{"id":27602,"date":"2013-09-29T01:45:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T08:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=27602"},"modified":"2013-09-29T05:33:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T12:33:12","slug":"haifa-international-film-festival-2013-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=27602","title":{"rendered":"Haifa International Film Festival 2013: Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tzahi<\/a>
Tzahi Halevy and Shadi Mar\u2019i in Yuval Adler’s Bethlehem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bethlehem<\/em>, Yuval Adler’s debut film, was awarded the Haifa Cultural Foundation Feature Film Award at the 29th Haifa International Film Festival in a ceremony that\u00a0 took place in the festival garden on Thursday, September 26, 2013. The 29th Haifa International Film Festival took place from September 19 – September 29, 2013.<\/p>\n

Co-written by Yuval Adler and Ali Waked, Bethlehem<\/em> describes the complex relationship between Razi, an Israeli Secret Service officer, and his teenage Palestinian informant Sanfur. The judges wrote in their assessment: “The film had us in its grip from the first scene, and held us there even after the film was over. It is a courageous, disturbing, powerful and moving film that presents the viewer with dilemmas of conflicting loyalties. Although it is the director’s first feature, he demonstrates complete control of the cinematic medium and creates a captivating, fascinating film. It is important to note that in addition to being a wonderful film, it is also, and primarily relevant to our lives in this place.” Members of the jury: jury chairperson and actor Gila Almagor, artist and experimental filmmaker Vivian Ostrovsky, film director and producer Jorge Gurvich, producer Haim Mecklberg, and Director of the Istanbul Film Festival Azize Ten.<\/p>\n

\"Bethlehem's<\/a>
Bethlehem’s director Yuval Adler with lead actors Tzahi Halevy and Shadi Mar’i\/Photo: Gustavo Hochman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bethlehem<\/em>‘s lead actor Tsahi Halevi won the award for Best Actor. The film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, has also received the Ophir Award for Best Picture<\/a>, awarded this past Saturday, September 28, 2013 by the Israel Academy for Film and Television.<\/p>\n

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\"Yuval<\/a>
Yuval Scharf in Amos Gitai’s Ana Arabia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ana Arabia<\/em> received two awards: Amos Gitai and Marie Jose Sanselme received the award for Best Screenplay; Giora Bejach and Nir Bar received the award for Best Cinematography, recognizing their artistic filming of the entire\u00a0 81 minutes in one long shot.<\/p>\n

\"Director<\/a>
Director Yael Reuveny in Farewell, Herr Schwarz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Farewell Herr Schwarz<\/em>, directed by Yael Reuveny, won the award for Best Documentary. The film tells an incredible and touching story of a Jewish family lost to one another after World War II. The members of the jury panel – Heinz Emigholz, Netalie Braun and Tamar Yarom – wrote of the film: “A journey of three generations in Israel and Germany that gradually builds the contradictory family stories into a narrative that is full of life. The mystery of the separation between sister and brother caused by the Holocaust is conveyed in a cinematic language and screenplay that is mature and coherent.<\/p>\n

Itamar Chen’s Night Shift<\/em> received an Honorable Mention.<\/p>\n

\"Yossi<\/a>
Yossi Aviram’s La Dune<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Best Debut Film was awarded to Yossi Aviram for La Dune<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Hila<\/a>
Hila Vidor in Funeral at Noon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hila Vidor won Best Actress for her performance in Funeral At Noon<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Golden Anchor Award for films from Mediterranean countries went to Italian director Roberto Ando for Viva la Liberta<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Alex van Warmerdam won the Filmmakers of Tomorrow Fedeora Competition with his film Borgman<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Joseph Pitchhadze\u2019s Sweets<\/em> won the critics association award for special artistic achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bethlehem, Yuval Adler’s debut film, was awarded the Haifa Cultural Foundation Feature Film Award at the 29th Haifa International Film Festival in a ceremony that\u00a0 took place in the festival garden on Thursday, September 26, 2013. The 29th Haifa International Film Festival took place from September 19 – September 29, 2013. Co-written by Yuval Adler […]<\/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-27602","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\/27602","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=27602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}