The Haifa International Film Festival will take place between September 19-28, 2021 in various cultural locations in Haifa. The international program will include a record number of Romanian films, screened in Israel with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv.
Întregalde, director Radu Muntean – Carmel International Competition (Romania, 2021, 104 minutes, Hebrew and English subtitles)
Thursday, 23.09.2021, at 14:30, Rapaport
Saturday, 25.09.2021, at 19:15, Tikotin Japanese Museum of Art
Tuesday, 28.09.2021, at 12:00, Rapaport
Tickets: *9300 or online https://www.haifaff.co.il/eng/Films/7704/%C3%8Entregalde
Director: Radu Muntean
Script: Radu Muntean, Alexandru Baciu and Răzvan Rădulescu
Cast: Maria Popistașu, Luca Sabin, Ilona Brezoianu, Alexandru Bogdan
Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DySmvrQ70rY
Maria, Dan and Ilinca take part in their regular end-of-the-year humanitarian trip, driving an SUV along the mountain dirt roads of the Romanian village of Întregalde. They help a lonely old man reach a sawmill, where he supposedly works. But when their car gets stuck in a ditch in the woods, the sawmill proves to be abandoned, and they’re forced to spend the night with the senile old man, their ideas about empathy and helpfulness are challenged.
Romanian auteur Radu Muntean’s new film is an incisive, sarcastic and suspenseful drama about the limits of generosity.
Blue moon, director Alina Grigore – Golden Anchor Competition for Debuts (Romania, 2021, 85 minutes, Hebrew and English subtitles)
Thursday, 23.09.2021, at 16:30, Haifa Cinematheque
Tuesday, 28.09.2021, at 10:00, Haifa Cinematheque
Online screenings between
24-27.09.2021
Tickets: *9300 or online https://www.haifaff.co.il/eng/Films/7895/Blue_Moon
Director: Alina Grigore
Script: Alina Grigore
Cast: Ioana Chițu, Mircea Postelnicu, Mircea Silaghi, Vlad Ivanov
Irina lives with her family in a rural area in Romania. The father has left for London, she shares her home with her mother, sister, and her mother’s extended, dysfunctional family. But still, she clings to her dreams - to be free of her cousins’ stronghold, to study in Bucharest, and most of all, to find love. One party and the morning after will change her world.
Alina Grigore’s feature debut comes to Haifa directly from its world premiere at the San Sebastian festival. Grigore started researching the topic for the gripping psychological drama more than a decade ago, when she wrote short stories exploring the challenges faced by young Romanian women in rural areas.
Mikado, director Emanuel Pârvu – Panorama
Competition (co-production Romania-Czech Republic, 2021, 96 minutes, Hebrew and
English subtitles)
Sunday, 26.09.2021,
at 10:00, Haifa Cinematheque
Tuesday, 28.09.2021, at 10:00, Tikotin Japanese Museum of Art
Tickets: *9300 or online https://www.haifaff.co.il/eng/Films/7808/Mikado
Director: Emanuel Pârvu
Script: Alexandru Popa and Emanuel Pârvu
Cast: Șerban Pavlu, Ana Indricău, Tudor Cucu-Dumitrescu, Crina Semciuc
One day, on impulse, teenager Magda gives a valuable necklace to a girl, a patient in the oncology ward at the hospital where Magda volunteers together with her boyfriend Iulian. Her widowed father Cristi, who gave her the necklace, is certain she that she is lying. When she proves her innocence, Cristi feels ashamed and guilty, but also incapable of admitting he was wrong. His reaction will push the family towards inevitable change.
The second feature from Emanuel Parvu comes to Haifa directly from its premiere at the San Sebastian Festival. In this gripping family drama Parvu explores the theme of parents-children relations, where good intentions are never enough.
Bad luck banging or loony porn,director Radu Jude – Panorama
Competition (co-production Romania-Luxembourg-Czech Republic-Croatia,
2021, 106 minutes, Hebrew and English subtitles)
Saturday, 25.09.2021, at 21:30,Tikotin Japanese Museum of Art
Tuesday, 28.09.2021, at 18:00, Haifa Cinematheque
Tickets: *9300 or online https://www.haifaff.co.il/eng/Films/7806/Bad_Luck_Banging_or_Loony_Porn
Director: Radu Jude
Script: Radu Jude
Cast: Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Olimpia Mălai, Nicodim Ungureanu,
Alexandru Potocean
Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AEgcTSMSOY
Emi, a schoolteacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked onto the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, she refuses to surrender.
Winner of the Golden Bear for best film at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, the new film by Romanian New Wave auteur Radu Jude is an intelligent, satirical triptych. The film was inspired by a newspaper article and the ensuing fierce discussions between Jude with his friends.
The Haifa International Film Festival, the leading cinematic event in Israel, was founded in 1983 as the first international film festival in Israel. Growing steadily in both the number of screenings and attendance, Haifa IFF has earned a world-wide reputation for both the quality of its program and the friendly atmosphere.
The festival brings together each year an ever-growing audience along with hundreds of Israeli and foreign professionals from the film and television industries and offers 280 screenings of new films from around the world, including 70 Israeli productions. 300,000 people in total take part in the activities of the Festival, including the outdoor events, screenings, workshops and more, and dozens of journalists from both the print and broadcast media, from Israel and abroad, cover the event. The Festival makes its home in the city of Haifa, that has become a symbol of co-existence, tolerance and peace, ideals that the Festival wholeheartedly promotes.
Website: www.haifaff.co.il
