The Berlin Film Festival on Monday announced the first three features that will screen in its 2017 Berlinale Classics lineup, a sidebar dedicated to classics and newly discovered films.
A digitally restored version of Mexican director Felipe Cazals' Canoa, which won a Silver Bear at the 1976 Berlin festival, will get a special screening at the Berlinale Classics, alongside the drama Avanti Popolo (1986), the debut feature from Israeli director Rafi Bukai, and Black Gravel (1961), a German B-movie from helmer Helmut Kautner.
The Criterion Collection, with the participation of the Mexican Film Institute, restored Canoa in honor of its...
A digitally restored version of Mexican director Felipe Cazals' Canoa, which won a Silver Bear at the 1976 Berlin festival, will get a special screening at the Berlinale Classics, alongside the drama Avanti Popolo (1986), the debut feature from Israeli director Rafi Bukai, and Black Gravel (1961), a German B-movie from helmer Helmut Kautner.
The Criterion Collection, with the participation of the Mexican Film Institute, restored Canoa in honor of its...
- 12/12/2016
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 33rd Jerusalem Int’l Film Festival celebrated the 30-year anniversary of Avanti Popolo (1986), directed by Rafi Bukai, with the premiere of a newly completed digital restoration. Now considered an Israeli classic, the film is set during the last days of the Six Day War. The story focuses on two Egyptian soldiers (played by two Palestinian actors) who are trying to get out of the Sinai desert war zone and back home to safety in Cairo. Unusual for an Israeli feature: the Arab soldiers are positioned as the central, sympathetic protagonists. Even more unusual: they ultimately join up with three Jewish […]...
- 7/18/2016
- by Nina Menkes
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Film is considered one of the most important in Israel’s cinematic history.
Following last year’s festival screening of Uri Zohar’s restored Three Days And A Child, Jerusalem Cinematheque and Tel Aviv-based technical facility Realworks Studios have collaborated on Israeli war classic Avanti Popolo (1986), from late director Rafi Bukai.
Marking 30 years since the film’s original release, the digital restoration will be screened for the first time at the Jerusalem Film Festival on July 12, with cast and crew in attendance including the film’s lead actor Salim Dau and Bukai’s widow Mayan.
The dark comedy follows two Egyptian soldiers stranded in the Sinai desert after the Six-Day War — now caught inside the new borders of Israel — who are desperate to return home.
Originally Bukai’s graduate film from Tel Aviv University, the feature version went on to be widely acclaimed, and is still studied in the country’s film schools.
“It is a very...
Following last year’s festival screening of Uri Zohar’s restored Three Days And A Child, Jerusalem Cinematheque and Tel Aviv-based technical facility Realworks Studios have collaborated on Israeli war classic Avanti Popolo (1986), from late director Rafi Bukai.
Marking 30 years since the film’s original release, the digital restoration will be screened for the first time at the Jerusalem Film Festival on July 12, with cast and crew in attendance including the film’s lead actor Salim Dau and Bukai’s widow Mayan.
The dark comedy follows two Egyptian soldiers stranded in the Sinai desert after the Six-Day War — now caught inside the new borders of Israel — who are desperate to return home.
Originally Bukai’s graduate film from Tel Aviv University, the feature version went on to be widely acclaimed, and is still studied in the country’s film schools.
“It is a very...
- 7/10/2016
- ScreenDaily
A total 120 projects from Morocco to Syria are set to be supported over the next three years by the new $2.2m (€2m) Icam programme co-funded the European Union.
Speaking to ScreenDaily, Catherine Buresi, one of Icam’s initiators, explained that “the idea was to create a programme to support the development of projects, training measures and networking events as a forum for producers from the nine Arab countries”.
Icam (Investing in Culture & Arts in the South Mediterranean) started operations from headquarters in Cairo at the Noon Foundation earlier this year and will run for three years until April 2018.
The eligible countries are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
According to Buresi, the project is working with local partners throughout the region such as Jordan’s Luminus Media, Egypt/Cyprus-based Semat for production & distribution, Morocco’s Rabii Films Productions, Algeria’s M.D. Ciné as well as the non-profit association Cap Network in Belgium...
Speaking to ScreenDaily, Catherine Buresi, one of Icam’s initiators, explained that “the idea was to create a programme to support the development of projects, training measures and networking events as a forum for producers from the nine Arab countries”.
Icam (Investing in Culture & Arts in the South Mediterranean) started operations from headquarters in Cairo at the Noon Foundation earlier this year and will run for three years until April 2018.
The eligible countries are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
According to Buresi, the project is working with local partners throughout the region such as Jordan’s Luminus Media, Egypt/Cyprus-based Semat for production & distribution, Morocco’s Rabii Films Productions, Algeria’s M.D. Ciné as well as the non-profit association Cap Network in Belgium...
- 8/18/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
TEL AVIV, Israel -- Producer, director and screenwriter Rafi Bukai succumbed to cancer Tuesday at the age of 46 and was buried Wednesday. Bukai first gained local and international prominence with Avanti Popolo, which he produced, directed and wrote. The film was honored by the Locarno Film Festival. He went on to produce other films like Life According to Agfa (1992), starring Assi Dayan. His latest effort as producer, the feature One Small Step for Man, starring Israeli-American director Avi Nesher, premiered at the Haifa International Film Festival in October. The film's director, Shahar Segal, said: "He was involved in the most important Israeli films made in the last twelve years. He had a love affair with moviemaking and was one of the industry's characters. (His death) is a loss to the industry." Bukai is survived by a wife and a son.
- 12/11/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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