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NOMINATED FOR 7 ISRAELI ACADEMY AWARDS (OPHIRS)
BEST ISRAELI FILM -- JERUSALEM FILM FESTIVAL
JURY PRIZE -- LONDON FILM WEEK
An official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, as well as nominated for 7 Israeli Academy Awards (Ophirs) and winner of three Prizes at the Jerusalem Film Festival, including Best Israeli Film. The Death of Cinema and My Father Too is a personal journey of the film’s director tracking his father’s final days with a handheld camera, striving to freeze time and protect himself against the impending grief. His dying father is unsentimental about his own unavoidable end, dismissing any commemoration, while the son desperately attempts to perceive his father one last time as a hero. A tragic-comic, hybrid blend of fact-and-fiction tinged with autobiographical references, this poignant story presents a unique film-within-a-film experience, where cinema crashes into the walls of reality. A melancholy and self-reflexive journey that juxtaposes the everlasting flow of time against the fleeting moment of death, this one-of-a-kind Israeli film provides a platform from which to consider what constitutes a cinematic memorial. And to think about cinema’s capacity to turn back time, but inability to stop it.
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The 2022 Miami Jewish Film Festival virtual program is made possible with the generous support of Benjamin Nahum and Tamar Roodner.
- Year2021
- Runtime105 minutes
- LanguageHebrew
- CountryIsrael
- PremiereSoutheast US Premiere
- DirectorDani Rosenberg
- ScreenwriterDani Rosenberg, Itay Kohay
- CastMarek Rozenbaum, Roni Kuban, Noa Koler
- CinematographerDavid Stragmeister
- EditorNilli Feller, Guy Nemesh
- MusicYuval Semo
We would appreciate your support if you would like to donate to our efforts and help cover our streaming costs. Please consider donating when "Unlocking" the film or by clicking here.
NOMINATED FOR 7 ISRAELI ACADEMY AWARDS (OPHIRS)
BEST ISRAELI FILM -- JERUSALEM FILM FESTIVAL
JURY PRIZE -- LONDON FILM WEEK
An official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, as well as nominated for 7 Israeli Academy Awards (Ophirs) and winner of three Prizes at the Jerusalem Film Festival, including Best Israeli Film. The Death of Cinema and My Father Too is a personal journey of the film’s director tracking his father’s final days with a handheld camera, striving to freeze time and protect himself against the impending grief. His dying father is unsentimental about his own unavoidable end, dismissing any commemoration, while the son desperately attempts to perceive his father one last time as a hero. A tragic-comic, hybrid blend of fact-and-fiction tinged with autobiographical references, this poignant story presents a unique film-within-a-film experience, where cinema crashes into the walls of reality. A melancholy and self-reflexive journey that juxtaposes the everlasting flow of time against the fleeting moment of death, this one-of-a-kind Israeli film provides a platform from which to consider what constitutes a cinematic memorial. And to think about cinema’s capacity to turn back time, but inability to stop it.
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The 2022 Miami Jewish Film Festival virtual program is made possible with the generous support of Benjamin Nahum and Tamar Roodner.
- Year2021
- Runtime105 minutes
- LanguageHebrew
- CountryIsrael
- PremiereSoutheast US Premiere
- DirectorDani Rosenberg
- ScreenwriterDani Rosenberg, Itay Kohay
- CastMarek Rozenbaum, Roni Kuban, Noa Koler
- CinematographerDavid Stragmeister
- EditorNilli Feller, Guy Nemesh
- MusicYuval Semo