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Streaming January 14-26, 2022 Digital Screening Room

Israel | 105 minutes | 2021

Death of Cinema and My Father Too

Southeast US Premiere

An official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, as well as nominated for 7 Israeli Academy Awards (Ophirs) and winner of three Prizes at the Jerusalem Film Festival, including Best Israeli Film. The Death of Cinema and My Father Too is a personal journey of the film’s director tracking his father’s final days with a handheld camera, striving to freeze time and protect himself against the impending grief. His dying father is unsentimental about his own unavoidable end, dismissing any commemoration, while the son desperately attempts to perceive his father one last time as a hero. A tragic-comic, hybrid blend of fact-and-fiction tinged with autobiographical references, this poignant story presents a unique film-within-a-film experience, where cinema crashes into the walls of reality. A melancholy and self-reflexive journey that juxtaposes the everlasting flow of time against the fleeting moment of death, this one-of-a-kind Israeli film provides a platform from which to consider what constitutes a cinematic memorial. And to think about cinema’s capacity to turn back time, but inability to stop it.

Awards

Nominated for 11 Israeli Academy Awards (Ophirs)

Director's Bio

Directed by Dani Rosenberg

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Dani Rosenberg graduated with honors from the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem. Since 2013, he has written and directed numerous shorts film, TV series, and documentaries, many of which have received wide acclaim and premiered at international festivals, such as the Berlinale, IDFA, and TIFF, among others. Death of Cinema and My Father Too is Dani's narrative feature film debut.

Cast and Credits

Director

Dani Rosenberg

Screenwriter

Dani Rosenberg, Itay Kohay

Cinematographer

David Stragmeister

Editor

Nilli Feller, Guy Nemesh

Cast

Marek Rozenbaum, Roni Kuban, Noa Koler

Film Info

Year

2021

Country

Israel

Run-time

105 minutes

Language

Hebrew with English subtitles
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