Haifa IFF Int. Awards:
Carmel Competition Winner - Close by Lukas Dhont
Special Mention - The Beasts by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Golden Anchor Competition Winner - The Mountain by Thomas Salvador
Special Mention - The Worst Ones by Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
Haifa IFF Israeli Awards:
Best Feature - Valeria is Getting Married by Michal Vinik
Debut - The Fat Guy by Gudis Schneider
Best Doc - Nitza's Choice by Uri Barbash
Special Mention - Bronca! by Tomer Sl...
Crossovers!
We are one big family here in Haifa!
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie? More like the loud angst. Several films in our program dwell on the fears and frustrations of the well-to-do middle class.
The Line
Ursula Meier
Switzerland|France|Belgium
The Mountain
Thomas Salvador
France
We Might as Well Be Dead
Natalia Sinelnikova
Germany|Romania
Brother and Sister
Arnaud Desplechin
France
Speak No Evil
Christian Tafdrup
Denmark
Axiom
Jö...
Welcome back! We've screened previous films of no less than 21 filmmakers in our program and couldn't wait to follow up:
Akira Kurosawa
Alex van Warmerdam
Alexander Sokurov
Amalie Næsby Fick
Anca Damian
Arnaud Desplechin
Cristian Mungiu
Dario Argento
Felix van Groeningen
François Ozon
Hlynur Pálmason
Kirill Serebrennikov
Mark Cousins
Michel Ocelot
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Paul Schrader
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Shawkat Amin Korki
Stephen Frear...
The Opening Film of the 2022 Berlinale, Peter von Kant is a free adaption of The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (celebrating its 50th anniversary this year). François Ozon made a breakthrough in his film-making career in 2000 with an adaptation of an unproduced stage play by Fassbinder, Water Drops on Burning Rocks. Now Ozon goes back to his roots with the reworking of a Fassbinder classic and offers a gender-swapped version that serves as an indirect portrait ...
Admire - Living by Oliver Hermanus
Challenge - Piaffe by Ann Oren
Cherish - Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa
Cringe - Speak No Evil by Christian Tafdrup
Cry - MoreThanEver by Emily Atef
Laugh - The Kitchen Brigade by Louis-Julien Petit
Surprise - The Mountain by Thomas Salvador
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Non-professional actors add a sense of authenticity to a story by being present and natural in their roles: The whole cast of Alcarràs, from 8 to 80, is phenomenal; The boys and girls of The Worst Ones break your heart; Adam Bessa of Harka was a fisherman; Simon Wisler of A Piece of Sky is a mountain farmer. Glory Kevin of Princess was a real victim of the sex trade.
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Inspiration comes from many places (we have a films inspired by a podcasts, true crime and family history) but books remain the most frequently visited well for cinematic inspiration. We have no less than 14 films based on a book or a play to offer
All Quiet on the Western Front
Edward Berger
USA|Germany
Boy From Heaven
Tarik Saleh
Sweden|France|Finland
Even Mice Belong in Heaven
Denisa Grimmová, Jan Bubeníček
CzechRepublic|France|Polan...
Pride – real pride – requires self-knowledge, and with the call for diverse movie representation growing louder than ever, there are a lot of great movies that help us better understand sexual identity in all its complexities.
We've put a great list for you:
Close
Lukas Dhont
Belgium|France|Netherlands
The Blue Caftan
Maryam Touzani
Morocco|France|Belgium|Denmark
Summer with Hope
Sadaf Foroughi
Canada|Iran
Peter vo...
Industry Events! The #HaifaIFF is holding meetings with a delegation of Italian producers for professional collaborations and co-productions for feature films, documentaries, animation and television series.
Participating producers on the Italian Team
MANUELA CASA', Lucky Red srl, Business Affairs and Film Financing
LUCIANO STELLA, Mad Entertainment spa, Founder and CEO
GIANFILIPPO PEDOTE, Casa Delle Visioni srl, Partner and CEO
ANNA DI TOMA, Agherose srl, Producer
DANI...
Documentaries! From the historical to the contemporary, from the political to the personal, the artistic to the musical, films that tell a strong story and shed a light at a time when reality and fiction blend. And what a program of documentaries we have for you!
Prophets of Change
Assaf Ben Shetrit
USA
The Corridors of Power
Dror Moreh
USA
The Matchmaker
Benedetta Argentieri
Italy
The Story of Looking
Mark Cousins
UK
The Thief Collector...
Calling all food lovers! Our popular culinary cinema program offers four delicious films with nibbles to follow!
Rasmus Dinesen, the director of Nordic by Nature and Terroir To Table, and Ljubomir Stanišić and Mónica Franco of Heartbeat, will meet with the audience for a Q&A following the screenings of their films. Israeli chef Haim Cohen will meet with the audience following The Kitchen Brigade.
