Israeli Film Festival kicks off in Chandigarh
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Israeli Film Festival from August 1 to 7, 2013 (except on August 4) at the Government Museum Auditorium, Sector 10. Entry is free
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Israeli Film Festival kicks off
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 1
Israeli Film Festival commenced at the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Sector 10, today. The film festival is organised by the Chandigarh Film Society of India in association with the Embassy of Israel.
The festival opened with director Raphael Nadjari’s acclaimed movie Avanim, a powerful feminine story of an Isreeli woman.
The movie followed events in the life of Michale, a 30-year-old Israeli woman, who works in her father's office in Tel Aviv, which provides accounting services to significant religious institutions. The woman was not loyal to her husband and her life was split between her child, her husband, her lover and her work. Her life took a tragic turn when she learnt about the unexpected death of her lover in a bomb blast. This heartbreak became the catalyst that forced her to re-examine her life. She could not mourn openly for her lover as she was a married woman. She instead used the grief to break the chains of repression and made radical life decisions to leave her husband and broke her relationship with her father, and the religious community. With her newfound sense of independence she did not look back. The movie’s storyline bears a striking similarity with everybody’s pain and leaves a person with a realization that human suffering is omnipresent.
Few people turned up for the festival on the first day; however, there are a lot of exciting movies lined up for the cine buffs. Israeli film “To Take a Wife” will be shown to the audience from 6.30 pm onwards tomorrow. The festival is on till August 7.
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