The 33^rd edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival will take place from 7-17 June. The festival will be opened by Julieta [+lire aussi :
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Q&A : Pedro Almodovar
fiche film], written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, based on three short stories by Alice Munro. This year, seven features, seven documentaries and 21 shorts have been selected for the main Israeli competition in their respective categories. Among the feature films selected is Beyond the Mountains and Hills [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], written and directed by Eran Kolirin, a co-production between Israel, Germany and Belgium that was screened at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section. In the documentary section, there are also two European co-productions: Ben-Gurion, Epilogue, directed by Yariv Mozar, is an Israeli-French collaboration, while Maya Zinshtein’s Forever Pure is co-produced with the UK.

This year, a new international competition is included, and nine feature films have been selected to compete for the Wilf Family Foundation Award for Best International Film. More than half of the nominations go to European productions, which include: A War [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tobias Lindholm
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interview : Danis Tanovic
fiche film] by Danis Tanović, a co-production between France and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cristi Puiu’s Sieranevada [+lire aussi :
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Q&A : Cristi Puiu
fiche film], a collaboration between Romania, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Croatia, Spanish director Albert Serra’s French production Last Days of Louis XIV [+lire aussi :
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interview : Albert Serra
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Q&A : Mia Hansen-Løve
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interview : Rúnar Rúnarsson
fiche film], a co-production between Iceland, Denmark and Croatia. The international competition line-up is completed with US documentary Weiner, directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, The Handmaiden by South Korean auteur Park Chan-Wook, and US director Kelly Reichardt’s cinematic triptych, Certain Women.

In addition to the competitions mentioned above, a FIPRESCI Award for Best First Film will also be handed out at the festival. Again, European (co-)productions dominate the nomination list, with Turkish filmmaker Mehmet Can Mertoğlu’s Albüm [+lire aussi :
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interview : Mehmet Can Mertoglu
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interview : Eva Husson
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fiche film], which has already picked up awards at Venice, Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu’s Family Film [+lire aussi :
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interview : Olmo Omerzu
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interview : Magnus von Horn
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interview : Shahrbanoo Sadat
fiche film], a co-production with Denmark, France and Sweden, and Oscuro Animal [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Felipe Guerrero, a collaboration between Germany, Argentina, the Netherlands, Greece and Colombia.

The festival also features the Spirit of Freedom and Jewish Experience sections, in which the best feature and documentary films on these topics will be awarded. In the Masters sidebar, the festival pays tribute to great filmmakers, including several European directors such as Jerzy Skolimowski, Werner Horzog, Chantal Akerman, Sergei Loznitsa, Terence Davies and Bruno Dumont, among others. Highlights of the Panorama sections include Michael Dudok de Wit’s dialogue-free animation The Red Turtle [+lire aussi :
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interview : Delphine et Muriel Coulin
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interview : James Spinney, Peter Middl…
fiche film] by Pete Middleton and James Spinney, Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Evolution [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], screened in competition at San Sebastián, Alain Guiraudie’s Staying Vertical [+lire aussi :
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interview : Alain Guiraudie
fiche film], and many others.