3rd ISRAELI CINEMA WEEK

3rd ISRAELI CINEMA WEEK

 
“Fragile: Families”
 
The Embassy of Israel in Athens, in cooperation with the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, is organizing the tribute to Israeli cinema “Fragile: Families – 3rd Israeli Cinema Week” which includes nine prize-winning films from 2011-2014, which explore different areas of family life and the relationships which form between family members. At the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation from Wednesday 10th until Tuesday 16th of December 2014.
 
 
It is the third consecutive year that the Israeli Cinema Week is being organized in Athens. During the last years Israeli films have taken part and received awards at film festivals in Greece and across the world. They have also become commercially extremely successful. During the tribute “Fragile: Families”, the audience will have the opportunity to explore the mechanisms, the relationships and the problems of families from different backgrounds.
 
 
For the spectator, these stories of families form a window of sorts into the lives and homes of the Israeli people, like a social kaleidoscope from  the quiet times of Jerusalem in the 60s (Fragile) to the busy Tel Aviv of today (Melting Away, Restoration), the difficulties of adolescence (Mabul), the restraints of religion (Gett:  The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, Fill the Void), mixed families (Arabani), or a troubled past (Life in Stills, The Flat). Each family story presents the spectator with not only fragments of daily life in Israel but also with the ultimately human, bittersweet situations which occur within families.bDuring the Israeli Cinema Week, those who attend will also have the opportunity to look through and, if they wish, to purchase works of Israeli literature (translated into Greek).
 
 
The films are in Hebrew with Greek subtitles.
The film which will open the event, “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem” will be shown with English subtitles, in the presence of Menashe Noy.
 
 
 
Programme:
 
10/12/2014   
 
11/12/2014
22:00 : Arabani                               
 
12/12/2014   
20:00 : The Flat
 
13/12/2014 
19:30 : Mabul
 
14/12/2014    
19:00 : Life in Stills                                              
20:00 : Fragile       
22:00 : Melting Away 
 
15/12/2014
22:00 : Restoration
 
16/12/2014 
20:00 : Restoration
22:00 : Melting Away

From Wednesday 10th to Tuesday 16th December 2014