International competition will go ahead with Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf acting as jury president.
The Haifa International Film Festival (Hiff) has anounced that its 36th edition is moving entirely online following the Israeli government’s recent decision to impose a three-week nationwide lockdown to combat the surge of Covid-19 cases in the country.
The festival, which usually unfolds against the vibrant backdrop of the port city of Haifa, said the 2020 edition would still take place during its announced dates of October 3-10, but with a mix of digital screenings and video-call meetings rather than physical events.
This year’s programme,...
The Haifa International Film Festival (Hiff) has anounced that its 36th edition is moving entirely online following the Israeli government’s recent decision to impose a three-week nationwide lockdown to combat the surge of Covid-19 cases in the country.
The festival, which usually unfolds against the vibrant backdrop of the port city of Haifa, said the 2020 edition would still take place during its announced dates of October 3-10, but with a mix of digital screenings and video-call meetings rather than physical events.
This year’s programme,...
- 9/17/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
L to R: Godfrey Cheshire, Alyssa Simon, Yair Raveh, Leo Soesanto, Hugo Emmerzael, Senem Erdine, Cerise Howard, Amber Wilkinson Photo: Denis Ishtokin
While I might not subscribe to the idea that "context is everything", it can make an enormous difference. In its simplest terms, what portion of fish and chips isn’t elevated by eating it with the scent of sea air in your nostrils and the sight of waves crashing on a beach? And, when it comes to film, there’s no doubt that background knowledge you bring to the cinema can add to the experience.
The odd thing about context, though, is that often you don't notice it has been missing until you feel its presence. Certainly, that's how it was for me, during the First Fipresci Colloquium Dedicated to Russian Cinema, which was held in St Petersburg at Lenfilm Studio from November 13-15, immediately before the city's Cultural Forum,...
While I might not subscribe to the idea that "context is everything", it can make an enormous difference. In its simplest terms, what portion of fish and chips isn’t elevated by eating it with the scent of sea air in your nostrils and the sight of waves crashing on a beach? And, when it comes to film, there’s no doubt that background knowledge you bring to the cinema can add to the experience.
The odd thing about context, though, is that often you don't notice it has been missing until you feel its presence. Certainly, that's how it was for me, during the First Fipresci Colloquium Dedicated to Russian Cinema, which was held in St Petersburg at Lenfilm Studio from November 13-15, immediately before the city's Cultural Forum,...
- 1/3/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Titles in the Feature and Documentary Film competitions unveiled.Scroll down for full list
The programme of Israeli films at the 35th Jerusalem Film Festival (July 9-19) has been revealed, including Feature and Documentary Film competitions.
The winner of the Haggiag Competition for Isreali Feature Films will take home the biggest prize in any Israeli film competition: $32,000 (120,000 Nis).
Prizes are also awarded for best first feature, actor, actress, cinematography, editing, screenplay, music and the audience choice award, as well as the Van Leer Competition for Israeli Documentary Films.
Other competitions include the International Spirit of Freedom competition and the Jewish Experience competition.
The festival will feature more than 200 Israeli and international films.
Full line-up
Synopses provided by Jerusalem Film Festival
Haggiag Competition for Israeli Feature Films
Tikkun (dir. Avishai Sivan; pro. Ronen Ben-Tal, Avishai Sivan, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery)
Cast: Aharon Traitel, Khalifa Natour, Riki Blich, Gur Sheinberg
Haim-Aharon, a Hassidic yeshiva student, collapses and loses...
The programme of Israeli films at the 35th Jerusalem Film Festival (July 9-19) has been revealed, including Feature and Documentary Film competitions.
The winner of the Haggiag Competition for Isreali Feature Films will take home the biggest prize in any Israeli film competition: $32,000 (120,000 Nis).
Prizes are also awarded for best first feature, actor, actress, cinematography, editing, screenplay, music and the audience choice award, as well as the Van Leer Competition for Israeli Documentary Films.
Other competitions include the International Spirit of Freedom competition and the Jewish Experience competition.
The festival will feature more than 200 Israeli and international films.
Full line-up
Synopses provided by Jerusalem Film Festival
Haggiag Competition for Israeli Feature Films
Tikkun (dir. Avishai Sivan; pro. Ronen Ben-Tal, Avishai Sivan, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery)
Cast: Aharon Traitel, Khalifa Natour, Riki Blich, Gur Sheinberg
Haim-Aharon, a Hassidic yeshiva student, collapses and loses...
