AWARDS FINAL 12maedizione of PKF – PITIGLIANI KOLNO'A FESTIVAL Judaism and Israel in Cinema

It was held in Rome, at the House of Cinema and the Italian Jewish Center Pitigliani the twelfth edition of the Festival Pitigliani Kolno'a – Judaism and Israel in film. Among the guests of the festival,diretta da Ariela PIATTELLI Lear Mash:Yonatan Peres, son of the Nobel Peace Prize, Shimon Peres, representing the Peres Center for Peace and innovation, but also the documentary filmmaker Yariv Mozer, journalist and documentary filmmaker Itai Anghel, So the Tamal régisseur Anati, the director and animator Hanan Kaminski, directors Valerio Ciriaci and Ruggero Gabbai, the actor and director Shadi Srour, Manufacturers Ilan Moskovitche Ram Landes.

The festival audience, who voted at the end of each screening, decreed vincitoreThe women's balcony, of Emil Ben-Shimon, hilarious comedy set in Jerusalem. The quiet life of a couple and the community in which they live is turned upside down when, during a party at Bar-Mitzvah, collapses the women's gallery of the synagogue. While the restructuring plans fail for economic and bureaucratic reasons, comes one day a young, charismatic rabbi who leads the community towards a style of very rigid religious life, causing conflicts within the community. In the ranking of audience votes in second place ildocumentario Ben Gurion, Epilogue, di Yariv Mozer, festival guest, who 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, projecting its vision for the future of Israel. Third place went to another, shocking documentary,Invisible in Mosul,Itai Anghel - the largest Israeli war reporter – recently won the Award for Best Israeli Documentary. In the film the same Anghel – that the festival held a panel on "Telling the Middle East through the documentary", with the director of La Stampa, Maurizio Molinari – It 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. For the first year the festival has given a Lifetime Achievement Award, delivered to the Israeli animation Master Hanan Kaminski, hapresentato that the Italian public his latest work, The Legend of King Solomon, original version of the story of King Solomon, which addresses the issues of coexistence between different cultures and the transition from youth to adulthood.

As part of Pitigliani Kolno'a Festival 2017, it is also the first edition of the Premio Emanuele Luzzati and his Jury, composed Fabia Bettini, Carlo Brancaleoni, Emanuel Cohn, Sergio Noberini and Antonio Urrata, He rewarded the Italian short film timbale, Maurizio Fork, for this reason: "For its narrative capabilities of today's social reality, the challenge of integration and intercultural dialogue, through the register of comedy. Fork bakes a grotesque tale with tasty spices, biting and stinging despite intrusive fashion of nouvelle cuisine. The Abruzzo region, between craftsmanship and traditional flavors, become the space of encounter between people of different cultures, overcoming the barriers of prejudice and suspicion of the Other. A timely and sensitive issue, He declined with a strong charge ironic; a work that shows the freshness of language, suitable for younger generations ".

With 20 Italian previews, including comedies, dramas, animated films and documentaries, with panel held by animation professionals, documentary and television series journalism, the PKF2017, produced by the Italian Jewish Center The proposed Pitigliani, 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.