Longing
Opening Film
Audience Award
2017
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.
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Audience Award
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