FILMS FROM ISRAEL AT THE BERLINALE 2011
COMPETITION
LIPSTIKKA Director: Jonathan Sagall World Sales: Obelis Productions E-mail:
Obelis@bezeqint.net
THU FEB 17 16:00 CINEMAXX 7 - PRESS THU FEB 17 22:30 BERLINALE PALAST - GALA PREMIERE FRI FEB 18 15:00 FRIEDRICHSTADT PALAST FRI FEB 18 20:00 URANIA SUN FEB 20 17:30 URANIA
PANORAMA
INVISIBLE Director: Michal Aviad World Sales: WestEnd Films LLP, Maya Amsellem E-mail:
maya@westendfilms.com
MON FEB 14 19:00 CINEMAXX 7 - PREMIERE TUE FEB 15 17:45 CINESTAR 3 WED FEB 16 20:30 CUBIX 7 & 8 (INTERLOCK) SAT FEB 19 22:30 COLOSSEUM 1
MARKET SCREENINGS FRI FEB 11 16:00 CINEMAXX 18 TUE FEB 15 09:30 CINEMAXX 16
THE QUEEN HAS NO CROWN Director: Tomr Heymann World Sales: Heymann Brothers Films - Barak Heymann E-mail:
barak@heymannfilms.com
SAT FEB 12 17:00 CINESTAR 7 - PREMIERE SUN FEB 13 22:30 CINESTAR 7 MON FEB 14 15:30 COLOSSEUM 1 SAT FEB 19 17:00 CINESTAR 7
GENERATION MON FEB 14 15:00
MARKET SCREENING FRI
THE FLOOD Director: Guy Nattiv World Sales: K5 International - Carl Clifton E-mail:
carl@k5mediagroup.com HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT KINO 1
TUE FEB 15 15:30 FILMTHEATER AM FRIEDRICHSHAIN WED FEB 16 14:00 CINEMAXX 3
FEB 11 13:30 CINEMAXX 10
INTIMATE GRAMMAR Director: Nir Bergman World Sales: Films Boutique - Laura Inoka E-mail:
laura@filmsboutique.com
SAT FEB 12 12:30 HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT KINO 1 SUN FEB 13 14:00 CINEMAXX 3 TUE FEB 15 16:30 HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT KINO 2
MARKET SCREENING MON FEB 14 13:30 CINEMAXX 10
BERLINALE SPECIAL LIA
Editing Director: Taly Goldenberg World Sales: Go2Films Distribution & Marketing - Hedva Goldschmidt E-mail:
hedva@go2films.com
SUN FEB 13 11:00 INTERNATIONAL BERLINALE SHORTS
SUSYA Directors: Dani Rosenberg & Yoav Gross World Sales: Cinephil – Distribution & Co-Production E-mail:
info@cinephil.co.il
SAT FEB 12 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 - PRESS WED FEB 16 22:00 CINEMAXX 3 - PREMIERE THU FEB 17 17:45 COLOSSEUM 1 FRI
FEB 18 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 FORUM EXPANDED WE WILL BE STRONG IN OUR WEAKNESS
A Presentation of The Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland Director: Yael Bartana Contact:
info@jrmip.org THU FEB 17 12:30 KINO ARSENAL 1
MARKET SCREENINGS STRAIGHT FROM SUNDANCE
RESTORATION Director: Joseph Madmoni World Sales: Chaim sharir – Yezira Ivrit Ltd. E-mail:
chaim@sharir.name
MON FEB 14 13:00 CINEMAXX 13
PRECIOUS LIFE Director: Shlomi Eldar World Sales: Bleiberg Entertainment & Cinephil – Distribution & Co-Production E-mail:
roman@bleibergent.com,
info@cinephil.co.il
SAT FEB 12 15:45 CINEMAXX 18 TUE FEB 15 12:30 CINEMAXX 19
ISRAEL FILM FUND / TEL: 972 3 562 8180, FAX: 972 3 562 5992
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n 22 Screen International in Berlin February 12, 2011 FORUM
Can. 2011. 88mins Director/screenplay Stéphane Lafleur Production company micro_scope International sales Entertainment One Films International,
www.eonefilms.com Producers Luc Déry, Kim McCraw Cinematography Sara Mishara Production designer André-Line Beauparlant Editor Sophie Leblond Music Sagor & Swing Main cast Francis La Haye, Fanny Mallette, Michel Daigle, Sylvain Marcel, Suzanne Lemoine, Denis Houle
Familiar Ground REVIEWED BY LEEMARSHALL
The title sets up a risky lob for a reviewer’s easy ironic smash, but in fact Stéphane Lafleur’s follow-up to Continental: A Film Without Guns manages to avoid treading too much of a well- worn path in its study of a brother and sister’s winter of discon- tent in the frozen suburban wastes of Francophone Canada, and proves to be an obstinately memorable misfit fable. Its structure is that of a very gradual thaw: from emotional
shutdown and helplessness to bonding and empowerment, and from the sort of dour start which makes Atom Egoyan seem a merry old soul to what, north of the 49th parallel, must count as a happy ending. Despite the film’s winningly deadpan sense of humour, magic
realist forays and opening towards tenderness, this is still for long swathes a slow, wintery viewing experience which will challenge audiences and distributors. French cineastes should show up, if only for yet another chance to marvel at the bizarre dialect of their confreres across the pond, and resilient arthouse fans in other territories may follow suit. If Familiar Ground (En Terrains Connus) does find a small
niche, it will be thanks to its two trump cards: graceful story development and jaded but eventually triumphant faith in humanity. Benoit (La Haye) and Maryse (Mallette, excellent) are two
adult siblings who live on the ugly outskirts of some unnamed French Canadian town. Benoit is an immature loser who has trouble starting snowmobiles, opening jars and turning on the central heating, and he still lives at home with their portly and acerbic father (Daigle). Maryse is married to down-to-earth, unromantic Alain (Marcel), and works in a cardboard factory where one day she witnesses, from her glassed-in office, the first of three accidents which cadence the film and provide its chap- ter headings (Accident #1, etc). One day, while failing to clear the ice from the drive, Benoit
receives a visit from “a man from the future” (Houle). Not very far in the future, the man tells him modestly, just a few months hence. Visually, Lafleur and his cinematographer Sara Mishara cre-
ate a striking winterscape, a frozen land miles from the Yuletide clichés, in which nature is reduced to a snowy expanse invaded by random concrete shells, lonely council houses and isolated shopping malls. The director is a little too fond of the significant zoom — something which jars given the film’s otherwise detached look and feel. But that is just a blip in a very controlled and confident second feature.
REVIEWS THE ISRAEL FILM COUNCIL
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