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A friendship between Alice, a Muslim woman and Maya, a Jewish woman becomes impossible when Alice’s old lover returns to her life, bringing with him the reality of the conflict between their people.
- Runtime1 hr 40 min
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- NoteNew York, NY; Director Biography - Tzipi Trope Tzipi Trope is an Israeli writer, director, and producer. Her credits include documentaries "Close And Far Away," "Looking For the Lost Voice," "A Ballad For My Son," and feature films "Tell Me That You Love Me (HBO)," "Tel Aviv Berlin," "Chronicle of Love," and "Six Million Pieces." Her films have been broadcast on Israeli TV, on the Israeli Cable channels “Hot” and “Yes”, on H.B.O, on Life Time Channel and theatrical. She has received numerous grants from the Fund to Promote Israeli Quality Films, Cinema Project, Tel-Aviv Fund for the Arts, the Israeli Film Service and the Makor Fund. Her films represented Israel in many film festivals, among them: Tribeca Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, San Francisco International Film festival, India International Film Festival and many more. Her films' awards include winning the Israeli Oscar for "Tel Aviv Berlin" in Best Israeli Film, Best Script, Best Art direction, and Best Supporting Actress categories. She graduated from the Academy of Music at Tel-Aviv University. She has a Masters and PhD in Film and Television from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Tzipi was the Head of the Film Program at Haifa University and she taught at the Columbia University Graduate Film Department and at New York University-Tisch, Undergraduate Film and Television and Dramatic Writing departments. She is married and the mother of three children. Director Statement Being an Israeli not only raises questions about the past, but also constantly demands attention to the present and the future: I was born into a war, a long war that never ends. I wrote “My Dearest Enemy” asking myself: “Is it possible to have a true friendship between people who refuse to accept each other?” I chose Alice and Maya to lead me closer to understand the complexity of the conflict and to try, through their choices, to understand if they can embrace each other. I had to tell their story. I received a small grant of 100,000 dollars from the Israeli Film Fund, and crowdfunded an addition 20,000. I started to shoot the film, with 8 crew members, 5 of them students. It had to be my voice, so I wrote, directed, and produced the film myself. Did I get an answer? Partly, but it didn’t give me much hope. Sure, Maya and Alice will stay friends forever, but will their children follow them and fight for peace? Will the “war that never ends” in my homeland, and around the world, ever stop? -Tzipi Trope
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A friendship between Alice, a Muslim woman and Maya, a Jewish woman becomes impossible when Alice’s old lover returns to her life, bringing with him the reality of the conflict between their people.
- Runtime1 hr 40 min
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- NoteNew York, NY; Director Biography - Tzipi Trope Tzipi Trope is an Israeli writer, director, and producer. Her credits include documentaries "Close And Far Away," "Looking For the Lost Voice," "A Ballad For My Son," and feature films "Tell Me That You Love Me (HBO)," "Tel Aviv Berlin," "Chronicle of Love," and "Six Million Pieces." Her films have been broadcast on Israeli TV, on the Israeli Cable channels “Hot” and “Yes”, on H.B.O, on Life Time Channel and theatrical. She has received numerous grants from the Fund to Promote Israeli Quality Films, Cinema Project, Tel-Aviv Fund for the Arts, the Israeli Film Service and the Makor Fund. Her films represented Israel in many film festivals, among them: Tribeca Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, San Francisco International Film festival, India International Film Festival and many more. Her films' awards include winning the Israeli Oscar for "Tel Aviv Berlin" in Best Israeli Film, Best Script, Best Art direction, and Best Supporting Actress categories. She graduated from the Academy of Music at Tel-Aviv University. She has a Masters and PhD in Film and Television from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Tzipi was the Head of the Film Program at Haifa University and she taught at the Columbia University Graduate Film Department and at New York University-Tisch, Undergraduate Film and Television and Dramatic Writing departments. She is married and the mother of three children. Director Statement Being an Israeli not only raises questions about the past, but also constantly demands attention to the present and the future: I was born into a war, a long war that never ends. I wrote “My Dearest Enemy” asking myself: “Is it possible to have a true friendship between people who refuse to accept each other?” I chose Alice and Maya to lead me closer to understand the complexity of the conflict and to try, through their choices, to understand if they can embrace each other. I had to tell their story. I received a small grant of 100,000 dollars from the Israeli Film Fund, and crowdfunded an addition 20,000. I started to shoot the film, with 8 crew members, 5 of them students. It had to be my voice, so I wrote, directed, and produced the film myself. Did I get an answer? Partly, but it didn’t give me much hope. Sure, Maya and Alice will stay friends forever, but will their children follow them and fight for peace? Will the “war that never ends” in my homeland, and around the world, ever stop? -Tzipi Trope