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JeruZalem pair plot Nazi revenge thriller Shlomi Elkabetz

Elkabetz joins Palestinian party girls

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Shlomi Elkabetz is set to produce Maysaloun Hamoud’s debut feature In Between, an unprecedented portrait of young Palestinian women living life to the full in Tel Aviv.

The film will revolve around two party-loving Palestinian girls hailing from northern Israel — Leila and Salma — whose liberal lifestyles in Tel Aviv are disrupted by the arrival of Noor, a devout Muslim girl from Umm al-Fahm.

“The way Leila and Salma are living is breaking all the taboos of traditional conservative Arab society,” explained Hamoud at her presentation of the film at the Pitch Point event on Monday. “They choose to leave traditional village life because they want to be free and move to the big city but they will never be fully part of it because they’re Palestinians living within a Jewish majority.”

Elkabetz, who produces under the Tel Aviv-based Deux Beaux Garcons Films, met Hamoud when she was one of his students at the Minshar School of Art in Tel Aviv.

“I’m very excited about this film,” he said. “I see in Maysaloun’s work a direct extension of the work I was fighting for the last 10 years as a director and a screenwriter.”

Israel Film Fund has backed the project, budgeted at $1.1m, to the tune of $500,000. Elkabetz said the film would shoot at the end of 2015. It is his first project to get the greenlight since the award winning Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem, which he co-directed with sister Ronit and brought to Jerusalem Film Festival last year after its premiere in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.

BY TOM GRATER

Yoav and Doron Paz, the directing duo whose apocalyptic horror film JeruZalem had a work-in-progress screening at Jerusalem Film Festival on Friday, are planning their first European production, currently titled Plan A. The film, which has a completed script, will be a historical thriller based on the Nakam, the Jewish revenge squad that targeted Nazi war criminals at the end of the Second World War; it promises to tell the real story behind Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 film Inglourious Basterds.

“It’s an amazing true story that

not a lot of people in Israel know about,” said Yoav Paz. “It’s about Jews after the Second World War who, after going through the Holocaust, through hell, decide they can’t go on with their lives as if nothing happened and decide to take justice into their own hands.”

Producers Avraham Pirchi and Chilik Michaeli of major Israeli production house United Channels Movies (UCM), who backed Eran Riklis’s A Borrowed Identity (formerly Dancing Arabs) and Big Bad Wolves and also have Evgeny Ruman’s The Man In The Wall at this year’s festival, are attached to

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the project, along with producers in Germany and Poland. Deals are being finalised for international funding and the Paz brothers are aiming to shoot in 2016 at locations where some of the actual events involving the Nakam took place in Germany and eastern Europe.

JeruZalem, their horror film shot at locations around Israel, has been one of the standout titles at the festival. It will receive its full premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia on July 22 before travelling to the UK’s genre showcase FrightFest in August and Busan International Film Festival in October.

Kutiman and Princess Shaw were at the festival on Saturday night to celebrate Ido Haar’s documentary Thru You Princess, which followed avid YouTuber/aspiring singer Shaw as she became the unwitting star of the Israeli composer’s latest online music-video project.

Shoval’s Shake rattles to society’s injustice Israeli film-maker Tom Shoval is gearing up to shoot his second film Shake Your Cares Away, about a wealthy young idealist hell-bent on solving all of Israeli society’s ills.

“The plan is to start shooting at the beginning of next year, mainly in Israel with a short shoot in France,” said producer Gal Greenspan of Tel Aviv-based Green Production.

Sol Bondy of Berlin-based One Two Films, who also co-produced Shoval’s debut feature Youth, is attached and Greenspan is in final talks with potential French

co-producers. The tale of a kidnap attempt that goes farcically wrong because the victim’s Shabbatobserving family will not pick up the phone, Youth won three prizes at the 2013 Jerusalem Film Festival including best Israeli film.

Shake Your Cares Away revolves around the figure of Alma, the daughter of the richest family in Israel, who lives a double life as ‘Dafna’ working in the soup kitchens of Tel Aviv. Troubled by the divide between rich and poor in Israeli society, she takes her charitable

work to extremes. The lead role has yet to be cast. “It’s about the power of money and what you can do with money. It’s an interesting topic, which Tom touched on in his previous film,” said Greenspan.

Shoval developed the script under the mentorship of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu within the framework of the Rolex Mentors and Protégés Arts Initiative, which previously paired Zhang Yimou with Annemarie Jacir and Martin Scorsese with Celina Murga.

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TODAY

Amy, page 4

NEWS Inquiring mind Amos Gitai discusses Yitzhak Rabin project The Last Day » Page 3

INTERVIEW Asif Kapadia The UK director on his revealing Amy Winehouse documentary » Page 4

REVIEW Knight Of Cups Terrence Malick’s latest features Christian Bale as a tormented hero in existential crisis » Page 9

Yossi Atia

Yossi Atia preps terrortour comedy

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Israeli performance artist and filmmaker Yossi Atia is set to bring his live work From Trauma To Fantasy, a guided tour of terror-attack sites on Jerusalem’s Jaffa Street, to the big screen.

Atia presented the dark comedy, entitled Born In Jerusalem And Still Alive, at the Israeli cinema-focused Pitch Point event here at Jerusalem Film Festival on Monday. Tel Avivbased Spiro Films is producing the picture, which is inspired by Atia’s own experiences during the second Intifada. They are aiming for an early 2016 shoot.

“Jaffa Street is the street that suffered the highest number of terror attacks in the world,” said Atia, who hit the headlines when he originally launched his terror tour as part of a public arts festival in 2010.

The film will extend the character of the spoof guide, Ronen Matalon, who Atia created for the tour. It will be his feature debut after a series of provocative satirical short films, including The JewishArab State and Darfur, which have screened in numerous festivals.

The Sam Spiegel International Film Lab - Jerusalem is Proud to Announce the Winners of its 2015 Edition’s Beracha Foundation Awards

First prize of $50,000 Darkroom by Itamar Alcalay (Lama Productions), Israel Second prize of $20,000 for The Death of Black Horses by Ferit Karahan (Blue Door Productions), Kurdistan-Turkey EZ Films-Digital District (France) Award of €25,000 in post-production services – Aya by Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun (Cassis Films), Israel The Lab wishes to thank the outstanding international jury chaired by Kirsten Niehuus: Olivier Père, Meinolf Zurhorst, Katriel Schory, Michèle Halberstadt, Ewa Puszczyñska and László Nemes for their hard work.

To the Beracha Foundation for their generous donation of the Lab’s prizes.

To our partners and supporters The Jerusalem Film and Television Fund at the Jerusalem Development Authority, Israel National Lottery Fund, the Sam Spiegel Estate, the Jerusalem Municipality, the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Israel Film Fund and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

To the dedicated script editors Clare Downs, Jacques Akchoti and Avi Nesher.

To our tireless scouts Isabelle Fauvel and Matthieu Darras.

To the group of select decision makers who believe in the Lab’s work and To the 2015 participants and producers who worked intensively during the past 7 months to write and re-write FILMS THAT MUST BE MADE.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs

NEWS

Gitai’s Rabin film eyes fest path

By Matt Mueller

Three Days And A Child

Realworks to restore classic Israeli cinema

By Tom Grater

After founding production company Realworks Studios in 2006, director and producer Vanessa Lapa is now running the first and only film restoration facility in Israel. The company has been working with Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli film archive on several projects, including a restoration of The Hope (1956), the first Israeli colour film, and black-andwhite feature Tent City (1961).

The Cinematheque is currently raising funds to restore both films to their full length. This year’s festival will also see a presentation of a digital restoration of Uri Zohar’s classic Israeli film Three Days And A Child, based on a short story by AB Yehoshua.

The film screens at the festival on July 14 as part of a tribute to cinematographer David Gurfinkel, with guests including members of the film’s original production team and cast, and Gurfinkel himself.

“In the film industry you always have something to restore and it’s very important to have restoration in Israel,” said Lapa, adding that more than 50% of the films made in the country before 1950 have been lost.

Critics laud quality output At a Sunday panel discussion, international critics from Hungary, the UK, Denmark and Germany were lavish in their praise of recent Israeli cinema while expressing concern it is not promoted effectively overseas.

The Kindergarten Teacher, Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem and The Band’s Visit were singled out for particular praise.

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Ahead of his Monday masterclass here at Jerusalem Film Festival, Israeli film-maker Amos Gitai sat down with Screen to discuss his upcoming Yitzhak Rabin feature, now titled The Last Day. Currently putting the final touches to the film, which he shot in February in Tel Aviv, Gitai is waiting to hear from one of the major autumn festivals about a programming berth.

“We will know by the end of the month,” he said. “We’ve been showing the film without the final mix and the reactions have been very strong. I’m really discovering how much he meant to so many people in many different countries.

“Israeli society is still feeling the shockwaves of his killing even if it’s already 20 years ago,” he

added. “It’s an open wound and looking at the current situation in the Middle East, there is a big longing, even if it’s under the surface, for somebody like him who had a very open-minded way of talking to the other side. In order to make peace, there cannot be real acrimony.”

