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Israel's 'Sweet Mud' takes prize for world cinema at Sundance |
| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: February 18, 2007 |
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Israeli director Joseph Cedar won the best director award for 'Beaufort,' at the 57th annual international film festival in Berlin on Saturday evening. This is the first time an Israeli director has ever won the prize and Cedar was up against directors like Robert DeNiro and Steven Soderbergh.
"I wish for all of us that our leaders will be afraid of wars and find the courage to know how to end them," said Cedar after thanking the panel of judges for his win. ''It seems pretty obvious that we're against war and that war is horrible -- hopefully there's something in my film that gives insight into a more specific nature of how absurd combat ... is,'' Cedar said.
Cedar's film is based on the best-selling book 'If There is a Heaven' by Ron Leshem, who also participated in adapting the screenplay, and tells the story of a group of IDF soldiers several weeks before the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000.
Cedar joins two other big Israeli winners this year -- Dror Shaul's kibbutz coming-of-age film 'Sweet Mud', which won the Crystal Bear on Friday, and Eitan Fox's Tel Aviv-West Bank gay love story 'The Bubble', which took home second place at the Panorama awards.
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