Netalie Braun’s anti-war drama Oxygen, a couple of single mom who takes excessive motion to stop her 21-year-old son from returning to the entrance in Lebanon, scooped the Finest Israeli Function Movie award on the forty second Jerusalem Movie Competition on Thursday night.
The jury – comprising Tallinn Black Nights Movie Competition head Tiina Lokk, Israeli director Julie Shles and actor Menashe Noy – praised Braun for her portrayal of a fancy scenario.
“The movie is layered with infinite aspects of Israeli actuality, offered from a brand new perspective, giving an nearly biblical dimension to the story of a mom dealing with the sacrifice of her son,” learn their jury assertion.
“Director and screenwriter Netalie Braun deconstructs this ethos – from the liberation of Jerusalem to crawling on the carpet because of PTSD – dismantling the picture of the Israeli hero,” it continued.
Braun has described her movie as “a political movie and name for revolution”, advocating for moms in Israel to standup to the obligatory conscription of their sons into the military and the concept that the one answer is battle.
Opening with Joachim Trier’s Cannes Grand Prize winner Sentimental Worth July 17, this version of Jerusalem was the second to happen because the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror assaults on Southern Israel, sparking the Israeli invasion of Gaza, during which greater than 57,000 Palestinian individuals have since been killed.
The competition unfolded amid rising worldwide condemnation of Israel’s administration of meals help distribution in Gaza, with World Well being Group head Tedros Ghebreyesus saying this week that the inhabitants confronted “mass hunger”.
There has additionally been outcry in Israel in regards to the scenario, in addition to anger in regards to the destiny of fifty hostages, who’re nonetheless unaccounted for, 20 of whom are nonetheless believed to be alive, and the rising loss of life toll amongst Israeli troopers deployed in Gaza.
The Israeli Function Movie Competitors jury additionally gave an Honorary Point out to Shai Carmeli-Pollak’s The Sea, a couple of Palestinian boy residing within the landlocked West Financial institution who embarks on a harmful journey to see the ocean, describing it as “a poetic journey that manages to seize the nuances of our harsh actuality and conveys the dissonance inside the expertise of Israel’s inconceivable labyrinths of occupation, army, and police.”
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The award for Finest Israeli Debut Function went to Eti Tsicko’s Georgia-set drama Nandauri, following an Israeli lawyer pressured to confront her previous when she travels to the nation to retrieve an deserted boy.
“A movie fully free of the male cinematic gaze, but neither adversarial nor gender pushed. Eti Tsicko reveals herself as a director with a definite and highly effective voice, a gentle hand, and distinctive skills already evident in her first movie,” stated the jury.
The Worldwide Movie Competitors jury – comprising U.S. producer Lawrence Bender alongside German administrators Matthias Glasner and Julia von Heinz – feted Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Cannes Finest Director and Actor winner The Secret Agent with the Finest Worldwide Movie Award.
Hungary’s Bálint Szimler gained Finest Director within the part for varsity drama Lesson Discovered whereas a Honorary Point out went to Mascha Schilinski for her debut movie Sound of Falling.
Slovenian director Urška Djukić’s coming of age story Little Hassle Women gained Finest Worldwide Debut Movie, which was judged by French producer Bruno Nahon with Israeli administrators Tom Shoval and Dani Rosenberg, who additionally gave an Honorable Point out to Harris Dickinson’s Urchin.
Exterior of the screening program, the competition additionally held its longrunning Jerusalem Pitch Level occasion, supporting the event and completion of a number of characteristic tasks.
The jury, comprising director Michel Franco, distributor-producer Michel Zana and producer Maya Amsellem, awarded the Grand Prize to Assaf Machnes’s tragicomedy The place To, a couple of 55-year-old Palestinian Uber driver in Berlin, who picks up a younger, outspoken Israeli drifting by way of the town as a passenger.
It’s produced by Tomer Mecklberg, Haim Mecklberg, Estee Yakov Mecklberg, Oren Rogovin, Man Shani, and Luis Singer.
The Pitch Level Jury Prize went to Henya Brodbeker’s Perhaps It’s Love about an ultra-orthodox lady who wedded her husband in an organized marriage on the age of 20, and now retains testing him to determine whether or not she is in love. It’s produced by Tami Cohen and Adar Shafran.