Calling it his most “substantial” project since Kippur, Gitai has focused The Last Day on various characters, from security agents to political advisers to religious extremists, leading up to the Tel Aviv rally where the prime minister was murdered by Jewish law student Yigal Amir; the film also looks at the Shamgar Commission of Inquiry that followed the assassination. Gitai has mixed fictional scenes with newsreel and

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amateur footage and cast 70 speaking roles, with actors including Yael Abecassis, Yogev Yefet, Miki Varshaviak, Mali Levy, Liron Levo and Tomer Sisley. Eric Gautier was director of photography.

“It’s a portrait of Israeli society at that time and a lot of the figures are still active today,” said Gitai, adding that while Amir will be a

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character in the film, “I don’t want to fetishise him and anyway he’s just ‘the gun’. I’m dealing much more with the incitement to kill Rabin, which was done by many corners of Israeli society who were interested in eliminating Rabin as a figure — some directly, some less directly. This was the material of the investigation commission.”

The Last Days is an IsraelFrance-Italy co-production between United King Films, Canal Plus, Rai Cinema, the Rabinovich Foundation and the Centre National du Cinéma.

The Israeli distributor United King is eyeing an October or early November release for The Last Day, tied to the 20th anniversary of Rabin’s murder on November 4, 1995.

Sawalha runs with Sport

By Melanie Goodfellow

Festival director Noa Regev and Beki Probst, president of Berlin’s European Film Market, greet each other at the German film reception on Sunday. Hosted by German Films and FFF Bayern at the Cinematheque, the event was also attended by Berlin festival director Dieter Kosslick, independent film producer Ira Deutchman, Fortissimo Films managing director Nelleke Driessen and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg general director Kirsten Niehuus.

Eitan Gafny talks up White Beach trio

By Tom Grater

Director Eitan Gafny, whose Children Of The Fall is screening July 14 as a work-in-progress at the Pitch Point event as it seeks funding to complete post-production, has his sights on three feature projects with White Beach Productions, the company he set up with wife and actress Yafit Shalev and cinematographer Tom Goldwasser.

Thriller Haven is the story of a German couple travelling with a

Bedouin tribe in Egypt. Drama A-Pnoia, No Air follows a mute Israeli mother as she pursues a career as a diving instructor. And Beyond The Walls, a near-future fantasy horror, chronicles an IDF soldier who unearths ancient evils at a military base on the IsraelSyria-Lebanon border.

Speaking to Screen about the projects, Gafny said: “They are ready for pre-production. We are beginning to work on fund-raising

and looking for co-production markets.”

Gafny’s 2013 debut feature Cannon Fodder was a rare entry in the Israeli horror genre. His Pitch Point work-in-progress Children Of The Fall, about a zombie attack on the eve of the 1973 Yom Kippur war, is headed by Aki Avni, whose credits include Joseph Cedar’s Time Of Favor, while the Hollywood actor Michael Ironside also makes a guest appearance.

Palestinian Olympic runner Woroud Sawalha is expected at Jerusalem Film Festival on Tuesday for the premiere of collective film Sport, an Israeli-Palestinian project featuring short documentaries and fiction films capturing Palestinian sporting endeavours in Israel and the West Bank.

Sawalha, who represented Palestine at the London Olympics in 2012 and the World Championships in Turkey, is the subject of a short documentary by Palestinian director Ahmad Barghouti, entitled Woroud, about her gruelling training sessions in and around her home city of Nablus and role as a symbol of freedom.

Spearheaded by Yael Perlov of Tel Aviv University, Sport follows on from the 2012 collective film Water, which premiered at Venice.

“Sport is the same idea as Water. It is a mixture of young Israeli and Palestinian film-makers,” said Perlov. “Young Israelis can be quite indifferent to the conflict and it is becoming more and more difficult for young Israelis to come into contact with Palestinians.”

Tel Aviv-based Kobi Mizrahi is co-producing the project alongside Edgard Tenembaum of Parisbased Tu Va Voir Productions.

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SPOTLIGHT AMY

A fine balance Director Asif Kapadia and producer James Gay-Rees tell Matt Mueller about the challenges of crafting their illuminating doc about Amy Winehouse

‘Amy felt like someone I could have gone to school with’

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rom any film-maker’s perspective, trying to encapsulate a life as brilliant but troubled as Amy Winehouse’s in a two-hour documentary was always going to be daunting. But with Amy, director Asif Kapadia and producer James Gay-Rees have assembled an intimate, revealing and at times painful-to-watch portrait of one of the most famous women on the planet, who died at the age of 27 of alcohol poisoning.

In the wake of Senna, his acclaimed documentary about Brazilian Formula One champion Ayrton Senna, UK director Kapadia had fielded offers to make more documentaries about major sporting figures but was drawn to Winehouse’s tragic tale when he realised she came from his own north London neighbourhood. “Senna came from another universe but Amy felt like someone I could have gone to school with,” he says. “It became personal for me because Amy the more research I did, the more

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I realised that she had lived just down the road from me.”

While not an especially big fan of Winehouse’s music going in, Kapadia resolved that the spine of Amy should be her songs and lyrics. Since the film came fully financed

by Universal Music Group, owner of the singer’s catalogue, he had free rein to use her music, including previously unheard material. “It was almost my version of doing a Bollywood film,” he muses, “where the songs created the narrative and we had to find a way to link these very personal songs.”

As in Senna, Kapadia forgoes talking-head chats, instead piecing together Winehouse’s story through archive footage and voiceover interviews with an array of friends, family, former partners and music industry professionals. While much of the footage derives from media appearances, studio sessions

‘It was almost my version of doing a Bollywood film, where the songs created the narrative’ Asif Kapadia

and concerts, the most compelling are private videos supplied by family and friends, which to start with reveal a bright, talented, witty girl before the twin burdens of fame and addiction began to take their toll.

One feat Kapadia and Gay-Rees pulled off with Amy was managing to convince every key figure in Winehouse’s life to go on the record. “Nobody wanted to be involved in this movie,” admits Gay-Rees. “It was a delicate process that required a lot of managing.

Sometimes, it was about saying, ‘Listen, if you don’t put your side of the story, it’s not going to be in the movie.’”

Adds Kapadia: “My job as a director came in earning the trust of people who had never spoken before, who had been carrying this trauma of what happened to her, and getting them to open up.”

Back in black Conducting around 100 interviews, Kapadia’s process was methodical. He would sit with each person in a sound studio and dim the lights, or sometimes turn them off altogether, in order to help them feel comfortable sharing their stories. “I wasn’t going to be showing them in the film so we didn’t need to see them either,” he says. “Everybody would break down at some point. The whole process was a form of therapy for people to get off their chest what they had been privately carrying.”

His mission became messianic, too, about showing ‘the real Amy’. As Kapadia notes, even seasoned entertainment professionals seemed to have formed negative opinions of Winehouse based solely on the seemingly vindictive portrayals of the troubled, vulnerable singer by some media. “One person looked me in the eye and said, ‘Why do you want to make a film about a junkie?’,” the director reveals. “I thought, ‘How can you form that opinion so decisively about someone you never met?’ That’s why I had to make this film, because people like that have this opinion about someone who was only a kid.”

From an initial assembly that ran several hours, Kapadia and his editor Chris King began to hone down the story, working out where the holes were and what they needed to fill them. Participants were asked to return for second, third and sometimes fourth interviews, with Kapadia’s interrogation becoming more pointed each time. Inevitably, some figures end up coming off in less flattering terms than others, not least Winehouse’s father, Mitch, who accused the film-makers of trying to show him “in the worst possible light” before the film’s Cannes world premiere.

Countering Mitch’s claims, Kapadia says, “There are a lot of people who made a lot of decisions that maybe weren’t the best for Amy, including herself. The film had to be as honest as we could make it. The person who comes out of it amazingly is Amy and she’s s the one I’m interested in.” ■ » See review, page 8

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Evgeny Ruman Interview

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sraeli director Evgeny Ruman’s second film The Man In The Wall, revolving around the disappearance of a man who fails to return home after walking his dog, was shot on a budget of $100,000 in a Tel Aviv apartment in just six days.

The film, which gets its Israeli premiere in the Haggiag competition for feature films on Tuesday, plays out over one night. As the missing man’s wife Shir frets about his whereabouts, friends, neighbours and police investigators flock to their flat. With each visit, a picture of the couple’s complex, and not always happy, relationship starts to emerge.

Ruman says self-imposed budgetary constraints were at the heart of the structure and aesthetic of the film. “I wanted to do something affordable. I know how long it can take to finance a film and I didn’t want to wait,” he says. “I’d had this idea, about a person who just disappears into thin air without any logical explanation, for a while.

“I tried taking it in a number of directions but somehow the decision to do something simple, and set very strict boundaries, freed me up and helped bring the story to life,” he adds.

