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Yedaya revives anti-war musical BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Director Keren Yedaya is joining forces with Israeli rock star Dudu Tassa, his musical partner NiR Maimon and singer Neta Elkayam for a big-screen adaptation of cult 1980s anti-war rock opera Mami. “It is one of the most beautiful and significant anti-war texts I have ever read or seen,” said Yedaya. The film-maker, whose films Or (My Treasure), Jaffa and That Lovely Girl all premiered in official selection in Cannes, is scheduled to start shooting in November. Yedaya hopes her new film will

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be accepted into Cannes Film Festival next year so that the premiere will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War, which also marks 50 years of

Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Elkayam is set to play the titular Mami, a downtrodden young woman from southern Israel who moves to Tel Aviv with her wardamaged husband, and is propelled to a position of power after an eccentric inventor rewires her brain. The surreal story sees her declare a final war to free people from their love of life. Yedaya’s adaptation, provisionally entitled Red Fields for international markets, will transpose the tale to contemporary Israel and be set against real-life backdrops

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BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Spanish actress Emma Suarez arrived in Jerusalem for last night’s opening-night premiere of Pedro Almodovar’s Julieta, in which she stars as a woman with a mysterious past. The ﬁlm played in an openair screening at Sultan’s Pool, with Quentin Tarantino also on hand to accept a lifetime achievement award from the festival.

Film-maker Eran Kolirin is gearing up to shoot an adaptation of Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua’s 2006 tragi-comic novel Let It Be Morning in early 2017. The director — whose latest film Beyond The Mountains And Hills screens in Jerusalem’s Israeli Feature Film Competition next week — won Kashua’s permission to adapt the work two years ago. His adaptation revolves around Sami, a Palestinian accountant with Israeli citizenship who left his Arab home village years ago to take up a post in Jerusalem. When the Israeli army seals off the village while he is attending a family wedding, preventing him from returning to Jerusalem with his wife and young son, Sami finds himself questioning his identity and loyalties.

Adaf’s Darwin wins $100,000 Sam Spiegel prize Director Oren Adaf has won the $100,000 Sam Spiegel Alumni Fund for First Features award for his upcoming debut feature Darwin. The story follows a gay Israeli wildlife documentarian living in Namibia, who has been estranged from his Orthodox family in Israel for several years due to his sexuality.

Icelandic director Grimur Hakonarson takes his place on jury » Page 4

SPOTLIGHT Smashing success Sam Spiegel International Film Lab nurtures world-class talent » Page 7

FEATURE Jump start Jerusalem Film & Television Fund looks to ignite animation » Page 8

REVIEW Aquarius Sonia Braga’s performance drives a compelling Brazilian drama » Page 12

Kolirin wakes up to adapting Kashua’s Let It Be Morning

BY TOM GRATER

Following their breakout foundfootage horror JeruZalem, which premiered as a work-in-progress at last year’s Jerusalem Film Festival and went on to play at more than 20 international festivals and sell into all major markets, fraternal film-making duo Doron and Yoav Paz have had a sequel greenlit by financier Epic Pictures Group. JeruZalem 2 will pick up on events 10 years later, when the Israeli army has managed to contain the apocalyptic gate to hell discovered in the first film by placing a concrete dome over Jerusalem’s Old City. The sequel sees a man trying to find his daughter, who has joined a religious cult that exists inside the dome, as doomsday descends once again. The film-making duo will return to Israel to shoot, and also film some scenes abroad. The cast will be split between international and Israeli actors. The production team is also plotting a spin-off VR experience to be released as an accompaniment to the sequel, which will not replicate the found-footage format used in the original. “We could hardly have dreamed about being able to make a sequel,” said Doron Paz, on the success of the first film.

rather than stage-inspired settings. Tassa and Maimon are working on updated versions of the 20 songs in the musical. Hillel Mittelpunkt, creator of the original musical, has been consulted on the new version. Yedaya and her long-time producer Marek Rozenbaum of Tel Aviv-based Transfax Film Productions are due to present the project at the Pitch Point industry event on Sunday. Rozenbaum — who puts the budget at around $1.2m (¤1.1m) — told Screen International he is already in talks with potential French and German partners.

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Jerusalem-based Sam Spiegel Film & Television School launched the award for its alumni in 2015 in association with French producer ARP Selection, which is donating half the prize money. The award — the largest in the Israeli film industry — will be presented to Adaf and his producer

Eitan Mansuri of Spiro Films at the opening of Sam Spiegel International Film Lab’s pitching event on July 8. The international jury selecting the winner comprised Locarno Film Festival chief Carlo Chatrian, Israeli director Joseph Cedar, ZDF/Arte executive Meinolf Zurhorst, Rabinovich Film Fund artistic

Yoni Paran, CEO of the Neve Ilan-based Dori Media Paran (DMP), is lead producing with Yael Fogiel of Paris-based Les Films Du Poisson on board as a co-producer. Keren Michael, who handles the feature films at DMP, said the planned $1.3m (¤1.2m) budget has already been 60% financed out of Israel thanks to the backing of Israel Film Fund, broadcaster Channel 10 and the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund. Dori Media has longstanding links with Kashua, having produced his popular sitcom Arab Labor, which gently exposed what it means to be a Palestinian living in Israeli society. Let It Be Morning is Kashua’s second novel to hit the big screen after Eran Riklis adapted his debut work, Dancing Arabs, in 2014.

director Yoav Abramovich, ARP co-founder Michele Halberstadt and Renen Schorr, founder and director of the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School. Adaf and Mansuri will present Darwin at the Pitch Point industry event on Sunday, which is aimed at connecting Israeli film-makers with international partners. Melanie Goodfellow

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Rams’ Hakonarson joins the festival flock for jury duty Lior Elefant

Equality takes centre stage for Israeli film The Israeli industry continues to face a diversity challenge, with women making up only around 10% of working film directors. One person battling to improve the situation is Lior Elefant, head of lobbying organisation Women in Film and Television Israel Forum. Established in 2012, the forum works across Israel to promote the activities of female film professionals through networking events, conferences, screenings and dialogues with the five national film funds. One of the organisation’s major endeavours has been lobbying the film funds to include an equal balance of women and men on their selection committees. “Before, the people who picked the films were only men, and so all the films they picked were films made by men about men,” says Elefant. Since the forum argued its case for equal representation in 2012, all of the funds have agreed to instigate the practice. One cause for optimism, she says, is that there is “almost an equal percentage of female and male students” across Israel’s 16 film schools. But the stumbling blocks remain when it comes to progressing from directing shorts to directing features. “Once they finish school, women are having a harder time to continue,” says Elefant, noting that one reason is the societal demands often placed on women by some facets of Israeli culture. “There’s huge pressure on them to have kids and stay home.” Despite the continuing struggle, Elefant says the forum is serving its purpose: “We can see and hear the change all around us.” Tom Grater

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It has been a busy year for Icelandic writer-director Grimur Hakonarson, whose film Rams played at more than 150 festivals and collected nearly 30 awards, beginning with the top prize at Cannes 2015 in Un Certain Regard. Now, he wants to give back to the festival community that showed him so much love over the past 14 months, and is serving on the jury for Jerusalem Film Festival’s inaugural international competition. “ When I get these jury requests, I see it as being part of this film community,” he says. “I have an obligation to be on the other side of the table.” Not that he finds this “obligation” an onerous task; Hakonarson is a keen traveller who is excited to visit Israel for the first time. And, like most film-makers, he is keen to carve out dedicated time to watch and discuss films. “When you have a popular film like Rams, you are at so many festivals, but you are not able to watch that many other films. On a

Grimur Hakonarson on the set of Rams

jury, I can see new films, I can sense what kind of waves are out there and maybe get inspired for my own projects.” Hakonarson has a post-Rams project in the works called The County, and recently finished the first draft of the screenplay. “It is about a middle-aged housewife who comes out of the closet in a small rural community

in Iceland,” he says. “It has a similar tone to Rams but is much more feminine and much more political. This time it’s about women and cows, not men and sheep.” He plans to start shooting the film from February 2017 in Iceland, reuniting with Rams prod u c e r G r i m a r Jo n ss o n o f Reykjavik-based Netop Films and employing much of the same cast

as Rams, including the film’s ‘brothers’ Sigurdur Sigurjonsson and Theodor Juliusson in small roles. Hakonarson is aware that he might not experience the overwhelming acclaim he had for Rams again. “Everywhere I go, I get good reactions,” he says. “It almost feels too comfortable. I’m hoping my next film is going to be controversial.”

