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BEN ZAKEN
by Efrat Corem
Israel 2014 90 min. original version with English subtitles
tue 17 nov 6:00 pm Murnau Filmtheater
Script: Efrat Corem, DoP: Shafir Sarussi, Editor: Nisim Massas, Lev Goltser, Production: Laila Films, Producer: Itai Tamir, Cast: Eliraz Sade, Rom Shoshan, Mekikes (Ronen) Amar, Chani Elemich, Batel Mashian, Robby Elmaliah, David Ben Hamo
BEN ZAKEN by Efrat Corem - Trailer from Patra Spanou on Vimeo.
The Ben Zakens are living in a run-down housing estate. The family is made up of single father Shlomi with his eleven-year-old daughter Ruhi, his brother Leon and
the mother. Their living situation is somewhat precarious, and social service has its eye on the motherless Ruhi. BEN ZAKEN is a sensitive portrait of an environment marked by stagnation and a lack of economic and emotional resources.
"Corem’s stated intention with BEN ZAKEN was to dramatize a section of Israeli society rarely seen on screen: the working-class residential townships with their shabby synagogues, dusty grocery stores and crowded immigrant population. This she achieves in a thorough but oppressively dour manner, stripping away any hint of sentimentality while laying heavy emphasis on drab domestic drudgery in spartan living conditions." (The Hollywood Reporter)
Biography: Efrat Corem, born in 1979 in Ashkelon in Israel, studied cinema and television at Sapir College in Sha’ar HaNegev. In 2006, she made her thesis project film, YOUR YOUNGER DAUGHTER RACHEL. Since 2009, Efrat Corem has been the artistic director of the Cinema South FF in Sderot, for which she also heads the Israeli cinema section. BEN ZAKEN is her first full-length feature film.
Filmography: 2006 YOUR YOUNGER DAUGHTER RACHEL (short film), 2014 BEN ZAKEN
Awards: Nomination for Best Israeli Feature (Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel 2014), Nomination for Best Film (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Argentina 2015)
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