Footnote (film)
| Footnote | |
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International festival poster | |
| הערת שוליים | |
| Directed by | Joseph Cedar |
| Written by | Joseph Cedar |
| Produced by | David Mandil Moshe Edery Leon Edery |
| Starring | Shlomo Bar Aba Lior Ashkenazi |
| Cinematography | Yaron Scharf |
| Edited by | Einat Glaser Zarhin |
| Music by | Amit Poznansky |
Production companies | United King Films Movie Plus |
| Distributed by | United King Films |
Release dates |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | Israel |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Box office | $2 million |
Footnote (Hebrew: הערת שוליים, translit. He'arat Shulayim) is a 2011 Israeli drama film written and directed by Joseph Cedar, starring Shlomo Bar Aba and Lior Ashkenazi. The plot revolves around the troubled relationship between a father and son who teach at the Talmud department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The film won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Footnote won nine prizes at the 2011 Ophir Awards, becoming Israel's entry for the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. On 18 January 2012, the film was named as one of the nine shortlisted entries for the Oscars. On 24 January 2012, the film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Foreign Language Film, but lost to the Iranian film A Separation.