Back from 19 al 24 November 2016 – free admission to availability – the Casa del Cinema in Rome and the Italian Jewish Center The Pitigliani Via Arco de’ Tolomei, 1

The inauguration, the 19 will be, It will be held for the first time to MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts (Via Guido Reni, 4). the Festival, now in its eleventh edition, produced by the Italian Jewish Center The Pitigliani and dedicated to Israeli film and Hebrew topic, It is directed by Ariela Piattelli and Dan Muggia.

Unchanged sections of the festival, by the look on the new Israeli cinema, the Jewish Paths, which adds the bonus of PKF dedicated to the director and actress Ronit Elkabetz, He died last April. Space as usual even at PKF Lab (Monday 21 November at 18), dedicated this year to the cinema at the time of Netflix. They will discuss, moderated by Dan Muggia, among others, Giorgio Gosetti, director of the Casa del Cinema; Nicola Borrelli, Director General of Cinema Mibact; Fabio Amadei, Director of Cinema Farnese in Rome; Andrea Morini, Head of the Cinema Lumière programming Cineteca di Bologna; Pini Schatz, Programmer of the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Antonio Urrata, Director General of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo.

As commented by the curator Ariela Piattelli, this year there will be no film

focused on the war theme. Not by choice but because Israeli filmmakers now turn their eyes to life everyday in all its forms. Rich selection of the section Look on new Israeli cinema. One week and a day, film that, Italian preview, opens the festival (Saturday 19 the hours 20:00 MAXXI; projection invitations and reply to

public on Sunday 20 November at 17:00), Debut of Asaph Polonsky, which deals with the subject of death and mourning humorous, already winner of the award for Best Israeli Film at the Jerusalem Festival. The film, which will be released theatrically in Italy by Parthenos, It will be presented in both projections by actress protagonist Evgenia Dodina (The attack; Made in Israel; Love & Dance), who has worked on more than one occasion with Ronit Elkabetz. Already at the Cannes Film Festival 2015 and winner of the Grand Prize at the Haifa Film Festival, He arrives at PKF Afterthought, Elad Keidan, existential comedy set just in Haifa, where the endless mountain stairways lead the destinies of the inhabitants of the city. Mr. GAGA body and soul

a genius of dance, Tomer Heymann, the story of Ohad Naharin, born and raised in a kibbutz, one of the leading choreographers and innovative in the world, internationally known for creating the body movement language called "Gaga". Presenting Princess Shaw, Ido Haar, it is instead the story of Samantha Montgomery, songwriter

American difficult past, It equipped with a beautiful voice and an enormous compositional talent, that on a YouTube channel, with the name of Princess Shaw, mail personal confessions and musical performances. Two movies that tackle gay issues, the whole color comedy and music Cupcakes, di Eytan Fox, defined the Israeli Almodovar at Barash, Debut Michal Vinick, already filed hundreds of festivals around the world.

Then, Tikkun, Avishai Sivan, film won the First Prize at the Jerusalem Festival and the Special Jury Prize at Locarno, the life of an ultra-Orthodox young rocked by an automobile accident. Even documentaries in this section, with Never turn your back on Sparks, Pini Schatz, who will attend the screening, that, in vaudeville key, He recounts the Sparks, American pop group. another documentary, Twilight of life, di Sylvain Biegeleisen, that tells, with the help of black and white, and the songs of Jacques Brel, The 95 year old mother of the director, tackling the inevitable goodbye without sentimentality funeral.

Then, The Jewish section Routes presents a rich and varied selection of films, two of which tell the Shoa with a new style and approach. From The labyrinth of silence, Giulio Ricciarelli, movie from Germany to contribute to the Oscar Awards for Best Foreign Film. Two the two showings at PKF (Monday 21 at 21:30 is Wednesday 23 at 21:00), made in collaboration with the Foundation Museum of the Holocaust, a film about, for the first time and through the reconstruction of the 'death machine', the gradual realization of the German company of Nazi crimes. Another top film section of the festival,

An appointment for the bride (projections in the original language with Italian subtitles Tuesday 22 invitational and the public Wednesday 23 November at 21:00), written and directed by Rama Burshtein, former director of The Bride, which will be distributed in Italy by Cinema, focused on the history of a religious woman (Keller played by Noa, awarded Best Actress by the Academy and the Israeli Haifa Film Festival) which takes the form of romantic comedy American-style, set in the Israeli Orthodox world.