- 7/1/2015
- ScreenDaily
Tehran, Iran — Iran hailed the country's first Oscar-winning film as a triumph over arch-foe Israel on Monday after an Academy Award race with its own subplots: Iranian officials giving a grudging nod to cinema and Israeli audiences flocking to see a made-in-Tehran drama.
Iran's state-spun praise for "A Separation," which beat out an Israeli film and three others in the foreign language category, was mostly wrapped in patriotic boasting as a conquest for Iranian culture and a blow for Israel's perceived outsized influence in America.
Yet the high-profile attention by the Islamic leadership also represented a rare stamp of approval for Iran's movie industry.
Iranian filmmakers have collected awards and accolades worldwide for decades, but Iranian hard-liners often denounce domestic cinema as dominated by Western-tainted liberals and political dissenters. Some directors and actors have faced arrest or fled the country. In January, a well-known independent film group in Tehran, the House of Cinema,...
Iran's state-spun praise for "A Separation," which beat out an Israeli film and three others in the foreign language category, was mostly wrapped in patriotic boasting as a conquest for Iranian culture and a blow for Israel's perceived outsized influence in America.
Yet the high-profile attention by the Islamic leadership also represented a rare stamp of approval for Iran's movie industry.
Iranian filmmakers have collected awards and accolades worldwide for decades, but Iranian hard-liners often denounce domestic cinema as dominated by Western-tainted liberals and political dissenters. Some directors and actors have faced arrest or fled the country. In January, a well-known independent film group in Tehran, the House of Cinema,...
- 2/28/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Tehran, Iran -- Iran hailed the country's first Oscar-winning film as a triumph over arch-foe Israel on Monday after an Academy Award race with its own subplots: Iranian officials giving a grudging nod to cinema and Israeli audiences flocking to see a made-in-Tehran drama. Iran's state-spun praise for "A Separation," which beat out an Israeli film and three others in the foreign language category, was mostly wrapped in patriotic boasting as a conquest for Iranian culture and a blow for Israel's perceived outsized influence in America. Yet the high-profile attention by the Islamic leadership also represented a rare stamp of approval for Iran's movie industry. Iranian filmmakers have collected awards and accolades worldwide for decades, but Iranian hard-liners often denounce domestic cinema as dominated by Western-tainted liberals and political dissenters. Some directors and actors have faced arrest or fled the country. In January, a well-known independent film group in Tehran,...
- 2/28/2012
- by Christopher Rosen
- Moviefone
A Separation draws large audiences in Israel as director Asghar Farhadi's Oscars acceptance speech airs on Iranian state TV
When Oscar-winning Iranian film-maker Asghar Farhadi spoke of the importance of recognising his country's glorious and essentially peaceful culture at a time of "war, intimidation and aggression" he might have wondered if anyone in Israel was listening. At the very least, film buffs in the Jewish nation seem to have got the message, because they are turning out in large numbers to watch Farhadi's best foreign film Academy Award winner A Separation at cinemas.
The film's fledgling box-office success in a country whose leaders are currently considering a pre-emptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities is all the more remarkable because A Separation was up against Israeli drama Footnote, a Talmudic scholar saga from film-maker Joseph Cedar. The film is being shown mostly at the seven Israeli sites owned by Lev Cinemas,...
When Oscar-winning Iranian film-maker Asghar Farhadi spoke of the importance of recognising his country's glorious and essentially peaceful culture at a time of "war, intimidation and aggression" he might have wondered if anyone in Israel was listening. At the very least, film buffs in the Jewish nation seem to have got the message, because they are turning out in large numbers to watch Farhadi's best foreign film Academy Award winner A Separation at cinemas.
The film's fledgling box-office success in a country whose leaders are currently considering a pre-emptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities is all the more remarkable because A Separation was up against Israeli drama Footnote, a Talmudic scholar saga from film-maker Joseph Cedar. The film is being shown mostly at the seven Israeli sites owned by Lev Cinemas,...
