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
Actor John Turturro to visit Jerusalem and take part in opening ceremony
Nanni Moretti’s My Mother (Mia Madre) is to open the 32nd Jerusalem Film Festival (July 9-19).
The movie’s premiere in Israel will be screened at the Sultan’s Pool on July 9, following its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival last month.
The opening ceremony will be attended by John Turturro, who stars in the movie.
Italian maverick Moretti’s latest film, which stars Margherita Buy alongside the director, is a return to the family drama he explored in 2001 Palme d’Or winner The Son’s Room.
This time it’s a mother’s slow decline that sparks the melodrama, leavened by comic touches courtesy of a film within the film featuring a Us actor played by Turturro.
Moretti’s previous film in Cannes Competition was 2011 papal dramedy We Have A Pope (Habemus Papam).
Jff director Noa Regev said the selection...
Nanni Moretti’s My Mother (Mia Madre) is to open the 32nd Jerusalem Film Festival (July 9-19).
The movie’s premiere in Israel will be screened at the Sultan’s Pool on July 9, following its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival last month.
The opening ceremony will be attended by John Turturro, who stars in the movie.
Italian maverick Moretti’s latest film, which stars Margherita Buy alongside the director, is a return to the family drama he explored in 2001 Palme d’Or winner The Son’s Room.
This time it’s a mother’s slow decline that sparks the melodrama, leavened by comic touches courtesy of a film within the film featuring a Us actor played by Turturro.
Moretti’s previous film in Cannes Competition was 2011 papal dramedy We Have A Pope (Habemus Papam).
Jff director Noa Regev said the selection...
- 6/15/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Lia van Leer, the legendary first lady of Israeli cinema, has passed away in Jerusalem aged 90.
The indefatigable founder of the Haifa and Jerusalem Cinematheques, also of the Israeli Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival, van Leer, born in Balti (Romania when she was born in 1924, today in the Republic of Moldova), was sent by her parents to Palestine in 1940, to join her sister. She never saw her parents again, both murdered by the Nazis after she left.
Van Leer studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she met and married in 1952 Wim van Leer, an engineer, pilot, playwright, film producer and the scion of a celebrated Dutch family.
The couple settled in Haifa, using their private 16mm collection to start a film club, which later developed into the Haifa Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive.
After 1967, once Jerusalem was reunited under Israeli rule, van Leer moved there taking the Film Archive along to establish...
The indefatigable founder of the Haifa and Jerusalem Cinematheques, also of the Israeli Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival, van Leer, born in Balti (Romania when she was born in 1924, today in the Republic of Moldova), was sent by her parents to Palestine in 1940, to join her sister. She never saw her parents again, both murdered by the Nazis after she left.
Van Leer studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she met and married in 1952 Wim van Leer, an engineer, pilot, playwright, film producer and the scion of a celebrated Dutch family.
The couple settled in Haifa, using their private 16mm collection to start a film club, which later developed into the Haifa Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive.
After 1967, once Jerusalem was reunited under Israeli rule, van Leer moved there taking the Film Archive along to establish...
- 3/16/2015
- by dfainaru@netvision.net.il (Edna Fainaru)
- ScreenDaily
Lia van Leer, the legendary first lady of Israeli cinema, has passed away in Jerusalem aged 91.
The indefatigable founder of the Haifa and Jerusalem Cinematheques, also of the Israeli Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival, van Leer, born in Balti (Romania when she was born in 1924, today in the Republic of Moldova), was sent by her parents to Palestine in 1940, to join her sister. She never saw her parents again, both murdered by the Nazis after she left.
Van Leer studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she met and married in 1952 Wim van Leer, an engineer, pilot, playwright, film producer and the scion of a celebrated Dutch family.
The couple settled in Haifa, using their private 16mm collection to start a film club, which later developed into the Haifa Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive.
After 1967, once Jerusalem was reunited under Israeli rule, van Leer moved there taking the Film Archive along to establish...
The indefatigable founder of the Haifa and Jerusalem Cinematheques, also of the Israeli Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival, van Leer, born in Balti (Romania when she was born in 1924, today in the Republic of Moldova), was sent by her parents to Palestine in 1940, to join her sister. She never saw her parents again, both murdered by the Nazis after she left.
Van Leer studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she met and married in 1952 Wim van Leer, an engineer, pilot, playwright, film producer and the scion of a celebrated Dutch family.
The couple settled in Haifa, using their private 16mm collection to start a film club, which later developed into the Haifa Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive.
After 1967, once Jerusalem was reunited under Israeli rule, van Leer moved there taking the Film Archive along to establish...
- 3/16/2015
- by dfainaru@netvision.net.il (Edna Fainaru)
- ScreenDaily
The 31st Jerusalem Film Festival gets underway today with a new management team determined to present a world-class event despite the escalating troubles in the region.
Aside from postponing the opening-night open-air premiere of Dancing Arabs (see full story here), the team is hoping for business as usual as much as possible.
“No doubt about it, the festival takes place as planned,” said CEO Noa Regev yesterday. “We are continuing our lives in the best way possible with the situation around us.”
She added: “The escalation in the security situation over the past few days saddens us all, and we hope for days of calm. The Festival will proceed as planned, in accordance with the instructions of Homeland Command and the police. The staff of the Cinematheque hopes to see the Festival venues full with the thousands of film lovers who attend the Festival every year.”
More than 200 films from around 50 countries will screen at the enlarged...
Aside from postponing the opening-night open-air premiere of Dancing Arabs (see full story here), the team is hoping for business as usual as much as possible.
“No doubt about it, the festival takes place as planned,” said CEO Noa Regev yesterday. “We are continuing our lives in the best way possible with the situation around us.”
She added: “The escalation in the security situation over the past few days saddens us all, and we hope for days of calm. The Festival will proceed as planned, in accordance with the instructions of Homeland Command and the police. The staff of the Cinematheque hopes to see the Festival venues full with the thousands of film lovers who attend the Festival every year.”
More than 200 films from around 50 countries will screen at the enlarged...
- 7/10/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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