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Orly Silbersatz
Orly Silbersatz-Banai (; born ) is an Israeli actress and singer. She has won two Ophir Awards and a prize from the Israeli Academy of Cinema and Television. Early life Orly Silbersatz was born in Israel, to a secular Jewish family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Career In 1978 she played the role of "Hohit" (חוחית) in the television program "Zehu Ze!", which soon became a cult phenomenon. In 1979 she appeared with Gidi Gov and Gali Atari in the movie '' Dizengoff 99''. In 1988 she starred in Anat Gov's comedy series "So What?!" alongside Gidi Gov and Dov Navon. She has also written several songs for "Mashina", of which her ex-husband Yuval Banai is a member. In 1994 she appeared in Eytan Fox's movie "The Siren's Song" alongside Yair Lapid. The role earned her an Ophir Award. In 1996 she starred in the film Saint Clara. In 2000 she participated in the television series "Catching the Sky" (לתפוס את השמיים). In 2002 she started alongside Maya Maron in the film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ophir Award
The Ophir Awards (), full name: the Israel Film Academy Award, sometimes also known as the Israeli Oscars or the Israeli Academy Awards, are film awards for excellence in the Israeli film industry awarded by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. The award, named after Israeli actor Shaike Ophir, has been granted since 1990. The Academy Awards ceremony takes place every year in September, about four months before the announcement of the nominees for the American Academy Award. The winner of the "Best Film" award is sent as Israel's representative to compete for an Oscar nomination in the "Best Foreign Film Oscar Award" category. Out of the winners of the Ophir Award in the "Best Film" category over the years, 10 films have been chosen to be nominated for the Oscar Award in the "Best Foreign Film" category. History The predecessors of the award were the Israeli Film Center Award () and the Silver Menorah Award (). The first Israeli Academy Awards ceremony was held since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intimate Grammar
''Intimate Grammar'' () is a 2010 Israeli drama film directed by Nir Bergman and released in 2010. The screenplay was written by Bergman based on the novel '' The Book of Intimate Grammar'' by David Grossman. It was awarded the Grand Prix at the 2010 Tokyo International Film Festival. The film deals with the life of a Jerusalem family in the 1960s. The protagonist of the film is Aharon, a sensitive boy who "refuses to grow up". The film focuses on Aharon's relationship with his family and friends, with an emphasis on the triangular friendship between him, his friend Gideon, and his lover Yaeli. Synopsis The film's plot focuses on Aaron Kleinfeld (Roee Elsberg), a Jerusalemite boy with developmental problems. Aaron mother ( Orly Silbersatz-Banai) is a Holocaust survivor and his father (Yehuda Almagor) was a partisan, which creates great meaning of the Holocaust within the family. Aharon is a very lonely boy, who fights a lot with the teenagers around him. Aharon's best friend is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amit Rahav
Amit Rahav (Hebrew: עמית רהב; born 9 August 1995) is an Israeli actor. A graduate of Yoram Loewenstein Performing Arts Studio in Tel Aviv, he began his career on the Israeli stage. He landed his first TV role in ''Mishpacha Sholetet'' (2014–2016). He became known to international audiences for his role as Yanky Shapiro in the Netflix miniseries ''Unorthodox'' (2020). He has since starred in the Netflix miniseries ''Transatlantic'' (2023) and the Holocaust family drama limited series, '' We Were the Lucky Ones'' (2024) for Hulu.What Yanky Shapiro of Unorthodox did next ''The Jewish Chronicle''. 14 February 2024 Early life Rahav was born in |
Tel Aviv Gay Centre Shooting
The Tel Aviv gay centre shooting resulted in the deaths of two people and injuries to at least fifteen others at the Tel Aviv branch of the Israeli LGBT Association, at the "Bar-Noar" (, "Youth Bar"), on Nahmani Street, on August 1, 2009. A 26-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl were killed. Three deaths were mentioned in earlier reports of the incident but one has since been discounted; in 2020, shooting survivor Chen Langer died by suicide after following a long battle with PTSD resulting from the attack, becoming the third deadly casualty. Most of the injured were minors; six were in serious condition. The city was subject to a "clampdown" after the attack, and several hundred police launched a manhunt to locate the killer(s). In June 2013, Hagai Felician was charged over the murder, but the police retracted its allegations in March 2014, after revealing its key witness fabricated evidence. The shooting sparked widespread condemnation, with one lawmaker calling it the worst at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conversion Therapy
Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to align with heterosexual and cisgender norms. Methods that have been used to this end include forms of brain surgery, surgical or chemical (hormonal) castration, aversion therapy treatments such as electric shocks, nausea-inducing drugs, hypnosis, counseling, spiritual interventions, visualization, psychoanalysis, and arousal reconditioning. There is a scientific consensus that conversion therapy is ineffective at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity and that it frequently causes significant long-term psychological harm. An increasing number of jurisdictions around the world have passed laws against conversion therapy. Historically, conversion therapy was the treatment of choice for individuals who disclosed same-sex attractions or exhibited gender nonconformity, which were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Orthodox
