Haifa International Film Festival to present the best of world cinema

The 42nd Haifa International Film Festival, running from September 26 to October 3, announced its international program highlights, featuring new films by directors Danny Boyle, Nanni Moretti, François Ozon, and others. The Carmel competition opens with Boyle's 'Ink,' which premiered at Venice. The festival closes with Moretti's 'It Will Happen Tonight,' based on a story by Eshkol Nevo.

The 42nd Haifa International Film Festival, scheduled for September 26 to October 3, has unveiled the highlights of its international program. The festival's main international competition, Carmel, will open with Danny Boyle's 'Ink,' which also opened this year's Venice Film Festival. The film tells the story of legendary Sun editor Larry Lamb and publisher Rupert Murdoch as they transformed the struggling British tabloid in the late 1960s. The festival will close with Nanni Moretti's 'It Will Happen Tonight,' based on a story by Israeli author Eshkol Nevo and starring Louis Garrel and Jasmine Trinca. Among the major international prize winners screening at Haifa are Andrey Zvyagintsev's 'Minotaur,' winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes; Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'All of a Sudden'; Lukas Dhont's World War I drama 'Coward'; and Sandra Wollner's 'Everytime,' winner of the top prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section. Other highlights include François Ozon's adaptation of Albert Camus's 'The Stranger,' Olivier Assayas's political thriller 'The Wizard of the Kremlin,' and Hirokazu Kore-eda's family drama 'Sheep in the Box.' The festival will welcome several international filmmakers, including Romanian director Tudor Giurgiu, who will present '3 Days in September,' which includes a 65-minute sequence shot in a single take. The Haifa Classics program will feature a Barbra Streisand tribute with 'Funny Girl,' 'Hello, Dolly!,' 'A Star Is Born,' and 'Yentl,' as well as a retrospective of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima and filmmaker Nagisa Oshima. The Haifa Docs program will feature 'Broken English,' a portrait of Marianne Faithfull, and 'The Match,' about the legendary 1986 World Cup quarter-final between Argentina and England. Other sections will include documentaries, animation, culinary cinema, and the Haifa Wild Nights genre program.