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Inarritu hot for Shoval’s Shake

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has boarded Israeli film-maker Tom Shoval’s second film Shake Your Cares Away as a producer. The film revolves around Alma, a wealthy heiress with a crazy philanthropic streak who takes her charitable work to unconventional extremes when she moves to Israel from Paris.

French actress Bérénice Bejo has signed to play Alma and is studying Hebrew in preparation

Laila readies Ram Loevy’s Dead Of Jaffa

for the film, which is due to shoot between Paris and Israel in the second half of 2017. “I told her I am searching to cast the soul of my character, Alma, and to my good luck I found it in her,” said Shoval.

“I can’t wait for our collaboration.”

Mexican film-maker Inarritu mentored Shoval as part of the Rolex Mentors and Protégés Arts Initiative. He ended up supporting Shoval and his brother Dan as they co-wrote the script for Shake Your Cares Away. Inarritu selected Sho-

val as a protégé after his awardwinning first film Youth, about a kidnap attempt that backfires after the victim’s Shabbat-observing family fails to pick up the phone.

As part of the mentorship, Shoval spent time on the set of Inarritu’s Oscar winner The Revenant, which he describes as an “out of dreams experience”. Speaking about Inarritu’s involvement in Shake Your Cares Away, Shoval said: “He really believes in the film and me, which is amazing.”

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One Week And A Day, page 10

NEWS Amazon man Festival guest Whit Stillman reveals TV project details » Page 3

SPOTLIGHT Short-term contract Exploring the festival’s short-film competition strand » Page 6

REVIEW One Week And A Day Asaph Polonsky’s debut is an accomplished tragicomedy of bereavement » Page 10

SCREENINGS

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Ptzuim BaRosh stars to hit big screen with Maktub

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Israeli TV stars Hanan Savyon and Guy Amir unveiled first images from their big-screen debut Maktub at Pitch Point on Sunday. The pair — known as the creators and stars of popular shows such as Asfur and Ptzuim BaRosh (Scarred) — joined forces with childhood friend and director Oded Raz. It is the second feature for Raz after The Journey To Astra, which was spun out of children’s TV series Galis.

In Maktub, Savyon and Amir

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Tel Aviv-based Laila Film is gearing up for the shoot of veteran TV and documentary director Ram Loevy’s debut fiction feature The Dead Of Jaffa this September. The feature — adapted from a short story by playwright Gilad Evron — revolves around three motherless Palestinian brothers who are smuggled into Israel from the West Bank to live with their uncle after their father is arrested.

“It’s been funded by the Rabinovich Foundation and we’re hoping to shoot this September,” commented Laila Flms chief Itai Tamir.

One of the fathers of the Israeli film and TV industry, Loevy is best known for works such as Mitrasim and Bread (Lehem), which probed the hardships of both Palestinians and underclass Israelis in the nascent Israeli state.

It is a busy period for Laila, which has eight projects in the works. Among these is Roman Shumunov’s debut feature No Future, about Israeli rappers and graffiti artists of Russian origin struggling to make ends meet in the city of Ashdod. The film, which won the $5,300 Van Leer Foundation award at the Pitch Point industry event last year, will shoot final scenes this summer but has already entered post-production.

Gal Greenspan of Tel Aviv-based Green Productions is lead producer, with Sol Bondy of Berlinbased One Two Films and Julie Salvador of Paris-based Christmas In July attached as co-producers.

The project is currently part of the Torino Lab, with Shoval due to participate in the final pitching sessions in November. “We’ll have a final script in November and will then focus on closing the finance for a shoot in the second half of 2017,” said Greenspan.

TODAY

play two mobster debt collectors who turn to philanthropy after they survive a terror attack. The trio unveiled a sneak preview of the Jerusalem-based caper.

An English-language remake of Asfur, about four men living on a farm, is soon to air on US network Fox as Hard Up. Former Warner Bros executive John Wells acquired the remake rights in 2011. Adar Shafran of Firma Films, whose other credits include The 90 Minutes War and Fill The Void, is producing.

Heymanns plot Dov Khenin doc

BY TOM GRATER

Actor Moris Cohen, star of Meni Yaesh’s Our Father, which is playing in the Israeli Feature Films competition section, was at the Cinematheque on Saturday night to celebrate the film’s festival premiere. Cohen plays a violent nightclub bouncer who becomes a debt collector to pay for his wife’s fertility treatment.

Abulele in line for US remake Los Angeles-based Epic Pictures has acquired remake rights to Israeli family film Abulele, about a boy who is befriended by a mythical monster during a difficult period in his life.

Yoni Paran, CEO of Jerusalem-based Dori Media Paran (DMP), brokered the deal with Epic Pictures co-chiefs Shaked Berenson and Patrick Ewald.

Paran was a financier and co-producer on the original feature, directed by Jonathan Geva and lead produced by Eitan Mansuri of Tel Aviv-based Spiro Films. He also worked closely with distributor United King on the release. The film drew 150,000 spectators at home.

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Fraternal film-making duo Barak and Tomer Heymann of Tel Avivbased Heymann Brothers Films are plotting two new features, including a documentary about communist politician Dov Khenin, the only Jewish-Israeli member from political alliance Joint Arab List to be elected into Parliament.

Barak Heymann is directing the feature, which follows the political figure as he advocates socialism and democracy across the country.

Many of the scenes are being filmed in the Knesset. Falling In LOVE With A Politician (working title) is expected to be completed in early 2017. The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Israel) and Israel’s Yes Docu channel have supported the project.

The duo are also working on

Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life, a documentary about Israel-born gay porn star Jonathan Agassi. The film, directed by Tomer Heymann, follows Agassi through two years.

The pair are producing two versions of the film, one of which will contain X-rated footage. Makor Foundation For Israeli Films and Channel 8 have supported development, and the film is due in the first half of 2017.

Heymann Brothers Films has had a vintage year. Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? premiered in the Berlinale’s Panorama strand, winning best documentary, while Mr Gaga premiered at Jerusalem last year and went on to play festivals across the globe. Since its Israeli release in October 2015, Mr Gaga has clocked up more than 100,000 admissions.

‫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

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:‫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

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SIX ACTS

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MOUNTAIN

DANCING ARABS

BETHLEHEM

ROOM 514

WALK ON WATER

THINGS BEHIND THE SUN

WE HAD A FOREST

THE BAND'S VISIT

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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

NEWS

Festival pursues an alternative reality Yam Vignola

By Tom Grater

Jerusalem Film Festival this year hosts its first virtual reality (VR) strand, showcasing projects from Israeli film-makers. Six films are on show in a dedicated space on the second floor of Jerusalem Cinematheque, until July 14.

Although technology is considered to be one of Israel’s most developed sectors — the country’s spend on technological and scientific research in relation to its GDP is the second highest in the world — its film industry has yet to embrace VR, despite the medium’s growing presence on the world cinema stage. At Cannes this year, VR was the focus of the Marché du Film’s NEXT programme, while festivals including Sundance and Tribeca also placed heavy emphasis on VR in 2016.

A four-day interactive storytelling event held in Tel Aviv in

March this year — Steamer Salon, which featured masterclasses, discussions and three international VR experiences — hoped to kickstart the use of the technology in Israel. Three of the projects in the JFF programme were developed in a lab at that event: Gur Bentwich’s Go Ugly Early, Tal Goldberg’s Kafka 360 and Eldad Eitan’s Offstage.

