Jerusalem International Film Festival

42^nd Edition

where:	Gerusalemme
when:	July 17^th - 27^th, 2025
address:	Hebron Road, 11 POB 8561, Jerusalem, 91083 Israel
tel:	+972-2-565-4333
email:	daniel@jff.org.il
website:	www.jff.org.il
deadline:	April 20^th, 2025
entry form:	Online Submission

The July Festival spans 11 days, offering a rich and varied program with more than 200 films. These are showcased through numerous competitive and non-competitive sections: Gala Screenings, Israeli Cinema Competitions, International Debuts Competition, In the Spirit of Freedom Competition, Contemporary Masters of Cinema, Panorama, Classics and Restored Films, Jewish Experience, Intersections Program for Experimental Cinema and Video Art, JFF Kids Competition, Into the Night, Cinemania, and as from 2016, the Wilf Competition for International Features.
Alongside the Festival program, the JFF holds professional events for Israeli and international film industry members, led by the Jerusalem Pitch Point. The JPP offers a meeting place for Israeli filmmakers and producers with key-members from the international film industry, thus encouraging and promoting international co-productions of Israeli feature projects in development or in post-production. The Festival also initiates various workshops and professional master classes, and hosts the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab, which holds its final pitching and various events in the framework of the Festival.
This variety of events has gradually turned the Jerusalem Film Festival into the most important cinematic gathering in Israel.

participations

2024	Come closer by Tom Nesher: Israeli Feature Films - Best Original Score The Empire by Bruno Dumont: International Competition Lubo by Giorgio Diritti: Panorama Marcello mio by Christophe Honoré: Mk2 50th Anniversary
2023	A Brighter Tomorrow by Nanni Moretti: Masters La chimera by Alice Rohrwacher: International Competition Disco Boy by Giacomo Abbruzzese: Debuts Lorna's Silence by Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne: Dardennes Tribute Ragtag by Giuseppe Boccassini: Cinemania A room of his own by Matan Yair: Israeli Feature Films
2022	Il buco by Michelangelo Frammartino: Masters EO by Jerzy Skolimowski: Masters Silent Land by Aga Woszczynska: Debuts
2021	A Chiara by Jonas Carpignano: International Competition Here we are by Nir Bergman: Israeli Cinema Human Factors by Ronny Trocker: Panorama Rifkin’s Festival by Woody Allen: Gala The Rossellinis by Alessandro Rossellini: Cinemania The Tale of King Crab by Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis: Debuts
2020	Here we are by Nir Bergman: Israeli Narrative Feature Stories from the Chestnut Woods by Gregor Bozic: Debuts
2019	Dafne by Federico Bondi: Panorama What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire? by Roberto Minervini: In the Spirit of Freedom The Years by Sara Fgaier: International Shorts
2018	Dogman by Matteo Garrone: International Competition - Best Film Euforia by Valeria Golino: Gala Ferrante Fever by Giacomo Durzi: Panorama Hannah by Andrea Pallaoro: Panorama Happy as Lazzaro by Alice Rohrwacher: In the Spirit of Freedom In my Room by Ulrich Köhler: Masters Land by Babak Jalali: Panorama Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno by Abdellatif Kechiche: Masters Nico, 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli: Panorama Samouni Road by Stefano Savona: Panorama
2017	After the War by Annarita Zambrano: Debuts
2015	Greenery will bloom again by Ermanno Olmi: Masters Heavenly Body by Alice Rohrwacher: Panorama Mia madre by Nanni Moretti: Opening Film
2014	Human Capital by Paolo Virzì: Gala Intrepido - A lonely hero by Gianni Amelio: Masters The Referee by Paolo Zucca: Panorama Sacro GRA by Gianfranco Rosi: Int. Documentaries South is nothing by Fabio Mollo: Panorama Trento Symphonia by Flatform: Carte Blanche White Shadow by Noaz Deshe: Debuts Competition The Wonders by Alice Rohrwacher: Panorama
2013	Caesar Must Die by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani: Panorama
2012	To Rome with Love by Woody Allen: Opening Event The Wholly Family by Terry Gilliam: Short matters
2011	Gangor by Italo Spinelli: Panorama The Salt of Life by Gianni Di Gregorio: Panorama
2010	The Double Hour by Giuseppe Capotondi: New Directors Wild Grass by Alain Resnais: Rendez-vous
2009	The Dust of Time by Theo Angelopoulos: Panorama Mid-August Lunch by Gianni di Gregorio: Panorama Vincere by Marco Bellocchio: Panorama
2008	Il divo by Paolo Sorrentino: Panorama Estomago by Marcos Jorge: Panorama The Island of Roses, tragedy in paradise by Rebecca Samonà: The Jewish Experience The Unknown by Giuseppe Tornatore: Panorama
2007	Don't Touch The Axe by Jacques Rivette: Rendez-Vous In Memory of Myself by Saverio Costanzo: Panorama The Lark Farm by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani: The Spirit Of Freedom Lettere dal Sahara by Vittorio de Seta: The Spirit Of Freedom Life as a corporate holiday by Paolo Muran One Hundred Nails by Ermanno Olmi: Panorama
2006	Crime Novel by Michele Placido: Panorama Little red flowers by Zhang Yuan: Panorama Mario's War by Antonio Capuano: Panorama The method by Marcelo Pineyro: Panorama Oh! Uomo by Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi: Documentary Films Once you're born you can no longer hide by Marco Tullio Giordana: Panorama Volevo solo vivere by Mimmo Calopresti: The Jewish Experience
2005	Changing destiny by Daniele Gaglianone: Panorama The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things by Asia Argento: Panorama How we got the Italian movie business into trouble by Daniele Ciprí, Franco Maresco: Panorama An Italian Romance by Carlo Mazzacurati: Panorama
2004	Caterina in the big city by Paolo Virzì: Panorama The Dog, the General and the Birds by Francis Nielsen
2003	Facing window by Ferzan Ozpetek: Panorama For one more hour with you by Alina Marazzi: Panorama Grazia's Island by Emanuele Crialese: Panorama L'isola by Costanza Quatriglio: Panorama A Journey Called Love by Michele Placido: Panorama Letters from Palestine by Franco Angeli, Giuliana Berlinguer, Maurizio Carrassi, Giuliana Gamba, Roberto Gianarelli, Wilma Labate, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Francesco Maselli, Mario Monicelli, Ettore Scola, Fulvio Wetzl: Panorama

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