Prizes
BEST ISRAELI AWARD
"Souvenirs" by Shahar Cohen and Halil Efrat.
Out of simple, basic family materials, the directors and their orchestrated team succeeded in creating a touching complex road-movie. "Souvenirs" wisely combines a sensitive and humorous glance into a father and son relationship with the personal research into lost moments of glory on the World War II scene.
Prize
Includes 60,000 nis this year which is combined from 40,000 courtesy of the Ministry of Education Culture & Sport - The Israel Film Council, distribution and marketing services in the worth of 10,000 nis, courtesy of Ruth Diskin LTD. – Marketing & Distribution, soundtrack Editing services in the worth of 1,500$ courtesy of DB Post Production and translation services at the worth of 600$ courtesy of CINEMATYP Studios
Mayor of Tel-Aviv – Yafo Award -
"The Cemetery Club" by Tali Shemesh.
The director draws the delicate portrait of the tense relationship between her reticent grandmother and her dominant great aunt. The regular meetings of the two women with other old people in a culture club serve as the rich backdrop and add a historical dimension and a philosophical depth that reflects essential questions of life, aging and death. "The Cemetery Club" is a touching and multi-layered documentary that converts with a great sense of humor and at the same time keeps the dignity of the profound yet eccentric group of survivors.
Prize
Courtesy of the Tel-Aviv-Jaffa at the sum of 30,000$
Editing Award
"The Beach Boys" – Editor Noit Geva
For the skill in distilling 30 years of footage to make a telling portrait of the anti-established lifestyle of the three main protagonists in "The Beach Boys". The documentary effectively interweaves the characters mutually shared obsession, reveling a deeper importance beneath the womanizing enacted out on a Tel-Aviv beach. The editing juxtaposes multiple shoots from the whole movie footage of playful beach flirtations to create a larger picture of the desire to escape time, responsibility, and worldly concerns.
The beach boys proves that a film can be created from original source material by a skillful editor even if it has been shoot without a clear concept and story
Prize
10,000$ courtesy of the Ministry of Education Culture & Sport - The Israel Film Council, 2,500$ worth of Editing services courtesy of Tel-Aviv Studios.
Photography Award
"The Cemetery Club" - cinematographer - Shark (Sharon) De-Mayo
For the specifically uses Telephoto lenses to magnify the relations among the elderly protagonist and to highlight unique moments which can only be expressed through cinematic language. The film creates a dialog between history and the present by capturing fragile moments in the lovely old faces.
Prize
10,000$ courtesy of the Ministry of Education Culture & Sport - The Israel Film Council, 2,500$ worth of photography rental equipment courtesy of On-Air.
Special Mention
"First Lesson in Peace" by Yoram Honig
With both tender care and professional know-how the director managed to create a film which successfully portrays the complex subject of the love between a father and his daughter. The documentation of the microcosm of a classroom is a perfect metaphor for the Israeli reality.
Through out the film the director succeeded in balancing between his personal life and story and the social issue of the film. For all that and more we choose to commend him.
Jury Members
Claas Danielsen – Director of the International Leipzig Documentary and Animated Films Festival since 2004.
Kristina Schulgin – Artistic Director of "DocPoint" - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival since 2004.
Sally Berger – An assistant curator of the Department of Film and Media at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
Hanoch Marmari – Journalist and editor.
Naftali Gliksberg – Film director and editor.
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