Elad Goldman, co-head of Israeli competitions and industry events for the festival, explains that the key decision was to introduce film-makers, rather than technology experts, to the possibilities of VR. “This narrative use of VR is much more developed internationally but it’s totally new in Israel,” he says. “Making a film out of it, that’s been the challenge.”

While the festival installation was supported by Jerusalem Film

The Virtual Reality Complex at Jerusalem Cinematheque

Fund, which provided money to develop a VR Jerusalem app and supply the headsets, film-maker Nimrod Shanit (Holy Land), who assisted curation of the section, says the funds are not yet receptive to the medium. “We’ve pitched two non-fiction projects, but they judge it according to regular documentary criteria,” he says, noting that VR is expensive

for the length of films that are produced. “They haven’t managed to get over that hurdle yet.”

Shanit believes VR’s empathetic qualities make it particularly pertinent to Jerusalem: “VR puts you in the shoes of another person. A Muslim can see Jerusalem through the eyes of a Christian, and a Christian can see it through the eyes of a Muslim.

We’re trying to bring down those walls through virtual reality.”

Three-time Israeli Ophir Award nominee Bentwich, whose English-language short film about speed dating Go Ugly Early is a creative and fun use of the medium and has strong potential to travel internationally, believes the Steamer Salon event was a positive moment. But he does not expect to pursue the medium further. “It’s a lack of audience,” he says. “What do you do with VR films these days? Why make them if not many people can watch them?”

That question and more will be debated at a festival panel hosted today in Hansen House (2:30pm4pm), featuring directors Gur Bentwich, Nimrod Shanit and Adi Lavy in discussion with Haaretz’s New York correspondent Neta Alexander.

Whit Stillman takes Cosmopolitan journey with Amazon Studios Giti Silver

By Tom Grater

Actress Assi Levi (Wedding Doll ), who is on this year’s main competition jury, Philippa Kowarsky from sales agent Cinephil and producer Avraham Pirchi of United Channels Movies at Saturday night’s festival dinner, which was held at Anna restaurant in Ticho House.

Life triumphs at Karlovy Vary

By Tom Grater

Szabolcs Hajdu’s Hungarian drama It’s Not The Time Of My Life was the major winner at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Saturday. The film took the Crystal Globe for best feature film, which comes with a $25,000 prize, as well as best actor for Hajdu, who also stars.

Ivan Tverdovsky’s surreal drama Zoology took the special jury prize, while Slovenian director Damjan Kozole took best director for his dark thriller Nightlife. Two Czech features also triumphed: Zuzana Mauréry won best actress for her

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performance in Jan Hrebejk’s comedy The Teacher, while The Wolf From Royal Vineyard Street, the final feature of the late Jan Nemec, received a special mention.

A special mention also went to Catalin Mitulescu’s RomaniaSweden-Italy drama By The Rails.

Further prizes were handed to Matt Ross’s Captain Fantastic, which won the audience award; LoveTrue by Alma Har’el, which won best documentary; and Georgian director Rusudan Glurjidze’s House Of Others, which triumphed in the East of the West competition for projects from the region.

Attending Jerusalem with his latest feature, period comedy Love & Friendship, writer-director Whit Stillman updated Screen on his ongoing TV series project The Cosmopolitans, which he is working on with Amazon Studios.

Stillman created a pilot for the show back in 2014, featuring Chloe Sevigny (who also stars in Love & Friendship opposite Kate Beckinsale) and Adam Brody in the story of a group of young expats living in Paris. Amazon Studios, which distributed Love & Friendship in the US, has commissioned six more scripts, which Stillman is now writing. However, the series will see changes from the pilot.

“It’s been two years since I did the pilot so I’m no longer interested in that story, but I really like the actors and the characters. It’s going to go in a new geographical and story direction, but with some of the same characters,” he reveals.

“It’s going to go to different cities and have more adventure.”

The director is also pursuing

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two feature ideas, one of which is the long-gestating Dancing Mood, about a gospel church in 1960s Jamaica.

Stillman is hopeful that project might finally get off the ground: “I would like to do that [Dancing Mood] first but it’s a crazy project so I’d need investors willing to do something really risky.”

The Oscar-nominated writerdirector’s credits include Metropolitan (1990), The Last Days Of Disco (1995) and Damsels In Distress (2011). Love & Friendship, adapted from Jane Austen’s epistolary novel Lady Susan, premiered at Sundance in January and has been an international

success. “I’ve never had a film get in the top 10 of any country,” he says. “Love & Friendship has been top 10 in the US, UK, Netherlands and Norway — it’s been incredible.”

Speaking at a Q&A following Saturday’s festival screening of the film, which was greeted with rapturous applause from the Jerusalem audience, Stillman explained the origins of the project. “I had a vanity that I could write original stories that people would be interested in. After my third film, I realised I had nothing else in my life to write about,” he joked. “So I became interested in finding material to adapt.”

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INTERVIEW ERAN KOLIRIN

Mili Eshet in Beyond The Mountains And Hills

A society in conflict How do we live our lives against a backdrop of hostility? This is the question posed by Eran Kolirin in Beyond The Mountains And Hills, his exploration of middle-class mores. Melanie Goodfellow reports

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ran Kolirin returns to Jerusalem Film Festival for the first time in nearly a decade with state-of-thenation drama Beyond The Mountains And Hills, which is screening in the Israeli feature films competition strand.

Kolirin was last here in 2007 with the breakout hit The Band’s Visit, the tale of an Egyptian police band that travels to a downbeat town in the Israeli desert by mistake. In between times, he made The Exchange, an existential exploration of modern life as a man chooses to assess himself from the point-of-view of an outsider, which premiered at Venice Film Festival in 2011.

His latest film is about a middle-class family living in a comfortable residential area on the Israeli border with the West Bank. All the family members are at personal crossroads: the father is trying to adjust to civilian life after leaving the army, the mother is dissatisfied with her job as a teacher and is beginning to fall for the flattering attentions of a young student, while the children are struggling to find their place in a difficult world.

Through all this, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict hums loudly in the background, affecting much of their day-to-day lives and their relationships with everyone around them.

“I wanted to capture a certain feeling throughout Israeli society right now, even if it’s in the subconscious,” says Kolirin. “It’s about the uncertainty and fear that lurks underneath an imagined sense of sanctuary.

The higher you build a wall, the more you hide behind your comfort zones, the further your subconscious travels. The souls of the characters are consumed with fear.

“I don’t want to be a preacher of my political opinions, which are more hard-left than

Eran Kolirin

you can imagine — it’s not about that. It’s about people who are living here without any sense of a horizon — or sense of who is who — just continuously shrinking into their shelters.”

Teenage daughter Yifat, played by newcomer Mili Eshet, is the only member of the family who attempts to connect with the Palestinians living in their area. But this is fraught with problems. “Even when Yifat is trying to be an idealist, she cannot stand up for the values she believes in,” says Kolirin.

“She is also consumed by this fear that is much bigger than her. It’s coming out of the ground, a consequence of the state this country is in.

“I’m trying to capture an ambiguous and complex situation.”

Alongside the impact of the conflict, Kolirin also touches on the disintegration of the socialist and collective values within Israeli society. The mother, he says, embodies a type of person who has been left behind in contemporary Israel.

‘I wanted to capture a certain feeling throughout Israeli society right now, even if it’s in the subconscious’ Eran Kolirin

“Israel used to be a communal country and now it’s becoming an individualistic country, but people are not used to being alone. They don’t have the tools to act as individuals,” says Kolirin. “Rina [the mother, played by Shiree Nadav-Naor] is a classic Israeli beauty.

