The Berlin Film Festival on Monday announced the first three features that will screen in its 2017 Berlinale Classics lineup, a sidebar dedicated to classics and newly discovered films.
A digitally restored version of Mexican director Felipe Cazals' Canoa, which won a Silver Bear at the 1976 Berlin festival, will get a special screening at the Berlinale Classics, alongside the drama Avanti Popolo (1986), the debut feature from Israeli director Rafi Bukai, and Black Gravel (1961), a German B-movie from helmer Helmut Kautner.
The Criterion Collection, with the participation of the Mexican Film Institute, restored Canoa in honor of its...
A digitally restored version of Mexican director Felipe Cazals' Canoa, which won a Silver Bear at the 1976 Berlin festival, will get a special screening at the Berlinale Classics, alongside the drama Avanti Popolo (1986), the debut feature from Israeli director Rafi Bukai, and Black Gravel (1961), a German B-movie from helmer Helmut Kautner.
The Criterion Collection, with the participation of the Mexican Film Institute, restored Canoa in honor of its...
- 12/12/2016
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 33rd Jerusalem Int’l Film Festival celebrated the 30-year anniversary of Avanti Popolo (1986), directed by Rafi Bukai, with the premiere of a newly completed digital restoration. Now considered an Israeli classic, the film is set during the last days of the Six Day War. The story focuses on two Egyptian soldiers (played by two Palestinian actors) who are trying to get out of the Sinai desert war zone and back home to safety in Cairo. Unusual for an Israeli feature: the Arab soldiers are positioned as the central, sympathetic protagonists. Even more unusual: they ultimately join up with three Jewish […]...
- 7/18/2016
- by Nina Menkes
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Film is considered one of the most important in Israel’s cinematic history.
Following last year’s festival screening of Uri Zohar’s restored Three Days And A Child, Jerusalem Cinematheque and Tel Aviv-based technical facility Realworks Studios have collaborated on Israeli war classic Avanti Popolo (1986), from late director Rafi Bukai.
Marking 30 years since the film’s original release, the digital restoration will be screened for the first time at the Jerusalem Film Festival on July 12, with cast and crew in attendance including the film’s lead actor Salim Dau and Bukai’s widow Mayan.
The dark comedy follows two Egyptian soldiers stranded in the Sinai desert after the Six-Day War — now caught inside the new borders of Israel — who are desperate to return home.
Originally Bukai’s graduate film from Tel Aviv University, the feature version went on to be widely acclaimed, and is still studied in the country’s film schools.
“It is a very...
Following last year’s festival screening of Uri Zohar’s restored Three Days And A Child, Jerusalem Cinematheque and Tel Aviv-based technical facility Realworks Studios have collaborated on Israeli war classic Avanti Popolo (1986), from late director Rafi Bukai.
Marking 30 years since the film’s original release, the digital restoration will be screened for the first time at the Jerusalem Film Festival on July 12, with cast and crew in attendance including the film’s lead actor Salim Dau and Bukai’s widow Mayan.
The dark comedy follows two Egyptian soldiers stranded in the Sinai desert after the Six-Day War — now caught inside the new borders of Israel — who are desperate to return home.
Originally Bukai’s graduate film from Tel Aviv University, the feature version went on to be widely acclaimed, and is still studied in the country’s film schools.
“It is a very...
- 7/10/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Sam Spiegel Film School is paying tribute to top Israeli producer Micha Shagrir with an event on Thursday night.
Hundreds of Israeli industry figures who have with Shagrir over the decades will attend the event which is sponsored by The Israel Film Fund, The Jerusalem Film and Television Fund, Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, the Israeli Producers Guild, the New Fund for Cinema and TV, the Israeli Film Academy and the Jerusalem Foundation.
The tribute will be held at the Cinematheque as part of the Jerusalem Film Festival.
Shagrir, who was the head of Kastel Productions, was one of the founders of the school and a former chairman of the Israel Film Fund. He is a former recipient of the Jerusalem Film Festival Life Achievement Award and the Israeli Film Academy’s Life Achievement Award.
Shagrir’s credtis include Avanti Popolo, A Matter of Size, Sayarim and The War After This War.
“Micha Shagrir is a true...
Hundreds of Israeli industry figures who have with Shagrir over the decades will attend the event which is sponsored by The Israel Film Fund, The Jerusalem Film and Television Fund, Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, the Israeli Producers Guild, the New Fund for Cinema and TV, the Israeli Film Academy and the Jerusalem Foundation.
The tribute will be held at the Cinematheque as part of the Jerusalem Film Festival.
Shagrir, who was the head of Kastel Productions, was one of the founders of the school and a former chairman of the Israel Film Fund. He is a former recipient of the Jerusalem Film Festival Life Achievement Award and the Israeli Film Academy’s Life Achievement Award.
Shagrir’s credtis include Avanti Popolo, A Matter of Size, Sayarim and The War After This War.
“Micha Shagrir is a true...
- 7/14/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
A total of 24 co-production projects and sections devoted to China, digital and remakes help make up Rome’s industry events.
