 |
|
|
|
Winners
winners of the festival 2010!
Elite Zexer Wins the Israel Film Council's Award for Maker of the Best Feature Film for Tasnim
Tasnim is the story of a strong, opinionated 10 year old girl living with her mother and brothers in a neglected Bedouin village in the Negev Desert.
For an in-depth, sensitive and accurate portrayal which succeeds in conveying the complexity of women's lives in this traditional society and a little girl who is willing to take risks to protect her individual rights.
In Tasnim, the plot becomes evident immediately. This is a seemingly “small” story, but the acts that set the film’s pace culminate in an exact, impressive statement.
Elite Zexer concentrates on intricate precious minutiae, which combined with impressive camera work, refined directing and excellent acting by Estabrak Elakel, who plays the 10 year old girl, Tasnim, form an impressive and meaningful work.
Accolade in the category of Best Feature Film Director: Yaelle Kayam for her film Diploma:
Yael Kayam presents the story of the 20 year old Ayat, who tries to get to the university with her brother to receive her diploma despite the curfew surrounding Purim holiday in the Jewish settlement of Hebron.
Kayam formed an impressive combination of documentary and staged materials to create the feeling of the closure, crowdedness and hardship in the lives of Palestinians in Hebron. Something as straightforward as receiving a diploma becomes an impossible mission because of the Jewish Purim celebrations.
Most promising director award: Hadar Ageyev for her film Abort:
Hadar Ageyev’s film faces an issue that is considered a taboo in our society, describing what happens to sixteen and a half year old Gabriella who is having an abortion.
For her impressive use of visuals and sound, which addresses a social taboo. The director does not judge the girl who goes to the hospital for an abortion but rather focuses on the inner space in which the abortion procedure is performed, modern medicine’s disrespect for patients and the use of women's bodies for study purposes.
From a place of doubt in the authenticity of the procedure in the film, we found ourselves, three women from different places in the world, recalling humiliating, embarrassing events that we went through in the male-dominated medical systems. For which we are grateful to you.
The Best Documentary Film Award, in memory of Vicky Siran, on behalf of the Second Authority for Television and Radio, goes to Noa Ben Hagai for her film Blood Relation:
The director decides to contact her Palestinian relatives and introduce them to the Jewish side of her family. This means that she opens a Pandora’s box and reveals family secrets and situations that nobody can or will resolve or cope with.
Through an exceptional family story, the complexity of the relations between Jews and Arabs under occupation is revealed. The director’s family, which was the only Sephardi family in the Yavniel community, has difficulty accepting and connecting, after 50 years, with their Palestinian relatives and coping with the challenges posed by the unequal relations between the parties.
With courage, a keen eye, gentleness and respect, the director shows how each member of the family copes with the personal, familial and national conflict. She does this without demonstrating judgment or fear. In addition, the director shows her own limitations, like anyone else's, in coping with and resolving the everyday complications posed by familial and national relations.
Accolade for Documentary: Iris Rubin for her film Asmar:
The director tells the wonderful love story of her parents, which continues against all odds.
For her courage to tell an intimate personal story of love and a difficult life. A life story that is told with a loving, bold eye that nonetheless does not spare her parents or the viewer the most difficult questions and deals with dualism, a sense of alienation and lack of belonging within the constant conflict that has accompanied Jews who have immigrated from Arab countries.
Accolade, award for documentary film to Rima Essa for My Name is Ahlam:
The story of Ahlam, a leukemia patient, and her mother, who cope not only with the difficulties posed by her disease but also with the checkpoints and the way to treatment sessions and the shortage of drugs owing to life under occupation.
By awarding an accolade we wish to highlight the importance of the film and cast the floodlight on the gross violations of human rights, particularly those of terminally sick children living under occupation.
We wish to honor and thank director Rima Essa for her dedicated work and the respect she shows to the protagonist of her film, who left no dry eyes in the auditorium.
|  | | |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
