Boris Lojkine’s drama The Story Of Souleymane has won Best International Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
The feature, which was feted with the Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize in May, revolves around a young man rehearsing his lines ahead of an asylum application interview as he cycles around Paris delivering food.
Romania’s Emanuel Parvu won best director for Three Kilometers to the End of the World about a young gay man who is brutally attacked when he returns to his conservative village in the Danube Delta wetlands region for the summer.
The jury International Feature competition jury consisting of Michel Franco, Guy Nattiv and Maria Choustova also awarded Hu Guan’s Black Dog with a Special Mention.
UK-Indian director Sandhya Suri’s rape drama Santosh won Best Film in the First Feature Competition, with Block Pass by French director Antoine Chevrollier scoring a Special Mention.
Bedouin...
The feature, which was feted with the Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize in May, revolves around a young man rehearsing his lines ahead of an asylum application interview as he cycles around Paris delivering food.
Romania’s Emanuel Parvu won best director for Three Kilometers to the End of the World about a young gay man who is brutally attacked when he returns to his conservative village in the Danube Delta wetlands region for the summer.
The jury International Feature competition jury consisting of Michel Franco, Guy Nattiv and Maria Choustova also awarded Hu Guan’s Black Dog with a Special Mention.
UK-Indian director Sandhya Suri’s rape drama Santosh won Best Film in the First Feature Competition, with Block Pass by French director Antoine Chevrollier scoring a Special Mention.
Bedouin...
- 7/25/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Lionsgate Television has landed its first Israeli drama series.
The U.S. major is teaming with Israel’s Yes and Gil Formats on a spy drama based on the hunt for Doctor Josef Mengele starring Dark’s Oliver Masucci.
The as-yet-untitled show comes from vet Israeli producer Assaf Gil, who is creating with Moshe Zonder (Tehran) and Ronit Weiss-Berkowitz (The Girl from Oslo). Lionsgate is co-producing and distributing.
Masucci, who played Ulrich Nielsen in Netflix smash Dark and portrayed Adolf Hitler in 2015’s Look Who’s Back, stars as Uri, the alpha male of a kibbutz and one of the pioneers of the state of Israel. He and his wife Anna (Ania Bukstein) decide to leave behind their traumatic past as Holocaust survivors and start a new life in Israel. They keep quiet about their past for 25 years, until the day when Israeli spy agency Mossad forces Uri to return...
The U.S. major is teaming with Israel’s Yes and Gil Formats on a spy drama based on the hunt for Doctor Josef Mengele starring Dark’s Oliver Masucci.
The as-yet-untitled show comes from vet Israeli producer Assaf Gil, who is creating with Moshe Zonder (Tehran) and Ronit Weiss-Berkowitz (The Girl from Oslo). Lionsgate is co-producing and distributing.
Masucci, who played Ulrich Nielsen in Netflix smash Dark and portrayed Adolf Hitler in 2015’s Look Who’s Back, stars as Uri, the alpha male of a kibbutz and one of the pioneers of the state of Israel. He and his wife Anna (Ania Bukstein) decide to leave behind their traumatic past as Holocaust survivors and start a new life in Israel. They keep quiet about their past for 25 years, until the day when Israeli spy agency Mossad forces Uri to return...
- 7/9/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Die 30. Ausgabe des Jfbb endete am vergangenen Sonntag – und die Veranstalter können auf die bislang stärkste Publikumsresonanz für das Festival zurückblicken, das erstmals in Partnerschaft mit der MPA und bereichert um die Branchenkonferenz Jfbb pro stattfand. Die Preise waren bereits am Donnerstag vergeben worden.
Gewinnerinnen und Gewinner des 30. Jüdischen Filmfestivals Berlin-Brandenburg (Credit: Jfbb)
Die Gewinner der Jubiläumsausgabe des Jüdischen Filmfestivals Berlin-Brandenburg wurden bereits am vergangenen Donnerstag gekürt, das Programm lief aber bis zum gestrigen Sonntag – und hinter Veranstaltern und Teilnehmern liegt eine „stimmungsvolle, intensive und erlebnisreiche Festivalwoche“, wie Geschäftsführer Andreas Stein betont. Aber nicht nur das: Mehr als 6000 Besucher wurden bei den Veranstaltungen gezählt, mehr als je zuvor in der 30jährigen Geschichte des Festivals. „Dieses große Interesse gibt uns Aufwind für die Vorbereitungen auf die nächste Ausgabe eines Festivals, das aus unserer Sicht nicht nur aktuell von enormer gesellschaftlicher Bedeutung ist“, so Stein.
