oscars, this year’s festival is likely to unfold amid a politically-charged atmosphere. Beyond Trump and the rise of populism across the globe, France will be digesting the result of its own presidential election on May 7. Against this background, the festival will be feting its 70th edition.
Below, Screen reveals which titles might - and might not - be in the running for a place at the...
With just over a month to go before the line-up for this year’s Cannes Film Festival is unveiled in Paris, Croisette predictions and wish lists are hitting the web thick and fast.
Screen’s network of correspondents and contributors around the world have been putting out feelers to get a sense of what might or might not make it to the Palais du Cinéma or one of the parallel sections.
Just like the Oscars, this year’s festival is likely to unfold amid a politically-charged atmosphere. Beyond Trump and the rise of populism across the globe, France will be digesting the result of its own presidential election on May 7. Against this background, the festival will be feting its 70th edition.
Below, Screen reveals which titles might - and might not - be in the running for a place at the...
- 3/13/2017
- ScreenDaily
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