She is the sort of girl who would have been part of the youth movement and one of the most popular girls in the class. Now in her 40s, she doesn’t know her place.”

An Israeli release date has yet to be set for Beyond The Mountains And Hills but Kolirin says the test screenings he has attended have already prompted debate at home. The picture has been sold to a number of international territories including the US, where Adopt Films is planning a wide arthouse release in early 2017.

Recurring themes Kolirin is now gearing up to shoot an adaptation of Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua’s 2006 novel Let It Be Morning. In his adaptation, the story revolves around a Jerusalembased accountant forced to reassess his Palestinian roots and Israeli citizenship when he is trapped in his Arab home village by an Israeli blockade after attending a family gathering. The film will re-explore central themes of his past filmography, he notes.

“I’ve always been fascinated by the Kafkaesque situation of being lost and of how the ground can slip away beneath a person’s feet. That was what happened to the commander of the Egyptian Police Orchestra, who got lost in the Israeli desert in The Band’s Visit, and it is also what happened to a lecturer in physics, who got lost in his own life in The Exchange,” he says. “It is at that very moment that the individual discovers hims self, his identity, his sense of belonging.” ■

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FEATURE SHORT FILMS

Domesticated Wolf

The Mute’s House

Take 3

Shorts change This year’s expanded selection of short films in competition at Jerusalem Film Festival features a majority of women directors. Tom Grater finds out why

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ast year, for the first time, Jerusalem Film Festival’s short film competition acted as a gateway to the US Academy Awards, with the overall winner automatically entered into consideration for Oscar nomination. The positive effects of that decision are being felt more this year, with the selection team receiving a bumper 220 submissions, up from 180 last year. The field has been narrowed down to a final competition crop of 21, including six animations and three documentaries.

And while the festival’s main competition for Israeli features includes only one film from a female director this year, the short films paint an entirely different picture. Of the 21 selected titles, 14 are directed by women and six are directed by men, with one co-directed by a man and a woman.

“We have a movement of female directors; they’re making a lot of noise at the moment and insisting on being part of the film fund’s selections,” says Erez Barenholtz, head of Israeli competitions at the festival.

Israel is in the throes of an industry-wide debate about the lack of women in the film business and Barenholtz is hopeful the prominence of female directors in the short film competition will signal a shift in the overall industry landscape: “Everyone is pushing for change.”

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Israel’s significant number of film schools — the country boasts 16 — are once again well represented across the shorts, accounting for 15 of the selected films, but this year there are a further six films from independent filmmakers. It is becoming increasingly common for Israeli film-makers to make shorts while they wait to get funding greenlights for feature projects. Aware of this, the Ministry of Culture and Sport is actively supporting short films through Israel’s five film funds.

As has been the case over recent years, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is thematically consistent across the selection. Barenholtz sees a palpable anxiety throughout the shortfilm programme.

“There’s a lot of hopelessness and uncertainty [in the films],” he says. “Political and economic anxiety — these are reflective of the current mood in Israel. It doesn’t matter if you’re from the right or left side of the political map, we all feel anxiety because we don’t have a solution for the conflict.”

Examples include Tamar Kay’s The Mute’s House, about the Palestinian residents of an apartment building in Hebron, and Ayelet Bechar’s documentary Take 3, in which a Palestinian refugee visits his ruined village.

‘We have a movement of female directors; they’re making a lot of noise at the moment’ Erez Barenholtz, JFF

Shark Tooth

Another theme that features heavily this year is familial drama. Elad J Primo’s Domesticated Wolf stars Albert Iluz as a father trying to maintain the isolated existence he has created with his daughter. Elsewhere, debut director Oren Gerner’s Shark Tooth sees a mother trying to reconnect with her daughter. The film counts Eyal Shirai as a producer, who was also behind the festival’s top short film award winner last year, Line Of Grace.

The prizes on offer this year are at the same level as 2015, with $2,600 (ILS10,000) going to the winners of the live-action prizes, and $2,100 (ILS8,000) given for the animation and documentary prizes.

Outside of the competition, the festival will once again screen the five-strong crop of Oscar-nominated live-action shorts from this year’s Academy Awards, including West Bank-set Palestinian co-production Ave Maria and the winning film Stutterer, by the UK’s Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage.

There are a further 15 films in the international Shorts Matter! selection, including David Sandberg’s kung-fu epic Kung Fury!, which screened at Cannes in 2015.

Barenholtz explains shorts are increasingly a part of wider viewing in the country’s arthouse cinemas: “We have ongoing projects to screen short films before features in s cinematheques around Israel.” ■

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THE LINE-UP ISRAELI SHORT-FILM COMPETITION 2016

Aya And Her Mother

(23mins) Dir Lee Nechushtan, Steve Tisch School of Film and Television When a woman in her 30s meets a new man, her mother will do anything to prevent her moving out of their house.

Blessed (16mins) Dir Prague Benbenisty, Sam Spiegel Film & Television School One daughter in a large Moroccan family is taken for granted while her younger sister prepares to be married.

Domesticated Wolf (25mins) Dir Elad J Primo, Beit Berl College Faculty of Arts

Blessed

How Long, Not Long

La Femme Qui Cherche (8mins)

My Dad — The Story Of How It Ended (5mins)

dancer plans their next show at an army checkpoint in an Israeli settlement.

Dir Renana Aldor, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

Dir Aviva Zimmerman, Steve Tisch School of Film and Television

Shark Tooth (28mins)

Dir Alamork Davidian, independent: Black Sheep Film Productions

A journey through the city of Oran on the north-west Algerian coast leads the viewer through the director’s memories of her late grandmother.

After her father kills himself, Aviva grows up dreaming that he faked his own death.

A young girl wakes up in an Israeli absorption centre after her family has left their native Ethiopia.

Last Round (19mins)

Albert Iluz stars as a father who fights to maintain the isolated paradise he has created for himself and his daughter.

Facing The Wall (26mins)

On Your Own (15mins) Dir Anat Malz, Independent

Dir Oren Gerner, independent: Golden Cinema A mother visits a spiritual workshop in the desert to reconnect with her daughter.

Signs (7mins)

Dir Ziv Mamon, Minshar School of Art

Story about a family breaking apart told from the perspective of a two-year-old.

Dir Talia Sabato, Sapir College

Dir Stav Levi, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

A woman embarks on a night of partying the day before her planned abortion.

Remove Tag (10mins)

Animation telling the story of a woman in her 50s who finds her peaceful life disrupted when she senses she is pregnant.

A disheartened man decides to get rid of his head, with predictably unfortunate consequences.

Leave Of Absence (17mins)

Head (4mins)

How Long, Not Long

Dir Moshe Rosenthal, EGG Productions

(5mins)

A teacher escapes his stressful family life after meeting a former student.

Dirs Michelle and Uri Kranot, independent: Tin Drum Animation

Mushkie (13mins)

Animation short exploring xenophobia, nationalism and intolerance in modern Israeli society.

Hum (3mins)

Dir Aleeza Chanowitz, Sam Spiegel Film & Television School Two immigrants to Israel find their friendship tested when one opens up about the double life she has been leading.

Dir Omri Dekel-Kadosh, Sam Spiegel Film & Television School Omer follows an ex-girlfriend to a party where she is with her new boyfriend.

When he loses control, Omer must accept she no longer wants him.