Then, The son of Saul, di László Nemes, film won the Academy Award 2016 Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Globe 2016 in the same section, which portrays the Nazi hell of Auschwitz by the subjective experience of the protagonist, a Hungarian jew recruited as sonderkommando.

Two documentaries section. The first, Preview Roman, The Ghetto of Venice - 500 years of life, Emanuela Giordano, who will attend the festival (projections Sunday 20 ore 12 it's Monday 21 Nov. hours 21).

The film, which will be distributed in Italy by Tamgram, recounts, also thanks to the historical reconstruction inserts made animation, the story of Europe's oldest ghetto, also resorting to memories and testimonies of "excellent witnesses", including Amos Luzzatto and Riccardo Calimani. It will go to discover the daily life and traditions, as well as the hidden synagogues and ancient Jewish cemetery.

Then, Hummus! The movie, Oren Rosenfeld, which will close the festival with the screening Thursday 24 November at 20:15 at the Jewish Center The Italian Pitigliani, followed by a tasting of hummus. A movie, presented at the last edition of the Religion Today Film Festival in Trento, which not only tells, through various recipes, the preparation of the famous Middle East sauce, but it emphasizes what this dish can unite the various religions of, from Judaism to Christianity to Islam. finally, the short film The little dictator, Nurith of Cohn, Grand Prize winner "in the Spirit of Faith" at the latest edition of the Religion Today Film Festival in Trento, to be presented by Emanuel Cohn and through humor and paradox, men faced the issues of history and life by telling the situation where there is a gray Professor of History at the birthday party of a woman survived the Shoa.

The Tribute PKF of this edition is dedicated to Ronit Elkabetz, director, screenwriter and actress, disappeared in April 2016.

“Ronit – emphasize the artistic directors – He wrote the history of Israeli cinema of the last twenty years. Many awards at international festivals, together with his brother Shlomi, with which he directed the trilogy Viviane, Israeli cinema has brought to the fore. as an actress, memorable lead role in the onset director Eran Kolirin, The band, which won the Ophir Award, the highest award of the Israeli cinema.

A Ronit, is the homage of PKF, that recross through the Trilogy and the voice of Shlomi Elkabetz, its history and its cinema ". They will indeed be screened, his brother's presence and co-director Shlomi, To take a wife,Seven days e Viviane (chosen as Israeli film nominated for Oscar Awards 2014).

But let the novelty of the edition 2017. The Pitigliani Kolno'a Festival Judaism and Israel in film promotes, for the 2017, an award in the name of Emanuele Luzzati, for works that should come to the world of children and young people through content and rich languages ​​and expressive as well as he realized and would have wanted.

In the Name of Childhood universal language, rich, colorful and immediate, It pays tribute to the cultural value of film production for the younger and more attentive to issues of reception and multi-culture as well as the experiences present in the millennial Jewish history taught to be possible.

Promoted by the Italian Jewish Center” Pitigliani, the Emmanuel Prize (Lele) Luzzati is dedicated to the versatile artist, It is known primarily as a set designer and illustrator. Lele Luzzati was master in many fields of applied art, who also created – in partnership with Giulio Gianini – unforgettable animated film.

Therefore, entitled to one of the largest Italian internationally renowned Jewish artists, in anticipation of the tenth anniversary of his death (26/01/2007), The award is organized in collaboration with the Museo Luzzati Porta Siberia Genoa.

The first edition of the Premio Emanuele (Lele) Luzzati, dedicated to this artist known internationally, therefore provides an incentive to the creation of works dedicated to a young audience increasingly demanding and attentive.

The authors can take part in the competition by submitting a work that, through any visual language, both addressed the world of youth and treating reaches the universal theme of’ “Through particolarismo and universalism: diversity among equality”. The prize will be awarded during the PKF next year by a qualified jury composed of members from the world of film, culture and Jewish institutions.