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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/57480/full/57480/israeli-film-wins-prize-at-berlin-festival/ <br /><br /> <b>Israeli film wins prize at Berlin festival</b> <br /> Thursday, March 18, 2010 | by <br /><br /><p>An Israeli short film won second prize at a Berlin festival. “Hayerida” (“The Descent”), by Shai Miedzinski of Tel Aviv, took the Silver Bear Award at the Berlinale International Film Festival.</p> <p>Shot in the Negev desert, it shows a family in search of the perfect stone for the grave of their son. The film is permeated with the sounds of clinking stones, wind and sand.</p> <p>Miedzinski, who was born in 1979, told the audience at a festival screening that he had lost his father 10 years ago and wanted to make a film about coping with the death of a loved one. He ended up casting his own sister, his mother and her new boyfriend in the film.</p> <p>“It’s hard to depict grief, a transition for a family,” the jury noted, “but the director listens to the wind blow and frames the emotion.”</p> <p>“Budrus,” a U.S. production by Brazilian-born filmmaker Julia Bacha, won second prize in the Panorama Audience Award. One of several documentaries dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “Budrus” documents the largely nonviolent protest by residents of a Palestinian village when construction of Israel’s security fence threatens to destroy their olive groves and cemetery grounds.</p>

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