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ZRUBAVEL
Tuesday, March 16, 8:30 PM at SIFF Cinema at the Uptown
Director(s): Shmuel Beru
Country: Israel
Year: 2008
Length: 72 MINUTES
Format: Beta | Feature
Language: Amharic and Hebrew w/subtitles
About the Film
A family of Ethiopian emigres is torn between love for their homeland and assimilation within Israeli culture in ZRUBAVEL, the first Ethiopian Israeli feature film. While born and raised in Israel, the Zrubavel family is of Ethiopian heritage. The patriarch of the family is a proud, dignified man employed as a street sweeper and determined to see his children succeed beyond him. His dreams for their future are threatened by his son's flirtation with petty crime and his eligible daughter's clandestine romance with her first cousin. Much of the conflict unfolds through the lens of the youngest child, Itzhak (Daniel Beru), who dreams of becoming the "future Spike Lee of Israel." ZRUBAVEL is a universal story of an immigrant family trying to preserve its heritage in a land where they are viewed as outsiders.Directed by first-time filmmaker Shmuel Beru, who at the age of eight, walked across the Sudanese desert to immigrate to Israel. Warning: some mature content.
PRINT SOURCE: Transfax
WEBSITE: www.transfax.co.il
ADDRESS:
3 Yagia Kapayim StreetTel Aviv, 67778, Israel
PHONE: +972.3687.1202
CONTACT:
Karine Benzur, sales@transfax.co.ilFILMS: Belly Dancer (Lirkod), ZRUBAVEL, SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN | Sheva Dakot be Gan Eden
Sponsors
COMMUNITY PARTNER: Washington Coalition of Rabbis
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