Judaism and Israel in Cinema 12th edition c / o House of Cinema, The Italian Jewish Center Pitigliani

Comedies, dramas, documentaries, panel with animation professionals, documentary and television series journalism, guests and Italian previews. These are some of the various souls of Pitigliani Kolno'a Festival – Judaism and Israel in film, that, now in its twelfth edition, returns to Rome from 18 al 23 November 2017. Usual the location – Casa del Cinema and the Italian Jewish Center Pitigliani – free admission to the festival to availability and dedicated to Israeli film and Hebrew topic. Among the guests of the festival, Peres will attend Yonatan son of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres, representing the Peres Center for Peace and innovation.

With 20 Italian previews, produced by the Italian Jewish Center The Pitigliani and directed by Ariela Piattelli and Lirit Mash, the PKF2017 It 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. Opening Film, Holy Air Shadi Srour - guest at the festival with producer Ilan Moskovitch – premiered Italian, a comedy that shows an unprecedented insight into the different cultures that live together in Israel. Among those attending the opening night – Bruno Sed President of The Pitigliani, Yonatan Peres Peres Foundation representative and son Nobel laureate Shimon Peres, Ofer Sachs Ambassador of Israel in Rome Nicola Zingaretti President of the Lazio Region, Noemi Di Segni, President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni Chief Rabbi Communities Jewish Roma, Mons. Dario Edoardo Viganò Prefect Secretary for Communications of the Holy See, Ariela Piattelli and Lirit Mash Leaders of PKF. Among the many titles in the program, for the first time it will be presented to the Italian public the Legend of King Solomon, the last work of the Israeli animation Master Hanan Kaminski - who was also among the guests of the festival – original version of the story of King Solomon, which addresses the issues of coexistence between different cultures and the transition from youth to adulthood. A film that has engaged 12 years the Israeli director who will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, for the first time awarded by the festival. Then,Harmony, Ori Sivan, Modern adaptation of the story of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar young. In Sarah film Philharmonic harpist in Jerusalem, Abraham is your "Almighty" director Hagar and a young musician East Jerusalem. Other movie stars and stripes, The Pickle Recipe, Michael Manasseri, comedy 'gastronomic’ the secret of gherkins Rose's grandmother. A recipe to the hunting of which is put Joey Miller, DJ and undisputed king of the festivities in Detroit… another comedy, Longing, Savi Gabizon, presented at the recent Venice Film Festival in Venice, where a wealthy man and childless, receives a phone call from what it was twenty years ago his girlfriend, for a trip to the hidden aspects of fatherhood. An Israeli Love Story, Dan Wolman, the true love story of Pnina Gary and Eli Ben-Zvi, Yanait son of Rachel and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the second president of the State of Israel, Instead it unfolds against the background of the establishment of the State of Israel.

Very varied selection of documentaries. Between these, the gripping On the Mapdi Dani Menkin, produced by Nancy Spielberg, that tells one of the most important pages of the history and of the Israeli sports, the basketball game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and CSKA Moscow Red Army team in the European Basketball Championship 1977, during the Cold War. Two documentaries that tell the Jews of Italy:IOM Roma, Valerio Ciraci, produced by Primo Levi Center in New York, that tells an insight into the life of the Jewish Community of Rome and Italy Shalom, The Tamal Tan ANATI, which he tells of three brothers Israeli Jews, from Italian, traveling through Tuscany, in search of the cave where small were hiding to escape the Nazis. Quindi #uploading_holocaust, Udi Nir and Sagi Bornstein tells, through pictures taken with smartphones by Israeli high school students in Poland, the new generation perspective on the Holocaust and an image moving and disturbing the way the collective memory is formed in the web. And Israel is always the star of Ben Gurion, Epilogue, di Yariv Mozer. The director has found a long interview to the father of the State of Israel, for years he has been buried in the Archives Spielberg Jerusalem. Now out of the political arena, the great statesman looks at the history and events that saw him star, outlining his vision on the future of Israel.

The section of the festival dedicated to fiction, "TV Series from Israel", expected - Monday 20 November starting at 18:15 – the panel "Not only In Treatment. TV Series Israel: a global phenomenon ".A real open dialogue we want to investigate the incredible exploits of export formats and Israeli television series in recent years, da In Treatment a Homeland, presenting three series drama some of which are purchased abroad in recent years: Shtisel, the ultra-Orthodox world of Jerusalem; il medical drama Yellow Peppers, on a child autisticoe Your Honor. The panel will see the table columnist and university professor Massimiliano Panarari and Ram Landes, producer and creator of many Israelis format, presenting at the festival Your Honor (Kvodo), the series produced by him, which will be adapted to Italy. Dark, charming, morally complex, the series tells of a brilliant judge close to a major promotion, whose teenage son flees after being involved in a car accident of which he is the author. The panel is organized in collaboration WGI – Writers Guild Italia, one of the most important organizations of writers, which will be represented by Giovanna Koch.

Following, at 19:00, the secondopanel,entitled "Telling the Middle East through the documentary", meeting in two voices between Itai Anghel - the largest Israeli war -and reporters the director of La Stampa,Maurizio Molinari. The panel will be followed by a screening of docInvisible in Mosul, recently won the Award for Best Documentary in which the same Anghel joins with courage to the special Iraqi army bodies moving towards Mosul under fire ISIS and its suicide bombers. Anghel, indeed, It is the only Israeli journalist to have documented the war in Iraq up to go to the front lines of fighting against ISIS in Mosul. To reserve a place in both panel, write to eventi@pitigliani.it

During the festival there will also be the first edition of the Premio Emanuele (Lele) Luzzati,that the 22 November present in a 'non-stop’ the finalists and 23 November will reward the work deemed worthy by a jury made up of intellectuals and prominent artists.

To remember 50 years after the arrival of Libyan Jews in Italy, the festival closes at the Jewish Center The Italian Pitigliani with Libya, the last exodus of Ruggero Gabbai.