"Black Notebooks - Vivian", the first part of the impressive documentary project that Shlomi Alkabetz created for his sister, actress Ronit Alkabetz, is the film of the year of the Israel Film Critics Forum.
Alkabetz's film, which consists of video footage shot over the years, is the first documentary to win the Forum's Best Film Award of the Year award.
In their reasoning, forum members wrote that "Black Notebooks - Vivian" is "a clever work that provides a glimpse into the artist's psyche and his confrontation with the work, with the family and with himself."
The second part of the project, "Black Notebooks - Ronit", is scheduled to hit screens on 6.1.
Screening of black notebooks.
Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon, Archive
The international film award went to "The Power of the Dog" by veteran New Zealand director Jane Campion for being a "smart, poetic and surprising piece with excellent performances by the lead cast".
The film, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Cody Smith-McPhee, is available to watch on Netflix and is also expected to be at the center of attention at the upcoming Oscar ceremony.
Other films that have been honored are "How to Say Silence," by Shir Neumann, which won the Best Documentary Award;
"Someone Will Love Someone," which won Hadas Ben Aroya the Best Director award and the film's star, Elisheva Weil, the Discovery of the Year Award;
"The Knee", by Nadav Lapid, who won the stars of the film, Avshalom Polak and Nur Pivak, for the best actor and actress awards of the year;
And "Legend of Destruction," by Gidi Der, David Polonsky and Michael Faust, which won the Artistic Achievement Award.
The Film Critics Forum is a cell within the journalists' organization in which members criticize and criticize films from a variety of media types (written, broadcast and electronic).
This is the ninth year that forum members are awarding prizes for the best films of the year.
The prizes are not monetary - but declaratory and are awarded for quality reasons.
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