Ehab Tarabieh’s 'The Taste Of Apples Is Red' won the award for best Israeli first feature.
David Volach’s Daniel Auerbach has won the Best Israeli Feature award at the 40th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival.
A jury consisting of Kornel Mundruczo, Jasmila Zbanic, Joseph Cedar and Alexandru Belc praised a story “told in the most profound, funny, furious and hyper-Jewish way.”
Other winners in the Israeli Competition included Asaf Saban’s Delegation which scooped Best Screenplay and the Ensemble Award for the young cast. Emos Ayeno won Best Performance in an Israeli Feature for Under the Shadow of the Sun.
Marie Amachoukeli’s Ama Gloria, which premiered in Critics’ Week at Cannes this year, has won the Best International Film Prize.
A jury led by Claire Denis and consisting of Whit Stillman, Florian Zeller, Joana Vicente and Maria Schrader selected the film “for its extraordinary poignancy, beauty and insight.”
The feature revolves around a motherless six-year-old girl who travels to Cape Verde to reunite with her longtime nanny.
Also in the international competition, Juraj Leroti’s Croatian drama Safe Place won the best film in the First Feature Competition, judged by Ali Abbasi, Barbara Albert and Sebastian Meise.
The Jerusalem Film Festival continues until Sunday with Justine Triet’s Cannes 2023 Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall as the closing film.
