Ana Arabia, La Dune also honoured in Haifa.
Yuval Adler’s Bethlehem, fresh from its international tour through Venice, Telluride and Toronto, landed back home for a triumphal opening reception at the Haifa Film Festival, grabbing both the Best Israeli Film Award and a Best Actor award for Tsahi Halevy, who plays an Israeli security officer at odds with his bosses and in trouble with the young Palestinian he is trying to turn into his own agent. The film is also now confirmed as the Israeli submission for the Oscar race for best foreign-language film.
Amos Gitai’s one-shot feature, Ana Arabia, predictably collected a Best Cinematography award for Giora Bejach and Nir Bar’s 82-minute tour-de-force. A second prize went to the film’s script authored by Gitai with his regular partner, Marie-Josee Sanselme. Hila Vidor, who plays a sexually repressed, inhibited young married wife in Funeral at Noon by Adam Sanderson, was selected...
Yuval Adler’s Bethlehem, fresh from its international tour through Venice, Telluride and Toronto, landed back home for a triumphal opening reception at the Haifa Film Festival, grabbing both the Best Israeli Film Award and a Best Actor award for Tsahi Halevy, who plays an Israeli security officer at odds with his bosses and in trouble with the young Palestinian he is trying to turn into his own agent. The film is also now confirmed as the Israeli submission for the Oscar race for best foreign-language film.
Amos Gitai’s one-shot feature, Ana Arabia, predictably collected a Best Cinematography award for Giora Bejach and Nir Bar’s 82-minute tour-de-force. A second prize went to the film’s script authored by Gitai with his regular partner, Marie-Josee Sanselme. Hila Vidor, who plays a sexually repressed, inhibited young married wife in Funeral at Noon by Adam Sanderson, was selected...
- 9/30/2013
- by dfainaru@netvision.net.il (Edna Fainaru)
- ScreenDaily
Sixteen first or second directors will vie for the San Sebastian Film Festival’s (20-28 Sept) new directors award.
The films will compete for the $67,000 (€50,000) Kutxa-New Directors Award, granted by an international jury.
Represented countries include Spain, the Us, Israel, France, Turkey, Lithuania, Costa Rica, Greece, Mexico, China, Iceland, Ukraine, Holland and Belgium.
Films
El Arbol Magnetico (The Magnetic Tree) (Spain-Chile)
Dir Isabel Ayguavives
Ci Yan De Yan Guang (The Blinding Sunlight) (China)
Dir Yu Liu
Cainele Japonez (Japanese Dog) (Romania)
Dir Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
La Dune (France-Israel)
Dir Yossi Aviram
Las Horas Muertas (The Empty Hours) (Mexico-France-Spain)
Dir Aaron Fernandez
Hross I Oss (Of Horses and Men) (Iceland-Germany)
Dir Benedikt Erlingsson
Levaya Bazaharaim (Funeral at Noon) (Israel)
Dir Adam Sanderson
Losejas (The Gambler) (Lithuania-Latvia)
Dir Ignas Jonynas
Luton (Greece)
Dir Michalis Konstantatos
Mother of George (Us)
Dir Andrew Dosunmu
Por Las Plumas (All About the Feathers) (Costa Rica)
Neto Villalobos
Puppy Love (Belgium-Sweden-France-Luxembourg)
Dir Delphine Lehericey
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The films will compete for the $67,000 (€50,000) Kutxa-New Directors Award, granted by an international jury.
Represented countries include Spain, the Us, Israel, France, Turkey, Lithuania, Costa Rica, Greece, Mexico, China, Iceland, Ukraine, Holland and Belgium.
Films
El Arbol Magnetico (The Magnetic Tree) (Spain-Chile)
Dir Isabel Ayguavives
Ci Yan De Yan Guang (The Blinding Sunlight) (China)
Dir Yu Liu
Cainele Japonez (Japanese Dog) (Romania)
Dir Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
La Dune (France-Israel)
Dir Yossi Aviram
Las Horas Muertas (The Empty Hours) (Mexico-France-Spain)
Dir Aaron Fernandez
Hross I Oss (Of Horses and Men) (Iceland-Germany)
Dir Benedikt Erlingsson
Levaya Bazaharaim (Funeral at Noon) (Israel)
Dir Adam Sanderson
Losejas (The Gambler) (Lithuania-Latvia)
Dir Ignas Jonynas
Luton (Greece)
Dir Michalis Konstantatos
Mother of George (Us)
Dir Andrew Dosunmu
Por Las Plumas (All About the Feathers) (Costa Rica)
Neto Villalobos
Puppy Love (Belgium-Sweden-France-Luxembourg)
Dir Delphine Lehericey
[link...
- 8/9/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Sixteen first or second directors will vie for the San Sebastian Film Festival’s (20-28 Sept) new directors award.
The films will compete for the €50,000 Kutxa-New Directors Award, granted by an international jury.
Represented countries include Spain, the Us, Israel, France, Turkey, Lithuania, Costa Rica, Greece, Mexico, China, Iceland, Ukraine, Holland and Belgium.
Films:
El Arbol Magnetico (The Magnetic Tree) (Spain-Chile)
Dir Isabel Ayguavives
Ci Yan De Yan Guang (The Blinding Sunlight) (China)
Dir Yu Liu
Cainele Japonez (Japanese Dog) (Romania)
Dir Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
La Dune (The Dune) (France-Israel)
Dir Yossi Aviram
Las Horas Muertas (The Empty Hours) (Mexico-France-Spain)
Dir Aaron Fernandez
Hross I Oss (Of Horses and Men) (Iceland-Germany)
Dir Benedikt Erlingsson
Levaya Bazaharaim (Funeral at Noon) (Israel)
Dir Adam Sanderson
Losejas (The Gambler) (Lithuania-Latvia)
Dir Ignas Jonynas
Luton (Greece)
Dir Michalis Konstantatos
Mother of George (Us)
Dir Andrew Dosunmu
Por Las Plumas (All About the Feathers) (Costa Rica)
Neto Villalobos
Puppy Love (Belgium-Sweden-France-Luxembourg)
Dir...
The films will compete for the €50,000 Kutxa-New Directors Award, granted by an international jury.
Represented countries include Spain, the Us, Israel, France, Turkey, Lithuania, Costa Rica, Greece, Mexico, China, Iceland, Ukraine, Holland and Belgium.
Films:
El Arbol Magnetico (The Magnetic Tree) (Spain-Chile)
Dir Isabel Ayguavives
Ci Yan De Yan Guang (The Blinding Sunlight) (China)
Dir Yu Liu
Cainele Japonez (Japanese Dog) (Romania)
Dir Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
La Dune (The Dune) (France-Israel)
Dir Yossi Aviram
Las Horas Muertas (The Empty Hours) (Mexico-France-Spain)
Dir Aaron Fernandez
Hross I Oss (Of Horses and Men) (Iceland-Germany)
Dir Benedikt Erlingsson
Levaya Bazaharaim (Funeral at Noon) (Israel)
Dir Adam Sanderson
Losejas (The Gambler) (Lithuania-Latvia)
Dir Ignas Jonynas
Luton (Greece)
Dir Michalis Konstantatos
Mother of George (Us)
Dir Andrew Dosunmu
Por Las Plumas (All About the Feathers) (Costa Rica)
Neto Villalobos
Puppy Love (Belgium-Sweden-France-Luxembourg)
Dir...
- 8/9/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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