Country: Israel
Year: 2015
Duration: 90'
Haim-Aaron is an ultra-Orthodox religious scholar from Jerusalem whose talent and devotion are envied by all. One evening, following a self-imposed fast, he collapses and loses consciousness. The paramedics announce his death, but his father takes over resuscitation efforts and, beyond all expectations, Haim-Aaron comes back to life. After the accident, the scholar remains apathetic to his studies. He suddenly feels a strange awakening in his body and suspects that God is testing him. When his father notices these changes in his son’s behavior, he tries to forgive him, tormented by the fear that he has crossed God’s will when he resuscitated him.
Biography
film director
Avishai Sivan
Avishai Sivan (Israel, 1977) is a filmmaker, visual artist and writer. His first feature film, The Wanderer, premiered in Cannes in the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in 2010 and earned him Best First Feature Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival. He also directed documentaries such as Soap Opera of a Frozen Filmmaker (2007) and The Uzbek Trilogy (2011). In 2013 he directed the feature Visa and is currently developing his next project, The Pirate, based on Nir Hezroni’s The Smell of Blue Light.
FILMOGRAFIA
Soap Opera of a Frozen Filmmaker (doc., 2007), Returnee (mm, 2010), Ha’Meshotet (Le vagabond, 2010), The Uzbek Trilogy (doc., 2011), Visa (2013), Tikkun (2015).
Declaration
film director
“I started writing Tikkun immediately after the premiere of my first feature film, The Wanderer, at Cannes Film Festival. Within a month I had written a treatment that was accepted at TorinoFilmLab. I had no doubt that my next film would also be set in the Jewish ultra-Orthodox world. Even before I shot The Wanderer, my vision was to create a trilogy based on a yeshiva scholar and his crisis of faith.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Avishai Sivan
fotografia/cinematography
Shai Goldman
montaggio/film editing
Avishai Sivan, Nili Feller
scenografia/production design
Amir Yaron
costumi/costume design
Malky Fogel
suono/sound
Aviv Aldema
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Aharon Traitel (Haim-Aaron), Khalifa Natour (il padre di Haim-Aaron/Haim-Aaron’s father), Riki Blich (la madre di Haim-Aaron/Haim-Aaron’s mother), Gur Sheinberg (Yanke), Omri Fuhrer (compagno di yeshiva/yeshiva colleague), Shani Ben Haim (la giovane autista/young female driver)
produttori/producers
Ronen Ben-Tal, Avishai Sivan, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery
produzione/production
The Mouth Agape, Plan B Productions, United King Films
contatti/contacts
Bleiberg Entertainment
sales@bleibergent.com
www.bleibergent.com
Avishai Sivan
fotografia/cinematography
Shai Goldman
montaggio/film editing
Avishai Sivan, Nili Feller
scenografia/production design
Amir Yaron
costumi/costume design
Malky Fogel
suono/sound
Aviv Aldema
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Aharon Traitel (Haim-Aaron), Khalifa Natour (il padre di Haim-Aaron/Haim-Aaron’s father), Riki Blich (la madre di Haim-Aaron/Haim-Aaron’s mother), Gur Sheinberg (Yanke), Omri Fuhrer (compagno di yeshiva/yeshiva colleague), Shani Ben Haim (la giovane autista/young female driver)
produttori/producers
Ronen Ben-Tal, Avishai Sivan, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery
produzione/production
The Mouth Agape, Plan B Productions, United King Films
contatti/contacts
Bleiberg Entertainment
sales@bleibergent.com
www.bleibergent.com
