{"id":2667,"date":"2012-09-25T14:35:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T20:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2012-10-04T01:38:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T07:38:44","slug":"israeli-oscar-submission-fill-the-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/israeli-oscar-submission-fill-the-void\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Oscar submission: &#8216;Fill the Void&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) &#8212; Israel has selected the award-winning film &#8220;Fill the Void&#8221; as its submission to the best foreign language film category of the Oscars.\u00a0The Israeli Academy of Film and Television chose &#8220;Fill the Void&#8221; as Film of the Year last week at the Ophir Awards, Israel&#8217;s national film awards.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2757\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hadas-Yaron-Shira-baby.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2757\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2757 lazyload\" title=\"Hadas Yaron Shira baby\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hadas-Yaron-Shira-baby-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hadas-Yaron-Shira-baby-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hadas-Yaron-Shira-baby-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2757\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2757 \" title=\"Hadas Yaron Shira baby\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hadas-Yaron-Shira-baby-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hadas-Yaron-Shira-baby-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hadas-Yaron-Shira-baby-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hadas Yaron as Shira in a scene from &quot;Fill the Void.&quot; Yaron won a best actress award at the 69th Venice Film Festival in September. (Karin Bar)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The film, about a young haredi Orthodox woman from Tel Aviv who is engaged to be married but must decide whether to marry her brother-in-law when her sister dies in childbirth, also won Ophirs for best director, best screenplay, best cinematography, best actress, best supporting actress and best makeup. It was nominated in 13 categories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fill the Void &#8221; is the first full-length feature film for director Rama Burshtein, who is haredi Orthodox.<\/p>\n<p>Hadas Yaron won best actress, an award she also won last month at the prestigious Venice Film Festival.\u00a0The film has yet to be shown in Israel; it will be screened there after the High Holidays season.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2758\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/iftach-Klein-as-Yochai.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2758\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2758 lazyload\" title=\"iftach Klein as Yochai\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/iftach-Klein-as-Yochai-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/iftach-Klein-as-Yochai-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/iftach-Klein-as-Yochai-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2758\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2758 \" title=\"iftach Klein as Yochai\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/iftach-Klein-as-Yochai-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/iftach-Klein-as-Yochai-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/iftach-Klein-as-Yochai-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yiftach Klein as the widower Yochai in a scene from &quot;Fill the Void.&quot; (Karin Bar)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; 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