Israeli film, ‘The Dive,’ to be screened during festival in Iraq

An Israeli film, Yona Rozenkier’s The Dive, will be screened in Iraq during a Duhok International Film Festival, that runs by Oct 27 in Duhok, in Iraqi Kurdistan.

At press time, a festival had not answered a doubt about either this will be a initial time an Israeli film has ever been screened in Iraq, and it’s expected that it is.

Duhok is an general festival with cinema from all over a world, as good as a concentration on Kurdish cinema. It was founded in 2011.

The Dive won awards during a Jerusalem Film Festival this summer for Best Israeli Feature (which it separate with Red Cow), Best Israeli Debut Feature, Best Cinematography and Best Actor, a esteem that was common among a executive and his brothers, Micha and Yoel, who costarred in it.

The film has won awards during festivals around a world, including a Locarno International.

It was also screened during a Toronto International Film Festival and during a AFI FEST in Los Angeles.

It tells a story of 3 brothers traffic with their father’s discouraging bequest during a war.

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