AICE ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL 2009
August 8th 2009 07:36
Diverse Culture Embraces Universal Themes.
Celebrating its 6th season in 2009, the AICE Israeli Film Festival will take place in Melbourne and Sydney from 25 August until 6 September with a vibrant programme showcasing the best of contemporary Israeli cinema.
With a dynamic line-up of seven new features and four compelling documentaries, along with a special presentation of three award-winning short films from the renowned Ma¹ale Film School in Jerusalem, the AICE Israeli Film Festival is an absolute must for lovers of fine international cinema.
Founded in 2004, the Festival is a proud initiative of the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange (AICE), an organization dedicated to furthering the cultural ties between Australia and Israel, formed in 2002 by Melbourne-based businessman, Albert Dadon. AICE also presents the extremely popular AICE Australian Film Festival, held in three cities across Israel, which recently enjoyed its 6th annual season.
"Film is a potent means of expression," observed Dadon, "which provides a window through which we can appreciate the culture of another country. It¹s a form of expression that can be enjoyed by people the world-over, whilst simultaneously engendering a greater tolerance and understanding of a way of life that may be different to our own, which has always been one of the Festival¹s key objectives."
Family ties, and their importance, feature heavily in the event¹s 2009line-up, as portrayed in LOST ISLANDS, The opening film of the sixth annual film festiva was the most successful local film at the 2008 Israeli box office, with more than 150,000 tickets sold. Written and directed by Reshef Levy, (Colombian Love, AIFF 04), described as an Israeli American Graffiti, it is based loosely on his own family life story and is full of drama, comedy and pathos.
Other highlights from this year¹s programme include ZRUBAVEL, the first feature-length Israeli drama by Ethiopian-Israeli filmmakers, which follows a multigenerational family of immigrants as they attempt to adjust to their new homeland, and the poignant SEVEN DAYS (which opened Critics¹ Week at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival), where against the backdrop of the 1991 Gulf War, a Moroccan family mourn the death of a brother, and in doing so revisit
suppressed tensions.
On a lighter note, the wonderfully named documentary YIDDISHE MAMA, looks at a mother trying to prevent her son from marrying the woman of his dreams, who is more akin to the daughter-in-law of her nightmares, whilst CHRONICLE OF A KIDNAP follows a courageous wife¹s battle to find her soldier husband, a captive of Hezbollah.
Venues and dates for the AICE Israeli Film Festival 2009 are as follows:
Melbourne: Tuesday 25 – Sunday 30 August
Palace Cinema Como and Brighton Bay
Sydney: Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6 September
Academy Twin, Paddington
VISIT THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE AT:
www.aicec.org
Celebrating its 6th season in 2009, the AICE Israeli Film Festival will take place in Melbourne and Sydney from 25 August until 6 September with a vibrant programme showcasing the best of contemporary Israeli cinema.
With a dynamic line-up of seven new features and four compelling documentaries, along with a special presentation of three award-winning short films from the renowned Ma¹ale Film School in Jerusalem, the AICE Israeli Film Festival is an absolute must for lovers of fine international cinema.
Founded in 2004, the Festival is a proud initiative of the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange (AICE), an organization dedicated to furthering the cultural ties between Australia and Israel, formed in 2002 by Melbourne-based businessman, Albert Dadon. AICE also presents the extremely popular AICE Australian Film Festival, held in three cities across Israel, which recently enjoyed its 6th annual season.
"Film is a potent means of expression," observed Dadon, "which provides a window through which we can appreciate the culture of another country. It¹s a form of expression that can be enjoyed by people the world-over, whilst simultaneously engendering a greater tolerance and understanding of a way of life that may be different to our own, which has always been one of the Festival¹s key objectives."
Other highlights from this year¹s programme include ZRUBAVEL, the first feature-length Israeli drama by Ethiopian-Israeli filmmakers, which follows a multigenerational family of immigrants as they attempt to adjust to their new homeland, and the poignant SEVEN DAYS (which opened Critics¹ Week at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival), where against the backdrop of the 1991 Gulf War, a Moroccan family mourn the death of a brother, and in doing so revisit
suppressed tensions.
On a lighter note, the wonderfully named documentary YIDDISHE MAMA, looks at a mother trying to prevent her son from marrying the woman of his dreams, who is more akin to the daughter-in-law of her nightmares, whilst CHRONICLE OF A KIDNAP follows a courageous wife¹s battle to find her soldier husband, a captive of Hezbollah.
Venues and dates for the AICE Israeli Film Festival 2009 are as follows:
Melbourne: Tuesday 25 – Sunday 30 August
Palace Cinema Como and Brighton Bay
Sydney: Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6 September
Academy Twin, Paddington
VISIT THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE AT:
www.aicec.org
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