People That Are Not Me to represent Israel at Locarno
by Andrea Chung
- Hadas ben Aroya’s feature debut stands out as the only Israeli production being screened at the Swiss festival
At the 2016 Locarno Film Festival, one Israeli film, People That Are Not Me [+see also:
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A graduate from Tel Aviv University’s Department of Film and Television, the filmmaker directed and wrote the film as her final project of the degree, and also plays the lead role. Alongside her stars Yonatan Bar-Or, who played the lead role in Someone to Run with (Mishe Larutz Ito), a 2006 Israeli drama-thriller directed by Oded Davidoff, which received 12 nominations at that year’s Israeli Film Academy Awards.
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