- 2/28/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Here is the the 84th Oscar telecast line-up, according to popular Israeli film blogger Yair Raveh. I can’t confirm but he’s been right with his rundowns since 2009. All times are Pst: 5:30 Pm: Show starts, Billy Crystal’s opening number. 5:40 Pm: 1st award – Cinematography. 5:43 Pm: Art Direction. 5:52 Pm: Costume Design. 5:54 Pm: Makeup. 6:03 Pm: Foreign Language Film. 6:07 Pm: Supporting Actress. 6:20 Pm: Editing. 6:23 Pm: Sound Editing 6:26 Pm: Sound Mixing. 6:33 Pm: Cirque du Soleil 6:37 Pm: Documentary Feature. 6:41 Pm: Animated Feature. 6:49 Pm: Visual Effects. 6:53 Pm: Supporting Actor. 7:04 Pm: Score. 7:08 Pm: Song (expect a possible Muppet surprise here). 7:17 Pm: Adapted Screenplay. 7:20 Pm: Original Screenplay. 7:31 Pm: Live Action Short. 7:34 Pm: Documentary Short. 7:37 Pm: Animated Short. 7:44 Pm: Direction. 7:58 Pm: In Memoriam. 8:07 Pm: Best Actor. 8:15 Pm: Best Actress. 8:27 Pm: Best Picture.
- 2/26/2012
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
Another moving film unveiled at the Haifa Film Festival was the documentary entitled, Sharon Amrani: Remember His Name. Sharon Amrani was perhaps the most promising director from the Israeli Movie industry in the late 1990's. Bonfire Night, his graduation film from the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem, won several awards, and his follow up, a 50 min. TV drama entitled Goodbye Cousin, picked up plenty of praise from both from critics and his colleagues alike. He even begun directing a TV series called Jerusalem Mix, but then disaster struck: the 31 year-old Amrani drowned. "It's like if I was dead before directing Late Marriage", says Dover Kosashvili in the one hour documentary. Since the beginning of the millennium, Israeli films became the hit of the international film scene, but still, the unique voice of Amrani, torn between religious and secular worlds, is missing. Amrani's story is brought to the screen by...
- 10/11/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
A scene from Ari Folman's The Congress
Photo: Courtesy of Slash Film Israeli director Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir was a big hit in 2008 and ultimately earned a Best Foreign Language Oscar nomination, and many thought it should have won though it ended up losing to Departures out of Japan. His follow-up, The Congress, a loose adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's "The Futurological Congress," has been discussed here and there starting with Yair Raveh's interview with Folman at Cinemascope in which Folman gave details as to what direction the film will take: "We'll take elements from Bashir, mainly in how the story is structured, but instead of traveling backwards with the characters, this time we will travel forward, jumping into the future. The present will be shot in live-action, the future will be animated. The main character will be played by An Actress Playing Herself. The film is a co-production between Israel,...
Photo: Courtesy of Slash Film Israeli director Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir was a big hit in 2008 and ultimately earned a Best Foreign Language Oscar nomination, and many thought it should have won though it ended up losing to Departures out of Japan. His follow-up, The Congress, a loose adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's "The Futurological Congress," has been discussed here and there starting with Yair Raveh's interview with Folman at Cinemascope in which Folman gave details as to what direction the film will take: "We'll take elements from Bashir, mainly in how the story is structured, but instead of traveling backwards with the characters, this time we will travel forward, jumping into the future. The present will be shot in live-action, the future will be animated. The main character will be played by An Actress Playing Herself. The film is a co-production between Israel,...
- 4/12/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Last year I was pumping out Oscar Updates with ease on a weekly and almost twice-a-week basis, but this year I am slowly groing bored by the news (or lack thereof). A lot of this year's buzz seems to be manufactured, such as those wondering if Michael Jackson's This is It will be a Best Picture nominee. Guess what, no, it won't be. However, there are other bits of buzz that come in, but they hardly stir much emotion as the films are still a couple months out and haven't been widely seen or have quite simply appeared out of thin air.
Should I take Helen Mirren seriously as a Best Actress contender for The Last Station? How about the buzz on Jeff Bridges for the late-to-the-party Crazy Heart? Many now have Bridges as the lead contender for Best Actor and some even have him winning. Who would have thought?...
Should I take Helen Mirren seriously as a Best Actress contender for The Last Station? How about the buzz on Jeff Bridges for the late-to-the-party Crazy Heart? Many now have Bridges as the lead contender for Best Actor and some even have him winning. Who would have thought?...
- 11/11/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
In an upset at Israel’s Ophir Awards, Ajami beat out Venice Golden Lion winner Lebanon today, tweets @Cinemascopian’s Yair Raveh: “Lebanon” walks away with 4 awards, “Ajami” 5. The Ophir-winner is usually the Oscar submission. Ajami won a certificate of distinction in the Camera d’Or competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where it played in the director’s fortnight. It was co-directed by an Israeli and a Palestinian, Yaron Shani and Scandar …...
- 9/26/2009
- Thompson on Hollywood
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