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Walking On Water to get world premiere at Berlin
Eytan Fox's new Israeli film, Walking On Water, will receive its world premiere at the Berlinale Panorama, the most natural place for it to open, since half of the picture was shot in the German capital last year.A Mossad agent befriends two German siblings, a brother and a sister, in ...
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Israeli director wraps up Syrian Bride
Israeli director Eran Riklis has just wrapped The Syrian Bride, the story of a young bride who will never be able to visit her family in the Golan Heights after her marriage to a Syrian man.The story is set during the wedding day when all the family members and other ...
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Broken Wings set for breakthrough German release
Nir Bergman's Broken Wings is to receive a 24 print release across Germany, the widest ever release in the country for an Israeli film.The wide release, through distributor Alamode Films, is largely thanks to a deal between Israeli Film Fund and the NRW Fund in Germany, which sees each side ...
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Jenin Jenin doc banned again in Israel
Mukhammad Bakkri's controversial documentary Jenin Jenin, about the Israeli military incursion into the Jenin refugee camp, has once again been banned in Israel.The Supreme Court had ruled on Nov.11 against a decision by the Censorship Board to outlaw the film and cleared it for screenings - but it has now ...
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Banned Palestinian film cleared by Israeli Supreme Court
Overturning a previous decision of the Israeli Censorship Board, the country's The Supreme Court of Justice has lifted the ban on Mukhammad Bakkri's controversial documentary Jenin Jenin. Bakkri's report on the Israeli military incursion into the Jenin refugee camp and its tragic outcome put the entire blame on the Israeli ...
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Israel hosts major Amos Gitai retrospective
The first full scale retrospective programme of Amos Gitai's work in his own country was launched at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque this week with the national premiere of his latest feature film, Alila. An emotional Gitai thanked the local film industry players who congratulated him on stage. For many years, ...
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Haifa names No Longer 17 as best film
Itzhak 'Tzeppel' Yeshurun's No Longer 17 won the best Israeli film prize at the 19th Haifa Film Festival (Oct 11-18), with Yoav Kosh taking top honours for the cinematography of Life Is Life by Michal Bar Adam. Hallelujah, a satire on the 1979 Eurovision song contest, was elected best TV ...
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Nesher returns to Israel to shoot End Of World
Avi Nesher, one of the most promising Israeli filmmakers of the seventies who moved to US in the early eighties and stayed there for close to 20 years, is now putting the final post-production touches to his first Israeli film since The Rage And The Glory (1984). Nesher is the ...
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Israeli Cinemas to slash ticket prices
Israeli Theatres Cinemas has announced a reduction in ticket prices across its entire circuit for the whole summer season (until end September) and for all shows, by 22.5%.Instead of the present $7.50 the price of a single ticket will be $5.80 for the period. Israeli Cinemas, one of the ...
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Suddenly takes top award at Istanbul film festival
Two feminist-themed pictures have grabbed the top prizes at the 22nd International Istanbul Film Festival. The jury, headed by Irish director Jim Sheridan, handed the top award, the Golden Tulip, to the Argentine Tan De Repente (Suddenly) (pictured) by Diego Lerman, while Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity was given the Special ...
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Israel's Channel 10 on the brink of bankruptcy
The future of Israel's newest television broadcaster, Channel 10, hangs in the balance as controlling shareholder Yossi Maiman gives the station one week to avoid bankruptcy.Maiman, who holds 51% of Channel 10's interests, has recently been injecting some $8m a month into the operation to keep it afloat. Last weekend, ...
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Warner sues second Israeli cable outfit over content deals
AOL Time Warner has launched a second multi-million legal action against an Israeli cable outfit, one week after announcing that it was suing Israeli cable operator Tevel for $17m for allegedly breaking the terms of their output deal.AOL Time Warner is now suing cable operator Golden Channels in a ...
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Israeli Censorship Board bans Jenin camp documentary
After 15 years of inactivity, Israel's Censorship Board is back in action, and courting controversy with its ban on Wednesday of the documentary Jenin, Jenin.The board's decision to ban the public screening of the documentary shot by Israeli-Arab actor-director Mukhammad Bakkri in the Jenin refugee camp after the military incursion ...
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Italian directors team for Israeli-Palestinian conflict documentary
Eleven Italian filmmakers, including celebrated veterans Ettore Scola, Mario Monicelli and Francesco Maselli are currently on location in Palestine shooting a documentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The group of directors, from Italy's Cinema del Presente Foundation have visited parts of Israel including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and are currently examining ...
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Turkish director gets second look in Un Certain Regard
In a highly unusual move Cannes has decided to invite a second film by Turkish director Zeki Demirkurbuz to appear in Un Certain Regard alongside his previously announced Confession (Itiraf).The film Fate (Yazgy) and Confession were shot back to back as the first elements of a trilogy, loosely entitled Tales ...
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Winning films narrowly avoid ban at Istanbul Film Festival
Most talked about at the Istanbul Film Festival (April 13-28) was the one film that didn't show up - at least not in its official format, having been banned by the Ministry of Culture. Two other films, which both came away with awards, narrowly escaped similar bans.Hejar a melodrama about ...
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Gov't make Israeli industry wait for cash support
Israel's film-makers will have to wait some more before they can access the government support that seemed so near at hand,The Cinema Law, approved by Parliament some 18 months ago after years of struggles and lobbying, and celebrated by the industry as a major step towards solving some of its ...
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Arthur Miller teams with Amos Gitai
Celebrated American playwright Arthur Miller and Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai are collaborating on an adaptation of Miller's story, Homely Girl.Along with co-writing the script, Miller is to appear in the picture, titled Plain Jane, alongside Samantha Morton, Danny Huston and Thomas Jane. Originally set in New York, Gitai and Miller ...
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Israeli film-makers launch funding campaign
A group of Israeli film-makers, led by veteran producer Marek Rozenbaum and Rennen Schor, head of the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem, have launched a lobby group to secure more public funding for Israeli features.Prompted by the success of a similar campaign to increase funding for Israeli documentaries, the ...
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Robb quits as chief executive of Israel's Yes
Eytan Robb is resigning from his position as chief executive of Israeli digital satellite broadcaster Yes, which made its much-delayed debut this July.Robb said his decision to quit was prompted by "personal reasons", but despite finally getting the service on air, his tenure at Yes has not been an easy ...
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