The 40th Haifa International Film Festival is currently taking place, showcasing a wide range of films. English speakers attending the festival have the advantage of being able to watch films with English titles. One of the most anticipated films is Mohammad Rasoulof's The Seed of the Sacred Fig, a suspenseful drama set in Iran. Another film generating Oscar buzz is The Brutalist, a bloated movie that tells the story of a Hungarian-Jewish architect. September 5 is a gripping docudrama about journalists covering the 1972 Munich Olympics terror attack. Richard Gere stars in Savi Gabizon's remake of his own Israeli film, Longing, which falls short. The Israeli competition at the festival includes Halisa, a feature about a childless nurse, and Day Trippers, a film about a British girl and an Israeli woman bonding in Amsterdam.