Raz hopes JFF berth will see Forest flourish BY TOM GRATER

Cinematographer Guy Raz (Yossi, Big Bad Wolves) is here in Jerusalem with his debut feature as a director, the family drama We Had A Forest, which plays in the festival’s Israeli Feature Film Competition today. The project had humble origins, with Raz eventually turning to Israeli crowdfunding platform HeadStart — launched in 2012 — to raise production finance after finding himself unable to source funds from elsewhere, and seeing his script turned down by Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival’s graduate competition. “I had approached them [the Israel film funds] but these things can take a very long time,” explains Raz, who acted as director, writer, producer, editor and cinematographer on the film. “I couldn’t wait because there was only a short window when I could shoot due to

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my cast and my work as a DoP.” The online campaign raised $13,000 (ILS50,000) from 146 backers, enough to shoot a 30-minute short, with all of his crew and actors — including Yaron Motola and Liron Weizman, who Raz knew from previous projects — agreeing to work for free. However, salvation came in the form of the Gesher Multicultural

Film Fund, which informed the director eight days into the shoot that it would provide an extra $39,000 (ILS150,000) towards the budget, allowing him to make the snap decision to increase the running time to a feature-length 80 minutes as well as pay his crew and talent for an extra eight days of filming. “We were making a feature film with a short-film budget. When the money arrived, it gave us a lot of confidence,” he says. After wrapping We Had A Forest, which follows a family who suffer a tragic bereavement when the father leaves his child unattended in his car, Israel Film Fund provided an additional $52,000 (ILS200,000) towards post-production. Looking forward, Raz is hoping the premiere here at JFF may lead to international festival berths later in the year.

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SAM SPIEGEL INTERNATIONAL FILM LAB SPOTLIGHT

Wonders of nurture International sales companies and financiers are in town to get the first glimpse of new projects from the prestigious Sam Spiegel International Film Lab. Melanie Goodfellow reports

n just five years, Sam Spiegel International Film Lab has established itself as a world-class incubator for award-winning features. It is now well known how the Jerusalem-based lab supported this year’s foreign-language Oscar winner Son Of Saul when few others believed in the vision of firsttime Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes and writer Clara Royer. But the success of the lab — which selects a dozen projects a year, split roughly 50:50 between Israeli and international film-makers — extends much further. Other films to have passed through the programme include Philippe Lacote’s Ivory Coast-set war drama Run, Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher, Alvaro Brechner’s Mr. Kaplan and Michal Vinik’s coming-ofage love story Barash, which premiered in the New Directors line-up of San Sebastian Film Festival in 2015. Further films include Burhan Qurbani’s Tribeca screener We Are Young, We Are Strong and Maximiliano Schonfeld’s mystical drought tale The Black Frost, which premiered in the Berlinale’s Panorama section this year. “Our mission from the very first day was that the films must get made” says Renen Schorr, the founding director of Jerusalem’s Sam Spiegel Film & Television School, who spearheaded the lab and oversees the initiative alongside associate director Ifat Tubi. “We’re happy to see that, from the first two editions, 75% of the projects have come to fruition.” One of a kind “There’s no other lab like this in the world supported by a school,” suggests Schorr, noting the two labs on which it is based — Sundance and Torino — are linked to festivals. “It’s not part of the school’s mandate, no-one forced us to do it but it brings a new energy and a new freedom.” After celebrating the Jury Prize for Son Of Saul in Cannes in 2015, the lab was represented on the Croisette again this year by Singaporean director Boo Junfeng’s much-praised prison executioner drama Apprentice,, which premiered in Un Certain Regard and sold to a number of distributors worldwide (the film will screen for a second time at the festival on July 10). Israeli film-maker Asaph Polonsky — an alumnus of the first lab — premiered One Week

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Asaph Polonsky’s One Week And A Day

And A Day, about a couple attempting to resume their lives after the death of their son, in Critics’ Week at Cannes and won the Gan Foundation prize for distribution (the film screens here on July 10 and 11). Polonsky developed his screenplay under the guidance of film-maker Hagai Levi. “It was great to have a fresh perspective on it and working with Hagai Levi was a tremendous help,” the director says. “We would mostly talk about the characters and their journey. “He sent me to see Midnight Run, which is now one of my favourite films. The biggest challenge was to write a new draft that made sense from one session to the next because you can come out with so many new ideas after a week at the lab.” The lab was also present in the Cannes L’Atélier co-production market with Nepalbased film-maker Bibhusan Basnet and Pooja Gurung’s project The Whole-Timers, which portrays Nepal’s civil war through the eyes of a teenage Maoist guerrilla. Other international projects in this edition include dark existentialist comedy The Woodcutter’s Story, the first feature from Finnish director Mikko Myllylahti, who co-wrote the script of compatriot Juho Kuosmanen’s The Happiest Maki Day In The Life Of Olli Maki, which won the Un Certain Regard prize.

‘Our mission from the very first day was that the films must get made’ Renen Schorr, Sam Spiegel Film & Television School

(Left) The Black Frost

Israeli projects include Shai CarmeliPollak’s The Voice Of The Sea, about a Palestinian boy living in a village that is cut off from the coast by Israel’s Separation Wall, who sets off on a perilous journey to the sea; and compatriot Margarita Linton-Balaklav’s Life Is Somewhere Else, about a teenage Russian immigrant confined to a West Bank settlement who befriends a Palestinian boy. The pitching session will bring to a close seven months of development work in Jerusalem and online. First and second-time feature writers with projects at an advanced stage have been working under the guidance of script editors Clare Downs, Jacques Akchoti and Eran Riklis. As in previous years, there will be two jury prizes — a winner and runner-up — worth a total of $70,000, donated by the Beracha Foundation. The chair of this year’s jury is Oscar-nominated cinematographer Slawomir Idziak, known for his work on Black Hawk Down and his early collaborations with Krzysztof Kieslowski. He will be joined by Cannes Critics’ Week chief Charles Tesson; Celluloid Dreams founder Hengameh Panahi; French producer Carole Scotta of Haut et Court; Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg film fund director Kirsten Niehuus; Eric Lagesse, president of Paris-based Pyramide Films; Eurimages chief Roberto Olla; and Katriel s Schory, head of Israel Film Fund. ■

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Spotlight Jerusalem Film & Television Fund

The world is watching The dynamic Jerusalem Film & Television Fund has a wide brief that includes attracting local and international production to the city and jump-starting its animation and VFX sectors. Geoffrey Macnab reports

hy Jerusalem? For international film-makers, it might not be the first city that springs to mind as a place to bring their productions. Israel does not have its own soft-money incentive or tax shelter for the film industry (the Israeli government has long resisted calls from producers to set up such schemes). Outsiders are wary, too, about the political turbulence they might encounter. That is why Jerusalem Film & Television Fund plays such a crucial role in the eco-system of Israeli cinema. The fund, set up in 2008, offers reassurance and guidance — as well as very generous cash rebates for international productions that set up camp in the city. “The government does care about Jerusalem and so I convinced them the fund was important for our city,” says Jerusalem Film & Television Fund director Yoram Honig. “We want Jerusalem to be up on the screen internationally.” Honig sings the praises of the city, pointing to its thousands of years of history, its variety of architecture and its dynamic population. “It is the best setting any storyteller can imagine. It is a city of faith. It is multicultural, multinational — a place where in one square mile of the Old City is condensed everything you can imagine.” The fund has eclectic tastes, backing everything from political dramas to romantic dramas, comedies and horror movies, including last year’s festival breakout JeruZalem. “We are not afraid of political issues but the politics don’t have to be the main issue of the film,” says Honig. “It can be in the background as part of the drama.” The fund’s support comes with very few strings attached. It has a war chest of $10m over the next two years for international films such as Joseph Cedar’s English-language debut, the US-Israeli collaboration Oppenheimer Strategies, which stars Richard Gere, Lior Ashkenazi, Michael Sheen and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The film shot in Jerusalem with support from the fund in 2015.