Tatsächlich gab es in diesem Jahr zentrale Neuerungen.
Gewinnerinnen und Gewinner des 30. Jüdischen Filmfestivals Berlin-Brandenburg (Credit: Jfbb)
Die Gewinner der Jubiläumsausgabe des Jüdischen Filmfestivals Berlin-Brandenburg wurden bereits am vergangenen Donnerstag gekürt, das Programm lief aber bis zum gestrigen Sonntag – und hinter Veranstaltern und Teilnehmern liegt eine „stimmungsvolle, intensive und erlebnisreiche Festivalwoche“, wie Geschäftsführer Andreas Stein betont. Aber nicht nur das: Mehr als 6000 Besucher wurden bei den Veranstaltungen gezählt, mehr als je zuvor in der 30jährigen Geschichte des Festivals. „Dieses große Interesse gibt uns Aufwind für die Vorbereitungen auf die nächste Ausgabe eines Festivals, das aus unserer Sicht nicht nur aktuell von enormer gesellschaftlicher Bedeutung ist“, so Stein.
Tatsächlich gab es in diesem Jahr zentrale Neuerungen.
- 6/24/2024
- by Marc Mensch
- Spot - Media & Film
The biblical thriller Mary has reportedly wrapped production in Morocco, and Deadline reveals that the film will feature Sir Anthony Hopkins in another royal role after portraying the former King of Asgard, Odin, as well as Lear in the Prime original film, King Lear. Hopkins plays King Herod in the thriller that’s directed by DJ Caruso, whose credits include Disturbia, Eagle Eye and the Vin Diesel actioner xXx: Return of Xander Cage. He joins newcomer Noa Cohen, who plays the titular role. Cohen was chosen after a worldwide casting search and happened to grow up an hour away from where Mary was born in Israel. Cohen can be seen in the Israeli YA series My Nephew Bentz, Infinity and the 2022 feature Silent Game.
The plot synopsis, per Deadline, reads,
“In coming-of-age story Mary, the title character is shunned following the otherworldly conception of her child and forced into hiding.
The plot synopsis, per Deadline, reads,
“In coming-of-age story Mary, the title character is shunned following the otherworldly conception of her child and forced into hiding.
- 4/10/2024
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Filming has recently wrapped in Morocco on under-the-radar biblical thriller Mary, starring Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins as King Herod and emerging Israeli actress Noa Cohen as Mary.
In coming-of-age story Mary, the title character is shunned following the otherworldly conception of her child and forced into hiding. King Herod’s relentless drive to maintain power at any cost ignites the murderous pursuit of the newborn child that he believes is a threat to his reign on the throne. The film sees the young Mary and Joseph on the run and having to hide their baby, Jesus, at all costs.
The director is DJ Caruso (xXx: Return of Xander Cage), and the pic is produced by Mary Aloe, founder of Aloe Entertainment (Bruised), and Hannah Leader (Freud’s Last Session). Producing alongside were financiers Gillian Hormel (Bruised) of Ludascripts and Joshua Harris of PeachTree Media Partners (Not Without Hope).
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In coming-of-age story Mary, the title character is shunned following the otherworldly conception of her child and forced into hiding. King Herod’s relentless drive to maintain power at any cost ignites the murderous pursuit of the newborn child that he believes is a threat to his reign on the throne. The film sees the young Mary and Joseph on the run and having to hide their baby, Jesus, at all costs.
The director is DJ Caruso (xXx: Return of Xander Cage), and the pic is produced by Mary Aloe, founder of Aloe Entertainment (Bruised), and Hannah Leader (Freud’s Last Session). Producing alongside were financiers Gillian Hormel (Bruised) of Ludascripts and Joshua Harris of PeachTree Media Partners (Not Without Hope).
