AICE Australian Film Festival 2007
The AICE Australian Film Festival 2007 opens on 25/6/07, in Jerusalem. If you’re like me and pondering why this round of the AFL is taking something like a week and a half to play through, that’s some comforting respite.
The official opening of this years festival will be held in the presence of the Australian Foreign Minister the Hon. Alexander Downer MP and Mr Avi Dichter MK, Israeli Minister for Public Security, on 26/6/07 at the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
AICE’s objective is to promote Israeli culture in Australia and Australian culture in Israel and the AICE film festivals are one of the key components in fulfilling that objective.
The festival will run in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. The first film to be screened in the festival will be Jindabyne, a multi award winning film directed by Ray Lawrence. The film schedule runs like this:
25 - 30 June: Jerusalem Cinematheque
2 - 7 July: Tel Aviv Cinematheque
9 - 14 July: Haifa Cinematheque
Press here for full details.
Ray Lawrence is well known for his success with Lantana. Jindabyne is his follow up film. Another well known director having her work screened at the festival is Gillian Armstrong. Unfolding Florence, is a true crime story about a society interior designer who constantly invents her own life story. Her murder remains one of Australia's most notorious unsolved crimes. Press here for the full range of film synopses.
The overriding theme for this year's festival is Telling the Truth and Telling 'Stories', as so many Australian films this year have blurred the edges of fiction and non-fiction storytelling. In her welcoming notes ,Sue Maslin the festival’s Artistic Director, points out that three years ago there were no Australian films in local distribution and this year there will be seven. Since the Festival was launched, there has been a growing audience and appreciation for Australian films has developed in Israel. I hope as many of us as possible will be able to lend our support and enjoy the festival at the same time.
2 comments:
Well, It was great to see some Aussie movies oonce again. This yr if not for the blog I would have missed it although every yr I try to make it either to the Jlm or TLV Cinematiques.
Anyhow I unfortunately missed the first showing in Jlm and so as a second choice I fronted up to Home Song Stories where i caught up with an old friend whom just made Aliyah recently, anyhow the movie was posted as having Hebrew subtitles and if not for my friend I would have walked out and demanded my money back.. Most of the movie was in Chinese and although it had a good story line it ruined the enjoyment of going to a movie by not understanding most of it.
Reticent the following week I decided to go and see Jindabyne in TLV as it was an opportunity to catch up with my sister and see a movie which was the Opening event.
This time the Cinema was packed with people, (no Aussies that I knew) and a movie which was produced by the same guy whom produced Lantana which I recall I enjoyed. In addition it was solely in English and included Hebrew subtitles.. So next time
I wonder if the JLm Cinemateque can be counted on or is it the blame of Binyanei Hauma for a lack of subtitles.
Anyhow nevertheless checking out an Aussie movie makes owne feel closer to home or shall I say less foreign.
Rgds
Mihal
maybe because it was so crowded we didn't see each other. we were there. it was a great change to visit tel aviv from jerusalem. i was impressed by the number of tel aviv's who's who, gracing the opening. Made me feel like tal brodi after maccabi tel aviv’s first European cup, “we’re on the map!” in israel that is.
before the film we met with susan maslin artistic director of the festival and Eloise Oxer who acted in hunt angles, one of the festival films . how's this for a small world? it turns out that susan is a good friend of my old high school sweetheart, who is a successful film producer these days; and Eloise grew up in perth (at least for a while), and even spent some of that time living on a street the other side of my old high school.
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