These “boundaries” comprised setting the story in one apartment over the course of one night and dividing up the action into 12 oneshot scenes. “I wrote the film in 12 days,” reveals Rumen. “The last draft, which became the movie, isn’t that different from the first one. Even if I’d been given $100m to play with, I honestly think the movie wouldn’t have changed much. It was conceived as a low-budget movie.”

Casting call Ruman pulled together a young cast led by Tamar Alkan, a member of Jerusalem Khan Theatre troupe, who was previously seen on screen in Dan Wolman’s Valley Of Strength and has also played roles including the late human rights activist Rachel Corrie, in My Name Is Rachel Corrie, on stage.

“I ended up casting a lot of theatre actors because they’re much better at carrying 10-minute scenes without breaks,” says

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Main picture and inset: The Man In The Wall

Climbing the walls Israeli director Evgeny Ruman tells Melanie Goodfellow about shooting his second feature, The Man In The Wall, over six days in one apartment Ruman. “I only did one rehearsal for each scene. I didn’t want them to over-rehearse.

When I was a student I had this bad experience when I over-rehearsed something until it was perfect and it completely backfired. I wanted to leave some space. I wanted the actors to be alert.”

In a bid to heighten the claustrophobic atmosphere of the film, Ruman and cinematographer Ziv Berkovich created a special camera for the shoot that was strapped to the operator’s body.

“To pan in or follow the movement, the cameraman had to move too,” he says. “The idea was to make the audience closer to the action, to feel like they too were spending the night in the apartment, listening to the secrets enclosed in its four walls.”

Ruman describes Berkovich as integral to the project: “We’ve been friends and worked together for a long time. He was my co-creator on this movie. We’ve talked for a couple of years about this project. He loves challenges, and this film was a big challenge. He was always my first choice.”

Citing Steven Soderbergh and Richard

‘Even if I’d been given $100m to play with, I honestly think the movie wouldn’t have changed much’ Evgeny Ruman

Linklater as career inspirations, Ruman admits he has eclectic aspirations as a director. “I really adore Soderbergh and Linklater for doing such different movies,” says the film-maker. “Unfortunately or luckily, I’m very eclectic as a viewer. I like everything from Hollywood comedies to black-andwhite, three-and-a-half-hour eastern European movies. I also watched a lot of Soviet cinema growing up.”

Ruman moved to Israel from Belarus in the 1990s at the age of 11, and his filmography bears testament to his varied tastes.

While The Man In The Wall is a taut genrestyle, psychological drama, his debut feature Igor & The Cranes’ Journey was a live-action fantasy tale about an estranged father and son brought together by a lost baby crane.

Since completing The Man In The Wall, Ruman has also shot Ruby Strangelove Young Witch, a family musical about a young sorceress.

He is currently developing a contemporary comedy of morals, in the vein of a Woody Allen film, that looks set to take him in a s completely different direction. n

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The Cantor And The Sea

Latchkey Kids

Six Lines

Semper Idem

Warm Snow

Frozen

Short and perfectly formed Jerusalem Film Festival has narrowed the selection for its Israeli short film competition to focus on quality as it is now an official pit stop on the road to the Oscars. Tom Grater reports

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or Israeli short-filmmakers with work at Jerusalem Film Festival (JFF), the stakes are higher than ever this year. For the first time, the festival’s short-film programme will act as an official platform for the Academy Awards, with the overall winner automatically entered into consideration for the three short-film categories at the Oscars.

“We are happy and proud to be a festival booster for the Academy,” says Erez Barenholtz, head of Israeli competitions at JFF. According to JFF artistic director Elad Samorzik, the Academy’s decision to give the competition the “Oscar stamp” has made it “more attractive and prestigious”.

Samorzik hopes the presence of this qualification process will help to “expose and promote Israeli films through the Oscar platform”.

“It affected us when we chose the films. We wanted more ‘complete’ films with more quality,” Barenholtz says.

Indeed, from an initial 180 submissions from Israel’s 16 film schools, just

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16 have been selected, 11 fewer than last year.

The competition this year is more focused, says Barenholtz. “The selection committee had longer discussions about the films.”

Among the various subject matters highlighted in this year’s crop are depictions of economic relations between Israel and the West Bank, challenging family lives affected by disabilities and Israeli neo-Nazi gangs.

“They’re films that someone outside of Israel can see and feel something about Israel, about our reality,” Barenholtz suggests. “Our reality in Israel is very special and intense.”

Prizes are awarded to best short film, best short documentary, best short animation and best short-film director.

Nineteen international short films are screening out of competition this year, 14 from the European Film Academy’s Short Matters! programme. The remaining five are the 2015 Oscar nominees for live-action short film, including Israeli film Aya and the winning short The Phone Call from UK director Mat Kirkby.

Several of the directors

‘They’re films that someone outside of Israel can see and feel something about Israel, about our reality’ Erez Barenholtz, JFF

(Left) Mazal Means Luck

featured in this year’s international shorts programme have recently graduated to features, including Kirkby who is developing three different projects. UK director Michael Lennon, whose Boogaloo And Graham is screening here, has just finished his debut feature A Patch Of Fog. Stephen Graham, Conleth Hill, Arsher Ali and Ian McElhinney star in the film, which has been backed by Ingenious Media and Northern Ireland Screen.

Dutch film-maker Morgan Knibbe, whose short Shipwreck features in Short Matters!, has made documentary drama Those Who Feel The Fire Burning, which has screened at both the Amsterdam and Munich international documentary festivals.

A further seven Israeli short films have been programmed for the Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards, part of the Intersections programme that provides a less conventional strand to the festival.

“The motive is to break borders between art and cinema,” says Lea Mauas, who runs the experimental section. “It’s about challenging the way we’re used to thinking.”

There is also a spotlight on US experimental film-maker Phil Solomon, with the festival screening five of his short films, as well as an exhibition titled Archaeology in Reverse s showing several of his video installations. ■

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SHORT FILMS SPOTLIGHT

THE LINE-UP ISRAELI SHORT-FILM COMPETITION

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The Fine Line

CPH 18mins Dir Eitan Sarid Souroujon. Tel Aviv University Jona travels from Israel to Copenhagen in search of an old friend with whom he has lost contact.

The Cantor And The Sea 24mins Dir Yehonatan Indursky. Pie Films A 50-year-old ultra-Orthodox cantor, the leader of prayer and singing at a synagogue, battles with stage fright.

Eli

Einav A, Einav B

Dirty Business 15mins Dir Vadim Dumesh. Independent Dirty Business documents the coal industry in Israel and the West Bank.

Einav A, Einav B 22mins Dir Hadas Lerner. Ariel University School of Communication

In The Tall Grass

A documentary about Einav, a teenager and her family coping with attention deficit disorder.

Eli 7mins Dirs Sagi Alter, Reut Elad. Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design A surreal animation about a day in the life of a serving Israeli soldier, who is given chase by a boy dressed as a rabbit.

Line Of Grace

In The Tall Grass 8mins Dirs Alexii Muftoll, Nadia Dubijansky. Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Horror animation about an isolated boy battling his inner demons in an attempt to co-exist normally with those around him.

The Fine Line 26mins Dir Dana Lerer. Tel Aviv University

InSight 9mins Dirs Elad Ayzen, Gil Leron, Shahar Madmon. Sapir College

A young actress finds the line between acting and reality becomes blurred while filming an intimate scene.

This follow-up to Second World War. Third Generation is an animation about the relationship between a young couple.

Frozen 10mins

Latchkey Kids 20mins

Dir Rotem Most. Minshar School of Art

Dir Elad Goldman. Tel Aviv University InSight

A girl longs for her absent father.

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Two siblings, sheltered by rou-

Dirty Business

Ten Buildings Away

tine, wrestle with the concept of leaving home — and each other.

dog, until the real meaning of his story becomes clear.

Line Of Grace 32mins Dir Rotem Kapelinsky.

Independent

Six Lines 18mins

A young Thai woman struggles to survive in modern-day Israel.

A member of a neo-Nazi gang faces the moral fall-out from the torture of an innocent man.

Dir Igor Raizberg. Minshar School of Art

Mazal Means Luck 29mins Dir Mazal Ben Yishai. The Ma’aleh School of Television, Film & the Arts

Ten Buildings Away 25mins Dir Miki Polonski. Minshar School of Art

The director turns the camera on his parents, and the uncertain future facing an ageing couple living with special needs.

Polonski’s debut short film about an Israeli family was selected for Cannes’ Cinefondation this year.

Semper Idem 14mins Dir Nachman Picovsky. Sam Spiegel Film & Television School

Warm Snow 5mins Dir Ira Elshansky. Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

A man is obsessed with telling latenight taxi drivers the tragic story of his

Animated short about the relationship between a father and his daughter.

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Songs My Brothers Taught Me Reviewed by Dan Fainaru

Amy Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy tells the sad and, it would appear, inevitably tragic story of the late jazz singer Amy Winehouse framed entirely through archive footage (much in the same style as Senna, which was made by the same team). Scores of interviews add a voiceover narration that cumulatively rescues Winehouse from her sorry fate as a paparazzi footnote — dead at 27 from alcohol poisoning after a long and public battle with drug addiction, devoured by the media and her own demons.

