{"id":54912,"date":"2025-01-09T22:06:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=54912"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:18:17","slug":"haifa-international-film-festival-2024-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=54912","title":{"rendered":"Haifa International Film Festival 2024: Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 40th<\/sup>\u00a0Haifa International Film Festival announced the award winners in a ceremony that took place on Thursday, January 9, 2025.<\/p>\n

Israeli Cinema Awards<\/h4>\n
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Real Estate\/Photo: Omri Aloni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Real Estate<\/strong><\/em>, written and directed by Anat Maltz, was awarded Best Film.<\/p>\n

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Halisa\/Photo: May Abadi-Grebler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The jury award for Best Narrative Feature was awarded to Halisa,<\/em><\/strong> written and directed by Sophie Artus.<\/p>\n

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Kafka’s Last Trial\/Photo courtesy of Eliran Peled and Deborah Harris Agency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The jury award for Best Documentary Film was awarded to Kafka\u2019s Last Trial<\/em><\/strong>, directed by Eliran Peled.<\/p>\n

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My Missing Screw\/Photo courtesy of Nitsan Tal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My Missing Screw<\/strong><\/em>, directed by Nitsan Tal, received the Best Debut Film Award.<\/p>\n

Anat Maltz won the Best Screenplay Award for a Narrative Feature for Real Estate<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Abortion in the Holy Land\/Photo: Kim Naveh, Dani Hadani Archive, National Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Best Research for Documentary Film was awarded to Hagit Ben-Yaakov, Shani Bar David, and Efrat Shalom Danon for Abortion in the Holy Land<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Girls Like Us\/Photo: Amit Yasur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hili Yosef-Zada won the Best Acting Award in a Narrative Feature for the role of Shahar in Girls Like Us<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Total Show\/Photo: Saar Mizrahi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cinematographer Saar Mizrahi and Art Director Barak Vazan received the Best Artistic Achievement Award for the world they created in Cabaret Total<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Israeli Short Film Competition<\/h4>\n

The award for Best Independent Film was awarded to two films: Aba<\/em><\/strong>, directed by Claudio Steinberg, and The Event Horizon<\/em><\/strong>, directed by Shira Geffen.<\/p>\n

Carmel \u2013 The International Cinema Competition<\/h4>\n
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The Brutalist\/Photo courtesy of PR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Brutalist<\/strong><\/em>, directed by Brady Corbet was awarded the Best Film Award.<\/p>\n

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The Seed of the Sacred Fig\/Photo courtesy of PR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Seed of the Sacred Fig<\/strong><\/em>, directed by Mohammad Rasoulof, received an Honorable Mention.<\/p>\n

Golden Anchor Competition \u2013 The Debut Film Competition for First or Second Feature<\/h4>\n
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The Antique\/Photo courtesy of PR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Antique<\/strong>, directed by Rusudan Glurjidze, won the Best Film Award.<\/p>\n

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Three Days of Fish\/Photo courtesy of PR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three Days of Fish<\/em><\/strong>, directed by Peter Hoogendoorn, received an Honorable Mention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 40th\u00a0Haifa International Film Festival announced the award winners in a ceremony that took place on Thursday, January 9, 2025. Israeli Cinema Awards Real Estate, written and directed by Anat Maltz, was awarded Best Film. The jury award for Best Narrative Feature was awarded to Halisa, written and directed by Sophie Artus. The jury award […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[143,100,96,118,375],"class_list":["post-54912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-awards","tag-festival","tag-film","tag-haifa","tag-haifa-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54912","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=54912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}