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19:30 | 15th Annual Israeli Film Festival: Rabin in His Own Words |
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Documentary. Israel 2015, 110 min. Directed by Erez Laufer. In Hebrew with Russian subtitles. 20 years have passed since the murder that shook Israel’s government and halted the peace process. A study of rare documents and audio recordings resulted in a unique film, in which Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin himself tells us about his life: his childhood in Tel Aviv, before the government’s creation; his work on a farm; his service in the Israeli Defense Force; and his later diplomatic and political career. The daily life and private musings of Rabin, famous for his introversion, open up little-known corners of his life and illuminates several turning points in the history of Israel’s government. These unique archive materials – home videos on an 8mm camera, his letters to his family, memoirs untouched by censorship, unofficial interviews, and other personal notes – are presented to audiences for the first time after forty years. The best documentary at the Haifa International Film Festival (2015). Best direction at the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (2015); Israeli critics’ pick at the Jerusalem International Film Festival (2014).
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15:00 | AmFest: Indignation |
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Drama. USA 2016, 110 min. Directed by James Schamus. Starring: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts. Set in 1951, the story follows Marcus Messner, the idealistic son of a humble kosher butcher from Newark, N.J. Marcus leaves for Ohio to study at a small, conservative college, where he finds himself at odds with the administration, grapples with anti-Semitism and sexual repression and pines after a troubled girl. More info
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09:15, 23:45. Comedy/Drama. USA 2016 ,94 min. Directed by Woody Allen. Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell. In English with Russian subtitles. In the 1930s, young Bronx native Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) arrives in Hollywood in the hopes of finding a job in the film industry, where his uncle Phil (Steve Carell) works. Phil is a well-known Hollywood agent, and Bobby discovers the world of film stars, backstage drama, and the high life, while falling in love with Phil’s secretary (Kristen Stewart). Woody Allen’s 47th full-length film has a full complement of celebrities: Corey Stoll, Parker Posey, Blake Lively, and Sheryl Lee, alongside the aforementioned Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, and Steve Carell – and opened the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival. The legendary Vittorio Storaro (“Apocalypse Now,” “The Last Emperor,” “Dune”) served as cinematographer.
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10:00 | Hurricane: A Wind Odyssey |
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Documentary. France 2015, 83 min. Directed by Cyril Barbançon. Starring: Kristin Samuelson, Joe Fontana, John Flanders. In Originals with Russian subtitles. Together with NASA scientists, the film’s crew spent a thousand days in the centre of one of the world’s most dangerous environments – an Atlantic hurricane – in order to study its characteristics and understand the essence of what a hurricane is. The result of their work is a unique documentary that describes a journey of over 15,000 kilometres. Winds over 200 kmh, 18 cyclones, 12 countries, ruined forces, and destroyed animal habitats, coral reefs, and overflowing riverbanks – all of these are are shown from the Earth’s surface, from space, through the eyes of animals and on the screens of rescue agencies. The soundtrack was composed by French neoclassical composer Yann Tiersen.
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11:20 | Hurricane: A Wind Odyssey (3D) |
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Documentary. France 2015, 83 min. Directed by Cyril Barbançon. Starring: Kristin Samuelson, Joe Fontana, John Flanders. In Originals with Russian subtitles. Together with NASA scientists, the film’s crew spent a thousand days in the centre of one of the world’s most dangerous environments – an Atlantic hurricane – in order to study its characteristics and understand the essence of what a hurricane is. The result of their work is a unique documentary that describes a journey of over 15,000 kilometres. Winds over 200 kmh, 18 cyclones, 12 countries, ruined forces, and destroyed animal habitats, coral reefs, and overflowing riverbanks – all of these are are shown from the Earth’s surface, from space, through the eyes of animals and on the screens of rescue agencies. The soundtrack was composed by French neoclassical composer Yann Tiersen.
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14:00, 19:10, 23:10. Action/Thriller. USA 2016, 123 min. Directed by Paul Greengrass. Starring: Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander. In English with Russian subtitles. Ten years have passed since the exposure of the Blackbriar operation. Jason Bourne, now cured of his amnesia, is hiding in Athens and is making a living by taking part in illegal mercenary operations. At the same time, Nicky Parsons, together with a group of hackers, breaks into a CIA mainframe and discovers documents related to Bourne’s recruitment for the Treadstone project and details about his father’s participation in the programme. She decides to go to Greece and track Bourne down. A sequel to “The Bourne Ultimatum” and the fifth part in the famous series, for which Paul Greengrass (winner of the Golden Bear for “Bloody Sunday”) returns to the director’s chair and Matt Damon to the leading role.
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16:20, 22:25. Action/Thriller. USA 2016, 123 min. Directed by Paul Greengrass. Starring: Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander. In English with Russian subtitles. Ten years have passed since the exposure of the Blackbriar operation. Jason Bourne, now cured of his amnesia, is hiding in Athens and is making a living by taking part in illegal mercenary operations. At the same time, Nicky Parsons, together with a group of hackers, breaks into a CIA mainframe and discovers documents related to Bourne’s recruitment for the Treadstone project and details about his father’s participation in the programme. She decides to go to Greece and track Bourne down. A sequel to “The Bourne Ultimatum” and the fifth part in the famous series, for which Paul Greengrass (winner of the Golden Bear for “Bloody Sunday”) returns to the director’s chair and Matt Damon to the leading role.