Full 2025 Jerusalem Movie Competition Awards
Worldwide Competitors
Nechama Rivlin Award for Finest Worldwide Movie
The Secret Agent, Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil)
Finest Director Award
Bálint Szimler (Hungary) – Lesson Discovered
Honorable Point out
Sound of Falling
Director: Mascha Schilinski (Germany)
Worldwide Debuts Competitors (sponsored by GWFF)
GWFF Award for Finest Worldwide Debut Movie
Little Hassle Women
Director: Urška Djukić (Slovenia)
Honorable Point out
Urchin
Director: Harris Dickinson (UK)
Within the Spirit of Freedom Competitors
Cummings Award for Spirit of Freedom Competitors Winner:
The Finest Mom within the World
Director: Anna Muylaert (Brazil)
OFF Experimental Documentary Competitors in honor of Chantal Akerman
OFF Prize for Experimental Documentary in honor of Chantal Akerman:
Inform Her that I Love Her
Director: Romane Bohringer (France)
Haggiag Competitors for Full-Size Israeli Function Movies
Haggiag Award for Finest Function by way of the Jerusalem Basis
Oxygen
Director: Netalie Braun
Producers: Aviv Ben Shlush, Adi Bar Yossef, Netalie Braun
Honorable Point out:
The Sea
Director: Shai Carmeli-Pollak
Producer: Baher Agbariya
GWFF Award for Finest Israeli Debut Function:
Nandauri
Director: Eti Tsicko
Producers: Ayelet Kait, Amir Harel, Flavia Oertwig, Vladimir Kacherba
Anat Pirchi Award for Finest Script
Useless Language, Mihal Brezis, Oded Binnun, Tom Shoval, Amital Stern
Anat Pirchi Award for Finest Efficiency
Riki Reif Sinai, Cuz You’re Ugly
Finest Ensemble Award:
The Sea
Diamond Competitors for Full-Size Israeli Documentary Movies
Diamond Award for Finest Documentary Movie:
Malachi, Administrators and Producers: Ido Bahat and Noam Demsky
Diamond Award for Finest Director of a Documentary Movie:
Israela Shaer-Meoded – In search of Yadida
Aaron Emanuel Award for Finest Cinematography:
Shai Goldman, Nandauri
Aliza and Micha Shagrir Award for Finest Modifying:
Ido Bahat and Ido Haar, Malachi
Yossi Mulla Award for Finest Authentic Rating:
Avi Belleli, The Sea
Diamond Competitors for Israeli Shorts
Diamond Award for Finest Dwell Motion Movie:
Tongue Behind Enamel
Director: Ira Eduardovna
Producer: Naama Pyritz
Diamond Award for Dwell Motion Movie, Second Prize
Dalia’s Tea Casts a Shadow on Mount Fuji
Director: Oren Gerner
Producers: Oren Gerner and Lihi Nachmani
Aliza and Micha Shagrir Award for Finest Pupil Movie
The Issues We do for Love and a Overseas Passport
Director: Ayal Sgerski
College: Sam Spiegel Movie & Tv College
The Finest Efficiency Award
Hilly Yossef Zada, for her efficiency in Earlier than Anybody Else
Director: Ziv Mamon
Finest Animated Movie
A Chicken’s Want
Director: Gan De Lange
Producers: Gan De Lange and KM Productions
Honorable Point out
House Base
Director: Amit Kra
College: The Steve Tisch College of Movie and Tv, Tel Aviv College
The Israeli Video Artwork and Experimental Movie Competitors
OFF Awards
First Prize
Escape Will Get You Tonight
Director: Noa Simhayof Shahaf
Second Prize
Orientations
Director: Daniel Kiczales
Jerusalem Pitch Level 2025 Awards
Grand Prize
The place To
Director: Assaf Machnes
Producers: Tomer Mecklberg, Haim Mecklberg, Oren Rogovin, Man Shani
Jury Prize
Perhaps It’s Love
Director: Henya Brodbeker
Producers: Tami Cohen, Adar Shafran
Edit & D.B. Put up Manufacturing Grant
Al-Barzakh
Director: Hamad Sharoof
Producers: Shlomi Elkabetz, Galit Kahlon, Michal Giladi
The Gesher Multicultural Movie Fund Award for Finest Quick Script
Dad within the Room
Author & Director: Dotan Moreno, Producer: Lev Orlov
IMPACT Pitch in collaboration with CoPro – The Van Leer Impression Marketing campaign Award on Behalf of the Jerusalem Movie Competition
Love in Exhausting Locations
Director: Brachi Haisherik
Producers: Tami Cohen, Adar Shafran
