The woman’s husband is cheating on her, but she does not know this yet. She stands alone in their dark bedroom. On the floor is her husband’s coat, and a photograph of him with his lover peeks out, just barely, from a pocket. The woman turns, and her eye is caught by the photograph. Or [...]
Late Summer Blues (Blooz La’Chofesh HaGadol) – Israeli cult-hit – is a 1987 Israeli film directed by Renen Schorr. It is a story about a group of Israeli teens in their last summer before army service. They all experience different conflicts about joining the army. One of them cannot join the army because he is [...]
“Once I was” (פעם הייתי) a film by Avi Nesher inspired by “Flying Heroes” a novel by Amir Gutfreund Set in 1968, an Israeli born teenage boy gets a summer job with a Holocaust survivor who makes ends meet by brokering marriages and smuggled goods. The matchmaker’s office is located in the back of a [...]
Erez Tadmor & Guy Nattiv are two young writers & directors from Tel-Aviv. They graduated together from “Camera Obscurs Film School Tel Aviv”. They made “Strangers“, a 7 minutes drama for 20th century Fox Serachlight. “Strangers” was accepted to the short competition at Sundance film festival 2004 and won for best short. It also went [...]
Hufshat Kaitz (English title - ”My Father My Lord“, 2007) – With the primordial clarity of fable, David Volach’s astonishing debut feature recalls that most terrible of Jewish parables, Abraham’s sacrifice of his son Isaac, but without the biblical last-minute reprieve. Set in a contemporary Israeli ultra-Orthodox community and thesped by a trio of magnificent actors [...]
Amos Gitai‘s “Kippur” is a classic war film, at once elegiac and immediate, that takes you smack into the chaos of combat yet is marked by a detached perspective. Film is drawn from Gitai’s experiences serving in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks on Oct. 6, in the Sinai [...]
