In His Place

A lament for two lost nations
Ofir Feldman

Omar is visiting his parents' house with the baby girl of his departed lover, Ma'ayan, a Jewish woman. The presence of the baby in his childhood home brings up old tensions between him and his parents and opens up Omar's wounds.

 

Supported by the New Israeli Fund for Cinema and Television and the Blavatnik Student Film Production Fund. 

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Selected screenings: Camerimage Bydgoszcz, Jewish Film Festival Jerusalem (winner of the Israeli Short Film Competition), Tel Aviv Student Film Festival, Beijing Student Film Festival, Other Israel Film Festival NY, Bermuda Film Festival (Semi Finalist), Festival du cinéma israélien de Paris, SF Jewish Film Festival, Moscow Jewish Film Festival, Krakow Film Festival KFF Market.

2018, 23 min, Director: Ofir Feldman, Cast: Doraid Liddawi, Mohammad Bakri, Salwa Nakkara, Vitali Friedland Hayun, Maria Zreik, Mahmoud More, Anat Hadid, Gali Blecher. Production: Ilana Gold, Mohamed Abu Shally. Director of Photography: Guy Sahaf. Editing: Eitan Mor. Original Music: Habib Shehadeh Hanna.


Tags: The Israeli–Palestinian conflict  Israeli Occupation  Fatherhood  Love  Family  melodrama  Middle East  political  allegory  identity  Israeli society  Arab sector in Israel  home  drama  memory  Palestine  

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