Santé (19mins) Dir Sabrine Khoury, Steve Tisch School of Film and Television An Arabian salsa dancer in a relationship with a Jewish

Summer Film (18mins) Dir Omri Loukas, Steve Tisch School of Film and Television Documentary depicting a frustrated child in the Israeli city of Ashdod in the summer, where the temperature is very hot and the sea is polluted.

Take 3 (15mins) Dir Ayelet Bechar, independent Following two films that depicted a Palestinian refugee visiting his ruined village 30 years apart, the director attempts to film for a third time.

Dir Dmitry Yadrov, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

The Mute’s House (31mins)

Animation about two characters, the hunter and the hunted, enacting a violent history.

Dir Tamar Kay, Sam Spiegel Film & Television School

Journey Birds (9mins) Dir Daphna Awadish, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Animated short fusing depictions of man and bird to provide a cinematic commentary on immigration.

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Signs

Drama following eight-year-old Yousef and his deaf mother Sahar, who are the last Palestinian residents of a deserted apartment building in the Israeli-controlled district of Hebron.

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INTERVIEW MIA HANSEN-LOVE

Up close and personal French director Mia Hansen-Love talks about the joy of working with Isabelle Huppert, avoiding melancholy and a new project inspired by her relationship with her husband, Olivier Assayas. Geoffrey Macnab reports

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rench writer-director Mia HansenLove cannot hide her delight with Isabelle Huppert, the star of her film, Things To Come, which is playing in Jerusalem’s International Competition.

Huppert plays a philosophy professor with a seemingly happy life whose husband suddenly announces he is leaving her for another woman, and Hansen-Love describes her as “the best actress in France”.

“It’s the first time I had an actress in mind as I was writing,” says the film-maker. “In my four previous films, I had no idea before I started casting.”

In her earlier pictures, Hansen-Love was dealing primarily with younger characters: the mother betrayed by her drug-addicted husband in All Is Forgiven (2007); the daughter of the debt-ridden producer in The Father Of My Children (2009); the young woman experiencing romance in Goodbye First Love (2011); and the DJ who loses his way in Eden (2014). Things To Come is about a middleaged woman at a fraught moment in her life, as her grown-up children leave home and her husband confesses to an infidelity. HansenLove talks of the “modernity” in Huppert’s acting and the way she “lives the character in every split second”.

Huppert, says Hansen-Love, knows just how to play smart women while giving them irony, depth and even a certain self-mocking quality. “Actors are partly what they act but also the choices they make,” says HansenLove. “Her career is a work of art.”

When she was writing her screenplay, Hansen-Love fretted about the darkness of its themes. But she realised Huppert could counter this and “free” her from the “melancholy the subject could have had”.

Family values Things To Come draws heavily on characters and events in its director’s own background.

Both of Hansen-Love’s parents are philosophy teachers. They did not object to their daughter borrowing elements from their lives, but the director’s mother drew the line at having the cat in the movie share its name with the family’s real-life pet.

“I wanted to keep the name of my mother’s cat because I thought the real name [Desdemona] was incredible,” she explains.

“But it was the only thing she asked me to change. She really put her foot down. She said, ‘You can do everything you want, be as free as you want — but don’t you use my

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‘It’s the first time I had an actress in mind as I was writing. In my four previous films, I had no idea before I started casting’ Mia Hansen-Love

Mia Hansen-Love

Things To Come; (right) Eden

cat’s name.’” The director asked her mother for another name for the cat. The mother suggested Pandora and so that is what Hansen-Love chose.

The film is the latest addition to what Hansen-Love calls her “portrait gallery”. She suggests her films are all “in dialogue with one another.” The stories may not all be directly autobiographical but they are all very personal.

Hansen-Love is now plotting two new projects. One is a film called Maya, about a French hostage returning from Syria who heads to India after his traumatic experiences. This will star Roman Kolinka, who also appeared in Eden and Things To Come.

The film is being made through Les Films Pelleas; the script is complete and HansenLove aims to shoot next year. She is also planning a film inspired partly by her relationship with the film-maker and critic Olivier Assayas, to whom she is married and has been an important influence on her films.

“From my first film, he was always the one I gave the script to and showed the first editing,” Hansen-Love says. “He reads the script in a very early stage, even before I give anything to any producer. He never shows up during shooting and I never show up during the shooting of his films. But then, when I edit, I could not show the film to anybody before I show it to him.”

Hansen-Love is confident that Assayas will maintain his objectivity, even if she makes a film that is based on their own lives. “That’s something really impressive about him. However close to us the story, when he’s in the room, he watches the s film.” ■

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JERUSALEM FILM FESTIVAL

Reviews Reviews edited by Fionnuala Halligan finn.halligan@screendaily.com

One Week And A Day Reviewed by Wendy Ide

Beyond The Mountains And Hills Reviewed by Sarah Ward While dissecting the battle between old and new mindsets is hardly fresh filmic territory, there is a distinctive search behind Beyond The Mountains And Hills that helps Eran Kolirin’s third feature chart its own path through familiar terrain. After The Band’s Visit and The Exchange, the writer/director not only attempts to depict the reality of modern-day Israel but to come to terms with it, focusing on the difficulties of reconciling the ways of the past with his compatriots’ incessant march towards the future.

It is a topic teeming with issues that demand attention, from older generations trying to adjust to the competitive nature of contemporary society to their children’s efforts to forge a more inclusive way forward in a politically troubled climate. Yet Kolirin’s almost too-patient approach is somewhat stifling, at least initially, in a film that is slowmoving despite its brief 90-minute running time.

Recently discharged after 27 years of military service, former lieutenant colonel David Greenbaum (Alon Pdut) embraces his new job in sales but, when shilling dietary supplements and adapting to life at home proves problematic, he resorts to firing his gun into a field under the cover of night to feel something other than powerlessness.

David’s malaise is juxtaposed with the transformative plight of his daughter Yifat (Mili Eshet). Refusing to conform blindly to prevailing attitudes, she attends antiwar protests, explores Arab culture and befriends two Palestinian men — first, the welcoming Ayman (Mohamed Name), and then his pal Imad (Ala Dakka) — yet cannot quite find the comfort that she seeks.

The rest of the Greenbaum family is similarly divided.

David’s high-school teacher wife Rina (Shiree NadavNaor) is drawn to one of her students (Yoav Rothman), while son Omri (Noam Imber) is driven to act when watching from the background becomes too much.

Conflict seethes through Beyond The Mountains And Hills, infusing it with the unsettling air that comes only from knowing the truth of a tumultuous situation, but still wishing for change, acceptance and a reason to retain hope. With his regular cinematographer Shai Goldman, Kolirin ensures every one of his images reflects this clash as well as the distance that surrounds each character as a result.

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Feature Competition Isr. 2016. 90mins Director/screenplay Eran Kolirin Production companies July August Productions, Entre Chien Et Loup, Match Factory Productions International sales The Match Factory, thania. dimitrakopoulou@ matchfactory.de Producers Eilon Ratzkovsky, Yochanan Kredo, Yossi Uzrad, Lisa Shiloach-Uzrad, Guy Jacoel Co-producers Diana Elbaum, Sébastien Delloye, Francois Touwaide, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen Cinematographer Shai Goldman Editor Arik LahavLeibovich Production designer Miguel Merkin Music Asher Goldschmidt Main cast Alon Pdut, Shiree Nadav-Naor, Noam Imber, Mili Eshet, Yoav Rothman, Mohamed Name, Ala Dakka

There is an abrasive, snarling humour to this impressive first feature from US-born, Israel-raised writer-director Asaph Polonsky. One Week And A Day occasionally evokes something of the simmering rage that powers the comedy of television show Curb Your Enthusiasm. So when this portrait of a couple mourning the recent death of their son delivers its emotional payload in the third act, it is an unexpectedly devastating moment that more than makes up for the slight dip in momentum that came before it.

