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Jerusalem Film Festival Unveils Israeli Competition As It Gears Up For First Full Edition Since 2019

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The Jerusalem Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its Israeli feature film competition as well as all the other local productions selected to screen in its 39th edition, running 21-31.The event returns to its traditional July dates for the first time since 2019 this year, after the Covid-19 pandemic forced it online in 2020 and pushed it into August and prevented it from inviting international guests in 2021.This edition is being piloted by Jerusalem Cinematheque manager Roni Mahadav-Levin and artistic director Elad Samorzik, following the departure earlier this year of longtime cinematheque and festival director Noa Regev to head up the Israel Film Fund.

Her replacement will be decided after this year’s edition.World premieres in the Israeli competition include Michal Vinik’s drama Valeria Is Getting Married about two Ukrainian sisters who travel to Israel for marriage.

It is Vinik’s first solo feature since 2015 festival breakout Blush.Yona Rozenkier’s 35 Downhill, about a man who reluctantly sets off on a road trip across Israel on a tractor with his elderly father, also debuts in the section.

His last film The Dive won Jerusalem’s Israeli feature competition in 2018Further new titles include first feature All I Can Do by Shiri Nevo Fridental, about a young prosecutor who takes on a difficult sexual assault case, and Barren, a first fiction work by documentarian Mordechai Vardi about a childless ultraorthodox couple.Jake Paltrow’s Adolf Eichmann drama June Zero and Ofir Raul Graizer’s Israel home-coming story America will also compete, after world premiering in the Czech Republic’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 1-9).Moshe Rosenthal’s comedy-drama Karaoke, which premiered at Tribeca, and

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