No talking heads detract from Winehouse’s story throughout the film’s 123-minute running time; Kapadia aims to shine some love on the musician, and a good deal of direct light into what happened to the tiny Jewish girl from north London with the pure jazz voice. It’s uneasy viewing — a cautionary tale.

Amy is the product of a media age, with seemingly endless footage of varying quality (mobile-phone clips included) made available for an enormous research and editing task. The picture they paint is often shocking — how completely Winehouse unravelled and the squalor of her addiction, although perhaps the biggest surprise is how she survived for so long in that condition. Also alarming is the extent of the conflicted roles played by Amy’s manager and family. But the film also shows Winehouse as she once was before she became a tabloid caricature: mouthy and challenging and endowed with a vast, natural talent. Deeply troubled, she is revealed to have suffered from depression and bulimia throughout her short life. She was also possessed by a prodigious appetite for hard drugs, booze and the wrong kind of man.

Kapadia and his team interviewed more than 100 people in their endeavour. Amy is clearly a mammoth archive and editing task and a true film-making partnership between Kapadia, his editor Chris King and producer James Gay-Rees, who all worked together on Senna, with Antonio Pinto providing a sympathetic score. It seems as if they all fell a little bit in love with Winehouse along the way, and encourage the viewer to do the same. It’s hard not to.

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Gala UK. 2015. 123mins Director Asif Kapadia Production company On The Corner Film International sales Cornerstone Films, office@ cornerstonefilm.com Producer James Gay-Rees Executive producers David Joseph, Adam Barker Editor Chris King Music Antonio Pinto Archive producer Paul Bell Featuring Blake FielderCivil, Andrew Morris, Darcus Beese, Janis Winehouse, Juliette Ashby, Mark Ronson, Mitch Winehouse, Nick Gatfield, Pete Doherty, Salaam Remi, Tony Bennett

Shot on a South Dakota reservation with a cast consisting almost entirely of Lakota Indians, Chloé Zhao’s debut feature is a painfully authentic series of flash portraits detailing yet another failed attempt to break out of a socially vicious circle. Songs My Brother Taught Me is undertaken in a truly free spirit — which much independent cinema seems to have lost — and the script was reworked time and again during the shoot. It may not qualify as an entertainment in the fullest sense of the word, but it is an edifying picture of social stagnation at its saddest.

Johnny (John Reddy) is about to graduate high school, and plans with his girlfriend Aurelia (Taysha Fuller) to leave the Pine Ridge Reservation for life in Los Angeles. She will go to college, he will find some work or maybe become a boxer, as he has always dreamed. But when his father, who happens to have sired half the kids on the reservation, having impregnated no fewer than nine different women before getting married, dies in a fire, Johnny has to deal with the mournful look in the eyes of his lively 12-year-old sister Jashuan (a winning performance by little Jashuan St John), who cannot stand the idea of sharing her brother with an older girl and even worse, allow him to leave with her.

This is the narrative trickle around which Zhao embroiders a series of episodes, featuring harsh realism and poetic use of landscape. Joined together, these offer an indelible image of a self-destructive society, stuck in the middle of nowhere, fully conscious of its own impotence and yet unable to even formulate the idea of becoming something better than all the earlier generations.

Zhao, the China-born, US-educated film-maker who lived for four years on the reservation before shooting her picture, says she tried to understand what keeps these people stuck in the same place, accepting the fate they have been dealt. Her film, though it offers options for political, cultural, sociological, religious and anthropological debate, may not give any answers. Instead it becomes a kind of documentary report on things that should be inadmissible in the modern world, and yet exist, in one shape or another, everywhere.

Debuts US. 2015. 94mins Director Chloé Zhao Production company Significant Productions International sales Fortissimo Films, info@ fortissimo.ne Producers Chloé Zhao, Angela Lee, Molly Asher, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker Cinematography Joshua James Richards Editor Alan Canant Music Peter Golub Main cast John Reddy, Jashaun St John, Taysha Fuller, Eléonore Hendricks, Travis Lone Hill, Cat Clifford, Irene Bedard

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Knight Of Cups Reviewed by Mark Adams

My Golden Years Reviewed by Lisa Nesselson A Frencher-than-French tale of deeply anchored yet partially thwarted romance, Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Years is touching, involving and very well acted. When anthropologist Paul Dedalus (Mathieu Amalric) returns to France from Tajikistan after years in the field, he is taken into custody at the airport. In an interrogation room, Paul tells his life story to a government official (André Dussollier). And what a story it turns out to be.

Divided into a prologue, three chapters and an epilogue, it skips around in time to evoke distant locations including Soviet-era Minsk, Paris in the 1980s and ’90s, and Desplechin’s native Roubaix, some 200km to the north of Paris but, in its own way, a slightly foreign country.

Newcomer Quentin Dolmaire — who plays the teen and young adult Paul with just enough of Amalric’s mannerisms and vocal cadences — makes a stunning debut, as does Lou Roy-Lecollinet as his girlfriend Esther.

As a youngster, Paul and his brother and sister are terrorised by their mother. Paul exiles himself to the house his aunt Rose (glorious veteran Francoise Lebrun) shares with another woman. As a student in Paris, Paul bounces around from hostels to the couches of generous strangers.

But on a trip back to Roubaix, Paul, now aged 19, admits his attraction to his sister’s 16-year-old classmate, Esther, who knows exactly what effect she has on men. The bulk of the film follows their urgent need to be together and — mostly financial — necessity of being apart that characterises the romance over the years. While true to Paul in her fashion, Esther proves accommodating to other suitors.

The movie is a free-standing venture, although Amalric also played a character named Paul Dedalus long involved with a character named Esther (Emmanuelle Devos, then) in 1996’s My Sex Life… Or How I Got Into An Argument and there are insights and flourishes for followers of Desplechin.

While the depiction of young love is universal, there are some very French touches, including working-class girls who study Plato in the original Greek, a couple who accept their 16-year-old daughter is having sex, and a father who doesn’t mind that it takes place in his own bed.

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Masters Fr. 2015. 124mins Director Arnaud Desplechin Production companies Why Not Productions, France 2 Cinema International sales Wild Bunch, obarbier@ wildbunch.eu Producer Why Not Productions Screenplay Arnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr Cinematography Irina Lubtchansky Editor Laurence Briaud Production design Toma Baqueni Music Grégoire Hetzel Main cast Quentin Dolmaire, Lou RoyLecollinet, Mathieu Amalric, Dinara Drukarova, Francoise Lebrun, Olivier Rabourdin, Pierre Andrau, Eve Doe-Bruce, André Dussollier

A tormented hero searching for meaning in life, accompanied by a meandering voiceover, beautiful visuals and more than a hint of existential crisis and pondering of one’s place in the universe. Yes indeed — welcome to that now familiar refrain of a Terrence Malick film, and this time one grounded in that most surreal of real worlds, a chunk of Santa Monica peopled by movie stars, models and other members of the ‘beautiful’ Hollywood elite.

Knight Of Cups is an elegant and strikingly shot film that revels in a series of wonderfully filmed locations, from beaches to deserts and from hedonistic parties through to intimate encounters; it will likely enrapture fans of Malick’s very individual style. An inordinately good-looking cast, most of whom are dressed in the coolest of designer wear, will help marketing impact, and while this time round the story is pretty easy to follow, it may annoy some with its rather casual sexism.

The title Knight Of Cups comes from the character in a tarot pack of cards and from — in the film at least — a Chaucerian-style story about a young prince whose father had sent him to find a pearl, but who had been distracted in his quest, forgotten who he was and what he was searching for, and fallen into a deep sleep.

The prince here is Armani-suited Hollywood comedy screenwriter Rick (Christian Bale), who longs for something, without knowing quite what it is or how to find it, and despite wealth, looks and success doesn’t quite know which way to turn. The Knight of Cups is an artist, a romantic and an adventurer, but also a tormented soul searching for meaning.

Perhaps Santa Monica is the wrong place for a spiritual quest, but this knight finds solace, distraction and hints about how he should and could embark on a new direction in his encounters with a series of beautiful women. These include flighty Della (Imogen Poots), doctor Nancy (Cate Blanchett) to whom Rick was once wed, mannered model Helen (Freida Pinto), married Elizabeth (Natalie Portman), stripper Karen (Teresa Palmer) and Isabel (Isabel Lucas), a young woman who may ultimately show him the way forward.

Masters US. 2015. 118mins Director/screenplay Terrence Malick Production companies Tugg, Brace Cove, Waypoint Entertainment International sales FilmNation Entertainment, info@wearefilmnation.com Producers Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Ken Kao Executive producers Glen Basner, Tanner Beard Co-executive producer Christos V Konstantakopoulos Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Editors Geoffrey Richman, Keith Fraase, AJ Edwards Production designer Jack Fisk Music Hanan Townshend Main cast Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Brian Dennehy, Wes Bentley, Freida Pinto, Imogen Poots, Antonio Banderas, Teresa Palmer, Isabel Lucas

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Virgin Mountain Reviewed by Dan Fainaru

The Diary Of A Teenage Girl Reviewed by Lee Marshall If The Diary Of A Teenage Girl sounds like the title of a 1970s sex movie, the joke is: it is. But not in the cheesy, exploitative way you might think. Based on Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel of the same name, Marielle Heller’s exhilarating feature debut is about a 15-year old girl in mid-1970s San Francisco for whom sex — with her mother’s boyfriend, no less — is something really quite wonderful: part of a heady though confusing coming of age that sometimes blows her off course, but will eventually lead to maturity and empowerment.

