The festival, which begins July 26, just announced this year’s film line-up
The 35th Jerusalem Film Festival, which will run at the Jerusalem Cinematheque from July 26 to August 5, has just announced the lineup of Israeli films that will be shown and will take part in the competitions. The films that will be in the Haggiag Competition for Full-Length Israeli Feature Films are Keren Ben Rafael’s Virgins, the story of a rebellious teenage girl in a small seaside town, which stars Joy Rieger, who won the Best Actress Award at the Tribeca Film Festival for her role in it this year; Redemption, directed by Joseph Madmony and Boaz Yehonatan Yacov, which stars Moshe Folkenflik as a newly observant rock star who gets his old band back together to raise money to provide medical treatment for his daughter; Tsivia Barkai-Yacov’s Red Cow, the story of a young woman who lives with her father, a messianic nationalist, in Silwan; Here and Now by Roman Shumunov, about a new immigrant who tries to balance his music career with his family obligations; Michal Aviad’s Working Woman, about a woman working in real estate who finds her ambitions conflict with her boss’s demands; Amikam Kovner and Assaf Snir’s Echo, the story of a man who suspects his wife is cheating on him and the discoveries he makes in the process of investigating her; and Yona Rozenkier’s The Dive.
