The Festival „Days of Israeli Films“ is awaiting for you again.
You will be able to enjoy the most recent Israeli movies from September 14th – 17th in the Cultural Center of Belgrade at Kolarčeva 6 street.
The official opening of the Festival is on Thursday, September 14th, 2017 before the screening of the movie “Presenting Princess Shaw” which is planned for 8pm.
All movies will have both Serbian and English subtitles.
PROGRAMME:
Thursday, September 14th, 20h Presenting Princess Shaw
Israel / 2015 / Documentary / 80 min
Subtitles: Serbian and English
Production: Liran Atzmor (Atzmor productions)
Director and Writer: Ido Haar
Cast: Ophir Kutiel, Samantha Montgomery
Samantha Montgomery, 38, lives alone in one of New Orleans’ toughest neighborhoods. By day she works as a caregiver for the elderly; at night she transforms into Princess Shaw, belting out soulful originals at sparsely attended open mic nights and posting homemade a cappella clips on YouTube, usually reaching just a handful of viewers. One of her followers happens to be Kutiman, a.k.a. Ophir Kutiel, an Israeli musician living on a kibbutz outside Tel Aviv, who mashes up YouTube videos from all over the world to create new musical pieces. Princess Shaw has no idea that he has found hers. A rousing documentary crowd-pleaser about a star-crossed singer-songwriter and her crafty secret admirer.
Awards: Ophir Award of Best Documentary Film, Israeli Film Academy, 2016
Audience Award, Sheffield Doc Fest, UK, 2016
Life Tales Award, Biografilm International Film Festival, Italy, 2016
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMXGIch82ZU
Official Move Site: http://www.presentingprincessshaw.com/
Friday, September 15th, 19h Beyond the Mountains and Hills / Me’ever Laharim Vehagvaot
Israel, Germany, Belgium / 2016 / Drama / 92 min
Subtitles: Serbian and English
Production: July August Productions, Entre Chien et Loup, Match Factory Productions
Director and Writer: Eran Kolirin
Cast: Mili Eshet, Noam Imber, Shiree Nadav-Naor
David is discharged from the army after serving 27 years. He finally returns to his family and tries to find himself in his new civilian life. When a friend suggests working for a company that markets dietary supplements, David sees it as an opportunity to get his foot in the door of the business world. But this decision slowly gets him and his family entangled in the web of dark forces that rule life in Israel.
Awards: Haggiag Award Best Actress Shiree Nadav-Naor, Jerusalem Film Festival 2016
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=214Wrokm7rI&t=23s
Friday, September 15th, 21h Our Father / Avinu
Israel, France / 2016 / Drama / 105mins
Subtitles: Serbian and English
Production: Transfax Film Productions
Director and Writer: Meni Yaish
Cast: Moris Cohen, Rotem Zissman-Cohen, Alon Dahan
Ovadia Rachmim is the strongest and most violent doorman of Tel Aviv night clubs. He and his wife Rachel are trying to get pregnant for 5 years. A small time gangster named Shalom, offers Ovadia a job, to be a debts collector, offering him a lot of money. Ovadia sees this as great opportunity to start an expensive private treatment for his wife. As soon as Rachel gets pregnant, he decides to stop working for Shalom. Shalom wants him for the most important mission. The mission in which Ovadia has to betray all his best friends. Now it’s the time to pay the price of becoming a father.
Awards: The Haggiag Award for Best Actor, Jerusalem Film Festival 2016
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz1lBoWjlME
Saturday, September 16th, 19h Fire Birds / Tziporey Hol
Israel / 2015 / Comedy, Drama / 105 min
Subtitles: Serbian and English
Production: Topia Communications
Director: Amir Wolf
Writers: Orly Robenshtein Katcap, Amir Wolf
Cast: Gila Almagor, Rami Heuberger, Dvora Kedar
An eighty-year-old man’s body is found with three stab wounds to the chest and a number tattooed along his forearm. Amnon, a police detective and second generation Holocaust survivor, reluctantly accepts the case and struggles to bring it to a quick close. Despite his age, the victim Amikam was still attractive and his charm was evident as he searched the obituaries for widows to beguile. As the story interweaves past and present, we witness each man’s struggle to rejoin the society which rejected him.
Awards: Best Supporting Actress Dvora Kedar, Award of the Israeli Film Academy 2015
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hoH_cwOFtc
Saturday, September 16th, 21h Junction 48
Israel, Germany, USA / 2016 / Action, Biography / 95 min
Subtitles: Serbian and English
Production: Metro Communications, United King Films, X-Filme Creative Pool, Blackbird Films, Dig the Movie, Blackbird, Hyperion Media Group
Director: Udi Aloni
Writers: Oren Moverman, Tamer Nafar
Cast: Stars: Tamer Nafar, Samar Qupty, Salwa Nakkara
Set against a backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian rapper Kareem and his singer girlfriend Manar struggle, love and make music in their crime-ridden ghetto and Tel Aviv’s hip-hop club scene.
Awards: Best Music, Best Sound, the Israeli Film Academy 2016
Panorama Audience Award, Fiction Film, Berlin International Film Festival 2016
Jury Award, Best International Narrative Feature, Tribeca Film Festival 2016
Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature, Woodstock Film Festival 2016
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDIQcJGdDXs
Sunday, September 17th, 19h The Kindergarten Teacher / Haganenet
Israel, France /2014 / Drama / 119 min
Subtitles: Serbian and English
Production: Pie Films, Haut et Court, Arte France Cinema, ARTE France, Leon Recanati Foundation, Aide aux Cinemas du Monde
Director and Writer: Nadav Lapid
Cast: Sarit Larry, Avi Shnaidman, Lior Raz
A kindergarten teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
Awards: Best Director, International Competition, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2015
The Israeli Film Critics Forum Prize, Jerusalem Film Festival 2014
Best Film, Silver Giraldillo, Seville European Film Festival 2014
International New Talent Competition – Grand Prize, Taipei Film Festival 2015
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwvBw4AmyGk
Sunday, September 17th, 21h Beneath the Silence / Halumim
Israel / 2016 / Drama / 106 min
Subtitles: Serbian and English
Directors, Producers and Writers: Erez Mizrahi and Sahar Shavit
Cast: Adva Bolla, Roy Fink, Amos Tamam
- Six years after returning from the Six Day War with a battle shock, Menashe realizes he will never be the man he used to be before the war. He can’t communicate with his surroundings, and spends his days driving away in his red truck for long hours. The young family he created collapses due to his lack of communication with his wife, Daphna, and their little son, Shlomi. At a time when PTSD is still not recognized as a medical condition, Daphna, his wife, struggles to get help from the military in order to maintain her husband’s last bits of sanity, while 10 year-old Shlomi tries to understand what happened to his father. When the Yom Kippur War breaks out, and Menashe is sent again to the battle field, the small family crumbles to dust.
Awards: Best Narrative Feature Film Award, Somerville Int’l Film Festival, 2017
Best Actress Award, Shanghai Int’l Film Festival, 2017
Best Narrative Feature Film Award, Sydney World Film Festival, 2017
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZHJcEIu78I
Official move site: http://www.halumim.com/