Potential viewers may well be sceptical that any film could spin delight out of an experience that, today, would be classified as statutory rape, but Diary does — and not just by reminding us that this was another time, another place. It embraces its shock factor with open, feminist arms, making Minnie the instigator and gleeful, hungry pilot of her sexual awakening. Her lust is shown to be something joyful, something no teenage girl should be ashamed of. As you watch, it dawns on you that, absurdly, this has probably never been attempted before in a commercial feature — certainly not in this frank, unapologetic way.

But the film also succeeds thanks to the casting and the complex chemistry between young UK actress Bel Powley, who gives a breakout performance as the film’s titular teenage girl, Minnie Goetze, and Alexander Skarsgard, playing likeable, sideburned rake Monroe as a man who, far from being a creepy predator, is surprised (though aroused) by Minnie’s come-ons and never quite sure about the ethics of what he lets himself get into.

The film’s other great pleasure is its colourful, affectionate and caustically accurate portrait of San Francisco circa 1976-77. It’s a meeting of two tectonic plates: the Haight-Ashbury generation represented by Minnie’s sexually liberated mother, played by Kristen Wiig as a perky, flirtatious feminist and sexual libertarian brought up short when her daughter outdoes her in those departments, and Minnie’s own generation, in which sexual freedom and drug use is starting to take on darker connotations, but which is also marking its distance from those hippy parents.

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Gala US. 2014. 102mins Director/screenplay Marielle Heller Production companies Archer Gray, Caviar, Cold Iron Pictures US distribution Sony Pictures Classics International sales K5 International, info@ k5international.com Producers Anne Carey, Bert Hamelinck, Madeline Samit, Miranda Bailey Executive producers Michael Sagol, Amanda Marshall, Jorma Taccone, Amy Nauiokas Screenplay Marielle Heller (based on the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner) Cinematography Brandon Trost Editor Marie-Hélene Dozo, Koen Timmerman Production designer Jonah Markowitz Music Nate Heller Main cast Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard, Kristen Wiig, Madeleine Waters, Christopher Meloni, Abby Wait

Believe it or not, the title does not refer to a specific geographical site but to a very specific human being. The man is vastly overweight, dishevelled, in his forties, terribly shy and introverted, still living with his mother and working on the ground crew of a nearby airport. He plays at home with toy soldiers and meticulously reconstructs the battle of El Alamein. He is a giant but a kid at heart, with the man waiting for a chance to come out.

Such is Fusi (Gunnar Jonsson), the hero of Dagur Kari’s endearing romantic comedy, a belated coming-ofage story with just the right touch of melancholy to make it all the more plausible.

A loner whose only friend is a neighbour who shares his fondness for Second World War battles, Fusi is often the butt of jokes at work but would rather endure his colleagues’ cruel practical jokes than complain. When a little girl downstairs befriends him, her newly divorced father goes straight to the police. Fusi’s only solace is sitting in his van, at night, phoning in requests for heavy metal songs on the local radio show or having a Thai dinner on Friday nights, always ordering the same dish, never taking chances.

But sooner or later, something is bound to happen.

His domineering mother has an affair and her lecherous new boyfriend offers Fusi a free coupon for a dance school. There he meets Sjofn (Ilmur Kristjansdottir), a friendly young woman who turns out to have a load of personal problems as well. The encounter between these two lonely souls leads to an unlikely affair.

Dagur Kari, true to his brand of humour, keeps it all simple and straightforward. Emotions are suggested rather than declared, the characters, the background and — most importantly — the unobtrusive choice of camera angles and direction allow the story to flow freely, naturally and credibly. Gunnar Jonsson as Fusi doesn’t take a wrong step — the part seems tailor-made for him, his performance conveying, without any apparent effort, the gamut of emotions as he moves belatedly from adolescence to early maturity.

Panorama Ice-Den. 2015. 94mins Director/screenplay Dagur Kari Production companies RVK Studios, Nimbus Film International sales BAC Films Distribution, sales@bacfilms.fr Producers Baltasar Kormakur, Agnes Johansen Cinematography Rasmus Videbaek Editors Andri Steinn Gudjonsson, Olivier Bugge Coutté, Dagur Kari Petursson Production designer Halfdan Pedersen Music Slowblow Main cast Gunnar Jonsson, Ilmur Kristjansdottir, Sigurjon Kjartansson, Franziska Una Dagsdottir

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Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce, Krysten Ritter, Josephine de La Baume.

Philip is awaiting the publication of his second novel. He is tired of the big city and his deteriorating relationship. When a successful writer offers the use of his summer home, Philip hopes to find the peace and quiet he requires.

Tuesday July 14 10:00 Paper Planes

(Australia) Arclight Films. 96mins. Dir: Robert Connolly. Key cast: Ed Oxenbould, Sam Worthington.

A moving family film about an Australian boy with a passion for aviation who sets himself a challenge: to enter the world championship for flying paper planes, held in Tokyo, and compete against children from all over the world.

Gala Cinematheque 1

Tuesday 16:00 The Diplomat

(US) Ro*co Films.

104mins. Dir: David Holbrooke.

A portrait of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, a senior American diplomat who played a vital role in setting US foreign policy for five decades.

JFF Kids Cinematheque 1

Three Windows and a Hanging

(Germany/Kosovo) EZ Films. 80mins. Dir: Isa Qosja. Key cast: Irena Cahani, Luan Jaha, Donat Qosja.

In a small Kosovar village, one year after the war, a schoolteacher tells a foreign reporter that she and three other women were raped by Serbian soldiers.

Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 2

Tuesday 10:15

Tuesday July 14 13:30 Jauja

(Denmark/US/ Argentina/Mexico/ Netherlands/Germany/ France) NDM. 108mins. Dir: Lisandro Alonso. Key cast: Viggo Mortensen, Viilbjork Malling Agger,

Ghita Norby, Esteban Bigliardi.

The story of a Danish general stationed in Patagonia with his daughter. When she runs off with a soldier, he sets out in search of them.

Panorama Cinematheque 1

The Pearl Button

(France/Spain/Chile) Pyramide International.

82mins. Dir: Patricio Guzman.

Patricio Guzman, one of the great documentary film-makers of his generation, deals with difficult and painful chapters in Chilean history, through one of the key natural resources of his homeland — water.

Winner of best script prize at the Berlinale.

Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 3

Tuesday 11:00 Queen of Earth

(US) Match Factory.

90mins. Dir: Alex Ross Perry. Key cast: Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Patrick Fugit, Kentucker Audley.

Catherine (Elisabeth Moss) is dealing with the death of her father and recent breakup with her

boyfriend. She pays a visit to her good friend, but overwhelmed by memories, she sinks into delusion.

Panorama Lev Smadar

Tuesday 12:00 3½ Minutes, ten bullets

(US) Dogwoof. 98mins.

Dir: Marc Silver.

In 2012, at a Florida gas station, a white man fired 10 bullets at a car. Three of the bullets hit a 17-yearold, who died on the spot.

The assailant claimed self-defence, leading to an intense investigation. A Sundance award-winning documentary.

It examines the events surrounding the kidnap and murder of three Israeli teenagers in summer 2014 and how the tragedy affected their families.

Jewish Experience Cinematheque 1

Tuesday 12:15 Shaun the Sheep Movie

Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 2

(France/UK) Forum Film. 85mins. Dir: Mark Burton, Richard Starzak.

When Shaun decides to take the day off, he gets a little more than he bargained for. A terrible mistake brings him and his flock to the city. A delightful animated masterpiece by the creators of Wallace and Gromit.

Our Boys

JFF Kids Cinematheque 3

(US/Israel) Moriah Films. 40mins. Dir: Richard Trank.

Our Boys is Moriah Films’ 14th documentary.

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Dir: Shawn Christensen.

Key cast: Fatima Ptacek, Shawn Christensen, Paul Wesley, Emmy Rossum, Ron Perlman.

At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his sister, asking him to look after Sophia, his 11-year-old niece. Thus begins a surreal night’s journey of two completely different characters. An adaptation of the Academy Award-winning short Curfew.

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Tuesday 13:30 Jauja See box, above

Tuesday 14:00 Songs my Brothers Taught me

Before I Disappear

(US) Fortissimo. 94mins.

Dir: Chloe Zhao. Key cast: John Reddy, Jashaun St John, Irene Bedard, Taysha Fuller, Cat Clifford, Travis Lone Hill, Eleonore Hendricks.

