Israel's 'Intimate Grammar' wins at Tokyo Film Festival

Director Nir Bergman's film based on a novel by David Grossman wins prize in Japan following win at Jerusalem Film Festival.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Intimate Grammar 311 (photo credit: Associated Press)
Intimate Grammar 311
(photo credit: Associated Press)
The Israeli film, Intimate Grammar, won the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prize Film Award at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival on Sunday.
The film, directed by Nir Bergman and starring actress Orly Zibershatz, was based on a novel by Israeli author David Grossman.
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The film follows the story of Aaron, a boy growing from childhood to adolescence in Israel in the early 1960s.
Intimate Grammar won the Haggiag Award for Best Full-Length Feature Film at the 27th Jerusalem Film Festival in July.
Bergman's first feature Broken Wings also won the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prize Film Award in 2002.