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- 4/10/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Countless films have been made around the premise of people making a decision that turns out to be wrong, which further triggers a chain reaction of events. But when the army, especially Israeli Defence Force (Idf) is involved, the usual Snafu (Situation Normal All F***ed Up) quickly goes to Fubar (F***ed Up Beyond All Repair). That would, in short, be the case with Dani Rosenberg's (of 2020 dramedy “The Death of Cinema and My Father Too” fame) “The Vanishing Soldier” that has just premiered at the main competition of Locarno.
The Vanishing Soldier is screening in Locarno Film Festival
Shlomi (Ido Tako) is an 18-year-old boy drafted in the army and stationed somewhere in the middle of combat zone. When the action comes too close for him, he uses his wits to lag behind and desert from the front line. Is it a conscious decision? An anti-war statement?...
The Vanishing Soldier is screening in Locarno Film Festival
Shlomi (Ido Tako) is an 18-year-old boy drafted in the army and stationed somewhere in the middle of combat zone. When the action comes too close for him, he uses his wits to lag behind and desert from the front line. Is it a conscious decision? An anti-war statement?...
- 8/10/2023
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
“The Vanishing Soldier” is a coming of age story, as breathless as its protagonist: the kind of film that will make cinephiles of seventeen-year-olds. Which is one of the reasons that Dani Rosenberg, the film’s 43-year-old director, is delighted to be in Locarno, where the film, sold by Intramovies, is screening in main competition, and has just got a trailer, and poster, shared in exclusivity with Variety.
“We had options for other festivals,” Rosenberg told Variety at the Swiss fest.
“But Locarno is the best place because it’s a festival that admires films and not topics. We want the film to be first seen as cinema; not as an Israeli story about conflict.”
So what cinema inspired you?
“My first image when I was writing the script was Buster Keaton. I imagined the chases like slapstick chases, like “Cops,” from his era. And obviously, the ‘70s paranoia films,...
“We had options for other festivals,” Rosenberg told Variety at the Swiss fest.
“But Locarno is the best place because it’s a festival that admires films and not topics. We want the film to be first seen as cinema; not as an Israeli story about conflict.”
So what cinema inspired you?
“My first image when I was writing the script was Buster Keaton. I imagined the chases like slapstick chases, like “Cops,” from his era. And obviously, the ‘70s paranoia films,...
- 8/6/2023
- by John Bleasdale
- Variety Film + TV
Italy’s Intramovies has acquired global rights outside of Israel and France on Israeli director Dani Rosenberg’s Gaza-Strip conflict drama “The Vanishing Soldier.”
“Vanishing Soldier” is Rosenberg’s second feature after “The Death of Cinema and My Father Too,” which was in the official selection in Cannes 202O and won the Jerusalem Film Festival’s top prize.
The film is about an 18-year-old Israeli soldier who flees the Gaza battlefield and heads back to his girlfriend in Tel Aviv only to discover that the military elite is convinced he was kidnapped in the fog of war. What ensues is a tragicomic journey and takes place over a period of 24 hours on the streets of Tel Aviv.
“Vanishing Soldier,” which stars Ido Tako, Mika Reiss, and Israeli singer Efrat Ben Tzur, is produced by Chilik Micheali, Avraham Pirchi, Itamar Pirchi for United Channels Movies (Ucm). The film has been financed by The Israel Film Fund.
“Vanishing Soldier” is Rosenberg’s second feature after “The Death of Cinema and My Father Too,” which was in the official selection in Cannes 202O and won the Jerusalem Film Festival’s top prize.
The film is about an 18-year-old Israeli soldier who flees the Gaza battlefield and heads back to his girlfriend in Tel Aviv only to discover that the military elite is convinced he was kidnapped in the fog of war. What ensues is a tragicomic journey and takes place over a period of 24 hours on the streets of Tel Aviv.
“Vanishing Soldier,” which stars Ido Tako, Mika Reiss, and Israeli singer Efrat Ben Tzur, is produced by Chilik Micheali, Avraham Pirchi, Itamar Pirchi for United Channels Movies (Ucm). The film has been financed by The Israel Film Fund.
- 5/21/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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