MUMBAI: The 24th Israel Film Festival will open on 5 December in New York with the presentation of the IFF Lifetime Achievement Award to Elliott Gould and the IFF Achievement in Cinema Award to Paul Schrader.

Kino International president Donald Krim will receive the IFF Visionary Award the same night.

The opening film will be Sharon Maymon and Erez Tadmor‘s A Matter Of Size and the festival will screen more than 28 films and close on 13 December.