This accomplished debut juggles its tonal contrasts adroitly. A tragicomic stoner movie about bereavement, it is a curiosity that should pique the interest of festival audiences and could enjoy some theatrical success if backed by critical support and audience word of mouth.

The title refers to Shiva, taking place in the home of Eyal (Shai Avivi) and Vicky Spivak (Evgenia Dodina), who are coping with the aftermath of their son’s death from cancer in starkly contrasting ways. Vicky, numbed by grief, is clinging to the quotidian routines of normal life to keep afloat. Eyal, the main focus of the film, is rather more unpredictable. Clearly suffering from temporary impulse-control issues, he slaps his female neighbour, brawls with her husband and decides to blaze a trail through the large bag of medicinal marijuana that he retrieves from the hospice when looking for his son’s missing blanket. (The first of several skilfully handled moments of physical comedy comes when Eyal attempts to roll his first ever joint.)

The film’s least successful moments are those in which the comedy feels most forced. But moments of stillness have a real potency: Eyal and Vicky lie wordlessly on their son’s bed next to Zooler (Tomer Kapon), the passed-out, deadbeat friend of their son Ronnie. And later, having snapped yet again in the cemetery, Eyal stumbles on the funeral of the woman who is to be buried next to Ronnie. The voice of the cantor, who sings the prayers, is mellifluous and melancholy. But it is the achingly lovely eulogy that follows, accompanied by a glimpse of the life of the man who delivers it, which floors us. The sharing of another man’s grief helps Eyal to finally make sense of his own.

Feature Competition Isr. 2016. 98mins Director/screenplay Asaph Polonsky Production company Black Sheep Film Productions International sales New Europe Film Sales, jan@neweuropefilmsales. com Producers Saar Yogev, Naomi Levari Cinematography Moshe Mishali Editor Tali Halter Shenkar Production design Yoav Sinai Music Tamar Aphek, Ran Bagno Main cast Shai Avivi, Evgenia Dodina, Tomer Kapon, Sharon Alexander, Uri Gavriel, Carmit Mesilati-Kaplan, Alona Shauloff

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The Meddler Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan

Nuts!

Reviewed by Wendy Ide In 1917, Kansas doctor John Romulus Brinkley discovered that he could cure impotence in men by transplanting goat testicles into his subjects, and a medical legend was born. Or so the story goes. One of the most colourful and controversial characters in the history of alternative medicine is the subject of the cheerfully unpolished, semi-animated documentary Nuts!.

Film-maker Penny Lane traces Brinkley’s rise to, and dramatic fall from, grace in a lively film that combines archive footage, talking-head interviews with historians and animated segments that complement the narration.

The film, we are told pointedly at the beginning, is based on a book about the life of Brinkley. It is later revealed it was self-financed and self-published but, even before this fact is known, we suspect Brinkley is a gloriously unreliable witness. The purveyor of miracle cures, not just for impotence but a whole host of other ailments, he has now fallen by the wayside of US folk history, but this larger-than-life huckster medic was a phenomenon in the 1920s and 1930s.

Not content with his medical empire, the astute selfpublicist branched out into radio. KFKB (Kansas Folks Know Best) broadcast an eclectic mix of country music, folksy comedy and a daily segment titled Medical Question Box. In this, Brinkley would ponder letters from listeners and prescribe treatment. He struck a deal with pharmacies to ensure he took a cut of the profits from his advice.

The newly formed American Medical Association (AMA) took note, and targeted Brinkley. At the same time, his broadcasting career was curtailed by the Federal Radio Commission. Brinkley sidestepped the rulings of both, relocating his medical practice to Texas, and built a new transmitter just across the border in Mexico. Brinkley’s downfall came when, in an act of supreme hubris, he sued his chief persecutor, Morris Fishbein from the AMA, after Fishbein accused him of blatant quackery.

Lane keeps this incredible story moving briskly, and shifts our sympathies from Brinkley to his persecutors as the tale progresses. The use of animation is sometimes a little crude, but the homespun aesthetic works well with the quirky nature of the story.

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Panorama US. 2016. 79mins Director Penny Lane Production companies Gland Power Films, Cartuna Contact Gland Power Films, lennypane@gmail. com Producers James Belfer, Caitlin Mae Burke, Penny Lane, Daniel Shepard Screenplay Thom Stylinski Cinematography Hallie Kohler, Penny Lane, Joseph Victorine, Mark Walley, Angela Walley Editors Penny Lane, Thom Stylinski Music Brian McOmber Cast Gene Tognacci, Andy Boswell, John Causby, Kelly Mizell, Jeff Pillars, Thom Stylinski, Fran Taylor

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Inspired by her relationship with her own mother, Lorene Scafaria (Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World) has made The Meddler into a sweetly comedic ode to mothers everywhere, although it is better to sit back and let a radiant Susan Sarandon take you for a ride than ask too many questions about the fare.

It feels like years since Sarandon has had this good a part, and it is a joy to watch her go about building Marnie Minervini into one of cinema’s most endearingly embarrassing mothers complete with a wide Brooklyn accent and an almost preposterous inability to recognise boundaries. Marnie has moved to Los Angeles to be close to her adult daughter Lori (Rose Byrne), but close does not go quite far enough in describing Marnie’s ambitions for the relationship.

Lori, meanwhile, is depressed following the break-up of a significant relationship. She works in the entertainment business and appears to be writing a sitcom based on her own family life; in fact, The Meddler has a sitcomish pacing for most of its run.

Marnie is the type of mother who wafts into the house unannounced, checks her daughter’s browser history and turns up uninvited at a baby shower for one of her daughter’s friends to gift the expectant mother with an over-generous iPad. She is particularly partial to a Beyonce power ballad. Equipped with an inheritance from her husband, Marnie is unable to press the stop button when it comes to her impulsive acts of generosity.

The Meddler is also framed partially as a romance, and a very endearing one at that. It takes an actor like JK Simmons to pull off the role of a retired policeman who drives a Harley-Davidson, raises chickens and sings Dolly Parton songs to them, but he has just the right heft to be persuasive.

The film’s gentle, almost whimsical attitude to storytelling does not entirely justify a 100-minute run, and some things are more credible as you watch them than when you exit the cinema into the cold light of day. But it is shot attractively in a radiant Los Angeles by cinematographer Brett Pawlak in a light and airy package that is difficult to resist, much like Marnie herself.

US. 2015. 100mins Director/screenplay Lorene Scafaria Production company Anonymous Content International sales Sony Pictures International Producer Joy Gorman Wettels Executive producers Steve Golin, Shea Kammer, Susan Sarandon, Paul Green Cinematography Brett Pawlak Editor Kayla M Emter Production designer Chris Spellman Music Jonathan Sadoff Main cast Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, JK Simmons, Jason Ritter, Jerrod Carmichael, Lucy Punch

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Monday July 11

The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

09:30

(France, US) Taskovski Films. 65mins. Dir: Yves Montmayeur. Key cast: Guy Maddin, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier, Kenneth Anger, John Waters.