Chloe Zhao’s beautiful debut presents the story of two siblings who go their separate paths. A fascinating portrait of modern life in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota.

(US) Fuzzy Logic Pictures. 97mins.

Debuts Cinematheque 2

Tuesday 13:00

Strung Out

(Israel) MoviePlus.

110mins. Dir: Nirit Aharoni.

This film tells the story of a group of young women living on the streets, victims of heroin and prostitution. Robbed of their childhoods, they find themselves trapped in a spiral of addiction that too often leads to death.

Israeli Docs Cinematheque 3

Tuesday 15:00 May Allah Bless France!

(France) Films Distribution. 96mins.

Dir: Abd Al Malik. Key cast: Marc Zinga, Sabrina Ouazani, Larouci Didi, Mickael Nagenraft, Matteo Falkone, Stephane Fayette-Mikano.

Teenaged Malik excels at school, while picking pockets and selling drugs. A starkly beautiful cinematic work combining rap music and a universal message of religious co-existence.

Spirit of Freedom Lev Smadar

Tuesday 15:45 Listen Up Philip

(US) Match Factory.

108mins. Dir: Alex Ross Perry. Key cast: Jason

JFF Docs Cinematheque 2

Tuesday 16:30 Three Days and a Child

(Israel) 90mins. Dir: Uri Zohar. Key cast: Oded Kotler, Judith Solé, Germaine Unikovsky, Illi Gorlitzky, Misha Asherov, Shai Asherov.

A young man’s broken heart leads him to leave his kibbutz for Jerusalem.

But then his beloved and her husband arrive and leave their son in his care.

JFF Classics Cinematheque 3

Tuesday 17:00 The President

(France/Germany/UK/ Georgia) BAC Films.

105mins. Dir: Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Key cast: Misha Gomiashvili, Dachi Orvelashvili.

When a tyrannical president is overthrown by a sudden uprising, the dictator is turned into a fugitive. He and his grandson escape disguised as commoners and witness all of the suffering and hardships caused by their regime. A fascinating allegorical drama by Iranian master Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

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winning series Shtisel, which tells stories about an ultra-Orthodox family in present-day Jerusalem.

with her mother’s partner.

Jewish Experience Cinematheque 3

Under Electric Clouds

Tuesday 22:00 5 to 7

(US) Forum Film.

97mins. Dir: Victor Levin. Key cast: Anton Yelchin, Bérénice Marlohe, Olivia Thirlby, Lambert Wilson, Frank Langella, Glenn Close.

A chance encounter drives Brian, an aspiring writer, into a whirlwind romance with a glamorous French woman. But she’s married and can only offer him brief encounters between 5 and 7 pm.

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18:15 Lucifer

(Belgium/Mexico) NDM. 108mins. Dir: Gust Van Den Berghe.

Key cast: Gabino Rodriguez, Norma Pablo, Maria Toral Acosta, Jeronimo Soto Bravo.

Tuesday 18:00 Mr. Gaga

(Israel) Heymann Brothers Films. 95mins.

Dir: Tomer Heymann.

Using intimate rehearsal footage, extensive unseen archival materials and stunning dance sequences, acclaimed director Tomer Heymann tells the story of Ohad Naharin, an artistic genius who redefined the language of modern dance.

Israeli Docs Cinematheque 1

Tuesday 18:15 Lucifer See box, above

Tuesday 19:00 600 Miles

(US/Mexico) NDM. 85mins. Dir: Gabriel Ripstein. Key cast: Tim Roth, Kristyan Ferrer, Harrison Thomas, Noé www.screendaily.com

Lucifer passes through a small Mexican village and decides to toy with the life of a local family.

The first film to be shot in ‘Tondoscope’, a circular format developed by the director.

Panorama Cinematheque 2

Hernandez, Monica del Carmen, Armando Hernandez.

Tim Roth plays an ATF agent tracking a young Mexican gun smuggler who is moving weapons across the border. This was the winner of the best first feature award at the Berlinale.

Debuts Cinematheque 3

Tuesday 19:30 Virgin Mountain

(Denmark/Iceland) BAC Films. 96mins.

Dir: Dagur Kari. Key cast: Gunnar Jonsson, Ilmur Kristjansdottir, Sigurjon Kjartansson, Franziska Una Dagsdottir.

Fusi is 43 but he still lives with his mother and has never had a girlfriend.

After his family urge him to get out more, he takes dance lessons and meets a

special woman. So begins a tender and amusing relationship.

Panorama Lev Smadar

Tuesday 20:00 Sport: IsraeliPalestinian Cinematic Project

(Israel/Palestine) 100mins.

Six film-makers, Israeli and Palestinian, created short films, both documentary and fiction, on the subject of sport.

Tuesday 21:15 Shtisel — Season 2

(Israel) Go2Films.

47mins. Dir: Alon Zingman. Key cast: Dov Glickman, Michael Aloni, Sasson Gabay, Neta Riskin, Zohar Strauss.

Premiere screening of the first episode in the second season of the award-

(Russia/Ukraine/Poland) 137mins. Dir: Aleksei German Jr. Key cast: Louis Franck, Merab Ninidze, Chulpan Khamatova.

Russia 2017: a century after the October revolution. The world is on the verge of total war and things could fall apart completely. This profoundly rewarding film won the Silver Bear for cinematography at the Berlinale.

Panorama Cinematheque 2

Tuesday 22:30 Goodnight Mommy

Tuesday 22:15

Tuesday July 14

Gala Cinematheque 1

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

(US) K5 International.

102mins. Dir: Marielle Heller. Key cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard, Christopher Meloni, Kristen Wiig.

In 1970s San Francisco, an artistic teenage girl finds herself in a passionate love affair

(Austria) Films Distribution. 99mins.

Dir: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala. Key cast: Susanne Wuest, Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Hans Escher, Elfriede Schatz.

The mother of 10-yearold twins returns to the secluded family house following plastic surgery.

Into the Night Cinematheque 3

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Israeli Cinema Cinematheque 4

Tuesday 20:15 The Man in the Wall

(Israel) United Channels Movies. 92mins. Dir: Evgeny Ruman. Key cast: Tamar Alkan, Gilad Kahana, Eli Gornstein, Ruth Rasiuk, Roi Miller, Yoav Donat.

One night Rami takes his dog for a walk… and disappears. Different people come in and out of his apartment during the night. Could one of them hold the key to the mystery?

Israeli Features Cinematheque 1

Tuesday 20:30 In the Basement

Tuesday July 14 20:30 In the Basement

(Austria) Coproduction Office.

81mins. Dir: Ulrich Seidl.

After completing his exemplary ‘Paradise’ trilogy, Austrian master Seidl

returns to documentary film-making with a piercing yet humorous work about people, basements and what people do in their basements.

Masters Cinematheque 2

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takes his dog for a walk and disappeares. His wife, Shir, is clueless as to his whereabouts. Different people come in and out of the apartment during that night. Could one of them hold the key to the mystery?

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Wednesday 16:00 Israeli Short Film Competition — Programme 3

(Israel) 94mins.

Israeli Shorts Cinematheque 3

Wednesday 17:00 The Fool

Wednesday July 15 12:45 Mr. Gaga

(Israel) Heymann Brothers Films. 95mins.

Dir: Tomer Heymann.

Using intimate rehearsal footage, extensive unseen archival materials

Wednesday July 15 10:00 Israeli Short Film Competition — Programme 1

(Israel) 100mins.

Israeli Shorts Cinematheque 3

Wednesday 10:30 Knight of Cups

(US) FilmNation.

118mins. Dir: Terrence Malick. Key cast: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman.

A successful screenwriter leads a decadent lifestyle, losing himself in a world of delusions. Terrence Malick’s new feature offers a contemplation of the role of man in the modern world, while also being a critique of the Hollywood system.

Masters Cinematheque 2

Three Windows and a Hanging

(Germany/Kosovo) EZ

and stunning dance sequences, director Tomer Heymann tells the story of an artistic genius who redefined the language of modern dance.

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Films. 80mins. Dir: Isa Qosja. Key cast: Irena Cahani, Luan Jaha, Donat Qosja.

In a small Kosovar village, a year after the war, a schoolteacher tells a foreign reporter that she and three other women were raped by Serbian soldiers.

Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 1

Wednesday 11:15

Wednesday 12:00 Prince

Mr. Gaga

(Netherlands) Mongrel.

78mins. Dir: Sam de Jong. Key cast: Ayoub Elasri, Jorik Scholten, Achraf Meziani, Oussama Addi, Elsie de Brauw.

In order to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in his neighbourhood, 17-year-old Ayoub resolves to be the toughest boy around. This stylised debut, mixing genres from western to teen film to soap opera, was given a special mention at the Berlinale.

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Panorama Cinematheque 3

Wednesday 12:30 The Second Mother

(Netherlands) Pascale Ramonda. 67mins.

Dir: Peter Hoogendoorn.

Key cast: Raymond Thiry, Nasrdin Dchar, Olga Louzgina, Cynthia Abma, Elise van’t Laar, Ko Zandvliet.

