11 Hebron rd.
POB 8651
Jerusalem, 9108402
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34, 7, 78, 18, 71, 72, 74, 77, 38
Mt. Zion Hotel
Gan Hapamon
Train Compound
Francisco Goya’s powerful vision and technical brilliance makes him one of the most admired and revered artists in the world today and indeed among the greatest painters to have lived. This film builds a fascinating portrait of the painter and the colourful world he painted.
Saturday 25.01.20 | 25.01.20 19:00 | Cinematheque 1 | Cinematheque 1 | |||||
Thursday 30.01.20 | 30.01.20 19:00 | Cinematheque 1 | Cinematheque 1 |
The relationship between a young ambitious Jazz drummer and his ruthless teacher drives them both to the edge of their abilities and sanity.
Tuesday 21.01.20 | 21.01.20 11:00 | Cinematheque 2 | Cinematheque 2 |
1947. Ari Ben-Canaan, a young and charismatic Hagana commander, guides a shipload of illegal immigrants to the shores of Palestine. The Hollywood epic by Otto Preminger starring Paul Newman.
Tuesday 21.01.20 | 21.01.20 18:00 | Cinematheque 2 | Cinematheque 2 |
The daily struggle of residents of the Hassan Arfa compound – a neglected enclave in the heart of Tel Aviv – in the process of being demolished. Their battered existence erodes in front of the camera.
Wednesday 22.01.20 | 22.01.20 18:00 | Cinematheque 2 | Cinematheque 2 |
Having lost her safety net in the city, 27-year-old Frances reels at a dizzying pace from Brooklyn to Sacramento to Paris, and then to upstate New York. Noah Baumbach voices the anxieties and tribulations of a whole generation.
Thursday 23.01.20 | 23.01.20 20:30 | Cinematheque 1 | Cinematheque 1 | |||||
Friday 24.01.20 | 24.01.20 18:00 | Cinematheque 1 | Cinematheque 1 |
Post the Yom Kippur War, Susan Sontag and a small crew arrived in Israel and filmed scenes of daily life in the much divided country. Sontag builds a mosaic of associatively connected images, presenting the mental, physical, and political landscape of a complex and contrasting place.
Saturday 25.01.20 | 25.01.20 19:00 | Cinematheque 2 | Cinematheque 2 |
The story of a high school philosophy teacher who resolves to reinvent her life when her husband leaves her. An intelligent and compassionate work that paints a sensitive portrait of a woman in crisis.
Monday 27.01.20 | 27.01.20 18:00 | Cinematheque 1 | Cinematheque 1 |
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18:00 Cinematheque 3 |
Cinematheque 3 |
A Visit with her Father - Rodnyansky takes a closer look at the extent to which the law can bring justice to victims of systematic persecution | Raoul Wallenberg’s Mission - Alexander Rodnyansky attempts to shed light on the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews during WWII.
In this chilling original film, director Joshua Oppenheimer challenges his protagonists, war criminals who participated in Indonesia’s military coup, with a request: to play themselves and their victims in dramatic cinematic recreations of the atrocities they committed half a century ago.
Monday 27.01.20 | 27.01.20 20:30 | Cinematheque 3 | Cinematheque 3 |
An old man and his younger counterpart are lighthouse keepers on a remote New England island in the 1890s. The younger man is determined to unveil the older man’s secrets. The Lighthouse is a marvelous, hypnotic, and hallucinatory work presented in spectacular black-and-white cinematography.
Monday 27.01.20 | 27.01.20 20:30 | Cinematheque 1 | Cinematheque 1 | |||||
Wednesday 29.01.20 | 29.01.20 20:30 | Cinematheque 1 | Cinematheque 1 | |||||
Friday 31.01.20 | 31.01.20 21:00 | Cinematheque 1 | Cinematheque 1 |
Claude Lanzmann’s (Shoah) film from 1972 is a riveting panorama of Israel between the Six Day and Yom Kippur Wars. Traveling the country, Lanzmann is particularly impressed by its young society.
Tuesday 28.01.20 | 28.01.20 18:00 | Cinematheque 2 | Cinematheque 2 |
In 2005, Chantal Akerman arrived in Tel Aviv with her camera. For a month, she films neighboring windows from her apartment, and reads excerpts aloud from her journal including notes on Judaism, film, and her family.
Wednesday 29.01.20 | 29.01.20 18:00 | Cinematheque 2 | Cinematheque 2 |
A film based on the autobiographical novel by Miles Franklin that tells of a woman’s struggle to “go it alone” in turn-of-the-century Australia.
Wednesday 29.01.20 | 29.01.20 20:30 | Cinematheque 2 | Cinematheque 2 |
Four vampires share an apartment in Wellington, trying to maintain their vampire lifestyle. They are also being followed by a documentary director trying to capture their struggles. A tremendous and original mockumentary that plays on all the right humor notes.
Thursday 30.01.20 | 30.01.20 21:00 | Cinematheque 1 | Cinematheque 1 |
Grace is a house mother at a hostel for at-risk youth. During one week, several events will force her reexamine her life and make important decisions. The film sensitively deals with complex subjects and presents an ensemble of characters whom it is difficult not to identify with.
Friday 31.01.20 | 31.01.20 15:00 | Cinematheque 1 | Cinematheque 1 |
On July 16, 1969, the American space program culminated in the launch of Apollo 11. Through a wealth of archive footage, Apollo 11 compresses the eight day journey into an exhilarating, nerve wrecking, spectacle, and delightful 93 minutes cinematic experience.
Friday 31.01.20 | 31.01.20 18:00 | Cinematheque 1 | Cinematheque 1 | |||||
Saturday 01.02.20 | 01.02.20 15:00 | Cinematheque 3 | Cinematheque 3 |
A pair of aging parents, their three daughters and the men in their lives, during one autumnal weekend in London of the late 1990s. The intelligent script, the ensemble of actors, the music of Michael Nyman and the sensitive camera work, all make for one beautiful film.
Saturday 01.02.20 | 01.02.20 21:00 | Cinematheque 2 | Cinematheque 2 |