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Cedar was even able to recreate the New York interiors in Jerusalem. For movies budgeted at $2.1m (ils8m) and above, the fund offers a cash rebate of 60% on every dollar spent in Jerusalem. For Israeli productions, the rebate can be even higher. Nir Bergman’s Saving Neta, Ori Sivan’s Harmonia and Eran Kolirin’s Beyond The Mountains And Hills are all playing in the festival’s Israeli Feature Films Competition strand, and received support from Jerusalem Film & Television Fund. Producers can combine support from the fund with backing from other national funds. “That’s why everybody likes us,” smiles Honig. Hop, Skip & Jump Honig has recently been trying to kick-start an animation industry in Israel. Animated projects created in Jerusalem include Star Darlings, made by Snowball Studios for Disney Junior Channel, and Barbie Dreamtopia, made for the toy company Mattel. Several further projects are on the way to the city, including a new film from Canada’s Corus-Nelvana. This year at Jerusalem Film Festival, the fund is launching its Hop, Skip & Jump programme for animation. The idea is to develop projects with Israeli animators and give them the chance to attend workshops with leading animators from around the world. The scheme is supported by international partners Sony Pictures Animation, DHX Media and Corus-Nelvana. The fund is also boosting the city’s nascent VFX sector, and leading New York visualeffects company The Artery has recently opened a Jerusalem office. “We want to do international work here but we also want to bring this side of the business into Israel,” says Honig. “Israeli films are usually very realistic, even hyperrealistic. We want to encourage Israeli filmmakers to go into the fantasy world, the effects world, and also to do larger things.” As Jerusalem becomes more attuned to film-making, the logistics of shooting in the

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city have become much easier. “Before we invited international productions, we went to school with Israeli productions,” is how Honig describes the process through which the fund improved the production experience in Jerusalem. A ‘one-stop shop’ has been set up within the mayor’s office dedicated to solving production issues, such as permits for shooting in certain locations or putting producers in touch with police and fire departments, as well as with local property owners. Some big projects have come to Jerusalem, at least partly because of the fund. When NBC’s action-thriller TV series Dig starring Jason Isaacs and Anne Heche shot in Jerusalem, part of the Old City was closed down for filming. Some 20 trucks of equipment and a crew 300 strong were brought in. But the production’s stay was curtailed by the 2014 conflict in Gaza. Such upheaval cannot be ignored. Nonetheless, Honig argues that anyone shooting in Jerusalem “has at least half of the world’s attention… the minute you say ‘Jerusalem’, half the world wants s to know a bit more about what’s going on”. ■

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NADAV LAPID INTERVIEW

Lifting the veil Inspired by his time as a wedding photographer, Nadav Lapid has transformed the complex feelings he has about love, intimacy and marriage into a 40-minute feature. Melanie Goodfellow reports

rom The Diary Of A Wedding Photographer has its roots in Nadav Lapid’s experience supplementing his income while a student at Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem. Showcased here today as a special screening, the mediumlength dark comedy-drama made its world premiere in Critics’ Week at Cannes in May, and won plaudits for its portrayal of a jaded wedding photographer as he captures the big day of two couples against the backdrop of the dunes and Roman ruins in the coastal town of Caesarea. Behind the facade of the romantic beach setting, beautiful brides in white dresses and grooms in smart suits, all is not well as neither bride really wants to tie the knot. The photographer, himself grappling with concepts of love and intimacy, becomes a disruptive, subversive — murderous even — third wheel. “He is supposed to be ‘eternalising’ the love of the couple but ends up deconstructing it,” says Lapid of his protagonist. “The camera glorifies and de-glorifies their love. At the same time, the photographer is also haunted by inner desires and doubts and a longing for a certain intimacy.” Ohad Knoller, best known internationally for his performance in Yossi & Jagger, about two soldiers who fall in love while stationed on the border with Lebanon, plays the photographer opposite rising actors Naama Preis and Alin Levy. The latter is a former reality TV star now carving out a career on the big screen. Shunning labels France’s Cahiers Du Cinéma called From The Diary Of A Wedding Photographer “the most-impossible-to-classify film” in Cannes this year. Lapid relishes this response: “People were laughing, then they would stop laughing, or laugh and not know why. A lot of people were shaken. I like the fact people came out with things digging into their minds and souls without being able to pinpoint what exactly.” The film is inspired by Lapid’s questioning of the symbolism and meaning of weddings, provoked by his own experiences behind the camera capturing couples as they celebrated their marriage.

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‘The film is a declaration of war against the industry of love and the institutionalisation of love’ Nadav Lapid, film-maker

From The Diary Of A Wedding Photographer; (below) The Kindergarten Teacher

“I shot something like 600 to 700 films over a three-and-a-half year period. It was intense,” he recalls. “In the beginning it wasn’t so bad, but over time I began to develop a horrible aversion and hostility to this ceremony, and I couldn’t distinguish between the couples and the weddings.

“The only way I could shoot a wedding was by downing four or five whiskies. That’s one advantage of weddings, there’s always a free open bar. I developed my own ritual… as soon as the official ceremony was completed, I would rush to the bar.” A decade later, From The Diary Of A Wedding Photographer is “a declaration of war against the industry of love and the institutionalisation of love”, according to Lapid. At the same time it explores “love, intimacy, loneliness and anti-loneliness”, he explains. Running to just 40 minutes, From The Diary Of A Wedding Photographer is a low-budget production that was conceived and shot over an 18-month period. Lapid and producer Osnat HandelsmanKeren of Tel Aviv-based Pie Films, who also produced Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher, decided to pull together the medium-length work while the director waited for finance to come through on his next feature-length project. “Making movies has become a long and institutional process. The idea of doing something more spontaneous like this appealed to me,” says Lapid. “It’s the closest I could get to being a rock star in the sense you have an idea and a year later you’re on stage with your new song. “I even like the idea that commercially it has a problematic duration. For me, it was like a short novel, a reflection, a poem… although it looks like the process was very quick, I guess I’ve actually been preparing for this movie half my life.” His new project has the working title Micro Robert and is about a young Israeli man getting to grips with life in Paris. Casting has begun, with shooting set to start next year. Paris-based Les Films des Tournelles s is producing. ■

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Weiner Reviewed by Tim Grierson

Aquarius Reviewed by Wendy Ide A magnetic central performance from Sonia Braga is the driving force in a relatively conventional but compelling drama from Brazil’s Kleber Mendonca Filho. This second fiction feature (he also made a full-length documentary, Critico) follows his acclaimed debut, Neighboring Sounds. But while it shares a setting — both films take place in the city of Recife in Brazil — and a fascination with the relationships between residents and their buildings, this film lacks some of the formal rigour that made his debut so arresting. But this hardly matters, with Braga giving one of the most extraordinary performances of her career. Her wonderful creation, the spirited 65-year-old former music journalist Clara, is a joy to behold. And the lack of complex, sexual leading roles for women over 50 is a huge selling point for this portrait of a prickly, potsmoking thorn in the side of bullying property developers. The film is ostensibly about Clara and her dogged refusal to sell her apartment, even though she is the last inhabitant in the block. But this serves as a jumping-off point for a commentary on social divisions in modern Brazil, and a warm and perceptive study of the dynamics within an extended family. Sales should be strong and festival interest is assured. The device of the unscrupulous property developer is a timely theme. Clara comes from privilege — the contested apartment, named Aquarius, is on the upscale Avenida Boa Viagem — and she is positioned as both a maverick rebel standing up against ‘the man’ and a stubborn old woman who is forcing the other residents to miss out on a potential windfall. A three-chapter structure divides the story into segments dealing with Clara’s Hair, Clara’s Love and Clara’s Cancer. We are introduced to her as a younger woman, in 1980. She has survived cancer and is hosting a birthday party for her aunt. Winding forward to the present day, it is not hard to see the parallels between Clara as an older woman and the forthright aunt. Filho makes minimal use of flashbacks, but those he does allow give a playful sense of the accumulated history of the building. Favouring an unhurried pace, Filho takes the time to let us get to know Clara. And while the moments of drama are small and intimate, the effect is engrossing.