Between the hours of 10 and 12, a piece of news changes the lives of a typical Dutch family. This beautiful autobiographical piece, screened at Venice, takes the viewer on an emotional journey.

(Brazil) Match Factory.

114mins. Dir: Anna Muylaert. Key cast: Regina Casé, Michel Joelsas, Camila Mardila, Karine Teles.

Val is as a housekeeper for a wealthy family.

When her daughter visits, the rigid and unspoken equilibrium between master and servant becomes unbalanced.

Winner of the special jury prize at Sundance and the audience award in the Berlinale’s Panorama section.

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Panorama Cinematheque 1

Between 10 and 12

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Wednesday 12:45

The Mud Woman

(Argentina/Chile) Media Luna. 92mins. Dir: Sergio Castro San Martin.

Key cast: Catalina Saavedra, Paola Lattus, Daniel Antivilo, Maite Neira, Elsa Poblete.

Maria decides to return to work in the plantations, save money and move to the city. She discovers the foreman is the same man who caused her to leave.

A critique of the state of migrant workers and the oppression of women.

Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 2

Wednesday 13:45 Israeli Short Film Competition — Programme 2

(Israel) 88mins.

Israeli Shorts Cinematheque 3

Wednesday 14:00 The European Academy: Short Matters!

268mins.

International Shorts Cinematheque 4

Wednesday 14:45 Dreamcatcher

(USA/UK) Dogwoof.

104mins. Dir: Kim Longinotto.

For 25 years Brenda worked the streets of Chicago. Today she is a beacon of hope and a pillar of strength for hundreds of women and girls caught up in the cycle of neglect and violence. Winner of the documentary directing award at Sundance Spirit of Freedom Cinematheque 2

Wednesday 15:00 The Assassin

(Hong Kong/France/ China/Taiwan) Wild Bunch. 105mins.

Dir: Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

Key cast: Shu Qi, Cheng Chang, Tsumabuki Satoshi.

In ninth-century China, a skilled assassin must choose whether to sacrifice her past lover or abandon her life as a mercenary.

A beautiful epic that garnered rave reviews and the best director award at Cannes.

Masters Cinematheque 1

The Man in the Wall

(Israel) United Channels Movies. 92mins. Dir: Evgeny Ruman. Key cast: Tamar Alkan, Gilad Kahana, Eli Gornstein, Ruth Rasiuk, Roi Miller, Yoav Donat.

One night. One apartment.

One missing person. Rami

(Russia) m-appeal.

116mins. Dir: Yury Bykov.

Key cast: Artem Bystrov, Nataliya Surkova, Boris Nevzorov, Kirill Polukhin, Darya Moroz, Yury Tsurilo.

Can the ethics of an honest and idealistic man make any difference in a thoroughly corrupt society, or will he just be considered a fool? This film about corruption in modern-day Russia won four awards at Locarno Film Festival.

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Wednesday 17:15 Sivas

(Germany/Turkey) Nazli Kilerci. 97mins. Dir: Kaan Müjdeci. Key cast: Dogan Izci, Muttalip Mujdeci, Okan Avci.

In a small Turkish village, 11-year-old Aslan decides to adopt a mortally wounded dog after it loses a vicious dogfight. This uncompromisingly realistic film won the special jury prize at Venice Film Festival.

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Wednesday 17:30 Virgin Mountain

(Denmark/Iceland) BAC Films. 96mins. Dir: Dagur Kari. Key cast: Gunnar Jonsson, Ilmur Kristjansdottir, Sigurjon Kjartansson, Franziska Una Dagsdottir.

Fusi is 43 but he still lives with his mother and has never had a girlfriend.

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city. This abundantly humorous, surreal drama, combining black-andwhite footage with colour archival material, won the Tiger Award at Rotterdam Film Festival.

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Wednesday 21:30 Green Room

Wednesday July 15 he meets a very special woman. A moving drama that won three awards at Tribeca.

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Wednesday 18:00 Hotline

(Israel/France) Go2Films. 99mins. Dir: Silvina Landsmann.

The Hotline for Refugees and Migrants is a Tel Aviv-based NGO. In inverse proportion to the small scale of this human rights organisation, the issues it deals with are universal, and the number of those seeking help is enormous.

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Wednesday 19:00 This is Orson Welles

(France) Poorhouse International. 53mins.

Dir: Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg.

This documentary about Orson Welles, screened as part of Welles’ centennial celebration at Cannes, includes a rare interview with the legendary director and challenges the idea that his post-Citizen Kane career headed downwards.

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Wednesday 19:30 Sand Dollars See box, above

Wednesday 19:45 Phil Solomon: The Secret Garden

(USA) Phil Solomon.

89mins. Dir: Phil Solomon.

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by avant-garde filmmaker Phil Solomon: The Secret Garden (1988), The Snowman (1995), Remains To Be Seen (1989, revised 1994), Psalm II: Walking Distance (from the Twilight Psalms series) (1999), Psalm III: Night Of The Meek (from the Twilight Psalms series) (2002). Introductory remarks by Dr Hava Aldouby.

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Wednesday 20:00 Wedding Doll

(Israel) Gilady Nitzan Films. 82mins. Dir: Nitzan Gilady. Key cast: Asi Levi, Moran Rosenblatt , Roy Assaf, Arie Tcherner.

A talented young woman with a mild mental deficiency dreams of getting married. She is in love with the son of the owner of the toiletpaper factory where she works. The announcement of the the factory’s imminent closure shakes her life and jeopardises her love story.

19:30 Sand Dollars

(Argentina/Mexico/ Dominican Republic) FiGa Films. 85mins.

Dir: Laura Amelia Guzman, Israel Cardenas. Key cast: Geraldine Chaplin,

Yanet Mojica, Ricardo Ariel Toribio.

A wealthy European woman living by the beaches of the Dominican Republic falls in love with a local girl.

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(USA) WestEnd. 94mins.

Dir: Jeremy Saulnier.

Key cast: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Patrick Stewart, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner.

Four members of a punkrock band are trapped in an isolated venue after witnessing an atrocious act of violence. They must now fight for their lives against a gang of NeoNazis determined to leave no witnesses.

Wednesday 22:00 A Corner of Heaven

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Wednesday 22:15 The Duchess of Warsaw

(France) Caravan Pass.

86mins. Dir: Joseph Morder. Key cast: Alexandra Stewart, Andy Gillet.

Valentin, a young painter, meets up with his grandmother Nina, who refuses to unveil her painful past.

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Iris

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their sins face the arrival of a special church adviser, who brings along the past they thought they had left behind. Winner of Berlin Film Festival’s grand jury prize.

A captivating comedy drama about a young man from a remote Indian village whose brother left home for America. After several years he starts to suspect that his brother’s letters are not coming from America at all.

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Umrika

(Argentina/Cuba, Germany/Switzerland) m-appeal. 100mins.

Dir: Carlos M Quintela.

Three generations of men live together in a small apartment in a Cuban

(India) New Cinema.

100mins. Dir: Prashant Nair. Key cast: Suraj Sharma, Tony Revolori, Smita Tambe, Adil Hussain, Rajesh Tailang, Prateik Babbar.

(USA) Magnolia Pictures.

80mins. Dir: Albert Maysles.

The last documentary film presented by Albert Maysles prior to his death follows Iris Apfel, the flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has enjoyed imperial status in the New York fashion scene for decades.

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Wednesday 20:15 The Club

(Chile) Funny Balloons.

97mins. Dir: Pablo Larrain. Key cast: Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farias, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell, Alejandro Goic, Alejandro Sieveking, Marcelo Alonso, José Soza, Francisco Reyes.

Four priests sent to live in isolation to be cleansed of

Wednesday July 15 22:00 A Corner of Heaven

(China/France) Pascale Ramonda.

94mins. Dir: Miaoyan Zhang. Key cast: Guo Xinjiang, Huo Xuehui, Bai Haonan.

A young boy sets out to find his mother and ends up on a long journey through modern-day China’s apocalyptic polluted landscapes, where he encounters modern slavery and gangs. Chinese

director Zhang Miaoyan, whom critics have compared to Bela Tarr, presents a spectacular and poetic piece with a strong social message.

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Thursday July 16

Thursday July 16 09:30 Song of My Mother See box, right

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Thursday 10:15 Knight of Cups

(USA) FilmNation.

118mins. Dir: Terrence Malick. Key cast: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman.

A successful screenwriter (Christian Bale) leads a decadent lifestyle, losing himself in a world of delusions. Terrence Malick’s new feature offers a contemplation on the role of man in the modern

world, but also a personal critique of the Hollywood system.

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Thursday 11:00 Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet

(USA/France/Canada/ Lebanon/Qatar) Wild Bunch. 84mins. Dir: Roger Allers, Gaëtan

Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Joan Gratz, Mohammed Saeed Harib, Tomm Moore, Nina Paley, Bill Plympton, Joann Sfar, Michal Socha.

Key cast: Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek Pinault, John Krasinski, Frank Langella, Alfred Molina, John Rhys-Davies.

Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet is brought to life in an amazing animated feature, a joint effort between 10 leading animators from across the world who have turned these classic texts into a thrilling cinematic adventure. John Krasinski, Alfred Molina and Salma Hayek contributed their vocal talents.

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Thursday 11:30 Heaven Knows What

Thursday July 16 10:00 The Memory of Justice

(USA/France/UK/West Germany) The Film Foundation. Dir: Marcel Ophuls.

Marcel Ophuls looks at the relations between personal and collective responsibility in this film that examines the atrocities committed by

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the Nazis in light of the war crimes committed by the French in Algiers and the US in Vietnam.

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(USA) Stray Dogs.

94mins. Dir: Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie. Key cast: Arielle Holmes, Caleb Landry Jones, Buddy Duress, Necro, Eleonore Hendricks.

Harley loves Ilya. He gives her life purpose and sets her passion ablaze.

09:30 Song of My Mother

(France/Germany/ Turkey) Pascale Ramonda. 103mins.

Dir: Erol Mintas. Key cast: Feyyaz Duman, Zübeyde Ronahi, Nesrin Cavadzade, Aziz Capkurt, Cuneyt Yalaz.

When gentrification

So when he asks her to prove her love by slitting her wrists, she obliges with only mild hesitation, perhaps because of her other all-consuming love: heroin.

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Thursday 12:45 In the Shadow of Women

(France) Wild Bunch.

73mins. Dir: Philippe Garrel. Key cast: Clotilde Courau, Stanislas Merhar, Lena Paugam.

Philippe Garrel proves that the New Wave is still alive and kicking in this comic drama about a love triangle in Paris, an investigation into the demise of relationships

drives Ali and his mother out of their Kurdish neighbourhood in Istanbul, they are forced to move to the city’s outskirts. The film picked up the grand prize at Sarajevo Film Festival.

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and the mysterious ways of passion.

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Iraqi Odyssey

(Iraq/Germany/ Switzerland/UAE) Autlook Filmsales.

162mins. Dir: Samir.

A 3D documentary studying the extended family of Samir, the Iraq-born director whose relatives left their homeland to settle across the globe: from Abu Dhabi to Sydney, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Zurich and even Moscow. A monumental piece moving between the personal and the national.

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work in the plantations to save enough money and move to the city. Upon arrival, she discovers that the foreman is the same man who caused her to leave. A strong critique of the state of migrant workers and oppression of women.

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15:30 Sivas See box, left

Thursday 16:00 Out of Nature

Thursday July 16 15:30 Sivas

(Germany/Turkey) Nazli Kilerci. 97mins. Dir: Kaan Müjdeci. Key cast: Dogan Izci, Muttalip Mujdeci, Okan Avci.

In a small Turkish village, 11-year-old

Thursday 13:30

Aslan decides to adopt a mortally wounded dog after it loses a dogfight.

This uncompromisingly realistic film won the special jury prize at Venice.

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Thursday 15:15

Wedding Doll

The Mud Woman

(Israel) Gilady Nitzan Films. 82mins. Dir: Nitzan Gilady. Key cast: Asi Levi, Moran Rosenblatt, Roy Assaf.

A talented young woman with a mild mental deficiency dreams of getting married. She is in love with the son of the owner of the toilet-paper factory where she works.

The announcement of the closing of the factory shakes her life and jeopardises her love story.

(Argentina/Chile) Media Luna. 92mins. Dir: Sergio Castro San Martin.

Key cast: Catalina Saavedra, Paola Lattus, Daniel Antivilo, Maite Neira, Elsa Poblete.

Maria decides to return to

(Norway) NDM. 80mins.

Dir: Ole Giaever, Marte Vold. Key cast: Ole Giaever, Marte Magnusdotter Solem, Sivert Giaever Solem, Rebekka Nystadbakk.

Thirty-year-old Martin feels stifled by his life and decides to commune with nature. Over the course of one weekend on a lone hiking trip, he is forced to confront his lifestyle.

A sharp comic drama, winner of the Europa Cinemas Label award at the Berlinale.

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Thursday 17:15 3½ Minutes, ten bullets

(USA) Dogwoof. 98mins.

Dir: Marc Silver.

In 2012, at a Florida gas station, a white man fired 10 bullets at a car. Three of the bullets hit a 17-year-

old, who died on the spot.

The assailant claimed self-defence, prompting an intense investigation.

A fascinating Sundance award-winning documentary.

the jury prize at Cannes.

The plot revolves around a man who is forced to stay at a special hotel and try to find a suitable match, lest he be turned into a lobster.

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Thursday 17:45

Thursday 18:00

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My Golden Years

(Malaysia/Thailand/ France/Germany/UK) Match Factory. 122mins.

Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Key cast: Jenjira Pongpas Widner, Jarinpattra Rueangram, Banlop Lomnoi.

A volunteer arrives at a temporary clinic to take care of a soldier suffering from a mysterious sleeping sickness, and befriends a young medium who uses her psychic powers to help her loved ones communicate with the comatose men.

(France) Wild Bunch.

123mins. Dir: Arnaud Desplechin. Key cast: Quentin Dolmaire, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Mathieu Amalric.

Paul (Mathieu Amalric) returns to Paris after years in Tajikistan and looks back at three memories from his youth. Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale) returned to Cannes this year with a highly praised film that captures the spirit of its periods.

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Thursday 19:15 Hotline

The Lobster

(France/UK/ Netherlands/Ireland/ Greece) Protagonist Pictures. 118mins. Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos. Key cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Léa Seydoux, John C. Reilly, Ben Whishaw, Jessica Barden.

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos delivers an English-language piece starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz that won

(Israel/France) Go2Films. 99mins. Dir:

Silvina Landsmann.

The Hotline for Refugees and Migrants is a Tel Aviv-based NGO. In inverse proportion to the small scale of this human rights organisation, the issues it deals with are universal, and the number of people who go to it in search of help is enormous.

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Thursday 20:15 Grandma See box, below

The Lesson

(Bulgaria/Greece) Wide.

107mins. Dir: Petar Valchanov, Kristina Grozeva. Key cast: Margita Gosheva, Ivan Burnev, Ivan Savov, Deya Todorova, Stefan Denolyubov.

A hardworking teacher finds herself in terrible economic trouble and will go to great lengths to survive. This realistic piece, inspired by the Dardenne brothers, won the newdirector award at San »

Thursday July 16 20:15 Grandma

(USA) Sony. 80mins.

Dir: Paul Weitz. Key cast: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden, Judy Greer.

A renowned and sharp-tongued woman sets out to help her

granddaughter raise $600 for an abortion.

The search for cash stirs up old secrets. This moving comedy directed

by Paul Weitz features a brilliant performance by Lily Tomlin.

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Thursday 14:15 National Gallery

(USA/France) Doc & Film. 174mins. Dir: Frederick Wiseman.

Frederick Wiseman takes us behind the scenes of London’s National Gallery, in a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of western art. A fascinating mosaic of one of the world’s most significant art venues.

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Thursday July 16 22:30 A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

(USA) Kinology.

100mins. Dir: Ana Lily Amirpour. Key cast: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Mozhan Marno, Dominic Rains, Milad Eghbali, Rome Shadanloo.

Sebastian Film Festival.

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Thursday 20:30 Living in Illusions

(Israel) Shula Spiegel Productions. 75mins.

Dir: Tzvika Binder.

The implausible, magical rise and fall of magicians Chico and Diko. In the 1980s they were stars, with a slot on the Shminiyot Ba’Avir TV show, thousands of performances and a thriving magic business.

Their sudden fall from grace surprised everyone.

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Thursday 21:30 In the Basement

(Austria) Coproduction Office. 81mins. Dir:

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A vampire who stalks a post-apocalyptic Iranian town finds herself in an unusual romance.

This modern film noir, directed and shot with skill, became one of this year’s most talked-about films.

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commitment, has to deal with relationship anxiety when she meets a different type of man. Comedienne Amy Schumer stars in a comedy by Judd Apatow.

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Thursday 22:15 Jeruzalem

(Israel) Paz Films.

89mins. Dir: Doron Paz,

Yoav Paz. Key cast: Yael Grobglas, Yon Tumarkin, Tom Graziani, Danielle Jadelyn.

Two US girls follow a mysterious young anthropology student to Jerusalem. The party is cut short when the trio are caught in the middle of a biblical apocalypse.

Trapped behind the ancient walls of the Holy

City, the travellers must find a way out...

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Ulrich Seidl.

After completing his exemplary ‘Paradise’ trilogy, Austrian master Ulrich Seidl returns to documentary filmmaking with a piercing yet humorous work about people, basements, and what people do in their basements.

(USA) Globus Max. 122mins. Dir: Judd Apatow. Key cast: Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, Vanessa Bayer, Tilda Swinton.

A thirty-something writer, who is sure monogamy is impractical and who leads an inhibited life free from

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(USA) Rocking Films.

88mins. Dir: Oren Shai. Key cast: Jocelin Donahue, Kelly Lynch,

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A woman on the run takes a job at a remote

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