VERMIGLIO (2024) | Haifa Film Festival (Carmel International Competition)
At the 40th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Maura Delpero, with Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Orietta Notari. In Italian, with Hebrew and English subtitles. 1944, in Vermiglio, a high mountain village of the Italian Alps, where war looms as a distant but constant threat. The arrival of Pietro, […]
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ALLOSANFAN (1974) | Haifa Film Festival (Taviani Retrospective)
At the 40th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Vittorio and Paolo Taviani, with Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer, Laura Betti, Claudio Cassinelli. In Italian, with Hebrew and English subtitles. In the chaos of 19th-century Italy, Fulvio, an aging political revolutionary of noble birth, begins questioning his commitment to the cause. While he secretly […]
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WISHING ON A STAR (2024) | Haifa Film Festival (Haifa Doco)
At the 40th Haifa International Film Festival, a documentary by Péter Kerekes, with Luciana de Leoni D’Asparedo, Valentina Angeli, Alessandra Fornasier. In Italian, with Hebrew and English subtitles. Luciana, a Neapolitan astrologer, has a method for making her clients’ wishes come true. All they need to do is travel to a specific destination on their […]
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ST. MICHAEL HAD A ROOSTER (1972) | Haifa Film Festival (Taviani Retrospective)
At the 40th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Vittorio and Paolo Taviani, with Samy Pavel, Giulio Brogi, Renato Scarpa, Virginia Ciuffini, Sergio Serafini, Lorenzo Piani. In Italian, with Hebrew and English subtitles. In 1870, during the societal tumult that eventually led to the unification of Italy, revolutionary anarchist Giulio Manieri leads a minor uprising […]
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LIMONOV: THE BALLAD (2024) | Haifa Film Festival (Gala Panorama)
At the 40th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Kirill Serebrennikov, with Ben Whishaw, Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Tomas Arana, Corrado Invernizzi, Sandrine Bonnaire. In English, with Hebrew and Russian subtitles. An activist, revolutionary, dandy, thug, butler, and homeless man—Eduard Limonov was a fiery and belligerent poet, a political agitator, and the novelist of his own greatness. […]
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PADRE PADRONE (1977) | Haifa Film Festival (Taviani Retrospective)
At the 40th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Vittorio and Paolo Taviani, with Omero Antonutti, Nanni Moretti, Marcella Michelangeli, Saverio Marconi, Fabrizio Forte. In Italian, with Hebrew and English subtitles. Winner of the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, this classic by the Taviani brothers is based on Gavino Ledda’s autobiography. Gavino is only six years […]
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GOOD MORNING, BABYLON (1987) | Haifa Film Festival (Taviani Retrospective)
At the 40th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Vittorio and Paolo Taviani, with Charles Dance, Vincent Spano, Greta Scacchi, Joaquim de Almeida, Margarita Lozano, Omero Antonutti. In Italian and English, with Hebrew and English subtitles. In 1915, Andrea and Nicola – two Italian brothers, skilled in the restoration of cathedrals – leave their […]
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READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN (2024) | Haifa Film Festival (Gala Panorama)
At the 40th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Eran Riklis, with Golshifteh Farahani, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, Mina Kavani, Bahar Beihaghi, Isabella Nefar. In Persian and English, with Hebrew and English subtitles. Azar Nafisi, a former professor at Tehran University, secretly gathers her most dedicated female students to read forbidden Western classics. As fundamentalists seize […]
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THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS (1982) | Haifa Film Festival (Taviani Retrospective)
At the 40th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Vittorio and Paolo Taviani, with Omero Antonutti, Claudio Bigagli, Margarita Lozano, Massimo Sarchielli, Graziella Galvani. In Italian, with Hebrew and English subtitles. It is the Night of San Lorenzo, the night when dreams come true. While watching shooting stars, Cecilia tells her son about a similar […]
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WISHING ON A STAR (2024) | Haifa Film Festival (Haifa Doco)
At the 40th Haifa International Film Festival, a documentary by Péter Kerekes, with Luciana de Leoni D’Asparedo, Valentina Angeli, Alessandra Fornasier. In Italian, with Hebrew and English subtitles. Luciana, a Neapolitan astrologer, has a method for making her clients’ wishes come true. All they need to do is travel to a specific destination on their […]
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