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Avanim
''Avanim'' is Raphael Nadjari's fourth feature film. It was shot in and around Tel Aviv in 2003, in HDCam. The film was presented in the Berlin Film Festival as a Panorama: Special presentation in 2004. Plot Michale is a woman in her mid-30s, married with a young son and working in her father's Tel Aviv accounting firm serving religious institutions. She divides her time between her child, her husband, her work and the man with whom she is having an affair. When Michale learns of the sudden death of her lover, her life is shattered. Cast * Asi Levi (Michale) * Uri Gavriel (Meir) * Florence Bloch (Nehama Tinski) * Shaul Mizrahi (Gabai) * Danny Steg (Shmoulik) * Gabi Amrani-Gur (Rav Ozeri) * Eli Eltonyo (Gabriel) Release Following its premiere as a Panorama Special presentation at the Berlin Film Festival, Avanim premiered in New York at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and was released theatrically in France later that year. Awards and nominations *Berlin Film Festival (2004) - ...
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Nathaniel Méchaly
Nathaniel Méchaly (born 1972) is a French musician and film composer. His composing credits include '' Avanim'' (2004), ''Revolver'' (2005), ''Colombiana'' (2011), '' The Grandmaster'' (2013), and the ''Taken'' trilogy (2008–2014). Early life Méchaly was born in 1972. He studied music at the Conservatoire National de Région de Musique de Marseille. Career Méchaly began his career as a composer for television shows and commercials for French media conglomerates. He served as an assistant to French-Lebanese composer Gabriel Yared. He wrote his first score for French-Israeli writer and director Raphaël Nadjari's 2004 film '' Avanim''. He went on to score two more Israeli feature films: ''Ushpizin'' (2004), and ''Tehilim'' (2007) which was also directed by Nadjari. Eventually, the French production company EuropaCorp's music department director became aware of Méchaly's earlier works and referred him to compose French actor Richard Berry's 2005 directorial feature film '' ...
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Seville European Film Festival
The Seville European Film Festival (SEFF; es, Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla, links=no) is an annual film festival dedicated to European cinema held in November in Seville, Spain, since 2004. The festival is an initiative of the Instituto de la Cultura y las Artes de Sevilla (; ICAS), which depends on the Ayuntamiento de Sevilla. It is supported by the ICAA and the sub-programme Europe Creative MEDIA. The festival has also traditionally served as staging ground for the announcement of the nominations to the European Film Academy's European Film Awards. Since 2013, it enjoys the collaboration from Filmin Comunidad Filmin S.L., doing business as Filmin, is a Spanish subscription video on demand streaming service, primarily dedicated to streaming independent films, as well as a production company and film distributor. The company headquarters is loc .... The top prize awarded at the festival is known as the 'Golden Giraldillo' (). The first edition took place on 6–13 No ...
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Asi Levi
Osnat "Asi" Levi ( he, אסי לוי; born September 28, 1969) is an Israeli Film Academy Award winning actress. Career Levi attended and graduated the Yoram Levinstein School of Acting in southern Tel Aviv. Levi's early appearances include films such as '' HaShiva'' (1995), '' Kesher Ir'' (Urban Feel; 1998) and '' HaBoleshet Hokeret'' (The Investigation Must Go On; 2000), alongside Moshe Ivgy. For the latter two she received an Israeli Film Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has also appeared in several television shows, including '' Cafe Paris'' and '' HaBurganim''. In 2004, she played the leading role in Raphael Nadjari's film '' Avanim'', which was presented in the Berlin Film Festival as a Panorama: Special Presentation, and also won several awards across Europe, including Best Film at the Cinema Tout Ecran in Geneva. Her best-known appearance was in '' Aviva Ahuvati'' (Aviva, My Love), a 2006 film by Shemi Zarhin, in which she played the leading role. The f ...
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Uri Gavriel
Uri Gavriel ( he, אורי גבריאל) is an Israeli theater, film and television actor. Winner of the Ophir Award and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2005 as Best Actor in film '' What a Wonderful Place''. In 2018, he appeared as Philip the Apostle in Helen Edmundson's film ''Mary Magdalene. Early life Gavriel was born in Magdiel, Israel, to Mizrahi Jewish immigrant parents from Iraq. Filmography References External links * *Uri Gavriel' at Rotten Tomatoes *Uri Gavriel' at The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Gavriel, Uri 1955 births Living people Israeli male film actors Israeli film directors Israeli people of Iraqi-Jewish descent Israeli Sephardi Jews Israeli Mizrahi Jews Israeli male television actors ...
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Laurent Brunet
Laurent Brunet (born 1967) is a French César Award-winning cinematographer for '' Séraphine'' (2008) by Martin Provost. He is widely known for his work on the films of Raphael Nadjari. Brunet shot all five of Raphael Nadjari's feature films as well as Amos Gitai's '' Free Zone'' and Keren Yedaya's ''Or (My Treasure)'' as well as Christophe Honoré's ''The Beautiful Person''. Selected filmography *2019: ''Enormous'' *2019: '' Arab Blues'' *2018: ''Tel Aviv on Fire'' *2016: ''Trainee Day'' *2016: '' Irréprochable'' *2015: ''Papa lumière'' *2015: ''Boomerang'' *2015: '' Microbe & Gasoline'' *2014: '' That Lovely Girl'' *2012: '' Maman'' *2008: ''The Beautiful Person'' *2008: '' Séraphine'' *2007: ''Le Blues de l'Orient'' *2007: '' Vous êtes de la police ?'' *2007: ''Le Fils de L'Épicier'' *2007: ''Tehilim'' *2007: ''Plum Rain'' *2005: '' Free Zone'' *2005: '' Little Jerusalem'' *2004: ''Or (My Treasure) ''Or (My Treasure)'' is a 2004 drama film starring Dana I ...
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French Drama Films
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Fortnite French places Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), 2008 * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a particular type of military jacket or tunic used in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French catheter scale, a unit of measurement of diameter * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss involving the tongue See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French ...
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Films Scored By Nathaniel Méchaly
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ...
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Israeli Drama Films
Israeli may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the State of Israel * Israelis, citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel * Modern Hebrew, a language * ''Israeli'' (newspaper), published from 2006 to 2008 * Guni Israeli (born 1984), Israeli basketball player See also * Israelites, the ancient people of the Land of Israel * List of Israelis Israelis ( he, ישראלים ''Yiśraʾelim'') are the citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel, a multiethnic state populated by people of different ethnic backgrounds. The largest ethnic groups in Israel are Jews (75%), foll ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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French Independent Films
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Fortnite French places Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), 2008 * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a particular type of military jacket or tunic used in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French catheter scale, a unit of measurement of diameter * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss involving the tongue See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French ...
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Cinema Tout Ecran
The Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) (french: link=no, Festival international du film de Genève) is an annual film festival founded in 1995. The festival, previously called the Geneva International Film Festival Tous Ecrans, was renamed in July 2017 as the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF). Every year for over ten days, it offers a series of experiences focused on image, sound, and new forms of narration, which include screenings, interactive installations, VR works, conferences, and live performances. The festival also co-hosts the ‘Beyond Cinema: Swiss Digital Showcase’ event at the Cannes Film Festival as well as the Swiss Party at Austin's South by Southwest festival and it is one of the first in the world to host an International VR Films Competition, as well as an out-of-competition section for digital works called Virtual Territories. Emmanuel Cuénod has been the Executive and Artistic Director of the Festival since 2013. The festival includes six ...
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2000s Hebrew-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ...
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Films Directed By Raphael Nadjari
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ...
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