Haifa unveils key films of the 42nd international festival program
In Haifa, Israel, the 42nd Haifa International Film Festival will run from September 26 to October 3. The international program features new works by Danny Boyle, Nanni Moretti, François Ozon, Lukas Dhont, Olivier Assayas, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Hirokazu Kore-eda and Andrey Zvyagintsev, The Jerusalem Post reports.
Competition opening and festival closing
The festival's main international Carmel competition will open with Danny Boyle's Ink, which opened the Venice Film Festival this year. The film tells the story of The Sun British tabloid editor Larry Lamb and publisher Rupert Murdoch during the newspaper's transformation in the late 1960s.
The festival will close with Nanni Moretti's It Will Happen Tonight, based on a story by Israeli author Eshkol Nevo. The film stars Louis Garrel and Jasmine Trinca. Both films will arrive in Haifa directly from the Venice Film Festival competition program.
Award-winning films and guests
The program also includes Andrey Zvyagintsev's Minotaur, which won the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix, as well as Ryusuke Hamaguchi's All of a Sudden, Lukas Dhont's World War I drama Coward, and Sandra Wollner's Everytime, winner of the top prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section.
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Audiences will see François Ozon's adaptation of Albert Camus' The Stranger, Olivier Assayas' political thriller The Wizard of the Kremlin, and Hirokazu Kore-eda's family drama Sheep in the Box. Romanian director Tudor Giurgiu will present 3 Days in September, which features a 65-minute sequence filmed in a single take. Alberto Sciamma will also come to the festival with the road movie Cielo, Boaz Dvir with the documentary To Kill a Nazi, Hille Norden with the drama Easy Girl, and Muriel d'Ansembourg with Truly Naked.
Classics, documentaries and animation
The Haifa Classics section will hold a Barbra Streisand retrospective featuring Funny Girl, Hello, Dolly!, A Star Is Born and Yentl. A retrospective of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima and director Nagisa Oshima will also be presented separately.
The Haifa Docs documentary program will include Broken English, a portrait of Marianne Faithfull featuring interviews, archival materials and performances by musicians including Nick Cave and Courtney Love. The Match, about the 1986 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal between Argentina and England, will also be screened. Other sections will cover documentary cinema, animation, culinary cinema, and the Haifa Wild Nights genre program with Asian action films and movies from Cannes midnight screenings.