Moderator: Writer, journalist and culinary specialist Hila Alpert
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What happens when Oliver Hermanus teams up with Nobel prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro and actor Bill Nighy to reimagine Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece Ikiru (itself based on Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich) for a new generation? What happens is a gem of a film called Living, a period drama now set in 1950s London, with all the life-affirming compassion of the original. You can watch both films in our program.
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We are proud and pleased to screen in our program the latest films from some of the contemporary masters of world cinema, the world’s most influential art-house filmmakers:
Paolo Taviani - Leonora addio
François Ozon - Peter von Kant
Arnaud Desplechin - Brother and Sister
Kirill Serebrennikov - Tchaikovsky's Wife
Michel Ocelot - The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
Alexander Sokurov - Fairytale
Cristian Mungiu - RMN
Paul Schrader - Master Gardener...
That magic that happens when image and music perfectly complement one another, when the creative vision of a filmmaker inspires an unforgettable film score. Think Federico Fellini and Nino Rota. Now watch our Theo Angelopoulos tribute with the score by Eleni Karaindrou. Magic!
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The Haifa IFF marks a decade to the passing of Theo Angelopoulos (1935-2012) , one of the great masters of world cinema, and celebrates the work of the man, the artist, our friend, who visited the festival on three occasions and received the Haifa IFF Life Achievement Award.
The tribute will include four of his unforgettable films:
Eternity and a Day
The Beekeeper
The Dust of Time
Voyage to Cythera
In 2005, at the Opening Gala of the Haifa IFF, Theo Angelopoulos met Wi...
Meet this year's class of debut filmmakers!
A great first film can jumpstart a filmmaker's career and we've got 18 of them in our program this year:
To the North
Mihai Mincan
Romania|France|Greece|Bulgaria|Czech Republic
Immersion
Nicolas Postiglione
Chile|Mexico
The Score
Malachi Smyth
UK
The Worst Ones
Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
France
Utama
Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Bolivia|Uruguay|France
We Might as Well Be Dead
Na...
The program of the Haifa IFF is A feast for the senses:
Sight - Close by Lukas Dhont
Sound - The Dust of Time by Theo Angelopoulos
Smell - Utama by Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Taste - Adam by Maryam Touzani
Touch - Brian and Charles by Jim Archer
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A German bear roars in Haifa! 4 Berlinale award winners in our program - Golden Bear winner Alcarras, Before Now & Then, A Piece of Sky and Leonora addio.
A total of 14 Berlinale titles in our program!
#Berlinale #Awards #Oscars2023
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Time to show you our gorgeous trailer.
You can watch it on our twitter at https://lnkd.in/dmgjH_uZ or letterboxd at https://lnkd.in/d8VukF5p
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The apartment is one of the most iconic symbols of modern life and a complicated, intimate setting for a film. Just think Rear Window or Rosemary’s Baby. Well, we've got some great ones for you -
We Might as Well Be Dead
Natalia Sinelnikova
Germany|Romania
Τhe Neighbors of My Neighbors Are My Neighbors
Anne-Laure Daffis, Léo Marchand
France
The Worst Ones
Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
France
Peter von Kant
François Ozon
France&n...
Our roundtable event to promote cooperation centers this year on the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Our guests - Tiina Lokk-Tramberg, the Festival Director, and Marge Liiske, Head of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, will introduce the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival to the Israeli film industry and promote cooperation in preparation for the Israeli Focus in Tallinn on November 2022.
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One of the hottest genres in filmed entertainment right now – fiction or nonfiction – are swindler stories. If you're in the market for movies about people who present a false front while committing nefarious deeds, we've got two to offer:
Axiom by Jöns Jönsson, the teasingly clever story of Julius the museum keeper, and The Thief Collector by Allison Otto, a light-hearted documentary that takes a deep look at one of the art world's most bizarre and sur...
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
Alex van Warmerdam's tenth film, NO. 10, is complex, funny and shocking, continually wrong-footing us with a series of increasingly audacious and mind-boggling U-turns before a climax that is out of this world.
Here’s a tip: If you accidentally run into a strange man behaving strangely on a bridge, something is up.
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For the deliciously creepy look no further than our Haifa’s Wild Nights section. We’ve got movies full of dark and twisty tales (Speak No Evil - Christian Tafdrup), we’ve got spooky destinations (No. 10 - Alex van Warmerdam), interesting people (Brian and Charles - Jim Archer), serial killer horror (Dark Glasses - Dario Argento) and tales (tails?) of the bizarre (Piaffe - Ann Oren). All that is needed to round up the party is a bunch of rather vicious teddy bears (Unicorn Wars ...
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