Beaufort

Name of Film	Beaufort 2007
Original Title
Director	Joseph Cedar
Country	Israel
Language	Hebrew
Mins	131 mins
Format to be screened	35 MM
Festival & Awards	Academy Awards, USA YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2008 Nominated Oscar Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Israel.   Awards of the Israeli Film Academy YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Won Award of the Israeli Film Academy Best Art Direction Miguel Markin Best Cinematography Ofer Inov Best Editing Zohar M. Sela Best Sound Israel David Alex Claude Asher Milo (as Ashi Milo) Nominated Award of the Israeli Film Academy Best Actor Oshri Cohen Best Costumes unknown Best Director Joseph Cedar Best Film Best Music unknown Best Screenplay Joseph Cedar Ron Leshem   Bangkok International Film Festival YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Nominated Golden Kinnaree Award Best Film Joseph Cedar   Berlin International Film Festival YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Won Silver Berlin Bear Best Director Joseph Cedar Nominated Golden Berlin Bear Joseph Cedar
Production design	Miguel Markin
Synopsis	BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop. As LIRAZ lays the explosives which would destroy that very same structure that his friends had died defending, he witnesses the collapse of all he's been taught as an officer, and his soldier's mental and physical disintegration.
Note on Director	Yossef (Joseph) Cedar (born August 31, 1968, Hebrew: יוסף סידר) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter. He has won a Silver Bear and an Ophir Award for Best Director, and an Ophir Award for writing a Best Screenplay. He also won the best screenplay award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. for his film Footnote (2011). Cedar was born in New York. When he was 6 his family moved to Israel, and he grew up in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood in Jerusalem. He studied in a Yeshiva High School. In the Israeli army he served as a paratrooper. After graduating in Philosophy and History of theatre from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem he studied cinema studies in the New York University. When he came back to Israel he started working on the screenplay for his debut film, Time of Favor (2000), for which he moved and lived for 2 years in the Israeli settlement Dolev. The film became a big success and won 6 Ofir Academy Awards, including Best Picture. His second film was Campfire (2004) who was also a success with 5 Ofir Academy Awards including Best Picture, with 2 of them, Best Director and Best Screenplay, going to Cedar. For Beaufort (2007), his third film, he received the Silver Bear award for Best Director in the Berlin International Film Festival. Beaufort became one of the most critically acclaimed and successful Israeli films of the decade and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, the first such nomination for an Israeli film in 24 years. It also received 4 Ofir Academy Awards and was based on Cedar's own experiences during his army service on Israel's border with Lebanon. Cedar is an Orthodox Jew. His films are known to touch delicate issues of Israeli society. Israeli critic Yair Rave wrote: One of the reasons I like Cedar's films so much is... his ability to merge the Israeli spirit... with the universal cinematic codes. His upcoming film Footnote was premiered In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
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Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyl2JEFkxmo
Sources	Wikipedia and IMDB