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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

Venice Film Festival

Ori Avinoam in 'Of Dogs and Men.' (Courtesy of AR Content)
September 6, 2024, 6:58 pm
Israeli film brings shock of Oct. 7 and aftermath to Venice film fest
Director Dani Rosenberg disregards calls to boycott his movie ‘Of Dogs and Men,’ says that while it won’t bring peace, it will leave memory of ‘terrible reality’ in region
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Filmmaker Amos Gitai speaking at a press conference ahead of the Venice Film Festival screening of his latest film, 'Why War,' on August 31, 2024 (Credit: Giorgio Zucchiatti La Biennale di Venezia - Foto ASAC)
September 4, 2024, 12:10 pm
Director Amos Gitai pushes back against boycott call of ‘Why War’ film at Venice fest
Over 300 artists sign letter asserting that Israeli production complicit in ‘apartheid, occupation and now genocide,’ but screening goes ahead
By Jessica Steinberg
An undated photo of filmmaker Luca Barbareschi. (Federica Di Benedetto e Marco Bellucci)
September 9, 2023, 2:05 am
Filmmaker Luca Barbareschi has two films premiering at Venice — and a bone to pick
The Jewish-Uruguayan-Italian actor, director, producer and former parliamentarian expounds on cancel culture, his Judaism, and why he feels Roman Polanski isn’t getting his due
By Amy K. Rosenthal
From 'Tatami,' the first Iranian-Israeli co-production, from 'Golda' director Guy Nattiv and Iranian-born director Zar Amir Ebrahimi, shortlisted for the European Film Award (Courtesy PR)
July 26, 2023, 11:02 am
First Israeli-Iranian film to premiere at Venice festival
‘Tatami’ tells the story of an Iranian ultimatum at a world judo championship
By Jessica Steinberg
Nan Goldin, left, and director Laura Poitras pose for photographers at the photo call of the film 'All The Beauty and the Bloodshed' during the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, September 3, 2022. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
September 11, 2022, 7:31 pm
Film on campaign to shame Sacklers for opioid crisis wins top Venice prize
Golden Lion award goes to Laura Poitras’s documentary tracing Nan Goldin’s battle against billionaire family; Special Jury prize goes to jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi
By Eric RANDOLPH
Iranian director Jafar Panahi poses with his Silver Berlin Bear award at the 56th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, February 18, 2006. (AP Photo/ Arnd Wiegmann, Pool, File)
September 4, 2022, 11:13 pm
Jailed Iranian filmmakers remain defiant, vow to create again
In statement from prison, award-winning directors Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar Panahi hail ‘constant presence of independent directors who have struggled to push back censorship’
By AFP
A scene from the film "The Kiev Trial" that depicts a 1946 trial held in post-WWII Ukraine. (YouTube/Screenshot)
September 4, 2022, 10:09 pm
‘The Kiev Trial’ unveils horrors of war in 1946 trial held in post-WWII Ukraine
Film, presented at this year’s Venice Film Festival, raises echoes of war crimes that Ukraine accuses Russia of committing on its soil; ‘History repeats itself,’ director says
By Alexandria SAGE
Screen capture from the Holocaust documentary film 'Final Account' of a former Nazi member of the SS looking at photographs. (video screenshot)
September 3, 2020, 8:29 pm
New documentary shows former Nazis unrepentant, even proud of serving in the SS
British director Luke Holland spent years befriending elderly WWII veterans, then interviewed them for his film; producers cast doubt on claim many Germans didn’t know of Holocaust
By Fiachra GIBBONS
Israeli director Amos Gitai attends a photocall for the film "A Letter to a Friend in Gaza," presented out of competition on September 3, 2018, during the 75th Venice Film Festival, at Venice Lido. (AFP Photo/Alberto Pizzoli)
July 28, 2020, 4:16 pm
Amos Gitai’s ‘Laila in Haifa’ among picks for Venice Film Festival
Drama starring Shia LaBeouf to also premiere in September at prestigious festival, which will be less star-studded this year due to pandemic
By Lindsey Bahr
Screen capture from video of the Holocaust movie 'The Painted Bird.' (YouTube)
September 4, 2019, 4:25 pm
Holocaust ‘masterpiece’ causes uproar at Venice film festival
Film adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s book ‘The Painted Bird’ draws acclaim, but has some viewers flee screening due to its graphic content
By Fiachra GIBBONS
French director Roman Polanski arrives for the screening of the film "Saint-Laurent" at the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 17, 2014. (AFP Photo/Valery Hache)
August 30, 2019, 6:52 am
J’accuse: #MeToo storm swirls as Polanski premiers Dreyfus film, draws parallels
As Venice Film Festival organizers defend inclusion of movie, filmmaker accused of sexual abuse compares self to Jewish officer persecuted by anti-Semitic authorities in France
By AFP
An employee works outside the Palazzo del Cinema on August 28, 2019 on the opening day of the 76th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)
August 28, 2019, 9:19 pm
Polanski controversy clouds opening of Venice film festival
Jewish director, a fugitive from US since 1978 rape trial, to screen historical thriller about persecution of French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus
By Kelly MacNamara and Fiachra GIBBONS
Some of the actors from Amos Gitai's newest film, 'A Tramway in Jerusalem,' including Yuval Sherf (third from left) and Yael Abecassis (third from right) in Venice on September 3, 2018 (Courtesy Awakening)
September 4, 2018, 6:34 pm
Amos Gitai movie about Jerusalem light rail premieres in Venice
‘A Tramway in Jerusalem’ and ‘A Letter to a Friend in Gaza’ are introduced to audiences at annual film festival
By Jessica Steinberg
Marco Cohen (left) and Benedetto Habib at the Venice Film Festival, where they premiered their upcoming movie, 'The Leisure Seeker.' (Courtesy)
October 23, 2017, 2:18 am
Friends since day school, these Italian producers now play on the red carpet
Marco Cohen and Benedetto Habib joke about life in their Milan classroom and their seriously good first English-language movie, starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland
By Rossella Tercatin
Yonatan Shiray, now an active combat soldier, in his foxtrotting scene in the award-winning film 'Foxtrot' (Courtesy 'Foxtrot')
October 10, 2017, 12:01 pm
‘Foxtrot’ director to speak at English screenings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
Samuel Maoz, award-winning director of the most talked-about Israeli movie of the year, will answer questions from Times of Israel readers at English-subtitled screenings
By Matthew Kalman
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