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Israeli director Nadav Lapid celebrates with his Golden bear for best film for 'Synonyms' during the awards ceremony of the 69th Berlinale film festival on February 16, 2019 in Berlin. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
February 16, 2019, 9:42 pm
Israeli-French drama ‘Synonyms’ wins top prize at Berlin film festival
Nadav Lapid’s absurdist film about an Israeli trying to put down roots in France first-ever movie by an Israeli filmmaker to take Golden Bear award at prestigious Berlinale
By TOI staff and Agencies
Israeli director Nadav Lapid poses during a photocall for his movie 'Synonyms' at the 69th Berlinale film festival on February 13, 2019, in Berlin. (John MacDougall/AFP)
February 16, 2019, 8:57 am
Israeli drama a frontrunner for top prize at Berlin film festival
Nadav Lapid’s ‘Synonyms’ contending with Chinese epic on one-child policy to take home gold at Berlinale award ceremony on Saturday
By Deborah Cole
Palestinian director Raed Andoni speaks after beeing awarded with Glashuette Original Documentary Award during the Award Ceremony of the 67th Berlinale film festival in Berlin, February 18, 2017. (AFP/Tobias SCHWARZ)
February 19, 2017, 5:24 pm
Documentary recreating Israeli interrogations wins Berlin film award
Palestinian director Raed Andoni’s movie ‘Ghost Hunting’ scoops top prize at Berlinale festival
By AFP and Jessica Steinberg
Israeli film director Udi Aloni (Channel 10 news)
April 22, 2016, 5:44 am
Israeli-directed film about Arab rapper wins big at Tribeca
‘Junction 48’ by Udi Aloni, a story of a young artist fighting Jewish prejudice and Arab repression, takes home Best International Feature award
By TOI staff
Jewish-Argentinian director Daniel Burman’s new feature film, 'El Rey del Once' (The Tenth Man). (Marcos Lopez)
March 12, 2016, 6:05 am
Argentine director returns to Jewish roots with ‘The Tenth Man’
In his new movie, filmmaker Daniel Burman explores the Buenos Aires of his youth and the people who live there
By Igal Avidan
Israeli film director Udi Aloni (Channel 10 news)
February 20, 2016, 11:35 pm
Israeli film winner in Berlin blasts Netanyahu’s ‘fascist’ government
Director Udi Aloni, who takes audience prize for movie about an Arab rapper, urges Germany to stop military aid
By TOI staff
Anne Frank as depicted in the new German film “Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank," or the “Diary of Anne Frank,” directed by Hans Steinbichler. (Screenshot from YouTube)
February 15, 2016, 7:15 pm
Anne Frank moviemaker may tackle Hitler’s favorite director next
Germany’s Hans Steinbichler, whose ‘Diary’ premieres Tuesday in Berlin, criticized for considering helming biopic of Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl
By JTA
Tunisian director Mohamed Ben Attia poses during a photo shoot at a movie theater in Tunis on January 29, 2016. (AFP / FETHI BELAID)
February 12, 2016, 12:41 pm
First Arab contender in decades opens Berlin film fest
Mohamed Ben Attia’s love story set amidst upheaval of Arab Spring revolution is rare debut movie picked to compete for prestigious Golden Bear
By Guillaume Klein
George Clooney in South Sudan (photo credit: Tim Freccia/Not On Our Watch)
February 12, 2016, 12:34 am
George Clooney seeks Merkel meet to discuss refugees
‘Syriana’ star and husband of human rights lawyer plans to ask how Hollywood can help with Europe’s unprecedented migrant crisis
By AP
A memorial stone for Anne Frank and her sister Margot on the grounds of the former Prisoner of War (POW) and concentration camps Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, north of Hanover, central Germany, on June 21, 2015. (AFP / NIGEL TREBLIN)
January 23, 2016, 12:02 am
Anne Frank biopic to premiere at Berlin film fest
First German feature-length film depicts the Jewish teenage diarist and her family in hiding from the Nazis
By AFP
Helen Mirren as Maria Altmann and Ryan Reynolds as her attorney Randol Schoenberg in the film 'Woman in Gold.' (Robert Viglasky/The Weinstein Company)
February 28, 2015, 12:27 am
Nazi past the star of two Holocaust film premieres in Germany
‘Woman in Gold’ and ‘Elser: 13 Minutes’ have debut screenings at the Berlinale International Film Festival
By Toby Axelrod
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi (photo credit: CC BY-César/Wikimedia Commons)
February 14, 2015, 11:02 pm
Dissident Iranian director wins top prize in Berlin
Jafar Panahi, who was convicted in 2010 of ‘making propaganda,’ wins Golden Bear prize in absentia for his film ‘Taxi’
By Geir Moulson
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi (photo credit: CC BY-César/Wikimedia Commons)
February 6, 2015, 7:00 am
Defiant Iranian director sends banned film to Berlin fest
Jafar Panahi banned from his homeland in 2009 over attempt to film a documentary following disputed elections
By Deborah Cole
Nadav Lapid (photo credit: courtesy Nadav Lapid/Wikimedia Creative Commons)
January 13, 2015, 7:57 pm
Israeli film headed to Berlin film fest
Critically acclaimed filmmaker Nadav Lapid will present his short flick ‘Why?’ next month in German capital
By Debra Kamin
Directors Tal Granit, right, and Sharon Maymon laugh as they pose for photographs following an interview with The Associated Press for their film The Farewell Party, during the 71st edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/David Azia)
September 1, 2014, 5:27 am
Israel’s ‘The Farewell Party’ finds humor in death
New film tackles assisted suicide, illegal in Israel and other countries, with a dose of laughter
By Jill Lawless
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