Haifa Cinematheque is a cinematheque located in Haifa at the Auditorium of Haifa in the Carmel Cente .
8-588: Haifa Cinematheque was established by Lia Van Leer in the early 1950s together with her husband Wim. Initially the Van Leers held cinema evenings in their home and then opened the Film Club at Rothschild House (now Beit Hecht) on the Carmel. The Cinematheque screens over 40 different films each month in two movie theaters. The program includes screen classic, restored films, retrospectives and new movies. Cinematheque hosts
16-562: A concentration camp. Lia moved to Jerusalem in 1943 to attend the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In 1952, she married Wim Van Leer, a Dutch engineer, pilot, playwright and film producer, and settled in Haifa. They founded the country's first film club in 1955. "There was no television back then ... and we had a 16 mm projector that had come as a gift from my father-in-law. Each Friday we would have friends over to watch movies. Our house became
24-478: The Haifa International Film Festival , which takes place every year during Sukkot . In 2010, a new building was built near Lev Ha'mifratz shopping mall. 32°48′12″N 34°59′07″E / 32.80336°N 34.98518°E / 32.80336; 34.98518 Lia Van Leer Lia van Leer (née Greenberg ; Hebrew : ליה ון ליר ; August 8, 1924 – March 13, 2015) was a pioneer in
32-814: The Jerusalem Film Center (comprising the Israel Film Archives and the Jerusalem Cinematheque) in the Hinnom Valley below the Old City walls. Teddy Kollek and the Jerusalem Foundation mobilized more funding from friends in Hollywood and around the world. The Jerusalem Cinematheque opened in 1981, and Lia van Leer was named its first director. After the death of her husband in 1991, she inaugurated
40-641: The Wim Van Leer Award for High School Students to encourage young filmmakers. In its first year, eight films were submitted; in 2008, 90 films contended for the prize. In 1995, she headed the jury at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival . In 2004, Lia van Leer was awarded the Israel Prize for her lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State of Israel. She won
48-868: The field of art film programming and film archiving in Israel . She was the founder of the Haifa Cinematheque , the Jerusalem Cinematheque , the Israel Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival . Lia Greenberg was born on August 8, 1924, in the Bessarabian city of Bălți , then in Romania , now in Moldova , to a Jewish family. Her father, Simon Greenberg, was a wheat exporter and her mother, Olga,
56-596: The most popular in Haifa", she recalled. This film club became the Haifa Cinematheque. The Van Leers' private collection of films was the basis for the Israeli Film Archive, founded in 1960. In 1973, a Brazilian businessman, George Ostrovsky, who dreamt of creating a cinematheque in Israel, approached the van Leers and persuaded them and Teddy Kollek to share his dream. Ostrovsky donated the necessary funds to build
64-594: Was a WIZO volunteer. She attended a public high school and spent summer holidays in the Carpathian mountains. In 1940, her parents sent her to Palestine to visit her sister Bruria, a dentist, who had immigrated in 1936 and was living in Tel Aviv . She never saw her parents again. In July 1941, the Germans murdered her father and other Jewish community leaders. Her mother and grandmother were deported to Transnistria and died in
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