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Scaffolding

90 Minutes, 2017
Genre:
Feature

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Directed by: Matan Yair
Cast: Asher Lax, Yaacov Cohen, Ami Smolartchik, Keren Berger, Hagit Dasberg
Production:Gal Greenspan, Roi Kurland, Stanislaw Dziedzic, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery
Production Company:Green Productions
Photographer: Bartosz Bieniek
Language: Hebrew
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Subtitles: English, Hebrew

Filmmaker Matan Yair’s directorial debut draws on his experiences as a high school literature teacher, and mentoring sessions he had had with his teenage students. Scaffolding is a hard-hitting, realistic social drama at the heart of which is 17-year-old Asher, who has gone through life with the label of a troubled, unruly kid. He works daily with his father in the family business – setting up scaffolding at construction sites. His life is anything but simple. At school, he struggles to keep up academically whereas at home, he is habitually victimised by his authoritarian violent father – himself, a sick elderly man who is about to undergo surgery.
The father tries to prepare Asher for the day he inherits the family business. When a new literature teacher arrives at the school, Asher finds himself rethinking his life choices and for the first time, even dares to imagine a different future for himself – only for an unforeseen tragedy to upend everything.
The film was shown at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, as part of the ACID section. That year, it also took home top honours at the Jerusalem Film Festival, with Asher Lax winning Best Male Lead for his performance as teenager, Asher. Meanwhile, Lax’s co-star Ami Smolartchik, who played the literature teacher, won an Ophir Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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