"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.
The full program for the 40-film celebration has not yet been announced.
“We are not one genre,” Koenigsberger Gutierrez said. “We’re not only El Chapo and all these you know, drug dealers, and the things you see [in] Hollywood a lot. We are much more than that."
Israeli actress Levanna Finkelstein’s most recent film, Shemi Zarhin’s "Silent," will kick off the tribute at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque for International Women's Day.
The city’s documentary film festival is paying tribute to Jews killed during the Holocaust and to the Jewish community’s enduring importance to the city.
“I think that this film has the capacity to possibly impact and resonate with people of all ages,” said Igor Shteyrenberg, executive director of the festival.
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