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Bra-Fr. 2016. 142mins Director/screenplay Kleber Mendonca Filho Production company SBS Films International sales SBS International contact@ sbs-productions.com Producers Emilie Lesclaux, Said Ben Said, Michel Merkt Cinematography Pedro Sotero, Fabricio Tadeu Editor Eduardo Serrano Production design Juliano Dornelles, Thales Junqueira Main cast Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos, Humberto Carrao, Zoraide Coleto, Fernando Teixeira, Buda Lira

Slickly packaged but also consistently entertaining, even illuminating, documentary Weiner takes the viewer inside the 2013 New York City mayoral bid of disgraced politician Anthony Weiner, capturing both the hope and humiliation fuelling his shot at redemption. A former congressman who championed liberal causes and working-class voters, Weiner had seen his legacy destroyed by a 2011 sexting scandal, and directors Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg follow in brutal detail how that embarrassment still clung to — and ultimately scuppered — his campaign. Kriegman, who worked as Weiner’s chief of staff when the politician was in Congress, and Steinberg (The Trial Of Saddam Hussein) were given incredible access to the 2013 campaign, their cameras following Weiner, his wife Huma Abedin (a close aide to Hillary Clinton) and various staff members. One suspects Weiner allowed such access partly to show the world that his weakness for having racy conversations with women he met online — and sending them explicit photos — was a thing of the past, and that the tireless work he had done for ordinary New Yorkers would continue as mayor. Unfortunately, that decision comes back to haunt him, although not immediately. In its opening reels, Weiner finds its protagonist full of optimism, acknowledging his personal failings but determined not to let them overshadow his commitment to his constituents. But disaster looms. Kriegman and Steinberg are there to document a second sexting scandal. The fly-on-the-wall cameras capture the tense moments between Weiner and his wife, as well as the difficult strategy sessions in which the team tries to figure out a way to spin the politically damaging reports as more women come forward with their stories. If Weiner is not as penetrating a look at modern politics as, say, The War Room, there is no denying the wealth of glancing insights Kriegman and Steinberg have compiled. Plus, Weiner and Abedin are compelling on-screen presences and, together, a notable example of a modern-day power couple. On one level, the film can be read as an engaging profile of a campaign in peril — on another, it asks what the toll can be on individuals who give themselves over to public service.

International Competition US. 2015. 96mins Directors/producers Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg Production companies Edgeline Films, Motto Pictures International sales (outside Scandinavia) Dogwoof, info@dogwoof. com Executive producers Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn, Lily Fan Screenplay Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, Eli Despres Cinematography Josh Kriegman Editor Eli Despres Music Jeff Beal

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Indignation Reviewed by Anthony Kaufman

Slack Bay Reviewed by Jonathan Romney French auteur Bruno Dumont pushes the boat out once again, this time into murky comic waters and the mussel beds of northern France’s Cote d’Opale. This black comedy of manners is a follow-up to his 2014 TV mini-series L’il Quinquin. The idea of a comedy from France’s archauteur of existential solemnity seemed counter-intuitive, but L’il Quinquin attracted 1.6 million viewers on French TV and scored a respectable standalone theatrical presence. Despite its starry cast and stunning production values, however, the period-set Slack Bay (Ma Loute) seems unlikely to win a vast following either in France or abroad, as its humour is too downright weird. The setting is 1910 on France’s northern coast, where weatherbeaten locals the Bruforts — headed by lifeboat skipper dad ‘The Eternal’ (Thierry Lavieville) — make a living by picking mussels and ferrying holiday-makers across stretches of water, Dad and saturnine son Ma Loute (Brandon Lavieville) sometimes carrying them bodily. Every summer, Slack Bay, site of a mock-Egyptian folly, is holiday venue to posh townies the Van Peteghems: spouses André and Isabelle (Fabrice Luchini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), their daughters, André’s sister Aude (Juliette Binoche) and her progeny Billie (Raph), a husky-voiced beauty, apparently a girl who dresses as a boy, or possibly vice versa. Billie seems the only sane one among a hysterical bunch who are forever oohing and aahing about the sublimity of the landscape, or variously swooning, lapsing into undignified pratfalls or indulging — in Luchini’s case — in quasiPythonesque silly walks. Also in the vicinity are a Laurel and Hardy duo of bumbling cops investigating some mysterious disappearances. Dumont watchers will note Slack Bay repeats themes he has worked several times since his 1999 quasi-policier, Humanity. In many ways, it is a period remix of L’il Quinquin — bloody crimes, dopey cops, taciturn locals and the deliberately provocative casting of ungainly non-professionals. There is a new ingredient, however, the nest of preening gentlefolk, which gives Luchini, Bruni Tedeschi and Binoche the chance to crank their eccentricities to the grotesque extreme. The comic effect is surprising at first, but quickly becomes grinding.

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Fr-Ger. 2016. 122mins Director/screenplay Bruno Dumont Production companies 3B Productions, Arte France Cinema, Pallas Film, Twentytwenty Vision International sales Memento Films International, sales@ memento-films.com Producers Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin Cinematography Guillaume Deffontaines Editors Bruno Dumont, Basile Belkhiri Production design Riton Dupire-Clément Main cast Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Jean-Luc Vincent, Raph, Brandon Lavieville

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A college freshman doesn’t come of age so much as slam into the strangeness of adulthood and first love in Indignation, a minor-key drama enriched by a genuinely offkilter tone that borders on angry paranoia. Based on Philip Roth’s 2008 novel, the directorial debut of longtime screenwriter and producer James Schamus exudes a tasteful reserve, but actor Logan Lerman cuts through the seeming gentility in a performance that seethes with his character’s burgeoning arrogance and cynicism. Indignation was picked up by Summit for North American distribution and, with no marquee names populating the cast, good reviews will be essential for this proudly peculiar period drama that is not an easy sell for arthouses. Lerman plays Marcus, an exceptionally bright young man who leaves 1950s New Jersey to go to college in Ohio, where he is one of the campus’s few Jewish students. Focused on getting into law school, he is nonetheless bewitched by beautiful blonde Olivia (Sarah Gadon), whose sexual assertiveness both attracts and repels him. Indignation has all the earmarks of a prestige picture but the film’s overly refined air is a bit of a feint. In fact, this university’s seemingly comforting conservatism and welladorned facilities soon prove to be a stifling environment for Marcus, who appears to have picked up some of the anxiety that riddles his butcher father (Danny Burstein). Schamus seeds the film with these anxieties and the fears of the era so delicately that they seem to transfer over to college for Marcus, whose attraction to Olivia is mitigated by his fear of being inexperienced with girls. The narrative is not being pushed forward, per se, but Schamus’s no-fuss directorial style helps to weave a blunt cultural snapshot of 1950s America, as Cold War paranoia, suffocating conformity and a blossoming youth rebellion conspire to turn the country into a powder keg. Lerman’s portrayal of Marcus is knowingly stilted; he has conceived the character as intellectually superior to his peers, and Marcus makes no apologies for his haughty demeanour. The only thing that seems to please him is Olivia whom, we learn, is a troubled soul. But, again, Indignation does not paint her with the usual brushstrokes. Like Olivia, the film has a benign, even familiar surface — but underneath are hints that nothing is quite right.

US. 2015. 110mins Director James Schamus Production companies RT Features, BFB Entertainment, X-Filme Creative Pool, FilmNation Entertainment, Likely Story, Symbolic Exchange US distribution Summit Entertainment International sales FilmNation Entertainment, info@filmnation.com Producers Anthony Bregman, James Schamus, Rodrigo Teixeira Screenplay James Schamus, based on the novel by Philip Roth Cinematography Christopher Blauvelt Production design Inbal Weinberg Editor Andrew Marcus Music Jay Wadley Main cast Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts, Linda Emond, Danny Burstein, Ben Rosenfield

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Friday July 8

an unfathomable and horrifying human failing.

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The Event

(Netherlands, Belgium) Atoms & Void. 74mins. Dir: Sergei Loznitsa. By weaving amateur footage and archival materials, acclaimed Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa returns to the August Putsch, the failed coup d’etat staged by communist reactionaries in Moscow in 1991, that led to the collapse of the Soviet regime.

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15:30 Sparrows

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09:30 A Man and a Woman

(France) Hollywood Classics. 102mins. Dir: Claude Lelouch. Key cast: Anouk Aimee, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh, Valerie Lagrange. Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimee portray a young widow and widower whose relationship is disturbed by memories of the past. A newly restored copy of Claude Lelouch’s melodrama, which 50 years ago was awarded the Palme d’Or and two Oscars. Classic Cinematheque 2

09:45 Little Men

(US) Mongrel. 85mins. Dir: Ira Sachs. Key cast: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina Garcia, Theo Taplitz, Michael Barbieri. A legal dispute between two families in Brooklyn threatens the friendship between their sons. Panorama Cinematheque 3

Oscar Shorts 2016

107mins. An opportunity to see the five nominees for the Academy Award for best live-action short film, on the big screen: Ave Maria, Day One, Everything Will Be Okay, Shok and Stutterer. Shorts Cinematheque 4

Friday July 8 14:45 Right Now, Wrong Then

(South Korea) Finecut. 121mins. Dir: Hong Sang-soo. Key cast: Jung Jaeyoung, Kim Min-hee. The Golder Leopard winner at Locarno brings two versions of the

10:45 Agnus Dei

(France, Poland) Films Distribution. 115mins. Dir: Anne Fontaine. Key cast: Lou de Laage, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne. Poland, 1945. A French Red Cross doctor on a humanitarian mission discovers a number of pregnant nuns in need of medical care. This drama deals with the crisis of faith that arises when the house of God is desecrated by war. Spirit of Freedom Smadar

