The Heart of Amos Klein
Michal Pfeffer Kranot, Uri Kranot - France-Denmark-Israel - 14 min.
No dialogue
Animated. The life of Amos Klein, big business man, heavily involved in the construction of the Wall separating the Occupied Territories and Israel, former celebrated army veteran ,told in flashback reverse chronological order. How being bullied turns one into a bully is the underlying message.
Hakol Methil Bayam (It All Begins at the Sea)
Eitan Green - Israel - 93 min.
Hebrew, fre. & eng. sub.
Three scenes from a family’s life, seen mostly from the perspective of a young boy. The beach, a high school outing near the beach, and the third around the family apt. and the nearby hospital. Still trying to figure out what to say about this one, other than a nicely rendered wistful look at a family's emotional pain.
Deadline
Joseph Bakhash – United States – 15 min.
English.
The story uses the conceit of an imagined future first done in An Incident at Owl Creek Brigde. A prisoner is repeatedly brutally tortured to coerce a confession. Freed and exonerated, he seeks out revenge, but he’s got a deadline...
Turneja (The Tour)
Goran Markovi_ - Serbia–Bosnia-Herzegovina - 106 min.
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, fre. and eng. sub.
This had to be the best film we’ve seen from a dramatic standpoint, even though it’s a tragic-comedy. A troupe of down on their luck theatre actors, mostly has-beens reliving their former days of glory, decide to travel from Belgrade (Serbia) to Srobrodan, Crotia, unwittingly, just during the siege of that town, on the promise of making some money. Naïve and self-centered, they quickly find themselves in the middle of a war, with hardly anyone interested in what they have to offer. Only by their former fame and complete stupidity do they manage to escape being shot or blown to bits. A wonderful Balkan twisted tale of the inanity of war and hatred. With plenty of swearing in Serbian and Croatian (oh, how that takes me back to when I worked with Yugoslavs, to date myself a bit ;)
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