{"id":14980,"date":"2011-09-26T23:20:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T06:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=14980"},"modified":"2011-10-03T07:55:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:55:21","slug":"john-madden-among-the-international-guests-2011-haifa-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=14980","title":{"rendered":"John Madden Among the International Guests – 2011 Haifa International Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Helen Mirren in The Debt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John Madden, director of Shakespeare in Love<\/em>, will be the guest of the Haifa International Film Festival for the Israeli premiere of his new film The Debt<\/em>, starring Helen Mirren. The spy thriller is a re-make of the 2007 Israeli film The Debt<\/em>, directed by Assaf Bernstein, with screenplay by Assaf Bernstein and Ido Rosenblum. The film was produced by Eitan Even, recently elected President of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television, who is co-producer of Madden\u2019s 2011 film.<\/p>\n

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John Madden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The action moves between past and present, looking into the dark secrets of three Mossad agents. Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and Ciar\u00e1n Hinds portray the now-retired agents in the present, while Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas and Sam Worthington represent the trio in their glory days. The film is screened courtesy of Globus Group, UIP distributors in Israel.<\/p>\n

A stellar array of 60 guests \u2013 actors, producers, distributors, and other film industry members will come to Haifa for this year\u2019s festival, which will have quite the international flair.<\/p>\n

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Gareth Unwin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Madden arrives as part of a British delegation to launch a co-production agreement between Israel and the UK. Gareth Unwin, producer of The King\u2019s Speech<\/em>, another member of this delegation, will chair the jury for the Israeli Feature Film Competition and will participate in the 8th Internatioal Marketing Forum. An initiative of the British Council and in cooperation with the Marketing Forum, the British Embassy in Israel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Fund to extend the Haifa International Film Festival\u2019s involvement in the International Marketing Forum and promote Israeli films abroad, the delegation includes:\u00a0 Joe Oppenheimer, Executive Producer at BBC Films; David Thompson, an independent producer, former Head of BBC Films; Isabel Davis, Senior Production Executive at the British Film Institute; and Michael Kuhn, Executive Producer of Being John Malkovich (1999).<\/p>\n

Special events at the festival will include the 8th edition of the Pitching Forum \u201cOur Story.\u201d 14 Israeli projects will be presented to an international panel: Gabi Rothmeier, Director of the MFG Fund Germany, heading a delegation of 8 feature and documentary film producers at the festival; Guy Daleiden, Director of The Film Fund Luxembourg, heading a delegation of senior producers; Jacqueline Ada, of the CNC Fund in France and independent producers. The Haifa Israeli Cinemarket will take place for the second time this year. A complementary program to \u201cOur Story,\u201d seven new Israeli films in progress will be presented to a panel of international distributors. The Geyer Award – a 25,000 Euro post production grant will be awarded to a work in progress by CinePostProduction, Berlin.<\/p>\n

Several prominent directors and producers will arrive for the screening of their films at the festival:<\/p>\n

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A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Russian director Sergei Bodrov (Prisoner of the Mountains<\/em> 1996, Mongol<\/em> 2007) will be present at the screening of his film A Yakuza\u2019s Daughter Never Cries<\/em> (2010).<\/p>\n

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Le Havre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The French actor Andr\u00e9 Wilms (Monsieur Hire<\/em> 1989, Europa Europa<\/em> 1990) will be present for the screening of the film Le Havre<\/em>, directed by Aki Kaurismaki, which participated in the official competition at Cannes 2011, and won the Fipresci Award.<\/p>\n

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Quando La Notte<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Italian director Christina Comencini and her husband, producer Riccardo Tucci (Catlleya) will be present for the screening of their film Quando la Notte<\/em>, based on her story, which participated in the official competition at the Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n

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Terraferma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tucci is also the producer of Terraferma<\/em>, directed by Emmanuela Crialise, which won the Jury Prize at this year\u2019s Venice Film Festival, and will be present at the screening.<\/p>\n

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

Irish director John Michael McDonagh will present his film The Guard<\/em> starring Brenden Gleeson, which co-opened the Sundance festival and received a special mention at the Berlinale.<\/p>\n

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The Loneliest Planet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The film The Loneliest Planet<\/em> arrives after screenings at Locarno, Toronto and New York. Starring Israeli actress Hanni Furstenberg and Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal, the film\u2019s director Julia Loktev (Day Night Day Night<\/em> 2006 won prizes at Cannes and Chicago) will attend the festival to present her film.<\/p>\n

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The British Guide to Showing Off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jes Benstock documentary filmmaker (Reel London<\/em> 2006, The Holocaust Tourist<\/em> 2005, Poof<\/em> 1999) will present his film The British Guide to Showing Off, featuring Brian Eno, Andrew Logan and Richard O\u2019Brien. The film premiered at the 2011 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Director Aktan Arym Kubat will present his new film Mother\u2019s Paradise<\/em>, screenplay written by Mohsen Makhmalbaf.<\/p>\n

Daniel Mulloy will arrive for a retrospective of his films and present his new film Baby<\/em> (US premiere at Sundance 2011) starring Arta Dobroshi who will also attend the festival. Mulloy\u2019s films will be screened in the context of the British Shorts three year project, a collaboration of the Haifa festival with the British Council and Gesher Multicultural Film Fund to foster a creative exchange of ideas and promote short films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Madden, director of Shakespeare in Love, will be the guest of the Haifa International Film Festival for the Israeli premiere of his new film The Debt, starring Helen Mirren. The spy thriller is a re-make of the 2007 Israeli film The Debt, directed by Assaf Bernstein, with screenplay by Assaf Bernstein and Ido Rosenblum. […]<\/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-14980","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\/14980","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=14980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}