Life Sentences

Director: 
Nurit Kedar, Yaron Shani
Country: 
Duration: 
96Min
Year of production: 
2013
Movies language: 
Cinematography: 
Yaron Shani
Sound: 
Alex Claude
Editing: 
Yaron Shani
Production: 
Makor foundation, Mifal Hapais, Other Israel Film Festival
Synopsis: 

An Arab man marries a Jewish woman. They live in quiet harmony within the Arab-Jewish community with their son and daughter. Later, the mother discovered that the father was behind dozens of myserious terrorist attacks that took place in the late 1960s. She then flees the country with her children to the other side of the world and settles in Montreal's Jewish-Orthodox community. When her children grow up, they will go back to heir motherland.

 

 

Screening:

Senghor

Monday 7/04 - 1pm

CIVA

Thursday 10/04 - 8pm - The film director will be at the screening!

Bio Director: 

Nurit Kedar is a producer and director of documentary productions. She worked as a producer for CNN Jerusalem and Israeli Channel 2 (for which she produced and directed 12 films and 5 documentary series).  She directed Borders (2000), Lebanon Dream (2001), both awarded, and Asesino (2002), One Shot(2004), Hanuszka (2006), Wasted (2007), Concrete (2011) and  White Night (2012).

 

Yaron Shani studied cinematography and graduated at Tel Aviv University. He is a co-director, writer, editor and associate producer of Ajami (with Scandar Copti) that won many international awards including the Camera D'or in Cannes. He also directed, wrote and edited documentaries about nature for the Orpan Group LTD, as well as Disphoria (40min. fiction) which won several international awards. He directed and produced Jaffa Project, a short feature film made by Arab and Jewish residents of Jaffa and students in cinematography.

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