Jellyfish
Israel|France 2007
Dir.: Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret
Pro.: Yael Fogiel, Laetitia Gonzalez, Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait
Sc.: Shira Geffen
DP.: Antoine Héberlé
Ed.: Sasha Franklin, François Gédigier
Music: Christopher Bowen, Grégoire Hetzel
Festivals: Cannes (Camera d'Or Winner, Prix SACD, Prix of the Young Critics - Critics' Week), Toronto, San Sebastián, BFI London, Chicago
Cast: Sarah Adler, Zharira Charifai, Noa Knoller, Ma-nenita De Latorre, Gera Sandler, Nikol Laidman
Source: Lama Films | Les Films du Poisson
78 min. | Hebrew | Hebrew, English subtitles
Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv, whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a young bride who breaks her leg in trying to escape from a locked toilet stall, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the guests is Joy, a Philippine chore woman attending the event with her employer, and who doesn't speak any Hebrew (she communicates mainly in English), and who is guilt-ridden after having left her young son behind in the Philippines.
Poignant, often witty and exceedingly cinematic, Jellyfish won numerous awards around the world, including three prestigious awards in Cannes.
Filmography: Self Made (Shira Geffen, 2014)
Restored Digital Print | Special Event | Filmmakers Present
Wedding in Jerusalem
Israel 1985
Dir.: Renen Schorr
Pro.: Renen Schorr
DP.: Shmuel Calderon, Eytan Harris
Ed.: Shlomo Hazan
Music: Shem-Tov Levi
Source: Blues Productions
10 min. | Hebrew, English subtitles
In 1977, Uri Zohar, Israel's leading film director became religious, while shooting his last film, Save the Lifeguard. In Wedding in Jerusalem, Renen Schorr documented the rare and unusual wedding of the daughter of Arik Einstein, Israel's greatest singer, to Uri Zohar's Orthodox son. This is the reunion of two friends who changed the landscape of Israeli cinema, stage and music, together and apart… only to become “Mechutanim” (in-laws).
Wedding In Jerusalem opened the Haifa Film Festival in 1985 and immediately became a nationwide hit. Today it is considered an Israeli Classic. This 2022 restored version is dedicated to Arik Einstein (1938-2013) and Uri Zohar (1935-2022).
Filmography: The Loners (2009), Late Summer Blues (1987)
Restored Digital Print | Special Event | Filmmakers Present
קבלו עדכונים על סרטים, אירועים, המלצות והטבות. לנרשמים תוענק הטבת הצטרפות!
