The Israeli films “The Death of the Cinema and of My Father Too” by Danny Rosenberg and “Children” by Ada Ushpiz are the big winners at the Jerusalem Film Festival. The first in the feature film competition and the second in the documentary. The Nehama Rivlin Award for International Film won the film “Atlantis” by Valentin and Sianovich from Ukraine. In the competition for international debut films, the film “Personal Assistant” by Kitty Green (USA) won.
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The festival was held this year in online format due to the Corona and its films are available to watch through Festival website. Starting tomorrow, it will offer a special package that will include all four winning films and another film that won an intermediate category. The festival will be signed this coming Sunday.
On Rosenberg’s film, the judges wrote: “Danny Rosenberg’s original, exposed, bleeding film is a film full of love for cinema and fatherly love, which, combined with a brilliant combination of documentary and plot material, manages to provide a glimpse into a film director’s obsessive soul in pursuit of his disappearing father.” .
The judges justified the choice of Ushpiz’s film as follows: “In her film, Ada Ushpiz looks at reality with literal eyes. The second, more internal, of the commandment – sometimes explicit and sometimes implicit – to conquer the pain, sadness, frustration and fear that are their lot.Ushpiz’s continuous and compassionate observation of the impossible trap in which the girls find themselves points to the absurdities and tragedies of their lives and crystallizes into an important document. Compromises. “
The award for best Israeli debut film was given to the “Asia” in question by Ruthie Perry-Bar, who recently won the best film competition at the Ophir Awards. Actress Alona Eve, who appears in the film, also won an award for her performance at the Jerusalem Festival. Additional awards were given to actors Shai Avivi and Noam Amber for their performance in the film “Here We Are”, and for the same film, Dana Idisis won the screenplay award.
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