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The Rabinovich Foundation's Cinema Project – Israel's Largest Film Fund Of the seven Israeli films shown at the Cannes Festival this year – in itself a brilliant and significant achievement for Israeli cinema – five were produced with the support of the Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts' Cinema Project: The Kindergarten Teacher, Next to Her, That Lovely Girl, The Go-Go Boys and The Visit. Although the Rabinovich Foundation is still a relatively unknown fund among non-Israeli producers, Israeli filmmakers are well acquainted with it as the largest fund supporting Israeli cinema. Over the 26 years of its existence, the Rabinovich Foundation's Cinema Project has supported about nine
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hundred different film productions in all fields and genres. Among the productions the Rabinovich Foundation supported are films such as Beaufort and The Gatekeepers, which recently competed in the American Academy Awards (Oscars) in the Best Foreign Film category and the Best Documentary category, or films such as This is Sodom, a movie targeting the local audience that has turned into the most successful Israeli movie of the last 20 years, with nearly 600,000 local viewers. The greatest challenge currently facing Israeli filmmakers is the local challenge, and this stems from a decline in investments by local television channels. This void must be filled by local film funds; and among the two film funds supporting full length feature films – the Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts and the Israel Film Fund - the Rabinovich Foundation has taken the lead in increasing the sums invested in full length feature films. This
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decision has proven itself, and was reinforced by the Ministry of Culture's Israel Film Council (the council responsible for Israeli film funds), which recently set minimum sums for financing full length feature films and documentaries. The Rabinovich Foundation also seeks to provide these increased sums to international co-productions between Israeli producers and foreign producers, even in cases in which the Israeli side is the minor partner. In addition to the great importance the Foundation places on the very existence of these types of international cultural collaborations, it also aspires to reciprocity in these collaborations, in order to ensure that they will be long-term and fruitful for both sides. Another noteworthy trend in Israeli cinema over recent years is the wider range of genres and styles compared to those typical of Israeli cinema in the past. This trend is also led by the Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, which was there to support its first buds: horror movies like Rabies and Big Bad Wolves, comedies like Hunting Elephants and nature films like Land of Genesis. This trend is indicative of the evolution and maturing of Israeli cinema, which feels increasingly confident to deviate for the familiar boundaries of the past; it is also indicative of the local and international success of Israeli cinema in recent years, which set the scene for embarking into new genres. The Rabinovich Foundation believes that this trend will expand, and that Israeli cinema is in the midst of a significant change, that contributes to it and reinforces it. As the Israeli film industry persists in changing and evolving in new and interesting directions, corresponding to changing reality, so it will continue to flourish. Israel Ministry of Culture & Sport - The Israel Film Council