Follows the making of Guy Maddin’s ‘The Forbidden Room’, depicting a oneof-a-kind director whose hypnotic films show a range of influences, from German expressionism and classic melodramas to David Lynch.

Weiner

(US) Dogwoof. 96mins.

Dir: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg.

An intelligent and amusing portrait of former Congressman Anthony Weiner, as he runs for mayor of New York, exposing politics in the age of digital media.

Intl Comp Cinematheque 1

09:45 Oscuro Animal

(Colombia, Argentina, Greece) Pascale Ramonda. 107mins.

Dir: Felipe Guerrero.

Key cast: Marleyda Soto, Jocelyn Meneses, Luisa Vides, Veronica Carvajal.

Three women are forced out of their homes in a war-torn region of Colombia. Each of their respective journeys leads them from the jungle into the safer suburbs of Colombia where they must somehow gather the strength to start anew.

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10:00 The event

(Netherlands, Belgium) Atoms & Void. 74mins.

Dir: Sergei Loznitsa.

By weaving together 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.

Masters Cinematheque 3

10:45 Don’t Blink — Robert Frank

(Canada, US) Laura Israel. 80mins. Dir: Laura Israel. Key cast: Robert Frank, June Leaf, Tom Jarmusch, Ed Lachman.

Cinemania Cinematheque 4

16:00 Women Who Run Hollywood

Monday July 11 This documentary portrait of Robert Frank, who achieved fame with his 1958 photography book ‘The Americans’ and went on to become one of the most influential figures in contemporary photography, was directed by Laura Israel, Frank’s film editor since the 1990s.

Panorama Smadar

11:45 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.

14:15 Wrong Elements

(France, Belgium, Germany) Le Pacte.

132mins. Dir: Jonathan Littell.

The Lord’s Resistance Army is a violent guerilla movement, established in Uganda

and Baltasar Kormakur’s ‘Trapped’.

Series Cinematheque 3

12:00 One Week and a Day

Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 1

(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 he cannot take with his son, but can with his son’s medicinal weed and his childhood friend.

JFF Series — Program 1

Israeli Cinematheque 2

131mins.

A festival screening of first episodes from two upcoming TV series: HBO’s ‘The Night Of ’

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12:30 Evolution

(France, Belgium, Spain) Wild Bunch. 81mins.

in the late 1980s, which kidnapped and forcibly conscripted more than 60,000 teenagers. In an effort to rebuild their lives, four people revisit the places that stripped them of their childhood.

Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 2

Dir: Lucile Hadzihalilovic.

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 the only boy determined to find out what is going on.

Panorama Smadar

14:15 A WAR

(Denmark) Studiocanal.

115mins. Dir: Tobias Lindholm. Key cast: Pilou Asbaek, Tuva Novotny, Soren Malling, Charlotte Munck, Dar Salim.

A Danish company commander, caught in a crossfire with his men in Afghanistan, makes a fatal decision that will

affect both him and his family back home.

Intl Comp Cinematheque 1

Eat That Question — Frank Zappa in His Own Words

(France, Germany) Sony Pictures Classics.

90mins. Dir: Thorsten Schütte.

This in-depth look at the life and work of Frank Zappa mixes different archival materials — mainly interviews and forgotten concerts — to invite us to delve into Zappa’s musical world and outrageous mind.

Panorama Cinematheque 3

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 Smadar

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(US) Poorhouse International. 52mins.

Dir: Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg. Key cast: Paula Wagner, Sherry Lansing, Lynda Obst, Cari Beauchamp.

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

Cinemania Cinematheque 4

16:15 JFF Series — Program 2

101mins.

A festival screening of the first episodes from two upcoming TV series: Robert and Michelle King’s BrainDead and Robert Kirkman’s Outcast.

Series Cinematheque 3

16:30 A Monster with a Thousand Heads

(Mexico) Memento Films. 74mins. Dir: Rodrigo Pla. Key cast: Jana Raluy, Sebastian Aguirre Boeda, Hugo Albores.

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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 her status as the sensual movie star of the New Wave, to her unforgettable role in ‘Paulette’.

Cinemania Cinematheque 2

20:00 Harold and Lilian: A Hollywood Love Story

Monday July 11 18:15 Boris without BEatrice

(Canada) Films Boutique. 93mins.

Dir: Denis Cote. Key cast: James Hyndman, Simone Elise-Gerard, Denis Lavant.

The life of businessman

saving treatment, Sonia declares an all-out war against the system.

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16:45 Hitchcock/Truffaut

(France, US) Cohen Media Group. 79mins.

Dir: Kent Jones. Key cast: Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, Wes Anderson, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Fincher.

Kent Jones’ documentary, based on Truffaut’s 1962 week-long interview with Alfred Hitchcock, plunges us into the world of the great British auteur. The film combines archival material and interviews with Martin Scorsese, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Linklater and other leading filmmakers.

Cinemania Cinematheque 1

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Boris takes an unxpected turn when his wife falls into a deep depression.

A stranger blames Boris for her condition, driving him to re-evaluate his life choices and try to become a better man.

Panorama Smadar

17:00 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 has moved to the middle of the desert with only sand surrounding her?

Israeli Cinematheque 2

17:30 No Home Movie

(Belgium, France) Doc&Film. 115mins.

Dir: Chantal Akerman.

The last film by the great Chantal Akerman, who passed away in October, is a demanding and touching documentary that follows the last months of her mother’s life, revealing the deep and complex

relationship between a mother and daughter.

compelling and touching cinematic collage.

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18:15 Boris without BEatrice See box, left

18:30

18:45 Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman

(France) Doc&Film.

(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 important directors in film history and often referred to as Hollywood’s secret weapon.

20:15 Schneider vs. Bax See box, below

20:30 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, the family dog disappears and the family faces a crisis.

Debuts Cinematheque 2

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.

Cinemania Cinematheque 4

Gala Wilf

Warmerdam. Key cast: Tom Dewispelaere, Alex van Warmerdam, Maria Kraakman.

A dark comedy crime film

about two assassins who have each been given a job by the same client to take out one another.

Harmonia

(Israel) Inosan Productions. 98mins.

Dir: Ori Sivan. Key cast: Tali Sharon, Alon Moni Aboutboul, Yana Yossef.

A biblical adaptation of the story of Sarah, Hagar, Abraham, Yitzhak and Ismail, from the book of Genesis. The melodramatic plot is set in the world of a philharmonic orchestra in present-day Jerusalem.

Israeli Cinematheque 1

Heart of a Dog

(France, US) Celluloid Dreams. 75mins.

Dir: Laurie Anderson.

Pioneering musician Laurie Anderson is back to film-making after a long hiatus with this personal essay combining her own narration with original violin compositions, hand-drawn animation, 8mm home movies and Anderson’s artwork, creating a

Monday July 11 20:15 Schneider vs. Bax

(Netherlands, Belgium) Fortissimo Films.

96mins. Dir: Alex van

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she writes about her lost relationship. When she finally leaves her home, she accepts a ride with a talkative truck driver. Chantal Akerman’s feature debut succinctly depicts a delicate and pensive soul.

Classic Cinematheque 2

10:15 Exile See box, below

11:00 Don’t Call Me Son

(Brazil) Loco Films.

82mins. Dir: Anna Muylaert. Key cast: Naomi Nero, Daniel Botelho, Daniela Nefussi, Matheus Nachtergaele.

Pierre, a teenager who is preoccupied with discovering his sexual identity, realises that he was abducted as a baby when his biological family suddenly arrives to reclaim him.

