Film About a Father Who
Doc Aviv
https://www.docaviv.co.il/2020-en/films/film-about-a-father-who/
“States of UnBelonging” will be available from 3/9 at 12AM until 12/9 at 12AM
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LIVE Q&A SUNDAY 6/9/ 2020 at 19:00
Lynne Sachs, Filmmaker of States of Unbelonging and Film About a Father Who in conversation with Dr. Laliv Melamed and Nir Zats, co-writer if States of Unbelonging
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UNITED STATES / ISRAEL 2005, 63 MIN, ENGLISH, HEBREW SUBTITLES
Filmmaker Lynne Sachs never met Revital Ohayon, an Israeli filmmaker and mother killed near the West Bank. In 2002, she read a news article about the death of Ohayon and her two small children in their house in Kibbutz Metzer. She immediately started gathering information. Despite the distance, New York-based Sachs slowly gets to know more about the young Israeli filmmaker, who had so much in common with her but lived in a starkly different reality. She puts the pieces together through phone calls and correspondences with Nir Zats, an Israeli friend and former student of Sachs, who acts as her field agent. The puzzle takes her over two years to complete, and the picture that emerges is complex and multi-faceted. Although seemingly different, each person in it is trying to survive in a violent present, while carrying a violent past. Without taking sides or casting blame, the film becomes a cine-essay on fear and filmmaking, tragedy and transformation, violence and the land of Israel/Palestine.
The film is screened as part of a tribute to Lynne Sachs, alongside her new work Film About a Father Who…
Previous Festivals: BAFICI (Buenos Aires Intl Film Festival), Margaret Mead Film Festival New York