Roma, 17/22 November 2018 c / o House of Cinema, Cinema Farnese, The Italian Jewish Center Pitigliani

Back from 17 al 22 November 2018 the Casa del Cinema in Rome, at Cinema Farnese and the Italian at the Jewish Center Pitigliani – to free admission while seats – the Pitigliani Kolno'a Festival – Judaism and Israel in Cinema, now in its thirteenth edition, dedicated to Israeli film and Hebrew topic. Produced by the Italian Jewish Center The Pitigliani and directed by Ariela Piattelli and Lirit Mash, the PKF2018 proposes for the usual section “Panorama on the new Israeli cinema "works that have been successful both in Israel and abroad and representing the diversity and multiculturalism that make up Israeli society today. The Lifetime Achievement Award 2018 It will be presented to the director Avi Nesher, one of the most prolific Israeli authors, of which the festival will screen his latest, "The Other Story", premiered Italian, ma anche “Rage and Glory”, masterpiece 1984, recently restored, who at the time of its release he was controversial and "Turn Left at the End of the World", set in the Sixties, the story of two immigrant families, a Moroccan and the other Indian, that they are found nearby in a tiny remote village in Israel.

For the section "Eyes on new Israeli cinema", between the Italian festival previews the feature Latsch, di Jacob Goldwasser, based on the true story of an adult-child with a slight delay, a unique sense of humor, an infectious laugh and an endless optimism. The actor Dov Glickman won, this interpretation, Award Best Supporting Actor for Israeli Ophir Awards. Then, always preview, Ran Tal documentary, The Museum, that explores the Israeli soul through the galleries, warehouses and visitors to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the most important cultural institution in the country.

The "Paths Jewish" suggests the Stephane Kaas documentary "Etgar Keret: based on a true story”, winner of the Prix Italy 2018 and presented the latest edition of the Literature Festival in Mantua, which he tells the Israeli writer through animation of his stories, re-enactments of his anecdotes, looks behind the scenes and interviews with family and friends. another documentary, “Einstein in the Holy Land”, The Noa Ben Hagai, Albert Einstein said that the visit to the Holy Land in February 1923 and he composes a portrait of Engineers through his impressions of the nascent Jewish State. Then, Cinema Farnese, and in collaboration with the Foundation of the Holocaust Museum, the Italian documentary "The raid. Roma, 16 October 1943 ", Ruggero Gabbai – that will be the guest of the festival – realized with the testimonies of survivors mopping the Ghetto of Rome 16 October 1943, When Nazi forces arrested over 1250 deporting Jews in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.

In addition to feature films and documentaries, PKF return to the television series, with some titles, including "When Heroes Fly" by Omri Givon, which won the Best Series Award at the recent first edition of which will be Canneseries presented by the manufacturer Eitan Mansuri. The story follows four friends, veterans of a unit of special forces, gathered for a final mission: find Yaeli, the former lover of one of them and another sister. Another TV series, “Significant Other”, diretta da Ram vase, which we will be screened three episodes of the first season, the presence of the actress starring Dana Modan, for a dramatic comedy about loneliness of two neighbors forties home, who they have had to live door to door and embark to share a tentative report and full of difficulties.

On the TV series, the Festival will host, Monday 19 November at 17:30 The panel "From Cannes to Netflix. The secret of success of the TV series by Israel ", moderated by the artistic leaders, and attended by the director and screenwriter Alessandro D'Alatri, Manufacturer Eitan Mansuri and screenwriter and actress Dana Modan. The panel will be preceded by the screening of 3 episodes of the first season of the TV series "Significant Other" and followed by the screening of the first episode of the first season of "When Heroes Fly".

Also animation Space, with focus, by the director and author Hanan Kaminski, which proposes a short program consisting of the rising stars of the Israeli cartoon. During the festival it will also host the second edition of the Premio Emanuele (Lele) Luzzati, which will be awarded to the best work it deemed worthy by a jury made up of intellectuals and prominent artists.

"There is a continuity – emphasize the artistic guidelines – between past and present in the program of this edition of PKF. From documentaries to feature films, from short films to TV series, We propose very diverse films and a picture emerges of a more vital than ever cinemas. Israeli works comprise not only a portrait of cinematography, but also of the country's companies, constantly changing. We wanted to celebrate this thirteenth edition of PKF delivering the Lifetime Achievement Award to Avi Nesher, a director, among the greatest of Israel, who observed the changes in Israeli society, recounting, through an extraordinary ability to tell, its various aspects and contradictions. Some of his works have sparked heated debate within Israeli society: his is a cinema within the history and human affairs ".