The Jerusalem Film Festival (Hebrew: פסטיבל הקולנוע ירושלים) is an international film festival held annually in Jerusalem. The festival was the brainchild of Lia van Leer, who inaugurated it on May 17, 1984. Feature films and documentaries from all over the world are screened, and awards are presented in many categories.
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“And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
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“Sabbath. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.”
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