11:00 Julieta

(Spain) FilmNation. 99mins. Dir: Pedro Almodovar. Key cast: Adriana Ugarte, Emma

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same chance encounter between a renowned director and a young female artist, which turns into a romantic day together. Korean master Hong Sangsoo serves a clever and touching everyday tale. Masters Cinematheque 3

Suarez, Rossy de Palma, Daniel Grao. Tells the story of Julieta, a mother who discovers a new piece in the puzzle of her daughter’s disappearance years ago. A spectacular, captivating and exciting cinematic celebration. Gala Cinematheque 1

11:30 Long Night of Francisco Sanctis

(Argentina) Films Boutique. 78mins. Dir: Francisco Marquez, Andrea Testa. Key cast: Diego Velazquez, Laura Paredes, Valeria Lois, Marcelo Subiotto. In 1977 Buenos Aires, a man learns of a planned abduction operation by the dictatorship. Racing against time, he must decide whether to risk his

life to save these people. This intelligent debut won the best film prize at Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival. Debuts Cinematheque 2

11:45 Pepe’s Last Battle

(Israel) Stav Meron, Michael Alalu. 60mins. Dir: Michael Alalu. Pepe Alalu, 70, head of Meretz in Jerusalem, is dreaming of being the Mayor. Michael, 30, his son, is coming back from Tel Aviv to help him. Together they will make a journey in the most complex city in the world. Israeli Cinematheque 3

13:15 Aquarius

(Brazil) SBS International. 142mins. Dir: Kleber Mendonca Filho. Key cast: Sonia Braga, Julia Bernat, Humberto Carrao. Clara, the last resident of a seafront condo in Recife, Brazil, finds herself in a nervewracking confrontation with a real-estate company that is trying to buy the building. Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 2

Slack Bay

(Germany, France) Memento Films. 122mins. Dir: Bruno Dumont. Key cast: Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche, Valeria BruniTedeschi. A sardonic tale with outlandish characters is at the centre of French master Bruno Dumont’s latest film. Masters Smadar

13:30 From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer

(Israel) Pie Films. 40mins. Dir: Nadav Lapid. Key cast: Ohad Knoller, Naama Preis, Dan Shapira, Jacob Zada Daniel, Alina Levy. A wedding photographer marries one bride, kills another and returns home. Israeli Cinematheque 3

We Had a Forest

(Israel) Guy Raz. 80mins. Dir: Guy Raz. Key cast: Yaron Mottola, Liron Weissman, Menashe Noy, Maya Maron. Heading out to a stressful day at work, devoted family man Mori is completely unaware of the tragic mistake he has just made. Touches on

(Iceland, Denmark, Croatia) Versatile. 99mins. Dir: Runar Runarsson. Key cast: Atli Oskar Fjalarsson, Ingvar E Sigurdsson, Kristbjorg Kjeld, Rakel Bjork Bjornsdottir. Sixteen-year-old Ari is sent from Reykjavik to live with his father in rural Iceland. There, between towering mountains and breathtaking fjords, he has to navigate his difficult relationship with his father. Winner of the prestigious Golden Shell prize at San Sebastian International Film Festival. Intl Comp Cinematheque 1

15:45 11 Minutes

(Poland, Ireland) Hanway Films. 81mins. Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski. Key cast: Richard Dormer, Paulina Chapko, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Andrzej Chyra. The life of a jealous husband spins out of control when his wife meets a slick Hollywood director. Myriad characters soon join the party, triggering a fateful chain of events. Masters Smadar

16:15 Tower

(US) Cinetic Media. 96mins. Dir: Keith Maitland. In August, 1966, a sniper climbed to the top of a tower at the University of Texas at Austin and committed a horrifying massacre. Keith Maitland combines archival footage with rotoscope animation to revive a grim day in US history. Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 2

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17:15 Indignation

(US) FilmNation. 110mins. Dir: James Schamus. Key cast: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts, Linda Emond. In 1951 America, an idealistic Jewish student heads to a small, conservative Ohio college. Though he achieves academic success, he also faces antisemitism, oppression and sexual repression. A refined, highly acclaimed adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel Indignation. Gala Cinematheque 3

17:30 The First Monday in May

(US) Elle Driver. 90mins. Dir: Andrew Rossi. Key cast: Andrew Bolton, Wong Kar Wai, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano. The tension between art and commerce in the fashion world is exposed in this documentary that follows the production of the Met’s 2015 fashion exhibit and the preparations for ‘Vogue’ editor-in-chief Anna Wintour’s gala, attended by the biggest celebrities. Gala Smadar

Short Matters! #1

81mins. Short films that were nominated to the European Film Academy: Dissonance (Germany), E.T.E.R.N.I.T (France), Field Study (UK), Kung Fury (Sweden). Shorts Cinematheque 4

17:45 Weiner

(US) Dogwoof. 96mins. Dir: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg. The winner of the Grand Jury prize for documentary at Sundance Film Festival presents an intelligent and amusing portrait of former Congressman Anthony Weiner, as he runs for www.screendaily.com

mayor of New York, exposing politics in the age of digital media. Intl Comp Cinematheque 1

18:15 AlbÜm

(Turkey, France, Romania) The Match Factory. 105mins. Dir: Mehmet Can Mertoglu. Key cast: Sebnem Bozoklu, Murat Kilic, Rıza Akın, Mihriban Er. A couple in the process of adoption fake a pregnancy album to hide their fertility problems. Adoption, however, can be a long process when the parents are picky. Debuts Cinematheque 2

19:15 Short Matters! #2

97mins. Short films nominated to the European Film Academy: Listen (Denmark, Finland), Our Body (Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Germany), Over (UK), Picnic (Croatia), Smile, And The World Will Smile Back (Israel, Palestine), Son Of The Wolf (France).

Neta, whose honesty and vulnerability will help them reconnect with their dearest ones, their families. Israeli Cinematheque 1

20:45 Staying Vertical

(France) Wild Bunch. 100mins. Dir: Alain Guiraudie. Key cast: Damien Bonnard, Raphael Thierry, Basile Meilleurat. An enchanting film about a film-maker who searches for a sense of belonging but mainly encounters complex relationships.

21:45 Sieranevada

(Romania, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Republic of Macedonia) Elle Driver. 173mins. Dir: Cristi Puiu. Key cast: Mimi Branescu, Judith State, Bogdan Dumitrache, Dana Dogaru, Sorin Medeleni. Depicts the Romanian middle class through in a Bucharest apartment where a family gathers to commemorate a deceased patriarch. Intl Comp Smadar

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Saturday July 9

Eat That Question — Frank Zappa in His Own Words

(France, Germany) Sony Pictures Classics. 90mins. Dir: Thorsten Schutte. This in-depth look at the life and work of Frank Zappa mixes different archival materials to delve into Zappa’s musical world and outrageous mind. Panorama Cinematheque 2

23:00 The Neon Demon

104mins. Short films nominated to the European Film Academy: Symbolic Threats (Germany), The Runner (Spain), The Translator (UK, Turkey), This Place We Call Home (Denmark), Washingtonia (Greece).

(US) Forum Film. 153mins. Dir: Quentin Tarantino. Key cast: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L Jackson. Quentin Tarantino, the renowned American film-maker, comes to the festival for a conversation with the audience and a special screening.

(France, US, Denmark) Wild Bunch. 110mins. Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn. Key cast: Elle Fanning, Karl Glusman, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote. Jessie arrives in Los Angeles and rises to stardom in the modelling industry. However, her beauty becomes the source of jealousy for those around her who will stop at nothing to steal it away from her.

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21:15 Short Matters! #3

22:00 Pulp Fiction

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19:30 See box, right

The White Knights

(Belgium, France) Indie Sales. 112mins. Dir: Joachim Lafosse. Key cast: Vincent Lindon, Valerie Donzelli, Reda Kateb, Louise Bourgoin. A group of volunteers heads out to Africa to find 300 orphans to take to France for adoption. They soon face the limitations of humanitarian intervention. Esteemed director Joachim Lafosse examines the fine line between humanitarianism and paternalistic colonialism.

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The Handmaiden

(South Korea) CJ Entertainment. 144mins. Dir: Park Chan-wook. Key cast: Kim Min-hee, Ha Jung-woo, Kim Haesook, Kim Tae-ri. In Japanese-occupied Korea in the 1930s, a handmaiden assists a swindler in duping her mistress.

