The largest Israeli cinema event in Portugal takes place between 10 and 16th March. "Israeli Cinema Days” reaches its thirteen edition. As usual, the films are screened at Cinema City Alvalade, in Lisbon. You will be able to view a selection of the best films to come out of Israel in the last year, a cycle bringing together Portuguese and Israeli cultures to show the many details of today’s society and daily life in Israel, through different eyes.
FORGIVENESS
Days of war in Southern Israel. It is the start of the Jewish year and in accordance with religious Jewish law, these then days of repentance are also days to ask for forgiveness. Nissan, an Orthodox Jew, feels he cannot go on until he receives forgiveness from his friend Shaul.
Directors: Guy Amir, Hanan Savyon
Screenplay: Guy Amir, Hanan Savyon
Actors: Alon Aboutboul, Guy Amir, Hanan Savyon, Michal Levi, Noa Koler, Shiri Maimon, Tsahi Halevi, Yael Sztulman
Rating: 12A
Length: 104 minutes
Date of release: 10/03/2022
IMAGE OF VICTORY
1948: an Egyptian film director is making a documentary on the voluntary force charged with freeing Palestinian farmers. He casually encounter an obstinate young woman, leader of a local kibbutz, which will lead to a chain of events that will change their lives forever.
Director: Avi Nesher
Screenplay: Avi Nesher, Liraz Brosh, Ehud Bleiberg
Actors: Ala Dakka, Amir Khoury, Eliana Tidhar, Joy Rieger, Meshi Kleinstein, Rasha Jahshan, Tom Avni, Yadin Gellman
Rating: 12A
Length: 128 minutes
Date of release: 10/03/2022
ONE MORE STORY
A couple want to discover each other’s secrets. She decides to write a project about her best friend to see if he can find real love. Until her soulmate hits him in the middle of the street.
Director: Guri Alfi
Screenplay: Guri Alfi, Omer Barak
Actors: Dina Senderson, Guri Alfi, Lior Ashkenazi
Rating: 12A
Length: 91 minutes
Date of release: 10/03/2022
PERFECT STRANGERS
Seven childhood friends with common stories and experiences, meet for dinner to see a rare total eclipse of the moon. The event changes when they start playing a game that will change their lives: each message, phone call or notification they receive must be shared with the rest of the group. Betrayals, lies and secrets kept for more than 20 years now emerge and raise doubts about their long friendships and relationships.
Director: Lior Ashkenazi
Screenplay: Noa Erenberg, Galit Hoogi
Actors: Avi Grainik, Ben Itin, Guy Amir, Hanan Savyon, Moran Atias, Rotem Abuhab, Shira Naor, Yossi Marshek
Rating: 12A
Length: 90 minutes
Date of release: 10/03/2022
SAVING SHULI
Shuli travels to Colombia after finishing his military service in the Israel Defence Forces. After three weeks without news, Shuli appears to have been kidnapped and his father, Avihu, together with his best friend and his brother-in-law, decides to fly to South America to find his son and take him back to Israel. The group plunge into the jungle and have a series of adventures before finding its way back.
Director: Ben Bachar
Screenplay: Ori Katz
Actors: Asi Israelof, Avia Malka, Carolina Rodriguez-Naranjo, David Shaul, Liron Vaisman, Pedro Andres-Calvo-Gomez, Shalom Michaelshwilli, Tzion Baruch
Rating: 12A
Length: 90 minutes
Date of release: 10/03/2022
SUBLET
Michael, aged 50, a journalist with The New York Times, travels the world writing about major cities from a personal point of view. He arrives in Tel Aviv but is depressed and listless following a family tragedy. Tomer, aged 25, a young film student sublets his apartment to a journalist to help balance his books. Tomer also becomes Michael’s guide, showing him what in Tomer’s eyes is the “real Tel-Aviv". The tense, inter-generational meeting between the young student who loves horror films and the journalist who prefers musicals make Michael regain his faith in life.
Director: Eytan Fox
Screenplay: Eytan Fox, Itay Segal
Actors: Gabriel Omri Loukas, John Benjamin Hickey, Lihi Kornowski, Miki Kam, Niv Nissim, Peter Spears, Tamar Hannah Shtaierman, Tamir Ginsburg
Rating: 12A
Length: 89 minutes
Date of release: 10/03/2022
