For over 10 years, the ISRAEL Film Week @ the World Film Festival of Bangkok has featured around 30 films from Israel in Thailand.
Documentary/ 87 minutes
Tuesday 17 - 18:00 hrs, Thursday 19 - 13:50 hrs
Pierre Dulaine fulfills a life-long dream and takes his program, Dancing Classrooms, back to his hometown Jaffa, where he teaches Jewish and Arab children in Israel to dance together and respect each other. Pierre transforms their lives over the course of four months, confirming his belief that dance can bridge hatred and provide the first steps towards real change.
Comedy Drama/ 100 minutes
Sunday 22, Nov – 16:00 hrs
Set in a remote desert military base, a platoon of young women soldiers, all Israeli conscripts, serve out their time playing computer games, singing pop songs, and conspiring to get transferred to Tel Aviv - while endlessly serving coffee to the men who run the show. Here's an Israeli film filled with funny, quick-witted, zany women who wield their staple guns like automatic weaponry. If there is a war going on, it's one against boredom.
Awards: Best Narrative Feature and Nora Ephron Prize (Tribeca Film Festival 2014); Best Director, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Casting, Best Music (the Israeli Film Academy Awards 2014)
Drama/ 103 minutes
Wednesday 18 - 20:20 hrs, Sunday 22 - 13:00 hrs
The film tells the story of a bakery's human-resources manager who reluctantly travels to Eastern Europe to bring the body of a deceased former employee, a recent immigrant to Israel, back to her family, in order to prevent a public-relations disaster for his company.
Awards: 5 Ophir Awards for Best Film, Director, Screenplay, Supporting Actress (Rosina Kambus) and Soundtrack.
Comedy Drama/ 112 minutes
Tuesday 17 - 15:30 hrs, Thursday 19 - 18:00 hrs
Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker.
Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family of seven Romanian dwarves in the seedy area by the port. Yankele introduces Arik to a new world, built on the ruins of an old one. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele. The disparate parts of Arik's life collide in unexpected, often funny and very moving ways as he lives through a summer that changes him forever.
Awards: Audience Award - Best Feature Film (Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival 2011), Panavision Audience Choice Award - Best Israeli Film (Israel Film Festival NY 2011), Silver Plaque Award (Chicago International Film Festival 2010)
Documentary/ 87 minutes
Thursday 19 - 20:30 hrs, Friday 20 - 15:30 hrs
On the edge of Israel’s Negev Desert lies Sderot, a city of factory workers and rock musicians, the children of refugees from North Africa and the Middle East. Despite being pummeled for years by homemade missiles, the people of Sderot persevere. In underground bomb shelters, they create unique rhythms that have transformed Israeli music, injecting Middle Eastern influences into traditional Western beats. Searching for a story about music, filmmaker Laura Bialis stumbles into a world she never imagined. She presents a tale of music and romance on the frontlines of a never-ending war.