Israel’s Sam Spiegel Worldwide Movie Lab has appointed a brand new director and unveiled the tasks chosen for its eleventh version, operating from now till the early summer season.
Movie business veteran Mor Eldar has taken up the function of the lab’s director with fast impact, changing producer Aurit Zamir who arrived in 2020.
Eldar’s 20-year profession consists of launching and directing the Holon Cinematheque in addition to holding the roles of VP of programming and commissioning editor of movies at YES Satellite tv for pc TV and heading theatrical advertising and distribution at main Israeli distributor Lev Cinemas.
A dozen tasks will participate within the new Lab cycle, break up 50:50 between Israeli and worldwide tasks.
Worldwide tasks span French-Italian director Amelia Nanni’s At The Edge Of The World, a couple of younger lady despatched to spend the summer season together with her Italian grandparents in a small village inhabited solely by aged residents; Greek director Nikos Kyritsis’s teen fatherhood story Child, and Swedish filmmaker Jerry Carlsson’s Fires, a couple of lonely teenager grappling with questions of id.
From Italy, Damiano Femfert and Tommaso Landucci will take part with Kids of the Monkey, a couple of father who finds himself forming a stronger bond along with his nephew than his disabled son; Hungarian director Hajni Kis’s Ich Bin Marika, following a lady in her 50s who strikes to Germany to work as a caregiver for an aged couple, and North Macedonia filmmaker Marija Apcevska’s Spring Cleansing, a couple of prodigal daughter who returns to her hometown following her mom’s suicide.
Israeli contributors span Timna Perets South Tel Aviv-set, coming-of-age story Aranchi And Reem; Nachman Picovsky & Tamar Kay’s immigrant household saga Bris; Rita Borodiyanski’s Checkpoints, a couple of lady who takes a job in border management to flee abuse, via which she sacrifices Palestinian ladies in the identical scenario; Oz Zirlin’s Exile, consisting of three interlocked tales of redemption; Nitzan Rozen’s Striker No. 7, a couple of Palestinian soccer participant who’s signed by the notoriously racist Beitar Jerusalem soccer membership, and Mor Hanay’s The Replace, set in a world the place folks can order their superb cyborg accomplice.
In its first decade of existence, the lab helped scored of characteristic movie tasks come to fruition, together with Lazlo Nemes’s Academy Award-winning Son of Saul, to the Digital camera d’Or winner Murina by Antoneta Kusijanović and Nadav Lapid’s Ahed’s Knee, which gained the Cannes Jury Prize in 2021.
The lab is run below the auspices of the Sam Spiegel Movie Faculty and takes place on its new premises in central Jerusalem.
The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Worldwide Movie Lab is supported by Beracha Basis; the Rothschild Basis; the Jerusalem Growth Authority; The Jerusalem Movie Fund; Mifal HaPayis; The Division of Tradition and Sport; Manufacturing unit 54; the Israel Overseas Ministry and the Sam Spiegel Basis.
