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Camera d’Or Year 27 (2005): Keren Yedaya’s “Or” (“My Treasure”), A Tale of Prostitute and her Daughter

March 9, 2026 By

The Israeli movie about a prostitute mother and her sensitive teenage daughter, “Or” (“My Treasure”), is emotionally intense and relentlessly grim.

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Reviews

Camera d’Or Year 27 (2005): Keren Yedaya’s “Or” (“My Treasure”), A Tale of Prostitute and her Daughter

The Israeli movie about a prostitute mother and her sensitive teenage daughter, “Or” (“My Treasure”), is emotionally intense and relentlessly grim.

New Book about Cannes Film Fest at 80! Camera d’Or Year 24 (2001): “Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

It was the first feature ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in the Inuktitut language.

New Book about Cannes Fest at 80: Camera d’Or Year 23 (2000): Bahman Ghobadi’s “A Time for Drunken Horses”

The movie was a co-winner of the Caméra d’Or award at the 2000 Cannes Film Fest.; the other winning film was Djomeh.

New Book about Cannes Fest–Camera d’Or Year 21 (1998): Marc Levin’s “Slam”

Part gritty prison drama, part inner-city ghetto chronicle, the tale offers a compassionate plea for a new direction for black males if they are to survive oppression in white-dominated society.