TEN films from our program are already part of the European Film Academy’s Film Selection 2022 and shortlisted for the European Film Awards:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Edward Berger
USA|Germany
March on Rome
Mark Cousins
Italy
Alcarràs
Carla Simón
Spain|Italy
Boy From Heaven
Tarik Saleh
Sweden|France|Finland
Close
Lukas Dhont
Belgium|France|Netherlands
Godland
Hlynur Pálmason
Denmark|Iceland|France|S...
Winner of the festival’s unofficial Best Film Title is Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (cannot resist a good rhyme) with special jury mentions going to The Score and The Outfit for great use of multiple meaning. #TheScore #TheOutfit #MrsHarrisGoesToParis #Awards
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Some people love movies. Some people love movies about love. If you're In the Mood for Love why not try one of these? Some may surprise you, some may get weird, none are your standard rom-com, but all very good.
More Than Ever
Emily Atef
France|Germany|Luxembourg|Norway
The Happiest Man in the World
Teona Strugar Mitevska
North Macedonia|Bosnia Herzegovina|Belgium|Croatia|Denmark|Slovenia
The Mountain
Thomas Salvador
France
The Score
Mal...
The Haifa IFF celebrates the new cooperation agreement between Morocco and Israel with a tribute to Moroccan cinema.
The Haifa IFF is honored to welcome a delegation of Moroccan filmmakers, including celebrated director and producer Nabil Ayouch (Horses of God, Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets), winner of dozens of international awards, and women filmmakers like Maryam Touzani, Laila Marrakchi and Yasmine Benkiran.
Alongside the film screenings, the program will include meetings with the...
The festival’s Life Achievement Award goes to Makram Khoury. Makram Khoury is an Arab-Israeli actor and director, one of Israel’s leading performers, recipient of the Israel Prize for acting and the Ophir Award for Best Actor. Khoury was born in Jerusalem, studied in London and was a member of the Haifa Theater for 20 years. Working in three languages - Hebrew, Arabic and English - he’s played dozens of leading roles in films, on stage, and on television, including Magic Men, T...
10 films in our program are their country's official submission to the 95th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film. Good luck to all!
Belgium
Close | Lukas Dhont
Bolivia
Utama | Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Costa Rica
Domingo and the Mist | Ariel Escalante
Germany
All Quiet on the Western Front | Edward Berger
Italy
Nostalgia | Mario Martone
Morocco
The Blue Caftan | Maryam Touzani
North Macedonia
The Happiest Man in...
Need a break from real humans? We've got you covered with a fantastic selection of animation films - all genres, all techniques, for all ages.
2022 has been an excellent year for family-friendly animated movies. Why not bring the kids along? Let them experience something other than Disney staples? Introduce them early to the wonderful world of film festivals.
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Acclaimed French actor Denis Ménochet first came to our attention in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and has been impressing ever since. In the festival's program he can be seen in to very different roles: an over-the-top filmmaker who embodies Fassbinder "with a mixture of tenderness, horror and awe" (Screen) for all the world to see, in François Ozon's Peter von Kant, and a down-to-earth farmer in Galicia who controls his emotions until they ca...
Three very different films - all centering on sight and blindness - are screened in our program this year: The Story of Looking, a personal meditation by celebrated filmmaker and historian Mark Cousins; The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic by Teemu Nikki, a life-affirming film where lead actor Petri Poikolainen has MS and is himself blind and disabled; and Dark Glasses, the film that marks the return of bone-chilling master Dario Argento to the genre.
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For the first time in our program! The Haifa IFF enables people with sight loss to experience fully accessible cinema on two Israeli films - Betulim by Maor Zagouri and The Good Person by Eitan Anner - using the Greta app on their mobile phones.
This is courtesy of a wonderful initiative of The Central Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Handicapped in Israel.
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The Haifa IFF wishes you all a very happy and healthy Jewish New Year! #RoshHashanah #ShanaTova #HappyNewYear #JewishNewYear The
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Prolific documentarian, critic and writer MARC COUSINS (The Story of Film) is represented in our program with two films: the more personal The Story of Looking, a treasure trove of insight on sight, and the Venice title, March On Rome, a reflective essay documentary that goes back 100 years exactly to Benito Mussolini’s fateful power grab.
