Broker, which is set in Korea, gets going when a young woman leaves her baby by a church “baby box,” places set up so women can safely leave the children they are not able to raise.
The festival will open with a screening of Guy Nattiv’s Golda which stars Helen Mirren as Israel’s only female prime minister, at the Sultan’s Pool Amphitheater on July 13.
While once, prints of movies would deteriorate to the point where the movies could not be shown, now technological advances make it possible for films to get a new life – through painstaking work.
"The Zone of Interest" centers on Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family as they set up a life next to the Auschwitz death camp.
This is Israel’s seventh year in the International Village. Some 70 Israelis are in attendance at the Cannes Film Festival.
The guests of honor from abroad, as well as Israeli filmmakers, will hold master classes and screen their films, some for the first time, in front of an Israeli audience.
The festival is a collaboration between the Italian cultural institutes of Tel Aviv and Haifa, Filmitalia, and Cinecittà in Italy.
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