18/06/2024
IN MEMORY OF YAHAV WINNER..
We hope you will join The Winnipeg International Jewish Film Festival TOMORROW (Wednesday, June 19) at 2:00 p.m. in paying tribute to Yahav Winner, a gifted, young filmmaker who was murdered in his home in Kfar Aza on October 7 while protecting his wife and baby daughter.
We are showing a series of three short films by Winner and his wife Shaylee Atari in memory of the life of one of Israel's most promising young filmmakers LIVE ON THE BIG SCREEN inside the Berney Theatre, located at 123 Doncaster Street. ..
In Winner’s THE BOY (Narrative, 2023, 25 minutes) father and son Avinoam and Barak, from a Kibbutz bordering the Gaza Strip, are forced to deal with another round of rockets and combat, each in their own way. One night, Barak reaches a boiling point and Avinoam is forced to absorb the heat. (Winner, Best Cinematography, Tel Aviv International Students Film Festival 2023; Best Screenplay, International Competition, Filmschoolfest Munich 2023.)
In Atary’s NEURIM (Narrative, 2020, 31 minutes), an awkward relationship develops between Orr, a 30-year-old wheelchair user after an injury, and her new physiotherapist. (The film had its premiere in Cannes’s 2020 Cinefondation, and was screened at the Solidarity Tel Aviv Human Rights Film Festival, in 2020).
DEEP BREATHS (Narrative, 2020, 12 minutes) is Winner’s fictionalized love letter to his wife. In the film, Shaylee and Yahav spend a night of love and memories between worlds together. A young widow meets the ghost of her dead husband when she needs him the most...
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