Longing

Venice Days 2017
Opening Film
Audience Award
Toronto IFF
2017
Jerusalem IFF
Audience Award

Longing

A Film by Savi Gabizon

2017 - Israel - Drama - 2.39 - 103 min.

with Shai Avivi , Asi Levi , Neta Riskin , Yoram Tolledano & Shimon Mimran

Language: Hebrew
Produced by Chilik Michaeli , Avraham Pirchi , Tami Leon , Savi Gabizon , Moshe Edery & Leon Edery

Ariel, a well-off, childless man, gets a phone call from his college girlfriend. She needs to tell him a couple of very surprising things: first, when they broke up twenty years ago, she was pregnant and went on to have a lovely boy. The second thing will make Ariel explore the hidden aspects of parenthood and change his life forever.

Venice Days 2017
Opening Film
Audience Award
Toronto IFF
2017
Jerusalem IFF
Audience Award

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