The 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17) has revealed details of its International Film Market ahead of its launch next week.
Rome’s key industry initiatives – the informal The Business Street (TBS) screenings market and the New Cinema Network (Ncn) co-production market – will run from Nov 13-17.
Organisers are expecting distributors and producers from 45 countries and 700 accredited visitors as well as 24 selected projects, a China Day and a new initiative dedicated to remakes as well as meetings, panel discussions and conferences.
Single venue; digital focus
For its eighth edition, TBS will take place once again in Via Veneto, the street famously featured in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita.
But for the first time both TBS and Ncn will be held in a single venue, the Hotel Bernini Bristol.
The Terrace will host the buyers and sellers...
The 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17) has revealed details of its International Film Market ahead of its launch next week.
Rome’s key industry initiatives – the informal The Business Street (TBS) screenings market and the New Cinema Network (Ncn) co-production market – will run from Nov 13-17.
Organisers are expecting distributors and producers from 45 countries and 700 accredited visitors as well as 24 selected projects, a China Day and a new initiative dedicated to remakes as well as meetings, panel discussions and conferences.
Single venue; digital focus
For its eighth edition, TBS will take place once again in Via Veneto, the street famously featured in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita.
But for the first time both TBS and Ncn will be held in a single venue, the Hotel Bernini Bristol.
The Terrace will host the buyers and sellers...
- 11/4/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Main Competition
Golden Marc.Aurelio for Best Film: "Marfa Girl" by Larry Clark
Best Director Award: Paolo Franchi, "And They Call It Summer" ("E la Chiamano Estate")
Special Jury Prize: "Ali Has Blue Eyes" ("Alì ha gli occhi azzurri") by Claudio Giovannesi
Best Actor Award: Jérémie Elkaïm, "Hand in Hand" ("Main dans la main")
Best Actress Award: Isabella Ferrari, "And They Call It Summer" ("E la Chiamano Estate")
Best Emerging Actor Award: Marilyne Fontaine, "A Child With You" ("Un enfant de toi")
Best Technical Contribution: Arnau Valls Colomer, for the cinematography of "Never Die" ("Mai morire")
Best Screenplay Award: Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue for "The Motel Life"
Cinemaxxi Competition
The International Jury, chaired by Douglas Gordon and composed of Hans Hurch, Ed Lachman, Andrea Lissoni and Emily Jacir, awarded:
CinemaXXI Award (for feature-length films): "Avanti Popolo" by Michael Wahrmann
Special Jury Prize . CinemaXXI (for feature-length films): "Picas...
Golden Marc.Aurelio for Best Film: "Marfa Girl" by Larry Clark
Best Director Award: Paolo Franchi, "And They Call It Summer" ("E la Chiamano Estate")
Special Jury Prize: "Ali Has Blue Eyes" ("Alì ha gli occhi azzurri") by Claudio Giovannesi
Best Actor Award: Jérémie Elkaïm, "Hand in Hand" ("Main dans la main")
Best Actress Award: Isabella Ferrari, "And They Call It Summer" ("E la Chiamano Estate")
Best Emerging Actor Award: Marilyne Fontaine, "A Child With You" ("Un enfant de toi")
Best Technical Contribution: Arnau Valls Colomer, for the cinematography of "Never Die" ("Mai morire")
Best Screenplay Award: Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue for "The Motel Life"
Cinemaxxi Competition
The International Jury, chaired by Douglas Gordon and composed of Hans Hurch, Ed Lachman, Andrea Lissoni and Emily Jacir, awarded:
CinemaXXI Award (for feature-length films): "Avanti Popolo" by Michael Wahrmann
Special Jury Prize . CinemaXXI (for feature-length films): "Picas...
- 11/19/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Rome – The International Rome Film Festival announced the full lineup for its CinemaXXI sidebar Tuesday, highlighted by A Walk in the Park from “No Wave” cult director Amos Poe, Michael Wahrmann’s Avanti Popolo, Peter Greenway’s Goltzius and the Pelican Company and Steekspel (Tricked) from Paul Verhoeven. Newly installed artistic director Marco Mueller also announced that actor and director James Franco, who is connected to two films in the CinemaXXI lineup, will receive a special prize in Rome. And for the first time, organizers screened in public the short trailer that will precede the screenings of all the films in
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- 10/23/2012
- by Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TEL AVIV, Israel -- Producer, director and screenwriter Rafi Bukai succumbed to cancer Tuesday at the age of 46 and was buried Wednesday. Bukai first gained local and international prominence with Avanti Popolo, which he produced, directed and wrote. The film was honored by the Locarno Film Festival. He went on to produce other films like Life According to Agfa (1992), starring Assi Dayan. His latest effort as producer, the feature One Small Step for Man, starring Israeli-American director Avi Nesher, premiered at the Haifa International Film Festival in October. The film's director, Shahar Segal, said: "He was involved in the most important Israeli films made in the last twelve years. He had a love affair with moviemaking and was one of the industry's characters. (His death) is a loss to the industry." Bukai is survived by a wife and a son.
- 12/11/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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