(Israel) United Channel Movies. 90mins. Dir: Nir Bergman. Key cast: Benny Avni, Rotem Abuhav, Irit Kaplan, Naama Arlaky, Neta Riskin. Four women whose lives are in turmoil encounter a mysterious stranger,

Panorama Cinematheque 1

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Saving Neta

The Red Turtle

(France, Japan) Wild Bunch. 80mins. Dir: Michael Dudok de Wit. This dialogue-free animated film depicts a man stranded on a desert island inhabited by turtles, scorpions and birds. The debut feature by Michael Dudok de Wit, produced by Hiyao Miyazaki’s Ghibli Studio, won the Un Certain Regard Special Jury prize at Cannes.

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Family Film

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Friday July 8 19:30 Family Film

(Czech, France, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia) Cercamon. 95mins. Dir: Olmo Omerzu. Key cast: Karel Roden, Vanda

Hybnerova, Daniel Kadlec, Jenovefa Bokova. A married couple embark on a sailing holiday, leaving behind their son and daughter. The yacht capsizes, their

dog disappears and the family faces a crisis. This smart and refreshing family drama was a hit at international festivals last year. Debuts Smadar

(UK) Cinephil. 90mins. Dir: Peter Middleton. Key cast: Dan Skinner, Simone Kirby. An extraordinary documentary featuring theologian John Hull who, from 1983-86, recorded a series of audio diaries that documented his descent into blindness. The film combines these recordings with interviews and stunning dramatisations that reveal a sharp, fascinating and sensitive man. Panorama Cinematheque 2

11:00 Winter Song

(France, Georgia) Films » du Losange. 117mins. July 8-9, 2016 Screen International at Jerusalem 15

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15:30 A Monster with a Thousand Heads

(Mexico) Memento Films. 74mins. Dir: Rodrigo Pla. Key cast: Jana Raluy, Sebastian Aguirre Boeda, Hugo Albores. When her insurance company refuses to sign off on her husband’s lifesaving treatment, Sonia declares an all-out war against the system. Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 2

Things to Come

Saturday July 9 14:00 Women Who Run Hollywood

(US) Poorhouse International. 52mins. Dir: Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg. Key cast: Paula Wagner, Sherry Lansing, Lynda Obst, Cari Beauchamp. Did you know the first Dir: Otar Iosseliani. Key cast: Rufus, Amiran Amiranashvili, Mathias Jung. Otar Iosseliani’s latest film is an acrobatic piece that shifts incessantly between stories, characters and eras. The Georgian-French maestro combines tragedy and comedy to produce an impressive piece that creates a new world while keeping an eye on our present reality. Masters Smadar

11:15 Rara

(Chile, Argentina) Latido. 88mins. Dir: Pepa San Martin. Key cast: Mariana Loyola, Agustina Munoz, Julia Lubbert, Emilia Ossandon. As Sara’s 13th birthday approaches, she is feeling overwhelmed by her first crush, changing body and the disputes between her two mothers and her biological father. Winner of the Grand Prix of the Generation

talkie and the first colour film were both directed by women? Through rare archival materials and interviews, this doc seeks to restore the women who ran Hollywood to their rightful place in the pantheon of cinema.

Neta, whose honesty and vulnerability will help them reconnect with their dearest ones, their families. 13:15 Truman

section at Berlin Film Festival. Debuts Cinematheque 1

Gala Cinematheque 1

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AlbÜm

The First, the Last

(France, Belgium) Wild Bunch. 98mins. Dir: Bouli Lanners. Key cast: Albert Dupontel, Bouli Lanners, Suzanne Clement, Michael Lonsdale. Two bounty hunters search in the French countryside for a cellphone containing very sensitive information.

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The Last Laugh

12:00 Saving Neta

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(Spain, Argentina) Filmax. 108mins. Dir: Cesc Gay. Key cast: Ricardo Darin, Javier Camara, Dolores Fonzi, Troilo. Touching drama, in which two old friends reunite for a few days in Madrid.

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influential comedians and thinkers.

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(US) Amy Hobby. 90mins. Dir: Ferne Pearlstein. Key cast: Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Sarah Silverman, Gilbert Gottfried, Rob Reiner. Is the Holocaust an appropriate topic for comedy? This question is at the heart of this documentary, which weaves together the story of a survivor of the horrors alongside interviews with

Pepe’s Last Battle

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15:15 The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

(France, US) Taskovski Films. 65mins. Dir: Yves Montmayeur. Key cast: Guy Maddin, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier, Kenneth Anger, John Waters. The winner of the best documentary on cinema prize at Venice Film Festival follows the making of Guy Maddin’s ‘The Forbidden Room’, depicting a one-of-akind director whose hypnotic films feature influences from German expressionism and classic melodramas, to David Lynch. Cinemania Cinematheque 4

(France) Films du Losange. 100mins. Dir: Mia Hansen-Love. Key cast: Isabelle Huppert, Andre Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob, Sarah Le Picard. The story of a high school philosophy teacher who resolves to reinvent her life when her husband leaves. Intl Comp Cinematheque 1

Wolf and Sheep

(Denmark) Alpha Violet. 86mins. Dir: Shahrbanoo Sadat. Key cast: Ali Khan Ataee, Amina Musavi, Masuma Hussaini, Qodratollah Qadiri. This film takes us to rural Afghanistan, where imaginative stories are told to explain the mysteries of the world. Debuts Smadar

16:15 Photo Faraj

(Israel) Inosan Productions. 77mins. Dir: Kobi Faraj. The emotional tale of a big family from Iraq who emigrated to Israel and revolutionised photography, from their rise to their downfall. Nephew Kobi Farag tells the story of this family of photographers. Israeli Cinematheque 3

16:45 Harold and Lilian: A Hollywood Love Story

(US) Wide House. 96mins. Dir: Daniel Raim. Key cast: Harold Michelson, Lillian Michelson, Francis Ford Coppola, Mel Brooks.

A fascinating documentary portrait of storyboard artist Harold Michelson and cinema researcher Lillian Michelson — an extraordinary couple who worked with some of the most influential directors in film history and were often referred to as Hollywood’s secret weapon. Cinemania Cinematheque 4

17:15 We Had a Forest

17:30 A German Life

(Austria) Cinephil. 107mins. Dir: Christian Krones, Florian Weigensamer, Roland Schrotthofer, Olaf S Muller. One hundred and fouryear-old Brunhilde Pomsel, the stenographer of Nazi minister for propaganda Joseph Goebbels from 1942 to the end of the war, relates for the first time her life story. Her experiences raise the troubling and timeless question: how reliable is our moral compass? Panorama Smadar

17:45 Love & Friendship

(Ireland, Netherlands, France, US) Protagonist Pictures. 92mins. Dir: Whit Stillman. Key cast: Kate Beckinsale, Chloe Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Emma Greenwell. A comic adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel about a beautiful widow searching for a match for her daughter, and perhaps one for herself. Gala Cinematheque 1

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Zero Days

Endless Poetry

(US) FilmNation. 116mins. Dir: Alex Gibney. A journey into the heart of cyber warfare in the form of an uncontrollable, malicious computer virus, co-developed by Israel and the US for the sole purpose of sabotaging the Iranian nuclear project.

(Chile, Japan, France) Le Pacte. 128mins. Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky. Key cast: Adan Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Brontis Jodorowsky, Leandro Taub. In this autobiographical feature by Alejandro Jodorowsky, the young Alejandro decides to become a poet against his parents’ wishes and delves into an enticing world of freedom, sensuality and madness.

