24 Days
20 January 2006, after Shabbat dinner, Ilan decided, against the advice of his mother, to go out and celebrate. He comforts his mother by kissing her as he heads out. Ruth Halimi will never see her son again...
Shown at
- 12th Annual JCC Rockland International Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- 13th Annual Ruth and Bernard Friedman Windsor Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- 13th Annual Temple Emanu-El Kirk Cashmere Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- 13th Annual Ventura County Jewish Film Festival - 2016
- 14th Annual Barshop JCC Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- 14th Annual Beth Tzedec Jewish Film Festival - 2014
- 14th Annual Jewish Omaha Film Festival - 2015
- 15th Annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival - 2014
- 17th Annual Jewish Film Festival of Grand Rapids - 2015
- 17th Annual Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival (Detroit) - 2015
- 18th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- 18th CAJE Miami Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- 19th Annual Hartford Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- 19th Denver Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- 20th Annual East Bay Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- 21st Annual Harrisburg Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- 21st Annual Jewish and Israeli Film Festival (Allentown) - 2016
- 22nd Toronto Jewish Film Festival - 2014
- 23rd Portland Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- 25th Annual Orange County International Jewish Film Festival - 2014
- 25th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- 25th Donald M. Ephraim Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- 25th Washington Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- 30th Annual Buffalo International Jewish Film - 2015
- 6th Annual Sioux City Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Ames-Azalak Rochester Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Annual Northern Virginia International Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Athens Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Atlanta Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Baltimore Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Boston Jewish Film Festival - 2014
- Boulder Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Central Florida Jewish Film Festival - 2014
- Charlotte Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Chicago Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Cincinnati Jewish & Israeli Film Festival - 2015
- Columbia Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Columbus Jewish Film Festival - 2014
- Dayton Jewish International Film Festival - 2015
- DPJCC's 15th Annual Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Edmonton Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Fresno Jewish Film Series - 2015
- Gainesville Jewish Film Fest - 2015
- Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Houston Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Jewish Arts and Film Festival of Fairfield County - 2014
- JFilm Festival (Pittsburgh) - 2015
- Judaica - Mostra de Cultura e Cinema - 2015
- Nashville Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- New Hampshire Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- New Jersey Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- San Francisco Jewish Film Festival - 2014
- Sarasota-Manatee Israel Film Festival - 2016
- Savannah Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival - 2014
- St. Louis Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Stockholms Judiska Filmfestival - 2014
- Suffolk Y JCC International Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Tampa Bay Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Treasure Coast Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Triad Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Virginia Festival of Jewish Film - 2015
- Virginia Peninsula Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Winnipeg International Jewish Film Festival - 2015
- Zsido Film Fesztival - 2015
ScreenDaily: Lisa Nesselson: 24 Days
http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-latest/24-days/5071131.article
The Daily Beast: Tracy McNicoll: A Horror Story of True-Life Anti-Semitism in France
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/28/a-horror-story-of-true-life-anti-semitism-in-france.html
JTA: Cnaan Liphshiz: Upcoming Halimi movie part of wave of renewed interest in ’06 murder
http://www.jta.org/2014/01/07/arts-entertainment/upcoming-halimi-movie-part-of-wave-of-renewed-interest-in-murder
The Lia Award, in Honor of Jerusalem Cinematheque Founder Lia van Leer for Films dealing with Jewish Heritage, in the sum of 10,000 NIS, is granted to Alexandre Arcady director of 24 Days
Jury remarks: This suspenseful drama manages to avoid clichés and intricately presents the experience of anti-Jewish violence in France. This is a film of great social significance that shows the tragic consequences that arise when violence is ignored and when racist stereotypes are accepted.
http://www.jff.org.il/?CategoryID=1166&ArticleID=1584
24 DAYS: The True Story of the Ilan Halimi Affair
In 2006, Ilan Halimi was abducted off the streets of a Paris suburb by a group identifying themselves as the Gang of Barbarians. For nearly a month, the 23-year-old Jewish man was tortured until he died.
