Price : NIS15
The Israel Film Fund Collection

Zrubavel

72 Minutes, 2008
Genre:
Feature

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Directed by: Shmuel Beru
Cast: Ester Rada, Yaron Motolla, Abinu Beru, Tamar Yamala
Production Company:TransFax Film Productions
Photographer: Gennadi Kochuk
Original Music: Ester Rada
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The Zrubavels are a family of Ethiopian immigrants living in an impoverished, crime and drug-infested neighbourhood. Nevertheless, the family patriarch still manages to provide his children with a good education and hold the family together around him – that is, until the outside world’s harsh reality starts to close in on them. At first, things kick off when a dispute emerges between the younger generation and their elders (aka, ‘the desert generation’) around the shape that the family’s identity is to take in Israel – a clash which soon turns into a full-blown rift that will only deepen with time.

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