Modern may refer to: History *Modern history ** Early Modern period ** Late Modern period *** 18th century *** 19th century *** 20th century ** Contemporary history * Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century Philosophy and sociology * Modernity, a loosely defined concept delineating a number of societal, economic and ideological features that contrast with "pre-modern" times or societies ** Late modernity Art * Modernism ** Modernist poetry * Modern art, a form of art * Modern dance, a dance form developed in the early 20th century * Modern architecture, a broad movement and period in architectural history ** Moderne, multiple architectural styles ** Modernisme a.k.a. Catalan Modernism * Modern music (other) Geography *Modra, a Slovak city, referred to in the German language as "Modern" Typography * Modern (typeface), a raster font packaged with Windows XP * Another name for the typeface classification known as Didone (typography) * Modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a population of 495,600, it is the economic and technological center of the country and a global high tech hub. If East Jerusalem is considered part of Israel, Tel Aviv is the country's second-most-populous city, after Jerusalem; if not, Tel Aviv is the most populous city, ahead of West Jerusalem. Tel Aviv is governed by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, headed by Mayor Ron Huldai, and is home to most of Israel's foreign embassies. It is a beta+ world city and is ranked 53rd in the 2022 Global Financial Centres Index. Tel Aviv has the third- or fourth-largest economy and the largest economy per capita in the Middle East. Tel Aviv is ranked the 4th top global startup ecosystem hub. The city currently has the highest cost of living in the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habima Theatre
The Habima Theatre ( ''Te'atron HaBima'', lit. "The Stage Theatre") is the List of national theatres, national theatre of Israel and one of the first Hebrew language theatres. It is located in Habima Square in the center of Tel Aviv. History Habima was founded as an amateur troup by Nahum Lazarevich Tsemakh (Hebrew: Naḥum Tsemaḥ; 1887–1939) in Białystok (then in Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire) in 1912. Menahem Gnessin was one of its cofounders and early actors. Because its performances were in Hebrew, invoked the Jewish folk tradition, and dealt with issues of the Jewish people, soon it was banned by Russian authorities, and the theatre troupe was forced to become a travelling one. Beginning in 1918, the theatre operated under the auspices of the Moscow Art Theatre, which some consider its actual beginning. It encountered difficulties under the Soviet government as well, after the Russian Revolution (1917), Russian Revolution. Konstantin Stanislavsky arranged f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The One My Soul Loves
''The One My Soul Loves'' () is a play by Israeli playwright and writer Itai Segal, which premiered at the Habima Theatre on 25 December 2021. It was brought together by Habima and Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality’s “Future of the Theater” project. The play was inspired by the Tel Aviv gay centre shooting in a youth bar and also deals with conversion therapy, homophobia and hate crimes. The cast also traveled overseas to perform the play at theatre festivals in Cyprus and Romania. The play includes the actors Amit Rahav, Daniel Litman, Orly Silbersatz Banai, Yadin Gellman and Naya Bienstock.The One My Soul Loves Habima. Retrieved on 9 July 2024 Synopsis A |
Honeymood
''Honeymood'' (, translit. Echad BaLev) is a 2020 Israeli comedy drama film, written and directed by Talya Lavie. Avigail Harari and Ran Danker star as a couple on their wedding night in Jerusalem. It received festival premieres in 2020 at the Tribeca Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival, before being released theatrically in Israel on 22 July 2021.Top Israeli Director Talya Lavie Sets Drama ‘Seven Eyes,’ About Female IDF Soldiers During Oct. 7 Hamas Attack (EXCLUSIVE) ''Variety''. 5 January 2024 The film received eight |
Comedy Drama
Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau dramedy) is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. In film, as well as scripted television series, serious dramatic subjects (such as death, illness, betrayal, grief, etc.) are handled with realism and subtlety, while preserving a humorous tenor. The term "dramedy" began to be used in the television industry in the 1980s. Modern television comedy dramas tend to have more humour integrated into the story than the comic relief common in drama series, but usually contain a lower joke rate than sitcom, sitcoms. History In Theatre of ancient Greece, Greek theatre, plays were considered comedies or tragedies (i.e. drama): the former being light stories with a happy ending, and the latter serious stories with a sad ending. This concept even influenced Theatre of ancient Rome, Roman theatre and theatre of the Hellenistic period. Theatre of that era is thought to have long-lasting infl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talya Lavie
Talya Lavie (; born on 27 April 1978) is an Israeli filmmaker best known for her 2014 debut feature, '' Zero Motivation''. Early life Lavie attended the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design as well as the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem. While attending the schools she produced three shorts which were screened at numerous international film festivals, and won prizes at Locarno International Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. Career In 2006 she created a 19-minute short called ''The Substitute'' which played at the Tribeca Film Festival about a young woman working for the IDF. This short was later developed into a feature-length film, '' Zero Motivation''. In 2010 she participated in the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program Screenwriters' Lab, and in 2011 she participated in the Sundance Institute prestigious Directors' Lab. Lavie was inspired to write '' Zero Motivation'' based on her own experience serving in the Israel Defense F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
