Yehuda Levy, a famous actor and revered fear mature 35-year-old, suffers from panic attacks, binge eating and mood swings after a difficult separation. It meets the latest candidate to be a girl his wife and the two formed a special bond
Hadasa Mount Scopus Hospital is located in the ethnically charged buffer zone between the Palestinian and Israeli communities of Mount Scopus. Our story is seen through the eyes of the two female doctors working in the emergency unit-Dr. Stalnikowicz, a Jewish immigrant from Chile, and Dr. Salameh, a Palestinian Israeli from the north-and from the perspectives of the ER patient...
In the shadow of the disengagement from Gaza, west from Ramallah, a new city is under construction, Kiriyat Sefer. In the early hours of the morning, some construction workers from a neighboring Palestinian village, Bilin, walk towards another day of work. Unemployed since the early days of the Second Intifada and drowned into financial debts, Maher Hatib, is forced to work, ag...
Twenty years after his first Wadi, Amos Gitai returns for the third time to Wadi Rushmia.
Michal has been bed-ridden for over three years. She suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The uncurable disease prevents her from normal functioning. Between hospital stays, Michal is also a wife and mother of two children. While her adolescent daughter is helping her father to take care of the house, Michal is accompanied by her 7-year old son. The boy does not understa...
Poignant meditation on family, loss, and the mental maps of homelessness. The film navigates the intimate lives of 5 brothers and their mother, over the course of a decade, through the pains of exile and the joys of family bonding. Exploring the politics of belonging, displacement, and homosexuality, the film examines the hard decisions one Israeli family has to make and the in...
With this title referring to Beckett, VIFF programmer and director Mark Peranson sketches the evolution of Albert Serra’s masterful El cant dell ocells. Peranson filmed the production process filled with improvisation and minimal acting as a quest to a serene visual language that speaks for itself. Quite funny as well, obviously.
In this 'making of' about Albert Serra’s latest ...
