Haifa film festival, Sukkot, 7-14 Oct. 2006

Livni · 4th October 2006, 14:09

Please come and support Haifa after the war, its a very special film festival this year.

The 22nd film festival will open this week and run through Sukkot holiday
on the ridge of Mount Carmel overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The Festival was founded in 1983 and was the first of its kind in Israel. Over the years, the Festival became the biggest and most important film celebration in Israel.

The Haifa International Film Festival brings together each year an ever-growing audience of 60,000 spectators along with hundreds of Israeli and foreign professionals from the film and television industries. 180,000 people in total take part in the activities of the festival, including the outdoor events, screenings, workshops and more, and dozens of journalists from both the print and broadcast media, from Israel and abroad, cover the event.
During its eight days of celebration, the Festival proudly premieres 150 new films from the best and most recent international productions and holds 220 screenings in seven theaters and under the sky: feature films, documentaries, animation, short films, retrospectives and tributes.

Festival Program:

Gala screenings - the biggest film productions from Hollywood and Europe are premiered at the Festival before moving on to commercial distribution.

Panorama - the very best films world cinema has to offer; films that have won enthusiastic reviews and awards at international Festivals over the past two years and are not intended from commercial distribution in Israel.

Israeli Film Competition - new Israeli films that are competing for awards in a number of categories: feature films, documentary films, TV dramas, animation and student films.

The Golden Anchor Competition for Mediterranean Cinema - a competition of quality productions from Mediterranean countries.

The New Directors – Fipresci Competition Documentaries
Midnight Madness

Retrospectives and tributes - this category promotes filmmakers and themes that celebrate the history of filmmaking and its milestones

TV Europa and Cinema Europa - a category the showcases the latest European productions from the member states of the European Union and the TV Europa Conference - a panel for TV and film professionals, which provides an opportunity for Israeli and European professionals to meet and discuss a new topic each year.

http://www.haifaff.co.il/index_eng.asp

dizo · 4th October 2006, 15:48

International?

Kappa21 · 5th October 2006, 06:10

Sounds intresting

any movies shown in the krayot?

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