“This year, we chose to invite the audience into the design process itself, rather than simply presenting the final result,” said Ilan Beja, head of Shenkar’s Department of Fashion Design.
The festival will open with the world premiere of the third season of The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, with Michael Aloni, Hila Saada, Eli Steen, and Daniel Salomon attending.
Dr. Batsheva Ida, curator of the Jerusalem Theatre galleries, praised the artists’ remarkable use of color to convey emotion.
The festival, held during Hanukkah, will feature more than 40 films from 15 countries, exploring Jewish identity, culture, history, faith, and contemporary life in Israel and the Diaspora.
Among the Israeli highlights will be the nationwide premiere of The Wedding Entertainer (The Tale of Moishe Badhan) and the latest collaboration from Gidi Dar and Shuli Rand, who made Ushpizin.
Under artistic directors Zohar Sharon and Roy Oppenheim, the orchestra will collaborate with singer-songwriter Aya Korem on Hineni, a program of Cohen’s songs in her Hebrew translations.
Belfer, who was born in 1989 and grew up in Ramat Hasharon, became famous for her debut role in the 2006 film, Someone to Run With.
The forthcoming festival is officially the third full-blown edition, although it was preceded by a smaller water-testing debut with no thoughts of the future.
To celebrate the launch of the Baka Artists' Community dedicated to olim, Jerusalemites showed their enthusiastic support at the exhibition venue, the Greater Baka Community Center.
“A lot of my work has a sort of Monty Python double edge,” David Breuer-Weil says. “At first, it may be quite amusing, but there’s a deeper thing behind it.”
How a childhood hip-hop fan became one of Israel’s premier extreme vocalists, and why his underground metal band Submasq refuses to play by the industry’s political rules.
