Last update - 00:00 27/05/2007
Israeli film 'Meduzot' wins award at Cannes Film Festival
By Haaretz Service
Writers Shira Geffen and Etgar Keret's first film, "Meduzot" (Jellyfish), won the "Camera d'or" award Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival. The award is given to the best film made by debut directors.
The film, which is based on a script written by Geffen and was directed by both her and Keret, is about the life of three women in Tel Aviv.
Last Friday, the film won two more awards during International Critics Week in Cannes. The French Artist and Writers Guild SACD gave Keret and Geffen their best director award while 36 French teenagers decided that the Israeli film was the winner of the "Young Critics" award. The prize money from the two awards totals 7000 Euro.
"Everything here is so far from our lives. I haven't worn a suit since my Bar Mitzvah," Keret said after receiving the award.