{"id":15082,"date":"2011-10-04T23:45:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T06:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=15082"},"modified":"2011-10-04T23:48:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T06:48:33","slug":"elkabetzs-film-testimony-to-participate-in-haifa-international-film-festival-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=15082","title":{"rendered":"Elkabetz’s Film Testimony to Participate in Haifa International Film Festival 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Testimony, a film by Shlomi Elkabetz\/Image credit: David Adika<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The film Testimony<\/em> by Shlomi Elkabetz (To Take a Wife 2004, Seven Days 2008) has been added to the list of films participating in the Israeli Feature Film Competition at the 27th Haifa Film Festival<\/a>, 2011. The film, a hybrid between documentary and fiction, opened the 2011 Cinema South Film Festival in Sderot in a pre-premiere screening, and had its world premiere at the 68th Venice Film Festival 2011, this past September.<\/p>\n

Testimony<\/em> consists of 24 actual testimonies of Israeli soldiers and Palestinians living in the territories, as collected, in Hebrew, recounted by Israeli actors. The film is described as one monologue, a journey into the collective memory of Palestine and Israel against a backdrop of local empty landscapes, \u201can attempt to touch upon the bleeding bond between the two peoples by uniting their narratives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Participating actors: Ronit Elkabetz, Menashe Noy, Keren Mor, Reymonde Amsellem, Dikla, Zohar Liba, Ofer Hayun, Albert Iluz, Esti Zackheim, Roy Assaf, Rinat Mattoub, Leah Mendelsohn, Ilanit Ben Yaacov, Eyal Schecter, Dekel Adin, Dani Leshman, Uriah Ron, Or Ben Melech and Morris Cohen.<\/p>\n

Testimony<\/em> (Israel, 2011, 80 min)
\nDirected by Shlomi Elkabetz
\nScreenplay by Shlomi Elkabetz and Ofer Ein Gal
\nDP David Adika
\nEditor Jo\u00eblle Alexis
\nMusic Dikla
\nThe film is supported by the Yehoshua Rabinovich Tel Aviv Film Foundation (Cinema Project), Noga Communications (Channel 8), Centre National de la Cin\u00e9matographie et de l\u2019Image Anim\u00e9e (CNC-AFLE), Wild Bunch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The film Testimony by Shlomi Elkabetz (To Take a Wife 2004, Seven Days 2008) has been added to the list of films participating in the Israeli Feature Film Competition at the 27th Haifa Film Festival, 2011. The film, a hybrid between documentary and fiction, opened the 2011 Cinema South Film Festival in Sderot in a […]<\/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-15082","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\/15082","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=15082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}