Running into a Movie Award Ceremony

Thanks to the help of some great guys, I managed to sneak in the Israeli Movie Academy Award (something like this...) without an invitation!

Posters for the coming Haifa International Film Festival.

At first I imagined this to be a rather a self-amusement. Well, to a country with only 7 million people, how many movie stars and directors are there? How many movies are produced every year?

虽然和金鸡百花奥斯卡的铺排盛大不能相比，这个颁奖会却也搞得有声有色。有老前辈上台插科打诨，也有小童星一秀才艺。既有国际友人越洋送祝福的滥俗或喜庆，也有缅怀逝世英才的低婉和煽情。再加上现场乐队的卖力演出，气氛相当不错。有个小制作拿了好几项大奖，亲友团欢呼雀跃那叫一个激动呦。

However, the soiree went unexpectedly funny. There was commemoration to old-schools,and praise to vanguard. Old pioneers showed up with jokes while little actor and actress jumped around with cute gestures. Although the overall scale was far from Oscar or even the inglorious Chinese Golden Rooster Award.

The Gold Lion Award winner Lebanon was nominated in almost every single award. However, it didn't win them all for sure, not even one third, which was, as I concerned, pretty reasonable. Well, since the award itself was mainly for encouraging domestic film industry,why should it give all its prizes for a international award winner anyway?

刚得了金狮奖的战争片《黎巴嫩》风头很劲，但得的奖项却相对不多。很多奖颁给了不太熟悉的人或电影：大约也是旨在鼓励，重在参与吧。

"The atmosphere here in the ceremony was very friendly," when I told this to a journalist later in the reception, he shrugged: "That's because you are not familiar with this circle......"

Anyway, as you can see from mine terribly taken photos here, people were yelling and congratulating to each other as if they were in a Rosh Hashanah gathering and they were all from the same family.

Since it's my first exposure to such scenario, I paid great attention to those TV crews... Looks cool aren't they?

第一次参加这种晚会，对现场的摄像师们很感兴趣。这个晚会是全程直播的，所以看着摇臂从天而降前后推拉，我也一直在想象电视前观众眼中的景象。

某位壮硕的老太太得奖，全场起立鼓掌，不知是在庆祝她终于圆梦，还是因为又一次封后，众望所归？希伯来语太差，听不懂………………

这个戴帽子的家伙似乎很牛，既做颁奖嘉宾，又领到了一个不知是不是最佳男演员的奖。为他颁奖的是海法市市长。这厮上台大咧咧上台领奖时顺手把自己的帽子往老爷子头上一罩，嘻嘻哈哈地不成正经，把现场气氛烘托得甚是热烈——如此搞怪人物，我欣赏！于是在随后的餐会上拉他照了张相。

The reception was soooo gorgeous! I drank red wines and ate various sushis and falafels...hahaha

大约是为今天的赎罪日（Yom Kippur）准备吧，会后的餐会很丰盛，我混入人群如鱼得水，左右逢源，酒足饭饱！顺带和一些可能是名流（反正也不认识）的人瞎聊了几句。中国人么，一堆白人中颇有鹤立鸡群（不是因为身高……）的感觉。

后来听说《共舞巴仕尔》（Waltz with Bashir）的导演也在，可惜没看到！不然也可以要个签名啥的。

1点多到家，爽！