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Desperado Square
Desperado Square () is an Israeli film written and directed by Benny Toraty. The film was released in 2001. The film received financial support from the Yehoshua Rabinovitz Foundation for the Arts in Tel Aviv. That year, the film participated in the Ophir Awards and won 5 categories, including Best Director (Benny Toraty) and Best Supporting Actor ( Yosef Shiloach). In addition, the film won first place at the Mediterranean Film Festival in Montpellier, France, and the Screenplay Award at the Valencia Festival in Spain. It was featured in many cultural events in Israel and worldwide and opened the Israeli Film Festival in Hong Kong. The film's music, composed by Shem Tov Levi. Plot The film depicts the life of a struggling southern neighborhood in Tel Aviv, where a cinema once served as the cultural hub and a place that gathered the dreams of its residents. On the anniversary of the death of Morris Mendavon, the former owner of the cinema, his son Nissim (Nir Levi) dreams a ...
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Ayelet Zurer
Ayelet Zurer (; born ) is an Israeli TV and film actress. She began her career on the Israeli teen drama '' Inyan Shel Zman'' and has starred in numerous Israeli TV and film roles. She received awards for Best Actress at the Israeli Academy Awards in 2003 and Best Actress by the Israeli Academy of Television in 2006 and 2013. Zurer has also appeared in numerous Hollywood films, such as ''Munich'' (2005), '' Vantage Point'' (2008), ''Angels & Demons'' (2009), '' Man of Steel'' (2013), and ''Ben-Hur'' (2016). She also portrayed Vanessa Marianna-Fisk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series '' Daredevil'' (2015–2018) and its revival series '' Daredevil: Born Again'' (2025–present). Personal life Ayelet Zurer was born on 28 June 1969 and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, by a Jewish family. Her mother was born in Czechoslovakia and survived the Holocaust by hiding in a convent, later immigrating to Israel in the 1950s. Her Israeli-born father is of Russian Jewish desce ...
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Israeli-occupied territories, It occupies the Occupied Palestinian territories, Palestinian territories of the West Bank in the east and the Gaza Strip in the south-west. Israel also has a small coastline on the Red Sea at its southernmost point, and part of the Dead Sea lies along its eastern border. Status of Jerusalem, Its proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv is the country's Gush Dan, largest urban area and Economy of Israel, economic center. Israel is located in a region known as the Land of Israel, synonymous with the Palestine (region), Palestine region, the Holy Land, and Canaan. In antiquity, it was home to the Canaanite civilisation followed by the History of ancient Israel and Judah, kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Situate ...
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Yosef Shiloach
Yosef Shiloach (; 9 July 1941 – 3 January 2011) was an Israeli actor. Biography Yosef Shiloach was born in Kurdistan to a Kurdish Jewish family. He immigrated to Israel at the age of nine.Israeli actor Yosef Shiloach dies at 69 after long battle with cancer
Haaretz January 3, 2011
Shiloach was one of the first graduates of the Beit Zvi acting school. In 1964, Shiloach appeared in his first film, ''Mishpachat Simchon.'' He went on to appear in many Israeli films, especially the genre ...
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842 as a consequence of losing the First Opium War. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when the United Kingdom obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. Hong Kong was occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II. The territory was handed over from the United Kingdom to China in 1997. Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of one country, two systems. Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages,. the territory is now one of the world's most signific ...
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Shem Tov Levi
Shem Tov Levi (; born 4 February 1950) is an Israeli singer, pianist, flautist, composer and producer. He is one of the most influential musicians in the music culture of Israel. During his long career, Levy has released solo albums, alongside working with many musicians, including Arik Einstein, Esther Ofarim, Yehudit Ravitz, Rivka Zohar, Arik Sinai, Yitzhak Klepter, Gidi Gov, Ofra Haza, Dikla, Shlomo Gronich. Biography He studied at Tel Aviv University and Berklee College of Music in Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas .... He started his professional career as a composer, after having written two songs which appeared on Arik Einstein's 1972 album "Jasmine". Later they had collaborative albums together. In the 70s he was a member of the rock groups קצת ...
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Mohammad Bakri
Mohammad Bakri (born 1953; , ) is a Palestinian actor and film director. Personal life Bakri was born in the village of Bi'ina in Israel. He went to elementary school in his hometown and received his secondary education in the nearby city of Akko. He studied acting and Arabic literature at Tel Aviv University in 1973 and graduated three years later. Bakri is married to Leila and together they have six children. His sons Adam, Ziad and Saleh Bakri are also actors. Acting and film career Bakri began his professional acting career in with Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv, Haifa theater and al-Kasaba theater in Ramallah. His one-man plays, ''The Pessoptimist'' (1986), ''The Anchor'' (1991), ''Season of Migration to the North'' (1993) and ''Abu Marmar'' (1999), were performed in Hebrew and Arabic. He is featured in ''Cabaret Voltaire'', made by Israeli playwright Yuval Rozman. After a few years of acting in Palestinian and Israeli film, Bakri began to act in international films in ...
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Uri Gavriel
Uri Gavriel () is an Israeli theater, film and television actor. Winner of the Ophir Award and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2005 as Best Actor in film ''What a Wonderful Place''. In 2018, he appeared as Philip the Apostle in Helen Edmundson's film ''Mary Magdalene. Early life Gavriel was born in Magdiel, Israel, to Mizrahi Jewish immigrant parents from Iraq. Filmography References External links * *Uri Gavriel' at Rotten Tomatoes *Uri Gavriel' at The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Gavriel, Uri 1955 births Living people Israeli male film actors Israeli film directors Israeli people of Iraqi-Jewish descent Israeli Mizrahi Jews Israeli male television actors Jewish Israeli male actors Ophir Award winners ...
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Montpellier Film Festival
Montpellier International Mediterranean Film Festival (''Cinemed'') is the second most important cinema festival in the Mediterranean after the Cannes Film Festival. Cinemed aims to promote the cinema from the Mediterranean basin, the Black Sea, Portugal, and Armenia. It was inaugurated in 1979. The festival's main prize is the ''Antigone d'Or''. Profile The festival under the original name ''Rencontres avec le cinéma méditerranéen'' was established in 1979 by the team of the Ciné-club Jean-Vigo. In 1989, the festival inaugurated a competitive section and was renamed ''Festival Cinema Mediterranéen Montpellier''. Henri Talvat, one of Cinemed's co-founders, was the festival's president for many years one of the event co-founders, flanked by the director Jean-François Bourgeot. In October 2014 Philippe Saurel, the mayor of the Montpellier Métropole, announced forthcoming changes in the Cinemed's management. Jean-François Bourgeot resigned in 2015. In 2016, Christophe Lep ...
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Israeli Comedy-drama Films
Israeli may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the State of Israel * Israelis, citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel * Modern Hebrew, a language * ''Israeli'' (newspaper), published from 2006 to 2008 * Guni Israeli (born 1984), Israeli basketball player See also * Israel (other) * Israelites (other), the ancient people of the Land of Israel * List of Israelis Israelis ( ''Yiśraʾelim'') are the citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel. The largest ethnic groups in Israel are Israeli Jews, Jews (75%), followed by Arab-Israelis, Palestinians and Arabs (20%) and other minorities (5%). _ ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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Films Set In Tel Aviv
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to the flickering appearance of early films. ...
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