{"id":14696,"date":"2011-09-11T22:24:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T05:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=14696"},"modified":"2015-11-10T02:07:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T09:07:29","slug":"israeli-films-at-the-2011-haifa-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=14696","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Films to be Screened at the 2011 Haifa International Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Asi Dayan and Rivka Michaeli in Dr. Pomerantz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 27th Haifa International Film Festival<\/strong> will take place from October 13 \u2013 22, 2011. Actor Asi Dayan will be honored by the festival at the opening ceremonies for his contribution to Israeli cinema, and his new film Dr. Pomerantz<\/em>, will premiere at the festival (out of the competition). 73 new Israeli films will be screened at the festival: 9 features, 13 documentaries, 4 television dramas and 47 shorts. The Haifa International Film Festival is a production of the Haifa Municipality – Ethos. Pnina Blayer is the festival artistic director and it is produced by Eyal Shirai.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s festival will feature two new programs. \u201cHafringider<\/strong>\u201d will be a parallel program of alternative and independent Israeli films produced in the past year. Screenings will take place at the Beat Club in Haifa during the day and night, and will include performances by alternative musicians. Avital Beckerman, Marat Parkhomovsky and Elad Peleg are the artistic directors of this program.<\/p>\n

\u201cAwakening \u2013 the Film<\/strong>\u201d by Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudry, will premiere at the festival. A project of Yes Docu and the New Israel Fund in collaboration with the Haifa International Film Festival, the film was created during the course of the Rothschild revolution this past summer with the participation of leading Israeli documentary filmmakers who documented the events of the protest and social awakening of the summer of 2011, each from a different perspective.<\/p>\n

Films participating in the Israeli Feature Film Competition<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Yevgenia Dodina and Ronit Elkabetz in Invisible<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Invisible<\/strong> (Israel\/Germany 2011), directed by Michal Aviad<\/p>\n

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Little Simico’s Great Fantasy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Little Simico\u2019s Great Fantasy<\/strong> (Israel 2011), directed by Arik Lubetsky<\/p>\n

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Never Too Late<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Never Too Late<\/strong>, directed by Ido Fluk<\/p>\n

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Thanator – Last Days in Jerusalem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thanator \u2013 Last Days in Jerusalem<\/strong>, directed by Tawfik Abu Wael<\/p>\n

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The Exchange<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Exchange<\/strong>, directed by Eran Koliran<\/p>\n

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The Fifth Heaven<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Fifth Heaven<\/strong>, directed by Dina Zvi Riklis<\/p>\n

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Ohad Knoller and Efrat Ben Yaakov in We Are Not Alone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We Are Not Alone<\/strong>, directed by Lior Har-Lev<\/p>\n

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By Summer’s End<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Summer\u2019s End<\/strong>, directed by Noa Aharoni<\/p>\n

Films participating in the Israeli Documentary Film Competition<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Cutting the Pain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cutting the Pain<\/strong>, directed by Yonatan Nir and Tsafrir Gelman<\/p>\n

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Epilogue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Epilogue<\/strong>, directed by Michal Karpa
\nLooking for Moshe Guez<\/strong>, directed by Avida Livni<\/p>\n

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Not Far From the Tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not Far From the Tree<\/strong>, directed by Alon Alsheich<\/p>\n

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Freeflow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Freeflow<\/strong>, directed by Rami A. Katz
\nSumna\u2019s Letter<\/strong>, directed by Hadar Kleinman-Zadok and Timna Goldstein Hatav
\nThe Chosen Trail<\/strong>, directed by Uri Goldstein
\nTurbulence<\/strong>, directed by Kobi Davidian and Roni Livneh<\/p>\n

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Tzipora & Jacob<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tzipora & Jacob<\/strong>, directed by Gitit Kabiri
\nWhere\u2019s My Stuff<\/strong>, directed by Zohar Kaniel
\nSix Million and One<\/strong>, directed by David Fisher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 27th Haifa International Film Festival will take place from October 13 \u2013 22, 2011. Actor Asi Dayan will be honored by the festival at the opening ceremonies for his contribution to Israeli cinema, and his new film Dr. Pomerantz, will premiere at the festival (out of the competition). 73 new Israeli films will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}