Joseph Cedar, Footnote

Winner of the prestigious screenwriting award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film, Joseph Cedar’s Footnote is easily the most unusual and captivating study of Talmudic scholarship rivalry ever made. Cedar explains how he came to write this father-son story which examines celebrity, the value of prizes, the perils of research and human relationships and why a Hollywood version of Footnote will never happen.

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