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09:20, 15:15. Comady/Drama/Romance. Ireland, Netherlands, France 2016, 92 min. Directed by Whit Stillman. Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Morfydd Clark, Tom Bennett, Chloe Sevigny, Stephen Fry. In English with Russian subtitles. The charming young widow Lady Susan is in a desperate search for a husband – both for herself and for her growing daughter. Hoping to hide herself from the judgmental stares of London society, she sets off to the estate of her brother and sister-in-law, both of whom also have decidedly mixed feelings about her. Her outstanding knack for social scandal introduces chaos into their measured country life: she offends her relatives, repels potential husbands, misleads young suitors, and makes plans for her daughter’s future, all the while managing to turn any situation to her own benefit. The film is based on Jane Austen’s epistolary novel “Lady Susan,” about the customs of British society at the end of the 18th century. Whit Stillman has taken it and freshly reimagined it, with merciless jokes at the expense of the “social order” and its rituals that take the guise of love and friendship in order to hide inequities and weakness. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016.
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Comady/Drama/Romance. Ireland, Netherlands, France 2016, 92 min. Directed by Whit Stillman. Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Morfydd Clark, Tom Bennett, Chloe Sevigny, Stephen Fry. In English with Russian subtitles. The charming young widow Lady Susan is in a desperate search for a husband – both for herself and for her growing daughter. Hoping to hide herself from the judgmental stares of London society, she sets off to the estate of her brother and sister-in-law, both of whom also have decidedly mixed feelings about her. Her outstanding knack for social scandal introduces chaos into their measured country life: she offends her relatives, repels potential husbands, misleads young suitors, and makes plans for her daughter’s future, all the while managing to turn any situation to her own benefit. The film is based on Jane Austen’s epistolary novel “Lady Susan,” about the customs of British society at the end of the 18th century. Whit Stillman has taken it and freshly reimagined it, with merciless jokes at the expense of the “social order” and its rituals that take the guise of love and friendship in order to hide inequities and weakness. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016.
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| The 9th Life of Louis Drax |
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13:10, 17:15, 21:40. Thriller/Drama. Great Britain 2016, 108 min. Directed by Alexandre Aja. Starring: Jamie Dornan, Aiden Longworth, Sarah Gadon. In English with Russian subtitles. The family of nine-year-old Louis Drax is heading to a picnic in the mountains, when the young boy experiences a tragedy. After falling off a cliff, he slips into a coma, and his father disappears. As he teeters between life and death in the real world, Louis Drax wanders in a mysterious space and meets its other inhabitants. At the same time, famous neurologist Allan Pascal, with the help of special technologies, tries to break into the secluded world of the boy’s consciousness. But the deeper he goes into the boy’s subconscious, the blurrier the barrier between the mystical and the real. A new thriller from the creators of “Mirrors” and “The Hills Have Eyes,” based on the famous British novel by Liz Jensen.
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14:20, 20:25. Thriller/Drama. Great Britain 2016, 108 min. Directed by Alexandre Aja. Starring: Jamie Dornan, Aiden Longworth, Sarah Gadon. In English with Russian subtitles. The family of nine-year-old Louis Drax is heading to a picnic in the mountains, when the young boy experiences a tragedy. After falling off a cliff, he slips into a coma, and his father disappears. As he teeters between life and death in the real world, Louis Drax wanders in a mysterious space and meets its other inhabitants. At the same time, famous neurologist Allan Pascal, with the help of special technologies, tries to break into the secluded world of the boy’s consciousness. But the deeper he goes into the boy’s subconscious, the blurrier the barrier between the mystical and the real. A new thriller from the creators of “Mirrors” and “The Hills Have Eyes,” based on the famous British novel by Liz Jensen.
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11:10, 16:20, 01:30. Thriller/Drama. South Korea 2016, 144 min. Directed by Chan-wook Park. Starring: Min-hee Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo. In Korean with Russian subtitles. In the Japanese-occupied Korea of the 1930s, a gangster named Graf asks the professional thief Sook-hi to participate in a profitable heist. She must set herself up as a housekeeper in the home of the Japanese aristocrat Hideko, get close to her and her father, and help Graf charm her. The plan must culminate in Hideko being declared insane, which will allow Graf and Sook-hi to take over her fortune. A new psychological thriller from Chan-wook Park, though this time with allusions to the Marquis de Sade – simultaneously radical and full of ironic touches, with all of the genre’s typical clichés. The film premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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11:40 | The Handmaiden (Agasshi) |
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Thriller/Drama. South Korea 2016, 144 min. Directed by Chan-wook Park. Starring: Min-hee Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo. In Korean with Russian subtitles. In the Japanese-occupied Korea of the 1930s, a gangster named Graf asks the professional thief Sook-hi to participate in a profitable heist. She must set herself up as a housekeeper in the home of the Japanese aristocrat Hideko, get close to her and her father, and help Graf charm her. The plan must culminate in Hideko being declared insane, which will allow Graf and Sook-hi to take over her fortune. A new psychological thriller from Chan-wook Park, though this time with allusions to the Marquis de Sade – simultaneously radical and full of ironic touches, with all of the genre’s typical clichés. The film premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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