Based on the book by Ilan’s mother Ruth, and filmed in France in 2014, “24 Days: The True Story of the Ilan Halimi Affair” is a gripping dramatization of the massive police manhunt and the family’s nightmarish ordeal as they race the clock to find Ilan and his abductors. The film portrays a despicable episode in recent French history – one that seems to have taken on almost prophetic significance, in light of last week’s events in Paris.
http://www.jewishledger.com/2015/01/24-days-true-story-ilan-halimi-affair/
Elle est entrée dans une boutique de téléphonie sur le boulevard Voltaire. Elle a fait mine de s’intéresser aux nouveaux portables, a obtenu le numéro du vendeur et s’en est allée. Elle l’a rappelé dès le lendemain, lui a dit qu’elle voulait le revoir. Ilan ne s’est pas méfié. Il avait vingt-trois ans, la vie devant lui… Comment pouvait-il se douter qu’en rejoignant cette jolie fille dans un café de la porte d’Orléans, il avait rendez-vous avec la mort ?
http://www.galeries.be/events/24-jours-la-verite-sur-laffaire/
The filmmaker has said one of his main reasons for doing the film was to remind people of the victims, not the headline-grabbing murderers. He bookends the film with Ilan — a carefree young man embracing life at the beginning, his body being exhumed, destined for burial in Israel at its end. “24 Days” makes it impossible to forget.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-24-days-review-20150424-column.html
Filmed evocatively on location — including one of the bleak Paris suburbs that inspired Matthieu Kassovitz’s 1995 Hate — 24 Days takes strength from real-world specifics. But the most powerful thing about the movie is its rejection of omniscience. The crime it reconstructs is beyond understanding.
http://www.npr.org/2015/04/23/401044245/24-days-retells-a-brutal-crime-with-little-explanation
As a suspenseful true crime story, “24 Days” succeeds. As a warning against the ever present dangers of anti-Semitism, it is eloquent and disturbing. It’s in combining the two that Arcady mishandles the case.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2015/04/23/days/8jybJ7wItcN8v0kdQag0LO/story.html
24 Days is neither subtle nor particularly sophisticated as filmmaking, but its refusal to reduce lived reality to generic tropes is admirable.
http://www.avclub.com/review/there-are-no-liam-neeson-heroics-fact-based-hostag-218222
Played by Tony Harrisson, Fofana is a snarling cartoon villain and feels no more real. Within the complex dance of the negotiations, his bestial simplicity is unnerving — not only because it paints the possibility of real evil, but because it adds a twist of racial bias to the eventual delivery of justice.
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/real-life-hostage-thriller-24-days-could-use-more-humanity-6444153
Race fuels crime drama ‘24 Days’
http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/movies/movie_reviews/2015/04/race_fuels_crime_drama_24_days
The finale of the movie could arguably be said to offload the anti-Semitism concern onto a non-French-born person of color, which may strike some social-justice-sensitive types as…what’s the word?…”problematic.”
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/24-days-2015
Those heartfelt performances help to somewhat compensate for the lack of depth and emotional resonance in the screenplay, although not enough to turn it into a thoroughly engrossing, intelligent and powerful thriller
http://nycmovieguru.com/april24th15.html#24days
“24 Days” is finally a movie about one mother’s fight to turn her son’s horrible fate into a call to arms. It ends as it began, Ruth Halimi addressing us directly, telling of the outpouring of support in letters across all religions. But her last address is from Jerusalem – Ruth Halimi felt the need to move her son’s grave from Paris, afraid that were he left there, it would be defaced. Sadly, she’s probably right.
http://www.reelingreviews.com/24days.htm
Sadly, “24 Days” isn’t nearly as involving as it should be.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/movies/review-24-days-about-a-crime-that-fed-a-debate-about-anti-semitism.html