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Ophir Award
The Ophir Awards ( he, פרס אופיר), colloquially known as the Israeli Oscars or the Israeli Academy Awards, are film awards for excellence in the Israeli film industry awarded by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. The award, named after Israeli actor Shaike Ophir, has been granted since 1990. History The first Israeli Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1982 with the first award being presented to director Shimon Dotan for the film '' Repeat Dive'', and since 1990 has been held annually at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center. The highest number of Ophir Awards won by a single film is 11, achieved only by ''Nina's Tragedies''. Assi Dayan won the award 8 times and is the only person to have won as a director, as a screenwriter and also as an actor. The winner of the Best Film award usually becomes Israel's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, although exceptions include '' Aviva My Love'' (which was rejected in favor of the film it t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tzachi Halevy
Tzachi Halevy (or Tsahi HaLevi, he, צחי הלוי; born March 12, 1975) is an Israeli film and television actor and a singer. Early and personal life Tzachi Halevy was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, to a Sephardic Jewish family.קצין המסתערבים שהפך לרקדן שר על חיילים ("The Mista'arvim officer that became a dancer who sings about soldiers") Assaf Nevo, ''Keshet Media Group#Mako, Mako'', 8 August 2011 His father was an 8th generation Sabra (person), Sabra, whereas his mother is of Moroccan Jews, Moroccan-Jewish origin. As a child he lived in many countries due to his father's work in the Prime Minister's Office (Israel), Israeli P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lookout (1990 Film)
''The Lookout'' ( he, שורו, translit. Shuroo) is a 1990 Israeli comedy film directed by Savi Gabizon. It stars Moshe Ivgy, Moshe Ferster, and Keren Mor. The film is about a "small-time con man who becomes a guru". Critically acclaimed, it won the Ophir Award for Best Film and garnered numerous Best Actor awards for Ivgy at the Israeli Academy Awards and Haifa Film Festival. It was submitted by Israel to the Academy Awards. Cast * Shmuel Edelman * Moshe Ferster as Moshe * Sharon Hacohen * Moshe Ivgy * Ezra Kafri * Keren Mor as Shimrit Reception The film was submitted by Israel for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards, but was not selected. See also * List of submissions to the 63rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Israeli submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Israel has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1964. Despite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campfire (film)
''Campfire'' ( he, מדורת השבט, Medurat Ha-Shevet, ) is a 2004 Israeli film written and directed by Joseph Cedar. Set in 1981, the film focuses on a woman seeking to join an Israeli settlement on the West Bank, despite the protests of her teenage daughters. The film premiered at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2004. The film won five Israeli Academy Awards and was Israel's official submission for the 77th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category (but did not get a nomination). The film was well received in Israel, the United States, and in international film festivals.Tugend, Tom."Religious Tensions Spark ‘Campfire.’"''Jewish Journal''. 4 November 2004. 31 May 2016. Synopsis The story of a young widow, mother of two beautiful teenage daughters, who wants to join the founding group of a new settlement of religious Jews in the West Bank The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broken Wings (film)
''Broken Wings'' ( he, כנפיים שבורות / Knafayim Shvurot) is a 2002 Israeli film directed by Nir Bergman and starring Orly Silbersatz Banai, Maya Maron, and Nitai Gaviratz. Plot The unexpected death of the family patriarch throws every member of the Ullmann clan off course. Widow Dafna takes to bed for three months and when she finally returns to her job at the maternity hospital, she has little time for her children. Eldest son, Yair drops out of school and adopts a fatalist attitude, shutting out his siblings and girlfriend. His twin sister Maya, a talented musician, feels the most guilt and is forced to act as a family caregiver at the expense of career opportunities. Bullied at school, younger son Ido responds by obsessively filming himself with a video camera and attempting dangerous feats. The baby sister, Bar, is woefully neglected. Preoccupied with their own misery, the family is barely a family anymore. When another tragedy strikes, will they be able to su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Late Marriage (film)
''Late Marriage'' ( he, חתונה מאוחרת, ''Hatuna Meuheret'') is a 2001 Israeli film directed by Dover Kosashvili. The film centers on Zaza (Lior Ashkenazi, in his breakthrough role), the 31-year-old child of tradition-minded Georgian Jews, Georgian Jewish immigrants who are anxiously trying to arrange a marriage for him. Unbeknownst to them, he is secretly dating a 34-year-old divorcee, divorcée, Judith (Ronit Elkabetz). When his parents discover the relationship and violently intervene, Zaza must choose between his family traditions and his love. Most of the main characters are Georgian-Israeli and the dialogue is partly in the Judaeo-Georgian, Judaeo-Georgian language and partly in Hebrew. The film was positively reviewed and was Israel's submission for List of submissions to the 74th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film at the 74th Academy Awards. Plot Zaza is a 31-year-old Georgian-Israeli PhD student at Tel Aviv University wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Of Favor
