Story
A middle-class Israeli family live on the border to the West Bank. While outside the political conflict simmers, inside tensions are jeopardizing the family’s unity. After 20 years in the army, the father can’t deal with civilian life. The mother is frustrated with her job as a teacher and accepts the erotic advances of one of her pupils. And, against the wishes of her father, the daughter is involved in the peace movement and befriends a young Palestinian. When Omri, the son, gets wind of his mother’s affair, the fragile situation escalates. In a tragic catalogue of coincidence, resentment and aggression, the film reflects the condition of a whole country in the microcosm of one family.
Director
With The Band's Visit, his debut feature of 2007, Eran Kolirin (*1974) won several prizes and was the Israeli entry for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars. His film The Exchange wasshown at FILMFEST HAMBURG n 2011. Beyond the Mountains and Hills is his third film and was shown at Cannes in theseries Un Certain Regard.Trailer
Info
Me'ever laharim vehagvaot
Fiction Feature
Hebrew
Freihafen//FF2016
Israel, Belgium, Germany
2016
98 min
OV with English subtitles
Eran Kolirin
Eran Kolirin
Alon Pdut, Mili Eshet, Shiree Nadav-Naor, Noam Imber, Yoav Rothman
Eilon Ratzkovsky, Yochanan Kredo, Yossi Uzrad, Lisa Shiloach Uzrad, Guy Jacoel
Shaai Goldman
Arik Lahav-Leibovich
Asher Goldschmidt
Miguel Merkin
The Match Factory GmbH
July August Productions; Entre Chien Et Loup; Match Factory Productions
Sergi Steegmann, The Match Factory GmbH: sergi.steegmann@matchfactory.de