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Israeli Film Week @ 12th World Film Festival

  • 10/15/2014
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    Israeli Film Week @ 12th World Film Festival of Bangkok , 19-26 October, SF World Cinema, Central World.
     
    Cupcakes (2013, Comedy)
    Award: Iris Prize Best Feature Award UK
    24 October - 13:00
     
    When a group of best friends in Tel Aviv gather to watch “UniverSong”, they are less than impressed by the official Israeli entry. Believing that they can do better, they spontaneously create and record their own song on a mobile phone. Little do they know their performance is seen by the “UniverSong” judges and soon they are reluctantly thrown into the spotlight as Israel's next official entry. Cupcakes trailer.
     
     

    Footnote (2011, Drama/Comedy)
    Awards: Oscar nomination; Best Screenplay Award, 2011 Cannes Film Festival
    19 October -13:00, 26 October - 13:00
     
    Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival professors. When both men learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his work, their complicated relationship reaches a new peak. Footnote trailer.
     
     

    A Matter of Size (2009, Comedy/Drama/Sport)
    Awards: 3 Israeli Academy Awards;10 Film Festival Audience Awards
    21 October - 13:00, 23 October - 17:30
     
    An Israeli comedy like nothing you've seen before, a hilarious and heart-warming tale about a coming out of a different kind: four overweight guys who learn to love themselves through the Japanese sport of Sumo Wrestling. A Matter of Size trailer.
     
     
    The Band’s Visit (2007, Comedy)
    Awards: Cannes Film Festival 2007, Jury Coup de Coeur Award; winner of 8 Israeli
    Ophir Prizes including Best Film; UNESCO Award, Asia Pacific Awards
    21 October - 13:00, 24 October -15:20
     
    A band composed of members of the Egyptian police force heads to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town. The Band’s Visit trailer.
     
     
    Noodle (2007, Comedy/Drama)
    Special Grand Prize of the Jury 2007- Montreal World Film Festival; numerous other awards throughout the world.
    22 October - 17:40, 23 October - 15:00
     
    At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed Israeli flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant worker mother has been deported from Israel. Noodle trailer.
     

    Aviya's Summer (1988, Drama)
    Winner of various international and Israeli awards, including the Silver Bear
    22 October - 15:00, 24 October - 13:00
     
    A beautifully modulated, affecting film (based on an autobiographical book by the lead actress) dealing with the aftermath of the Holocaust. Set in a small settlement in the harsh early years of the Israeli state (1951), it depicts the summer 'holidays' unexpectedly spent by nine-year-old Aviya with her mother Henya, an institutionalized survivor of the camps who turns up on graduation day at her daughter’s boarding-school. Aviya's Summer trailer.