The 25th edition of the Jerusalem Film festival kicks off July 10th with the Israeli premiere of “Wall-E”. The first festival under the newly appointed manager Ilan De Vries will include some highlights of the 2008 Cannes Festival, before they head on to Toronto.

Highlights include:

“24 City”
Jia Zhang-ke, China

“Of Time and the City”
Terence Davies, United Kingdom

“Liverpool”
Lisandro Alonso, Argentina/France/Netherlands/Spain/Germany

“Tulpan”
Sergey Dvortsevoy, Germany/Switzerland/Kazakstan/Russia/Poland

“Acne”
Federico Veiroj, Uruguay/Argentina/Spain/Mexico

“Hunger”
Steve McQueen, United Kingdom

IL DIVO
Paolo Sorrentino

SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
Charlie Kaufman

SERBIS
Brillante Mendoza

Also playing:

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
Errol Morris

ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Werner Herzog

MY WINNIPEG
and
BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!
Guy Maddin

The full program is available online.

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