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Air Raid Sirens and Israeli Bombs: The Jerusalem International Film Festival
Noa Regev, the new director of the Jerusalem International Film Festival, had a difficult task for her first edition. Walking a fine line between continuing with the film screenings while acknowledging “the situation,” as it is called here, wasn’t easy but she handled it with grace and intelligence. “The situation”: Israel is bombing Gaza to smithereens while sirens wail over Israel, warning of Hamas rocket fire. The vast majority of the rockets cause little to no damage; the same, however, cannot be said of the Israeli bombs. So, with this as a background, many of the films showing at the […]
by Nina Menkes on Jul 28, 2014 -
Etgar Keret And Shira Geffen, Jellyfish
NICOLE LEIDMAN AND SARAH ADLER IN ETGAR KERET AND SHIRA GEFFEN’S JELLYFISH. COURTESY ZEITGEIST FILMS. After proving their mastery of the written word, Israel’s first couple of literature, Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen, have now turned their attention to film. Keret was born in 1967 in Tel Aviv, Israel, and started writing in 1992. He has since written graphic novels, plays and children’s books, but he is best known for his short stories, which have been collected in The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories (2004) and The Nimrod Flipout (2006). He has also written a […]
by Nick Dawson on Apr 4, 2008
