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من تأسيس بلدية حيفا           •         وزارة المعارف والثقافة               •            برلمان المدينة الحرة بريمن.
Founders: Haifa Municipality • Ministry of Education and Culture • Senate of the Free City of Breme

CINEMA FILM FESTIVAL

Haifa Arts Foundation supports the international film festival in Haifa since its first day. The Foundation awards the prize for the first place winner in the Israeli Feature Film Competition, and in recent years provided additional grants in other categories of Israeli films.

Outside the Festival, the Foundation supported—by way of grants—short feature and documentary films of Haifa moviemakers, as well as movies whose plot takes place in Haifa or filmed in Haifa.

Haifa International Film Festival

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Haifa Arts Foundation supports the Festival since the beginning. The Foundation has helped various projects and productions. Later on, in an effort to encourage production of short films that deal with Haifa, in order to assist in documenting the life and history of the city, the Foundation distributed grants for screenplays and short, feature and documentary films, at the final stages of production, created by Haifa residents and/or taking place in the city. The Foundation also awarded prizes to Young Cinema films that competed during the Festival. In recent years, the Foundation gives the prize to first place winners in the Israeli Feature Film category. Haifa International Film Festival is held annually on Chol Hamoed Sukkot.

International Film Festival 2024

International Film Festival 2024

The Haifa Arts Foundation awarded two prizes in the framework of the Haifa Film Festival:
• Best Actress Award to Hili
•Artistic Achievement Award 

Festival. First Place Prize for Israeli Feature Film Competition

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Festival. Best Actress Award

2024
The prize was awarded to the actress
Hili Yosef Zada for her role in “Girls Like Us”

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Festival/ Acting Award

Award for Artistic Achievement in a Feature Film

2024
Artistic Achievement Prize for the feature film “Cabaret Total

Festival. First Prize Winner at the Israeli Debut Feature Film Competition 2022

Festival. First Prize Winner at the Israeli Debut Feature Film Competition 2022

2022

The Fat Guy 

Director: Gudis Schneider; Producers: Dafna Dannenberg, Aviram Avraham; Screenwriters: Gudis Schneider and Liat Elkayam; Cinematographer: Amit Shaal; Editor: Dov Steuer; Sound Design: Yossi Apelbaum; Music: Alon Eder and Tzachi Sadan. With Mey-Ran Menkes, Tzachi Sadan, Assaf Perry and Efrat Weintraub.

Festival. Grant for Feature Films Shot in Haifa

 

Festival. Grant for Young Cinema - Feature and Documentary Films

Festival. Grant for Documentaries Filmed in Haifa

2015

"Women in Sink"

Director: Iris Zaki

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Since its premiere in 2015, Women in Sink—produced with the support of Haifa Arts Foundation and Other Israel—was shown in over 100 festivals around the world, sold to TV Channels, and won thirteen international prizes, including Best Short Documentary, HIFF 2015.

Special Grants

Underwater Photographer of the Year Award 

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First prize at the Underwater Photographer of the Year was awarded to Itzik Yogev, in a ceremony that took place on 29.9.18.