Jerusalem Film Festival has selected 17 Israeli features in competition across its feature and documentary sections, for the 40th anniversary edition of the event (July 13-23, 2023).
Titles among nine in the Full-Length Israeli Feature Films competition include A Room Of His Own, the third feature from Matan Yair. The Hebrew-language film follows Uri, whose mother is sleeping in his room since his father moved out; but who is seeking his own room and path to deal with the world.
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The $1m project participated in the Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF)’s HAF Goes to Cannes showcase. Yair’s debut feature, 2017’s Scaffolding, was selected in the Cannes Acid showcase, going on to play festivals including Jerusalem, Toronto and Zurich.
Also in the feature competition is The Future, the second feature from filmmaker Noam Kaplan, in which a young woman learns unsettling truths after being hired by the Israeli secret service to question a young Palestinian woman. The Future debuted at Tribeca Film Festival in the US earlier this month
The feature-length Israeli documentary competition includes Sharon Yaish and Golan Rise’s Giado – Holocaust In The Desert, through which a diary provides a look at the hellish concentration camp routine in the Libyan desert during the Second World War.
Seventeen films will play in the competition for Israeli shorts; with seven titles in the Israeli video art and experimental film competition.
The festival will also play a digitally-restored print of Amos Guttman’s 1992 feature Amazing Grace, a drama set against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis, which was Guttman’s final film before he died the following year from AIDS.
It will also renew its presentation of the Youth Film competition, for 16 titles made by young people, that will play to festival audiences next month.
The festival will open on July 13 with Guy Nattiv’s Golda, starring Helen Mirren as former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir; and will close with Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winner Anatomy Of A Fall.
Jerusalem Film Festival Israeli feature films
Full-Length Feature Films competition
My Daughter My Love, dir. Eitan Green
Daniel Auerbach, dir. David Volach
A Room Of His Own, dir. Matan Yair
The Taste Of Apples Is Red, dir. Ehab Tarabieh
The Delegation, dir. Asaf Saban
Under The Shadow Of The Sun, dir. Shalom Hager
The Giants Of Easter Island, dir. Dover Kosashvili
The Future, dir. Noam Kaplan
The Other Widow, dir. Maayan Rypp
Full-Length Documentary Films competition
Prisoner X, dirs. Hilla Medalia, Amos Roberts
The House In Kiryat Shmona, dirs. Lisa Peretz, Robby Elmaliah
Giado – Holocaust In The Desert, dirs. Sharon Yaish, Golan Rise
The Family Of Spies, dir. Rafael Balulu
The Checkpoint Women: Memories, dir. Eliezer Yaari
The Return From The Other Planet, dir. Assaf Lapid
The Three Of Us, dir. Henya Brodbeker
Sharif Shanti: Murder Case, dir. Avida Livny
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