{"id":55287,"date":"2025-10-12T22:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T19:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=55287"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:16:26","slug":"haifa-international-film-festival-2025-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=55287","title":{"rendered":"Haifa International Film Festival 2025: Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 41st<\/sup> Haifa International Film Festival has announced its award winners in a ceremony that took place on October 12, 2025.<\/p>\n

Israeli Cinema Awards<\/h4>\n
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A Burning Man\/Photo: Ofer Yanov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Burning Man<\/em>, directed by Eyal Halfon, was awarded Best Film.<\/p>\n

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Of Dogs and Men\/Photo: Ziv Berkovich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The jury award for Best Narrative Feature was awarded this year to two films: Of Dogs and Men<\/em>, directed by Dani Rosenberg, and Some Notes on the Current Situation<\/em>, directed by Eran Kolirin.<\/p>\n

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Some Notes on the Current Situation\/Photo: Dani Shneur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Proud Jewish Boy\/Photo courtesy of Isri Halpern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The jury award for Best Documentary Film was awarded to Proud Jewish Boy<\/em>, directed by Isri Halpern.<\/p>\n

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Fadia\/Photo: Barry Markovich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Amit Peled Award for Best Debut Feature was awarded to Fadia<\/em>, directed by Shady Srour.<\/p>\n

The Best Screenplay Award for Narrative Feature, in memory of Anat Farhi, was awarded to Shady Srour and Laurel Hunter for Fadia<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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UNraveling UNRWA\/Photo courtesy of UNRWA archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Best Research for Documentary Film was awarded to Ilan Sheizaf, Dana Wolfe and Ali Aadi for the film UNraveling UNRWA<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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A Burning Man\/Photo: Ofer Yanov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shai Avivi won the Best Acting in a Narrative Feature Award for his role in A Burning Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Einat Glazer-Zarhin – Editor of No Cakes From the Homefront\/Photo: Tair Zargary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Best Artistic Achievement Award was awarded to Einat Glazer-Zarhin for her editing on the film No Cakes from the Homefront<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Baghdad Files\/Photo courtesy of Efrati Productions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An Honorable Mention in memory of Pnina Blayer was awarded to the film Baghdad Files<\/em>, directed by Avida Livni.<\/p>\n

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

Dreams<\/em>, directed by Dag Johan Haugerud, was awarded the Best Film Award.<\/p>\n

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Mother\/Photo courtesy of PR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An Honorable Mention was awarded to the film Mother<\/em>, directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska.<\/p>\n

Golden Anchor Competition<\/h4>\n
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Late Shift\/Photo courtesy of PR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Late Shift<\/em>, directed by Petra Volpe, won the Best Film Award.<\/p>\n

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Nino\/Photo courtesy of PR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An Honorable Mention was awarded to Nino<\/em>, directed by Pauline Loqu\u00e8s.<\/p>\n

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The 41st Haifa International Film Festival has announced its award winners in a ceremony that took place on October 12, 2025. Israeli Cinema Awards A Burning Man, directed by Eyal Halfon, was awarded Best Film. The jury award for Best Narrative Feature was awarded this year to two films: Of Dogs and Men, directed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[143,100,96,203],"class_list":["post-55287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-awards","tag-festival","tag-film","tag-haifa-international-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55287","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=55287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55294,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55287\/revisions\/55294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}