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This month, AWFJ’s Spotlight is on Lia Van Leer, accomplished, influential and beloved cinema programmer and provocateur who’s worked tirelessly to promote filmmaking and appreciation in Israel and around the world. Van Leer celebrates her 90th birthday this month, and we celebrate her! Read on…
60,000 viewers who attended the 2014 Jerusalem Film Festival (July 10-20, 2014) enjoyed an outstanding program of local and international
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At his Jerusalem Film Festival Masterclass, Korean filmmaker Park Chan Wook focuses on his genre bending storytelling and cinematic trickery in Thirst, which is, he says, his personal favorite of all the films he’s made to date. He comments that he identifies with the film’s central character, a priest-turned-vampire, because he’s always trying to justify his actions. He revelations about audience manipulation through sound design are particularly fascinating. Read more>>