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3 unusual facts about Jerusalem Film Festival


An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

The documentary won an award for Best Jewish Experience Documentary at the 1998 Jerusalem Film Festival.

Impossible Dreams

The film premiered on July 12, 2011 as part of the Jerusalem Film Festival, and won the Israeli shorts competition in the ICon festival 2011 Israeli shorts competition.

Very Young Girls

The film was an official selection in the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, the 2008 Edinburgh Film Festival, the 2008 Independent Film Boston, the 2008 True/False Film Festival, the 2008 Miami International Film Festival, the 2008 Jerusalem Film Festival, the 2008 Jackson Hole Film Festival, and the 2008 Indie Spirit Film Festival.


5 Broken Cameras

The film was released in Israel in July 2012 and immediately won the Best Documentary Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival, where it competed against another Oscar nominated film, "The Gatekeepers."

Daniel Wachsmann

1989: The Intended (Hebrew: המיועד) – Wolgin Prize, Jerusalem Film Festival; Cannes Film Festival; Shanghai International Film Festival

Ehud Banai

In 2008, "On the Move", a documentary film directed by Avida Livny and produced by Gidi Avivi, Yael Biron and Dror Nahum, about Banai and the Refugees, participated in the official competition of the Jerusalem Film Festival, in EPOS -the international art & culture film festival in Israel and has been screened in cinemateques around Israel.

Nurit Kedar

Kedar's film Asesino, on the disappearance and presumed murder of thousands of young Jews during the Dirty War following the 1976 coup, won the Noga Award at the 2001 Jerusalem Film Festival.


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