Wednesday | 27.11.24

Time Items
All day
 
4pm
16:00
Echo of You + lecture (in Heb.)
16:00
This Is Our Everything + lecture (in Heb.)
5pm
17:00
Emilia Pérez | Theatrical Release
6pm
18:15
Night of the Coyotes + lecture (in Heb.)
18:30
Gerlach, The Last Farmer
8pm
20:00
Emilia Pérez | Theatrical Release
20:30
Walden: Reels 1 & 2 + conversation (in Heb.)
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Juries

Juries
Esther Hoffenberg

International Competition Esther Hoffenberg has been working as a director and producer in France since 1980. With her production company, Lapsus, she has produced over 60 documentaries. Since 2005, she has become increasingly involved in film making and directed five documentaries. Her most recent film, Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman, premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Nurit Kedar

International Competition Producer and director of documentary productions. Senior Producer at Jerusalem’s CNN bureau and Executive Producer for Israeli Channel 2. Directed the award-winning Borders, Lebanon Dream, Asesino,  One Shot, Hanuszka, Wasted, Concrete, White Night and Life Sentences. Recipient of the 2015 Israeli Academy of Film and Television Lifetime Achievement Award and the Israel Ministry of Culture Art of Cinema Award, 2016.

Michel Kichka

International Competition Political cartoonist, graphic novel author, illustrator, and lecturer. Works as a freelance illustrator for press and children books, political cartoonist for Israeli Channel 2 and 1, Courrier International, L’Arche, Regards, TV5 Monde, i24News, and more. Professor of Cartoon/Comics/Illustration at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. Published two  raphic novels: Second Generation - Things I did not Tell my Father and Hot Spicy Falafel.

Kamal Hacknar

Interfaith Competition French-Moroccan writer and director. Interested in the Jewish culture and heritage of Morocco, he learned Hebrew, and has organized cultural evenings with Jewish and Arab poets, as well as debates bringing Israeli and Palestinian students together. In 2012 he directed Tinghir Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah – a documentary following the Jewish community that left the Berber village of Tinghir in Morocco during the 1950s and 60s.

Benjamin Freidenberg

Interfaith Competition Film director and cinema studies scholar. Graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film School and the Linguistics Department at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His research focuses on language of film in cinematography, as well as text-image concepts of visual languages. Faculty member of the Sam Spiegel Film School, the Ma’ale School Television and Film, and the Bezalel Screen-Based Arts Department. CEO & Co-Founder of the Jerusalem Filmmakers Guild.

Rose Pacatte

Interfaith Competition Rose Pacatte is a Catholic sister and the founding director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Los Angeles, CA. She is an award-winning film critic for print and online outlets, a certified Rotten Tomatoes critic, and an author of 13 books, one of the most recent a biography of the actor Martin Sheen.

Hélène Schoumann

Journalist and writer Hélène Schoumann is a correspondent for The Jerusalem Post (French Edition), hosts a radio show on cinema, and is the author of a dictionary on Israeli cinema. Schoumann serves as President of the Israeli Film Festival in Paris.

Eyal Datz

Israeli director and documentary filmmaker. Director of Hidden Face (2018), producer and writer of Tomorrow’s Gone (2019), content editor of the documentary series Stories (2020) and of Rabbenu, a series on the life of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. These days he is working on his third film for Kan11

Itay Yaacov
Israel Short Film Competition Journalist, designer, and curator. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Television from Sapir Academic College and a master’s degree in Design from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Writes about fashion, design, culture. Since 2002 has been involved in combining design tools for traditional craft artists.