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Yaelle Kayam ( Hebrew: יעל קיים) is an Israeli filmmaker and journalist. She is known for her most recent film, Mountain, which made its debut in 2015. It was featured at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her other notable works include Providence and Diploma.
Jun 6, 2016 · How Yaelle Kayam climbed a ‘Mountain’ The Israeli director is reaching great heights of success with her debut film set on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives.
Biography. Between 2004 and 2006 Yaelle attended Cinema Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts Melbourne, Australia. In 2009 she graduated from the Sam Spiegel School of Film and Television Jerusalem. Her graduation short film Diploma won Third Place at the Cinéfondation, Cannes Film Festival 2009.
Sep 19, 2015 · But perhaps the undeniable lead character in Mountain is the politically charged, beautiful beyond words Mount of Olives, with its haunting cemetery and those white, gleaming tombstones, staring across to the Temple Mount, today the epicenter of so much political struggle and trouble.
May 12, 2016 · Mountain: Directed by Yaelle Kayam. With Shani Klein, Avshalom Pollak, Hitham Omari, Eli Cohen. A young Orthodox Jewish woman becomes ensconced in a nocturnal community of prostitutes and drug dealers that congregates in the ancient cemetery atop Jerusalem's Mount of Olives.
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May 26, 2016 · Kayam, in short, is a director with the ability to cast a gaze at reality and shape that gaze cinematically. However, “Mountain” is also rife with a desire to follow the path of an artistic conception so brittle that any attempt to foist meaning on the film might bring it crashing down.
Sep 7, 2015 · An Orthodox Jewish woman living in a vast cemetery on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives struggles with her husband’s lack of interest in her in Yaelle Kayam’s subtle, handsome “Mountain.”