Monday July 11 20:30 My Hero Brother

(Israel) Yonatan Nir Films. 77mins.

Dir: Yonatan Nir. The film documents young people with Down syndrome and their siblings on a trek

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20:45 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

22:15 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

in India. A moving record of the complex relationships between the siblings, and the magical moments brought by a family member with Down syndrome.

Israeli Cinematheque 3

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 in their finery.

Gala Cinematheque 3

News from Planet Mars

(France, Belgium) Memento Films. 101mins.

Dir: Dominik Moll. Key cast: Francois Damiens, Vincent Macaigne, Veerle Baetens, Jeanne Guittet.

Philip, a divorced father of two, tries his best to maintain a healthy and stable lifestyle, but it seems as though his increasingly eccentric family and unhinged surroundings are determined to drive his life out of control.

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Dominik Moll serves up a clever and flawlessly acted comedy.

Gala Smadar

22:30 Slack Bay

(Germany, France) Memento Films. 122mins.

Dir: Bruno Dumont. Key cast: Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi.

A sardonic tale with outlandish characters is at the centre of French master Bruno Dumont’s latest film.

Tuesday July 12 10:00 I, You, He, She

(France, Belgium) Cinematheque Royale de Belgique. 86mins. Dir: Chantal Akerman. Key cast: Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup, Claire Wauthion.

A woman shuts herself up in her apartment, where

Panorama Smadar

11:30 Reset

(France) Upside Distribution. 107mins.

Dir: Alban Teurlai, Thierry Demaiziere.

Benjamin Millepied, the French dancer and choreographer behind ‘Black Swan’, was appointed director of the Paris Opera Ballet in

2014. This documentary follows the rehearsals of his first production, depicting a fascinating artist and the multitude of challenges that he faces.

Gala Cinematheque 1

11:45 Decalogue 5 & 6

(Poland) Di Factory.

115mins. Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski. Key cast: Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko.

In memory of Polish master Krzysztof Kieslowski, who passed away 20 years ago, we will screen newly restored copies of episodes V and VI of his masterpiece series ‘Decalogue’, inspired by the commandments “Thou shalt not kill” and “Thou shalt not commit adultery”.

Classic Cinematheque 2

12:00 My Hero Brother

(Israel) Yonatan Nir Films. 77mins.

Dir: Yonatan Nir. Israeli Cinematheque 3

12:45 Long Night of Francisco Sanctis

(Argentina) Films Boutique. 78mins.

Dir: Francisco Marquez,

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22:45 The Neon Demon

(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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Tuesday July 12 10:15 Exile

(France, Cambodia) Films Distribution.

77mins. Dir: Rithy Panh.

Rithy Panh continues his account of his life as a boy under the Khmer Rouge regime.

His approach is more abstract this time,

combining imagery, voiceover narration and archival propaganda materials.

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autobiographical dimension to it. The film follows the unusual relationship between a 16-year-old girl and an ageing 40-year-old journalist, who decides to begin a new chapter.

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18:00 Avanti Popolo

(Israel) 84mins. Dir: Rafi Bukai. Key cast: Salim Dau, Suhel Haddad, Tuvia Gelber, Danny Segev, Dani Roth, Barry Langford.

A newly restored digital copy of Rafi Bukai’s 1986 masterpiece. On the last day of the Six Day War, two Egyptian soldiers set out on a surreal journey through the Sinai Desert in an attempt to get back home safely.

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Tuesday July 12 14:30 Sunset Song

(UK, Luxemburg) Fortissimo Films.

135mins. Dir: Terence Davies. Key cast: Peter Mullan, Mark Bonnar, Agyness Deyn.

Andrea Testa. Key cast: Diego Velazquez, Laura Paredes, Valeria Lois, Marcelo Subiotto, Rafael Federman.

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.

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13:45 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.

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About a girl growing up in rural Scotland in the shadow of the First World War. A film of breathtaking beauty and sensitivity.

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Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

(US) Magnolia. 98mins.

Dir: Werner Herzog.

Documentary giant Werner Herzog explores the connected world and its effect on our minds and lives. Herzog’s characteristic style and scepticism offer an amusing and insightful viewing experience.

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14:00 Harmonia

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15:30 Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

(US, Germany) Dogwoof.

108mins. Dir: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato.

Key cast: Robert Mapplethorpe, Debbie Harry, Fran Lebowitz, Brooke Shields.

For the first time since his death from Aids in 1989, this documentary paints a portrait of the photographer, whose provocative art is exceeded only by his controversial life. The film combines interviews with key people from Mapplethorpe’s life and rare archival footage.

17:15 News from Planet Mars

(France, Belgium) Memento Films. 101mins.

Dir: Dominik Moll. Key cast: Francois Damiens, Vincent Macaigne, Veerle Baetens, Jeanne Guittet.

Philip, a divorced father of two, tries his best to maintain a healthy and

stable lifestyle, but it seems as though his increasingly eccentric family and unhinged surroundings are determined to drive his life out of control.

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17:45 Iris

(Israel) 90mins.

Dir: David Greenberg.

The sole fictional feature film directed by David Greenberg has a distinct

Forever Pure

(Israel, UK) Maya Films.

85mins. Dir: Maya Zinshtein.

January, 2013. A secretive transfer deal transported two Muslim players to Beitar Jerusalem FC. One season and one football club in crisis, and behind the story lurks the money and power that will send Beitar spiralling out of control.

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(Israel) Inosan Productions. 98mins.

Dir: Ori Sivan. Key cast: Tali Sharon, Alon Moni Aboutboul, Yana Yossef.

A biblical adaptation of the story of Sarah, Hagar, Abraham, Yitzhak and Ismail, from the book of Genesis. The melodramatic plot is set in the world of a philharmonic orchestra in present-day Jerusalem.

(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.

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15:45 Little Men

Tuesday July 12 16:00 Like a Lotus flower

(Israel) Minshar. 60mins.

Dir: Eliya Swarttz.

Inside the memory of a 10-year-old girl there

were six adults, they were a family. She remembers their voices when they were younger. Today she remembers them differently. Through the

diaries she wrote, she tries to understand the dispersing of her family after her mother’s death.

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Tuesday July 12 19:30 Endless Poetry

(Chile, Japan, France) Le Pacte. 128mins.

Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky. Key cast: Adan Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Brontis Jodorowsky, Leandro Taub.

In this autobiographical film by Alejandro

Jodorowsky, the young man decides to become a poet against his parents’ wishes and delves into a creative world of freedom, sensuality and madness.

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20:00 Beyond the Mountains and Hills

(Israel, Germany,

Belgium) Match Factory.

90mins. Dir: Eran Kolirin. Key cast: Alon Pdut, Shiree NadavNaor, Mili Eshet, Noam Imber.

David is discharged from the army after serving 27 years. When a friend suggests working for a company that markets dietary supplements, David sees this as an

opportunity to get his foot in the door of the business world. But this decision slowly finds him and his family entangled in the web of dark forces that rule life in Israel.

Israeli Cinematheque 1

(Sweden, France, Poland) New Europe Film Sales.

102mins. Dir: Magnus von Horn. Key cast: Ulrik Munther, Loa Ek, Mats Blomgren.

Reveals, layer by layer, the reasons behind a small Swedish community’s hostility toward an introverted teenager who had committed a crime in his past, but desperately wants to begin anew.

20:15 Nuts!

20:30 Paterson

(US) K5 Media Group.

