The 29th Haifa International Film Festival will take place between September 19 – 28, 2013. At this year's edition, two Romanian films will be screened: Child's Pose, dir. Călin Peter Netzer (the first Romanian film to receive the Golden Bear for the Best Film at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival and Romania's proposal for the Oscars) and Of Snails and Men, dir. Tudor Giurgiu (the most successful Romanian film at the box office in the last 10 years). With the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, Of Snails and Men will be represented by Mrs. Oana Giurgiu, the film producer.
Child's Pose (116 minutes, Romanian with Hebrew & English subtitles)
Saturday, 21.09.2013, at 14:30, Rapapport Hall
Monday, 23.09.2013, at 16:30, Rapapport Hall Tickets: tel. 04-833.88.88 (Tickets can be purchased starting with 08.09.2013) or online at http://www.haifaff.co.il/eng/Movie%20Info.php?id=7174
SynopsisThe film Child's Pose depicts the relation between an overprotective mother and her adult son. It is a film that deals with the drama of smothering one's children with too much love and about the scars left by parents on their children's personality. At the same time, the film serves as an X-ray of the contemporary Romanian high-class and approaches subjects such as corruption and blackmail at the lower level of society's state institutions and how these phenomena extend to the whole social and economical system of today's Romania.
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Of Snails and Men (93 minutes, Romanian & French with Hebrew subtitles)
Friday, 20.09.2013, at 20:00, Krieger Cultural Center
Wednesday, 25.09.2013, at 17:30, Krieger Cultural Center
The screenings will be followed by a Q&A session with the film producer, Oana Giurgiu.Tickets: tel. 04-833.88.88 (Tickets can be purchased starting with 08.09.2013) or online at http://www.haifaff.co.il/eng/Movie%20Info.php?id=7199
Synopsis1992, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania.
The state-owned car factory just went bankrupt and will be privatised in a week. The buyer is a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of the 3000 workers will keep their jobs.
George Petrescu, the union leader – late thirties, married, one child – lives on monthly wage of 100 dollars, like everyone else in town. He is a sort of charming provincial Don Juan. Late one night, unable to sleep, he sees an advertisement on TV for a sperm bank in Bucharest paying 50 dollars for each donation. This gives him an idea to save the plant and his fellows’ jobs. If 1000 of the young workers sold their sperm for a week, they could raise enough money to buy the plant and the license for a new engine. They could restart production, be back in business and everyone would have a job.
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The Haifa International Film Festival, the leading cinematic event in Israel, was founded in 1983 as the first international film festival in the country. 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.
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