EXCLUSIVE:Cohen Media Group has set a February U.S. theatrical rollout for Eran Kolirin's Let It Be Morning, which was Israel's entry for the 94th Academy Awards. The picture will open on February 3 at the Quad Cinema in New York and at the Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles before expanding to select cities…
At Deadline’s Contenders Film: International award-season event, director Eran Kolirin (The Band's Visit) explained why he chose to adapt Sayed Kashua's novel Let It be Morning, the film that has become Israel’s submission into the International Feature Oscar race.
"I really like this situation where people are being…
A wedding guest gets stuck in his home village in Let It Be Morning, the Cannes comedy/drama from Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin, based on a book by Palestinian novelist Sayed Kashua. Showing in the Un Certain Regard section, it stars Alex Bakri as Sami, a married Palestinian who's attending his younger brother's…
Eran Kolirin is best known to worldwide audiences for his debut breakout, 2007's The Band's Visit. That film was Israel's submission to the Oscars and had a good shot at taking the Foreign Language prize, but its use of English ultimately saw it disqualified. Since then, Kolirin has made just three features, including…