113mins. Dir: Jim Jarmusch. Key cast: Adam Driver, Golshifteh

Farahani, Helen-Jean Arthur.

Fuses the poetic and the mundane. Adam Driver is a bus driver in a city that shares his name —

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Paterson. While driving, he listens to passengers’ conversations and writes poetry. His wife, however, has higher aspirations.

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The Stopover

(France, Greece) Films Distribution. 102mins.

Dir: Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin. Key cast: Soko, Ariane Labed, Karim Leklou, Makis Papadimitriou.

A group of soldiers on tour in Afghanistan are sent to “decompress” at a Cyprus hotel. Two female soldiers struggle to shake off the traumas of war.

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The Here After

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Tuesday July 12

22:00

(US) Gland Power Films.

79mins. Dir: Penny Lane.

A hundred years ago, Dr John Brinkley sought to cure male impotence by transplanting the testicular glands of goats into his patients. Though ridiculed, no-one could argue with the satisfied patients.

Penny Lane employs a tongue-in-cheek documentary technique, combining animation,

interviews and archive footage.

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22:00 Heart of a Dog

(France, US) Celluloid Dreams. 75mins. Dir: Laurie Anderson.

Musician Laurie Anderson returns to film-making with this personal essay combining her own narration with violin compositions, animation, 8mm home movies and Anderson’s artwork, creating a compelling cinematic collage.

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22:15 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.

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22:30 Bang Gang

(France) Films Distribution. 98mins.

Dir: Eva Husson. Key cast: Finnegan Oldfield, Marilyn Lima, Daisy Broom, Lorenzo Lefebvre, Fred Hotier.

To get her sweetheart’s attention, a beautiful girl decides to test the sexual boundaries of their relationship, leading to a series of wild sex parties.

An uncompromising look at a group of uninhibited teenagers.

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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.

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16:30 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.

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17:00 Ma

Wednesday July 13 11:00 Rara

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.

(Chile, Argentina) Latido. 88mins. Dir: Pepa San Martin. Key cast: Mariana Loyola, Agustina Munoz, Julia Lubbert, Emilia Ossandon.

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Wednesday July 13

11:45

09:30 In Jackson Heights

(US) Zipporah Films.

190mins. Dir: Frederick Wiseman.

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.

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10:00 Nuts!

(US) Gland Power Films.

79mins. Dir: Penny Lane.

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Le Bal

(Italy, France, Algeria) Dynamics Films Library.

109mins. Dir: Ettore Scola. Key cast: Etienne Guichard, Regis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault LeCarpentier.

This superb film by Ettore Scola — who recently passed away — opened the first Jerusalem Film Festival in 1984. The story of French society in the 20th century is told without dialogue.

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12:15 Israeli Short Film Competition — 1

(Israel) 108mins.

The Mute’s House / Sante / How Long, Not Long / On Your Own / Mushkie / Remove Tag / My Dad The Story Of How It Ended / Journey Birds Israeli Cinematheque 3

13:00 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, the family dog disappears and the family faces a crisis.

Wall / Blessed / Hum / Take 3 / Signs Israeli Cinematheque 3

15:00 Beyond the Mountains and Hills

(Israel/Germany/ Belgium) Match Factory.

90mins. Dir: Eran Kolirin. Key cast: Alon Pdut, Shiree Nadav-Naor,

Mili Eshet, Noam Imber.

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15:15 Album

(Turkey, France, Romania) Match Factory.

105mins. Dir: Mehmet Can Mertoglu. Key cast: Sebnem Bozoklu, Murat Kilic, Riza Akin, Mihriban Er.

(US) Stray Dogs. 80mins.

Dir: Celia Rowlson-Hall.

Key cast: Celia RowlsonHall, Andrew Pastides, Amy Seimetz, Matt Lauria, Peter Vack.

A modern-day interpretation of the story of Mother Mary that raises theological and genderrelated questions. The director forgoes dialogue to bring out the impressive cinematography, art design, sound and of course choreography.

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14:00 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.

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14:45 Israeli Short Film Competition — 2

(Israel) 103mins.

Shark Tooth / La Femme Qui Cherche / Facing The

Wednesday July 13 13:00 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. Daniel and Emmanuel Leconte revisit those fateful days and interview some of the survivors.

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22:00 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 nearly three hours in a tumultuous Bucharest apartment where a family gathers to commemorate a deceased patriarch.

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The White Knights

Wednesday July 13 18:15 Ben-Gurion, Epilogue

(Israel, France) Mozer Films. 55mins. Dir: Yariv Mozer.

Based on archive material, the film reveals the final years in the life of Israel’s founder, David 17:15 Israeli Short Film Competition — 3

(Israel) 106mins.

Domesticated Wolf / Leave Of Absence / Summer Film / Head / Aya And Her Mother / Last Round Israeli Cinematheque 3

17:30 Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

(US, Germany) Dogwoof.

108mins. Dir: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato.

Key cast: Robert Mapplethorpe, Debbie Harry, Fran Lebowitz, Brooke Shields.

For the first time since his death from Aids in 1989, this documentary paints a portrait of the photographer, whose provocative art is exceeded only by his controversial life. The film combines interviews with key people from Mapplethorpe’s life and rare archival footage.

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Ben Gurion. Excluded from leadership, he allowed himself a hindsight perspective on the Zionist enterprise and cross-examined himself.

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18:15 Ben-Gurion, Epilogue See box, above

18:45 Theo Who Lived

(US) Visit Films.

86mins. Dir: Argyris Papadimitropoulos.

Key cast: Makis Papadimitriou, Elli Tringou, Milou Van Groessen, Dimi Hart, Hara Kotsali.

A middle-aged doctor on a tiny Greek island falls for a frivolous girl and will do anything to win her heart. His rediscovery of his long-lost youth turns slowly into an obsession. Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s latest film is a bold yet sensitive piece.

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19:30 Zero Days

(US) FilmNation. 116mins.

Dir: Alex Gibney.

A journey into the heart of cyber warfare in the form of an uncontrollable,

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malicious computer virus, co-developed by Israel and the US for the sole purpose of sabotaging the Iranian nuclear project.

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19:45 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 that 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.

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20:00 Moon in the 12th House

(Israel) Movie Plus.

109mins. Dir: Dorit Hakim. Key cast: Yaara Pelzig, Yuval Scharf, Gefen Barkai, Gal Toren, Avraham Horwitz.

When a pair of estranged young sisters are reunited, they must come to terms with the circumstances that tore them apart: Lenny remained at their childhood home to take care of their debilitated father while Mira left for a new life in Tel Aviv.

Love and affection bind

the characters together and lead them to a fragile redemption.

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20:30 Captain Fantastic

(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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21:00 Notes on Blindness

(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 dramatisationss that reveal a sharp, fascinating and sensitive man.

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(Belgium, France) Indie Sales. 112mins. Dir: Joachim Lafosse. Key cast: Vincent Lindon, Valerie Donzelli, Reda Kateb, Louise Bourgoin.

A group of volunteers head out to Africa to find 300 orphans to take to France for adoption. They soon face the limitations of humanitarian intervention.

Examines the fine line between humanitarianism and paternalistic colonialism.

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22:30 The Handmaiden

(South Korea) CJ Entertainment. 144mins.

Dir: Park Chan-wook.

Key cast: Kim Min-hee, Ha Jung-woo, Kim Haesook, Kim Tae-ri.

Takes us to Japaneseoccupied Korea in the 1930s, where a handmaiden assists a swindler in conning her mistress.

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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 much has changed.

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