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The Golden Anchor Competition for debut films allows us to meet some of the rising filmmakers who've created a buzz this year with their promising first or second film:
Alcarràs - Carla Simón
Delta - Michele Vannucci
Immersion - Nicolas Postiglione
Summer with Hope - Sadaf Foroughi
The Mountain - Thomas Salvador
The Score - Malachi Smyth
The Worst Ones - Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
Utama - Alejandro Loayza Grisi
We Might as Well Be Dead - Natalia Sin...
Three film with a strong Jewish theme and stronger moral dilemmas take us back to the dark days of WWII and remind us that the human spirit is well worth fighting for:
Farewell, Mr. Haffmann - dir.: Fred Cavayé
The Forger - dir.: Maggie Peren
The Wedding Day - dir.: Wojciech Smarzowski
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Calling all mountaineers! Three fantastic films will take you to the majestic Alps - A Piece of Sky by Michael Koch, The Mountain by Thomas Salvador and The Eight Mountains by Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch - only in the program of the #HaifaIFF
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Our Carmel Competition for International Films brings to Haifa some of the buzziest, most anticipated films of the year. We've got a great line-up for you!
A Piece of Sky - Michael Koch
Close - Lukas Dhont
Godland - Hlynur Pálmason
Leonora addio - Paolo Taviani
More Than Ever - Emily Atef
The Beasts - Rodrigo Sorogoyen
The Blue Caftan - Maryam Touzani
The Happiest Man in the World - Teona Strugar Mitevska
The Line - Ursula Meier
The Wedding Day - Wojciech Smarzowski
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Calling all fashion aficionados! Three new films take us behind the scenes of clothes-making, from the traditional to the couture. There is color, there is fabric, there is great moviemaking, what's not to love?
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Dir.: Anthony Fabian
The Blue Caftan, Dir.: Dir.: Maryam Touzani
The Outfit, Dir.: Graham Moore
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Calling Johnny Flynn fans (and, really, who isn't)! Two new films in our program showcase his talent both as singer-songwriter (The Score-Malachi Smyth) and actor (The Outfit-Graham Moore). Only in the 38th #HaifaIFF #TheScore #TheOutfit
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Israeli cinema - our best export - and we've got it all for you this year! Comedy and classics, dramas and docs, shorts and special events, animation and more! #HaifaIFF #Israeli cinema
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Pleased to #announce that the #closing #film of the 38th #HaifaIFF will be the highly anticipated Silent by Shemi Zarhin (The Kind Words). Wonderful to close with a relevant and intriguing #Israeli production. #filmfestival #film
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Breaking News: Just announced the Opening Film of the Haifa IFF! You can read the details on our twitter at https://lnkd.in/dmgjH_uZ or letterboxd at https://lnkd.in/d8VukF5p
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Israeli TV strikes again! Two fantastic TV series - the comic drama Who Remembers Hava and Nava? and the documentary The Mandate - are making their way to the small (or not so small) screen. Everyone will be talking about them soon, you can beat the crowd and watch them with us, at the Haifa IFF.
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Calling all short film buffs! 33 films will take part in the Israeli Short Film Competitions in three categories: students, independents and animation. And remember - the winner of the Israeli Independent Short Feature will be eligible to compete for the Best Short Film at the Academy Awards! Good luck to this new crop if Israeli filmmaking talent!
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University we invite you to time travel with us and watch the graduation films of some of most prominent Israeli filmmakers working today:
- Chavatzelet (1990) - Levana Hakim
- Comfortably Numb (1991) - Ari Folman and Ori Sivan
- Le Jardin (1989) by Menashe Noy
- Reality Check (2011) - Michal Vinik
- Tasnim (2010) by Elite Zexer
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Just released the line-up for the Israeli film competitions for the upcoming Haifa IFF! For the full details go to our twitter at https://lnkd.in/dmgjH_uZ or letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/haifaiff/ We've got a great program lined up!
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