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5.4.24
Friday
11:00

Exhibitions on Screen | Tokyo Stories

The film surveys 400 years of incredibly dynamic art, starting with the delicate woodblock prints
of Hokusai and Hiroshige, to pop art posters, contemporary photography, manga, cinema, and the brand new street art. Richly crowned with detail, the artworks of Tokyo and the artists who created them are testament to countless upheavals, revolutions, and innovations that have given rise to one of the most vibrant and fascinating cities in the world.

 

Directed by: David Bickerstaff


United Kingdom 2023 | 90 minutes


Language: English, Japanese / Hebrew and English translation
 

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17.3
Monday
20:00

The Room Next Door | Almodóvar

Venice International Film Festival, awarded with the Golden Lion

 

Drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar in his English-language full-length debut. 
For the project, he enlists Oscar winners Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, who star here in a wonderfully colorful, moving, and smart drama that premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and won much acclaim, with many praising the exciting acting, the surprising plot, and, as always with Almodóvar, the brilliant, courageous, and unique cinematics.

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

 

107 minutes | English | Hebrew subtitles

 
21.3
Friday
11:00

Walking on Water | Andrey Paounov

The Floating Piers project was conceived by artist Christo almost 50 years ago, in 1970, together with his wife Jeanne-Claude. Together, they tried to turn it into reality several times in places like Argentina and Japan but were unable to obtain the necessary permits. Yet Christo never stopped dreaming and created sketches and drawings that show the amazing effect of the floating piers with which the film opens.

 

After a series of particularly impressive works of art that he created together with his wife Jeanne-Claude, Christo dreams of walking on water. To this end, he wants to build paths leading from the shores of Italy’s Lake Iseo to the small island in its center.

The man who wrapped the Reichstag in fabric, spread a curtain over a valley in the Rocky Mountains, and covered a vast area in Japan with umbrellas, did not think it was a big deal to spread more than 200,000 polyethylene cubes wrapped in fabric across a lake. But then Italian bureaucracy came into play.

Building the “floating piers” proved to be a complex task both technically and personally, and although the spectacular creation attracted tens of thousands of visitors, there was never a moment behind the scenes when the drama level was less than a wave.


Previous festivals: Locarno, TIFF, Doc NYC 2018, Hong Kong IFF, Thessaloniki DFF 2019, Louvre FF

Directed by: Andrey Paounov. 

USA-Italy 2018, 100 minutes, English and Italian, Hebrew subtitles