''Time of Favor'' (in Hebrew, Ha-hesder) is Israeli writer-director Joseph Cedar's 2000 debut film, starring Aki Avni. The film plays out a psychologically complex love triangle in the middle of terrorist conflict in the Israeli occupied West Bank. ''The New York Times'' called it an "art house thriller," and the ''Los Angeles Times'' said it was "one of the most successful contemporary Israeli films."* Plot Manachem, a handsome young soldier in the Israeli Defense Force, is offered his own unit, made up of fellow students from Rabbi Meltzer's West Bank Yeshiva. Menachem's close friend Pini is one of the star scholars at the Yeshiva, and Rabbi Meltzer, in an attempt to play matchmaker, promises Pini his daughter Michal's hand in marriage. But Michal, strong-willed and independent, has no interest in marrying Pini, who is weak and in poor health. Instead, she falls for Menachem, and his loyalty to the Rabbi and to his friend Pini are tested as he struggles to choose between Mic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yana's Friends
''Yana's Friends'' ( he, החברים של יאנה, translit=HaHaverim shel Yana) is a 1999 Israeli film directed by Arik Kaplun. script editor: Savi Gabizon. Critically acclaimed, it won 10 Israeli Academy Awards including the Ophir Award for Best Picture. It also won the Crystal Globe at the 34th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1999. The film has a very rare 100% rating on the film website Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang ... based on 30 reviews, with an average rating of 7.16/10. The site's consensus reads: "A heartwarming movie that handles some weighty subjects with humor". References External links * 1999 films Israeli drama films 1990s Hebrew-language films 1990s Russian-language films Crystal Globe winners 1999 drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circus Palestine
''Circus Palestine'' ( he, קרקס פלשתינה, translit. Kirkas Palestina) is a 1998 Israeli political satire film directed by Eyal Halfon, which was nominated for seven Israeli Film Academy Awards, winning five. The film was selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Plot A Russian circus arrives on the West Bank during the intifada. The war rages, the circus acts perform and a lion escapes in the middle of the night. An Israeli officer falls in love with the lion tamer and helps her search for it. They encounter the absurdities of life living under a military occupation. Though an unlikely plot, it was based on a true story. Cast * Yoram Hattab as Shimshon Bleiberg * Jenya Dodina as Marianna Stasenko * Amos Lavi as Colonel Oz * as Circus Boss * Bassam Zuamut as Ibrahim * Rinan Haim as Lugassi Reception Won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pick A Card
''Pick a Card'', also known as Afula Express, is a 1997 Israeli romantic comedy drama film directed by Julie Shles. It stars Zvika Hadar, Esti Zakheim, and Aryeh Moskona. Critically acclaimed, it won the Ophir Award for Best Film. The film was selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The movie focuses on aspiring magician David, whose girlfriend Batya wants him to concentrate more on their relationship. David joins up with Romanian immigrant Shimon, hoping that the two of them can form a magic act. See also * List of submissions to the 70th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Israeli submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Israel has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1964. Despite its relatively small film-making industry, ten I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Clara (film)
''Saint Clara'' ( he, קלרה הקדושה) is a 1996 Israeli film directed by Ari Folman and Ori Sivan with a screenplay by Folman based on the novel ''The Ideas of Saint Clara'' by Pavel Kohout. The film takes place in 1999 in a small Israeli town, in which a young girl called Clara Chanov (Lucy Dubinchik) discovers that she has paranormal powers that allow her to predict the future. The film was selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 69th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Plot The film opens with Eddie Tikel and "Rozy" Rosenthal running towards their classroom in the Golda School just a few moments before Headmaster Tissona and Zvi Munitz, the classroom's homeroom teacher, arrive with the math results: the entire class got a perfect 100% on their test. After sarcastically "praising" the class, Munitz and Tissona proceed to denounce this as "an act of rebel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovesick On Nana Street
''Lovesick on Nana Street'' ( translit. Hole Ahava B'Shikun Gimel) is a 1995 Israeli comedy drama film directed by Savi Gabizon. It stars Moshe Ivgi, Hana Azulay-Hasfari, Avigail Arieli and Menashe Noy. Critically acclaimed, it won the Ophir Award for Best Film, and awards internationally at Mannheim and São Paulo. The film was selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences See also * List of submissions to the 68th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Israeli submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Israel has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1964. Despite its relatively small film-making industry, ten Israeli films have been nominated for the Foreign Language Oscar, placing it in the Top Ten m ... References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sh'Chur
''Sh'Chur'' () is a 1994 Israeli drama film starring Gila Almagor, Ronit Elkabetz and Hanna Azoulay-Hasfari. It was written by Hanna Azoulay Hasfari and directed by her partner Shmuel Hasfari. Sh'Chur received critical acclaim and was the 1994 official Israeli submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also awarded the Ophir Award for best film by the Israeli Film and Television Academy. After its release, the film garnered various discussions in the Israeli press over its representation of the Moroccan community in Israel. Plot Cheli, a successful Israeli television personality, receives news that her father has died and she must immediately return to her childhood home for the funeral. She prepares for the journey and brings her young daughter Ruth, who is autistic. Along the way, Cheli is forced to pick up her older sister Pnina from the institution where she has resided since young adulthood. As the three women make their way back to the developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