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19:00 Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman

(France) Doc&Film. 65mins. Dir: Esther Hoffenberg. This inspiring documentary about Bernadette Lafont traces the French star’s personal and professional life, from her work as a pin-up girl, through to her status as the sensual movie star of the New Wave, and her unforgettable role in ‘Paulette’. Cinemania Cinematheque 4

Masters Cinematheque 2

20:00 Death in Sarajevo

(France, Bosnia and Herzegovina) The Match Factory. 85mins. Dir: Danis Tanovic. Key cast: Jacques Weber, Snezana Vidovic, Izudin Bajrovic, Vedrana Seksan, Muhamed Hadzovic. Oscar winner Danis Tanovic adapts Bernard-

Saturday July 9 20:45 In Jackson Heights

(US) Zipporah Films. 190mins. Dir: Frederick Wiseman. In his 40th film, documentary giant Frederick Wiseman takes viewers to one of America’s most ethnically and culturally

diverse neighbourhoods — Jackson Heights in Queens, New York — raising piercing questions on integration, assimilation, immigration and cultural and religious differences. Masters Cinematheque 4

Henri Lévy’s play about a tempestous day in Sarajevo’s finest hotel. As the hotel’s manager prepares a European Union Gala, the hotel staff plan a strike. Intl Comp Cinematheque 1

Lolo

(France) Wild Bunch. 99mins. Dir: Julie Delpy. Key cast: Julie Delpy, Dany Boon, Vincent Lacoste, Karin Viard. Violette, a chic Parisian, falls for Jean-Rene, an IT geek. Cultural differences and Violette’s son Lolo are not making things easy for the love birds. Gala Smadar

20:15 Kindergarten

(Israel) Doc Films. 75mins. Dir: Era Lapid, Haim Lapid. Depicts the ease with which people can ruin the lives of a kindergarten teacher and her family with one hasty accusation of child abuse. It is also about how people’s greatness or baseness is revealed in times of trouble. Israeli Cinematheque 3

20:30 Indignation

(US) FilmNation. 110mins. Dir: James Schamus. Key cast: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts, Linda Emond. In 1951 America, an

idealistic Jewish student heads to a small, conservative Ohio college. Though he achieves academic success, he also faces antisemitism, oppression and sexual repression. A refined, highly acclaimed adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel Indignation. Gala Wilf

20:45 In Jackson Heights See box, below

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Suntan

(Greece) Visit Films. 104mins. Dir: Argyris Papadimitropoulos. Key cast: Makis Papadimitriou, Elli Tringou, Milou Van Groessen, Dimi Hart. A middle-aged doctor on a tiny Greek island falls for a frivolous girl and will do anything to win her heart. The rediscovery of his long-lost youth turns slowly into an obsession. Panorama Cinematheque 2

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A War

Captain Fantastic

(Denmark) Studiocanal. 115mins. Dir: Tobias Lindholm. Key cast: Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny, Soren Malling, Charlotte Munck, Dar Salim. A Danish commander, caught in a crossfire with his men in Afghanistan, makes a fatal decision that will affect both him and his family back home.

(US) Sierra/Affinity. 118mins. Dir: Matt Ross. Key cast: Viggo Mortensen, Frank Langella, George MacKay, Kathryn Hahn, Steve Zahn. A father raising his six kids in the forest is forced to leave his secluded paradise. The family’s journey into civilisation challenges his idea of parenthood.

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Gala Cinematheque 3

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Our Father

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(Israel) Transfax. 105mins. Dir: Meni Yaesh. Key cast: Moris Cohen, Rotem ZismanCohen, Haim Znati. Ovadya Rachamim is a club bouncer. His biggest dream is to become a father, and he is ready to “kill” for it.

(Poland, Ireland) Hanway Films. 81mins. Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski. Key cast: Richard Dormer, Paulina Chapko, Wojciech Mecwaldowski. The life of a jealous husband spins out of control when his wife meets a slick Hollywood director.

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11:00 Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

(US) Magnolia. 98mins. Dir: Werner Herzog. In his new film, screened at Sundance, documentary giant Werner Herzog explores the connected world and its effect on our minds and lives. Herzog’s characteristic style and skepticism offer an amusing and insightful viewing experience. Masters Smadar

11:30 Evolution

(France, Belgium, Spain) Wild Bunch. 81mins. Dir: Lucile Hadihalilovic. Key cast: Max Brebant, Roxane Duran, JulieMarie Parmentier. Nicolas and his mother live in a village inhabited only by women and their young sons, who undergo strange medical procedures. Nicolas is determined to find out what is going on. Panorama Cinematheque 1

Sunday July 10

12:15 Kindergarten

09:15 The Boy and the Beast

(Japan) Gaumont. 119mins. Dir: Mamoru Hosoda. Key cast: Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Shota Sometani, Suzu Hirose. A breathtaking animation fantasy about a boy who stumbles into a parallel universe inhabited by talking animals. There he is taken under the wing of a bear-like warrior. Panorama Cinematheque 1

10:00 No Home Movie

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Doc&Film. 115mins. Dir: Chantal Akerman. The last film by the great Chantal Akerman, who passed away last October, is a demanding and touching documentary that follows the final months of her mother’s life, revealing the deep and complex relationship between a mother and daughter.

(Israel) Doc Films. 75mins. Dir: Era Lapid, Haim Lapid. About the ease with which people can ruin the lives of a kindergarten teacher and her family with one hasty accusation of child abuse. It is also about how people’s greatness or baseness is revealed in times of trouble. Israeli Cinematheque 2

13:00 Ma

(US) Stray Dogs. 80mins. Dir: Celia Rowlson-Hall. Key cast: Celia RowlsonHall, Andrew Pastides, »

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Screenings

Amy Seimetz, Matt Lauria, Peter Vack. American choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall presents her directorial debut: a modern-day interpretation of the story of Mother Mary that raises theological and genderrelated questions. The director forgoes dialogue to highlight the impressive cinematography, art design, sound and, of course, choreography. Panorama Smadar

13:15 The Childhood of a Leader

(UK, Hungary, France) Protagonist Pictures. 115mins. Dir: Brady Corbet. Key cast: Berenice Bejo, Robert Pattinson, Stacy Martin, Liam Cunningham, Yolande Moreau. Drama about an American family in post-First World War France who have to cope with their young son’s tantrums. Debuts Cinematheque 1

13:30 The Chosen Ones

(Mexico, France) Mundial. 105mins. Dir: David Pablos. Key cast: Nancy Talamantes, Oscar Torres, Leidi Gutierrez. Fourteen-year-old Sofia falls in love with Ulises, not knowing he was sent to seduce and abduct her to his family’s brothel. When Ulises decides to free Sofia, he has to find another girl to take her place. Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 3

14:00 Our Father

(Israel) Transfax. 105mins. Dir: Meni Yaesh. Key cast: Moris Cohen, Rotem Zisman-Cohen, Haim Znati, Alon Dahan. Ovadya Rachamim is a club bouncer. His biggest dream is to become a father, and he is ready to “kill” for it. Israeli Cinematheque 2

14:45 Uncle Howard

(US) Upside Distribution. 96mins. Dir: Aaron Brookner.

A stirring documentary portrait of Howard Brookner, a promising film-maker who died of Aids at the age of 35. Brookner’s nephew meets his uncle’s friends (including Jim Jarmusch and Robert Wilson) and unearths his legacy, using footage that was buried for 23 years in William Burroughs’ ‘bunker’. Cinemania Smadar

15:30 Je Suis Charlie

(France) Pyramide. 90mins. Dir: Daniel Leconte, Emmanuel Leconte. This documentary follows the January 2015 Paris terror attacks, starting with the Charlie Hebdo attack where 12 people lost their lives and continuing with the attack on a kosher supermarket. Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 1

15:45 The Death of Louis XIV

(France) Capricci. 115mins. Dir: Albert Serra. Key cast: JeanPierre Leaud, Patrick d’Assumcao, Marc Susini, Irene Silvagni. The last days in the life of King Louis XIV receive a mesmerising cinematic treatment by Catalan director Albert Serra. Intl Comp Cinematheque 3

16:15 Photo Faraj

(Israel) Inosan Productions. 77mins. Dir: Kobi Faraj. Recounts the emotional tale of a big family from Iraq who emigrated to Israel and revolutionised photography, from their rise to their downfall. Israeli Cinematheque 2

16:45 French Blood

(France) Indie Sales. 98mins. Dir: Diasteme. Key cast: Alban Lenoir, Paul Hamy, Samuel Jouy, Patrick Pineau. Marco is a skinhead who hates Arabs, Jews, blacks and gays. It will take him 30 years to rid himself of his anger and become a

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changed man. A critical look at some troubling aspects of French society. Panorama Smadar

17:45 Certain Women

(US) Sony Pictures Classics. 107mins. Dir: Kelly Reichardt. Key cast: Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, James Le Gros. A cinematic triptych depicting several women in Montana, continues Kelly Reichardt’s sharp-eyed and sensitive study of the people on the margins of American society. Intl Comp Cinematheque 1

18:00 David Greenberg — Shorts

(Israel) 90mins. Dir: David Greenberg. David Greenberg was a director, film critic and teacher but above all he was a man of cinema, a true cinephile and one of the founders of film culture in Israel, both in terms of the film industry and in terms of exposing local audiences to seminal works of modernist European art cinema. Israeli Cinematheque 2

Dimona Twist

(Israel) Lama Films. 70mins. Dir: Michal Aviad. How would a girl, coming from a large city, feel as she gets off a truck in the dark night with her family, to discover she is in the middle of a desert? Israeli Cinematheque 3

19:00 The Last Laugh

(US) Amy Hobby. 90mins. Dir: Ferne Pearlstein. Key cast: Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Sarah Silverman, Gilbert Gottfried, Rob Reiner. Is the Holocaust an appropriate topic for comedy? This question is at the heart of this doc, which tells the story of a survivor alongside interviews with influential comedians and thinkers. Panorama Smadar

19:45 A German Life

(Austria) Cinephil. 107mins. Dir: Christian Krones, Florian Weigensamer, Roland Schrotthofer, Olaf S Muller. One hundred and fouryear-old Brunhilde Pomsel, the stenographer of Nazi minister for propaganda Joseph Goebbels from 1942 to the end of the war, relates her life story. Her experiences raise the troubling and timeless question: how reliable is our moral compass?

