Haifa Film Festival to uncover a comprehensive best from around a world

The 34th Haifa International Film Festival will open on Sep 22 and run until Oct 1. As always, it will underline some-more than 150 cinema from around a world, as good as a best of Israeli contemporary films.

There will be competitions for both Israeli and general films, along with special events featuring festival guests. Pnina Blayer, a artistic executive of a festival, has collected a comprehensive best of cinema from all over a world. The films will be shown during a Haifa Cinematheque and many other theaters around a city, and there will be a practical existence vaunt and many outside events.

It’s singular that an Israeli film opens a festival, though Avi Nesher’s latest, The Other Story, that recently had a universe premiere during a Toronto International Film Festival, will be a opening-night film. It tells a story of Yonatan, a clergyman (Yuval Segal, from Fauda), who left Israel years ago and is disloyal from his now-grown daughter (Joy Rieger, who won a Best Actress Award during a Tribeca Film Festival this year for Virgins).

He earnings to Israel in response to a defence from his ex-wife (Maya Dagan), who tells him their daughter, who is now ultra-Orthodox, is about to marry her boyfriend, a musician (Nathan Goshen). Sasson Gabai, who is now appearing in a Broadway prolongation of The Band’s Visit, a purpose he originated in a film version, plays Yonatan’s father, a clergyman himself, who is treating a integrate concerned in a non-believer cult. The film will be expelled in Israel in late October.

The closing-night film will be First Man, a latest film by Damien Chazelle, who done La La Land and Whiplash. First Man stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, a initial wanderer to travel on a moon, and Claire Foy (The Crown) plays his wife.

One of a festival’s guest of honor, a acclaimed composer, Zbigniew Preisner, will control a unison of song stoical for a films of Krzysztof Kieślowski, and a shred from his Requiem for My Friend. The unison will underline soprano Edyta Krzemień and Konrad Mastyło on piano, as good as a singers of a Israeli Opera Chorus, underneath a instruction of Ethan Schmeisser. Clips from Kieślowski’s films will be shown during this event.

One of a Israeli films that will be shown in a special screening, Ran Slavin’s Call for Dreams, has an intriguing premise. Eko (Mami Shimazaki, who won a Best Actress Award for her opening in that film during ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival in Paris final spring), a lady who lives in rain-drenched Tokyo that looks like something out of Blade Runner, places a journal ad seeking for people to share their dreams with her, that gets some-more difficult than she expected. Yehezkel Lazarov co-stars as an Israeli detective.

Among a films in a Israeli Feature Competition will be Alamork Davidian’s Fig Tree, that is display in a Toronto International Film Festival, about an Ethiopian immature woman’s tour to Israel. Two Israeli films that had their universe premieres in Venice will also take partial in a competition: Yaron Shani’s Stripped, a story of a formidable adore affair, and Sameh Zoabi’s Tel Aviv on Fire, a comic demeanour during a staff of a soap show constructed in Ramallah.

There is an enormously sundry line-up of films in a Gala Program. Loro is a critically-acclaimed biopic of Silvio Berlusconi, destined by Oscar-winning Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty). Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace tells a story of a male who keeps his daughter vital an removed life in a woods. Nadav Lapid’s Israeli film, The Kindergarten Teacher, about a clergyman who kidnaps a student she thinks is a talent poet, has been remade into an American chronicle starring Maggie Gyllenhaal. Swimming with Men is a comedy-drama about a British men’s float team, destined by Oliver Parker. Peter Dinklage of Game of Thrones stars with Elle Fanning in Reed Morano’s I Think We’re Alone Now, about dual survivors of a disaster that has killed a rest of a earth’s population.

In a Carmel Competition, one of a standouts is a drama Dovlatov, destined by Aleksey German, that is about a late Russian author Sergei Dovlatov, though it is anything though a required biopic. It follows him over several days in Leningrad in a early 1970s, as he tries to eke out a vital essay for bureau newsletters, struggles to get his critical work published and hangs out with his friend, Joseph Brodsky, who tries to remonstrate him to emigrate to a US. While this competence sound like an problematic bit of literary history, it is a fascinating, refreshing film.

I was propitious adequate to see this during a Berlin International Film Festival and we walked out of a museum and immediately bought one of Dovlatov’s novels. Israeli audiences will adore this film and we wish it finds a distributor here.

Also in a Carmel Competition is Israeli executive Hagar Ben-Asher’s latest film, Dead Women Walking, a fact-based play about womanlike death-row inmates.

Paul Schrader, who is best famous for essay a screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, has a new film, First Reformed, about a worried clergyman (Ethan Hawke), that will be shown in a Panorama Section.

Among a films in a Golden Anchor competition, for cinema from countries that limit a Mediterranean, will be The Summer House, destined by and starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as a screenwriter traffic with a breakup.

Three Identical Strangers, destined by Tim Wardle, is a documentary about matching Jewish triplets distant during birth and after reunited, that won a Grand Jury Prize during Sundance Film Festival. It will be shown in a “Between Israeli and Jewish Identity” section.

Another much-acclaimed documentary is The Eyes of Orson Welles, destined by Mark Cousins, that will be shown in a documentary section.

There will be tributes to a late Agnès Varda and Israeli film editor/director, Era Lapid.

For some-more information and to sequence tickets, go to a festival website during https://www.haifaff.co.il/eng

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