Efrat Corem : 2014
The Ben Zaken family lives in the small Israeli city of Ashkelon on a rundown housing estate. The family is made up of single father Shlomi with his eleven-year-old daughter Ruhi, his brother Leon and the mother of the two brothers. Their living situation is somewhat precarious. The austere apartment is cramped and everyone's nerves are pretty frayed. Social services has its eye on the motherless Ruhi, who is bullied in school and is not an easy child. Is a shared name and a shared roof over your head enough to define a family, or is it more about having feelings of altruistic responsibility for each other? Ruhi's father is forced to find a very concrete answer to this general question and to find what his role as a father is supposed to be. A sensitive portrait of an environment marked by stagnation and a lack of economic and emotional resources. Efrat Corem's film, her feature debut, premiered at Cinema South Film Festival 2014, and had its international premiere in the Forum section at Berlin International Film Festival 2015.
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