Pascale Bussieres, Aliocha Schneider, Patrick Hivon. A contemporary melodrama about four individuals grappling with their own emotional baggage, whose lives intertwine during the course of one night. Explores human complexity with great sensitivity while engaging with the melodrama tradition of Douglas Sirk, Fassbinder and Almodovar. Gala Smadar

22:00 I Promise You Anarchy

Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 2

(Mexico, Germany) Latido. 88mins. Dir: Julio Hernandez Cordon. Key cast: Diego Calva Hernandez, Eduardo Martinez Pena, Sarah Minter, Martha Claudia Moreno. Miguel and Johnny are skaters, best friends and occasional lovers trying to make money in the illicit blood trade. Julio Hernandez Cordon’s award-winning film tells an unusual love story set against the gritty backdrop of Mexico City.

One Week and a Day

Panorama Cinematheque 2

Panorama Cinematheque 3

20:00 Hooligan Sparrow

(China, US) Ro*co Films. 84mins. Dir: Nanfu Wang. The disturbing reality of modern-day China is exposed in this fascinating documentary following Hooligan Sparrow — a renowned activist who fights against the sexual abuse of women.

(Israel) New Europe Film Sales. 98mins. Dir: Asaph Polonsky. Key cast: Shai Avivi, Evgenia Dodina, Tomer Kapon, Alona Shauloff. When the Jewish week of mourning ends and his wife tries to return to her routine, a grieving father sets out on a journey with his dead son’s medicinal weed and childhood friend. Israeli Cinematheque 1

20:30 The Meddler

(US) Sony Pictures Classics. 100mins. Dir: Lorene Scafaria. Key cast: Susan Sarandon, JK Simmons, Rose Byrne. A new widow throws herself into the life of her single daughter, causing a meddlesome mess. Gala Wilf

21:00 Ville-Marie

(Canada) Films Boutique. 101mins. Dir: Guy Edoin. Key cast: Monica Bellucci,

22:15 Aquarius

(Brazil) SBS International. 142mins. Dir: Kleber Mendonca Filho. Key cast: Sonia Braga, Julia Bernat, Humberto Carrao. Clara, the last resident of a seafront condo in Recife, Brazil, finds herself in a nerve-wracking confrontation with a realestate company. Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 3

23:00 The Ardennes

(Belgium) Pascale Ramonda. 93mins. Dir: Robin Pront. Key cast: Kevin Janssens, Jeroen Perceval, Veerle Baetens. This modern-day Belgian film noir begins with two brothers and a robbery gone wrong when one flees and the other is left to serve a four-year sentence. On his release, he discovers a lot has changed.

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‫יוסף שילוח‬

YO S E F S H I LOA H TRIBUTE

A TRUMPET IN THE WADI

‫ערב הוקרה‬

DESPERADO SQUARE

WEDDING DOLL

On the occasion of his receipt of the Jerusalem Film Festival’s Life Achievement Award, The Jerusalem Film Festival, the Israel Film Fund and the Israeli Cinema Testimonial Database present an evening in tribute to Yosef Shiloah, with the participation of some of the people who have accompanied him throughout nearly half a century of acting for stage and screen. The participants will sketch the life and personality of one of the most outstanding and popular actors in the history of the Israeli cinema.

TURN LEFT AT THE END OF THE WORLD

NOODLE Opening remarks:

JELLYFISH

Participants: actor Zeev Revah, director Shemi Zarhin, director Benny Torati, film critic Meir Schnitzer, film critic Shmulik Duvdeveni, and others.

Moderators: Marat Parkhomovsky and Avital Bekerman, Testimonial Database Coordinator: Tzila Levy

BROKEN WINGS

ZERO MOTIVATION

GETT

:‫בהשתתפות אישים שליוו ומלווים אותו בדרכו המקצועית‬ ‫ באמצעותם נשרטט קווים‬.‫ במאים ומבקרי קולנוע‬,‫שחקנים‬ ‫ אחד משחקני הקולנוע והתיאטרון‬,‫לדמותו של יוסף שילוח‬ .‫הבולטים והפופולאריים בתולדות הקולנוע הישראלי‬

OUT IN THE DARK

,‫ מאיר שניצר‬,‫ בני תורתי‬,‫ שמי זרחין‬,‫ זאב רווח‬:‫משתתפים‬ .‫שמוליק דובדבני ואחרים‬

THE ISRAEL FILM FUND CONGRATULATES THE 33RD JERUSALEM FILM FESTIVAL

During the evening, excerpts will be screened from an interview with Yosef Shiloah conducted as part of the Israeli Cinema Testimonial Database documentation project. The project is conducted with the support of the Israel Film Fund, the Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Art, the Jerusalem Cinematheque-Israel Film Archive and the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. Length of program: approximately 60 minutes

WALTZ WITH BASHIR

‫"מאגר‬-‫ קרן הקולנוע הישראלי ו‬,‫פסטיבל הקולנוע ירושלים‬ ‫העדויות של הקולנוע הישראלי" בתכנית לרגל הענקת‬ ‫פרס מפעל חיים לשחקן יוסף שילוח בפסטיבל הקולנוע‬ .‫ירושלים‬

:‫דברי ברכה‬ ‫ מנכ"ל הסינמטק‬,‫אילן דה פריס‬ ‫ מנכ"ל קרן הקולנוע הישראלי‬,‫כתריאל שחורי‬

Ilan de Vries, General Director, Jerusalem Cinematheque Katriel Schori, CEO the Israel Film Fund

THE FAREWELL PARTY

EYES WIDE OPEN

‫במסגרת הערב יוקרנו גם קטעים נבחרים מראיון שנערך עם‬ ‫יוסף שילוח במסגרת פרויקט התיעוד "מאגר העדויות של‬ ‫ מועצת‬,‫ בתמיכת קרן הקולנוע הישראלי‬."‫הקולנוע הישראלי‬ ‫ ארכיון ישראלי‬- ‫ סינמטק ירושלים‬,‫הפיס לתרבות ולאמנות‬ .‫לסרטים וסינמטק תל אביב‬ ‫ דקות‬60-‫ כ‬:‫משך התכנית‬

FILL THE VOID

‫ מרט פרחומובסקי ואביטל‬- "‫ "מאגר העדויות‬:‫עורכי הערב‬ ‫בקרמן‬

‫ צילה לוי‬:‫הפקה בפועל‬

!‫ הסרט "כיכר החלומות" בעיצוב סטודיו יש‬:‫כרזה‬

Poster: from the film Desperado Square, designed by Studio Yesh!

IGOR AND THE CRANES' JOURNEY

LATE MARRIAGE

14.7

2NIGHT

• 18:00 • Cinematheque 3

Code for Ordering Tickets:

SIX ACTS

‫קוד‬

3 ‫ • סינמטק‬18:00 • 14.7 :‫קוד להזמנת כרטיסים‬

MOUNTAIN

DANCING ARABS

BETHLEHEM

ROOM 514

WALK ON WATER

THINGS BEHIND THE SUN

WE HAD A FOREST

THE BAND'S VISIT

filmfund.org.il ORANGE PEOPLE

LOST ISLANDS

USHPIZIN

OUR FATHER

FOOTNOTE

LEMON TREE

THE BUBBLE

LEBANON

TOTAL LOVE

RESTORATION

FIVE HOURS FROM PARIS

AJAMI

THE SYRIAN BRIDE

CLOSE TO HOME

SAVING NETA

ELI & BEN

A MATTER OF SIZE

SWEET MUD

THREE MOTHERS

JAMES' JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM

FROZEN DAYS

THE WANDERER

TIME OF FAVOR

VASERMIL