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"Atash"- Thirst- Israeli Drama 2004 DVD / Director: Taufik Abu Yail

Name: "Atash"- Thirst- Israeli Drama 2004 DVD / Director: Taufik Abu Yail / עטאש (צימאון)
SKU: 7294276211137
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Made in Israel

After being publicly shamed by his family, Abu brings them to the edge of nowhere, to scratch out a living. When he decides that the family will build a pipeline to bring in running water, he sets off a chain of events that alters life irrevocably. Official selection of the prestigious Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative.

Atash (Thirst) (Israel/Palestine) is not only an extremely powerful and award winning debut from filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael (winner of the International Critics Award at the Cannes Film Festival 2004, amongst others). It's also an important groundbreaking collaboration between a Palestinian writer/director and an Israeli producer (Avi Kleinberger), financiers and crew - the first of its kind. The film touches upon political issues in a unique and subtle manner, and deliberately rejects taking advantage of the current political conflict, but instead allows it to dwell in the background.

זוכה פרס הביקורת הבינלאומית, פסטיבל קאן 2004. סיפורה של משפחה ערבית הנאלצת לחיות בשום מקום, מחוץ לכפרם, בגלל מקרה שהיה ואין דרך חזרה. כך הם חיים כבר למעלה מעשור, רק האב והבן נכנסים לכפר, הנשים נשארות בבית עם שתי העזים והאתון. אבי המשפחה מחליט להרכיב צינורות לאורך הגבעה כדי שיהיו למשפחה מים חמים. אם האב מחליט - הבן מציית, הכל כדי שיוכל להמשיך ללמוד. המים הזורמים פורצים את סכר הרגשות של בני המשפחה שהיה סגור שנים רבות. סרט פיוטי הנותן מבט אפוליטי, נוגע ללב, אל תרבות המשפחה הערבית.

Director ‏ : ‎ Taufik Abu Yail
Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 55 minutes
Actors ‏ : ‎ Hosen Yasin Mahagna
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Hebrew
Studio ‏ : ‎ United King

The first feature-length movie by Palestinian director Tawfik Abu Wael, Atash (aka Thirst) is a confident, beautifully composed film about an Arab family - father, mother, two daughters and a schoolboy son - living in an abandoned village (possibly a former military installation) in a remote, dusty corner of Israel.

They are isolated from their own people through some humiliating incident involving the elder daughter, and alienated from the Israelis. Fire and water inform their lives; they steal from a nearby wood to make charcoal and have built an illegal pipeline to bring water into their courtyard.

The movie has a certain gravitas. But essentially, it's another familiar arthouse fable of hard lives, overbearing patriarchs and oppressive traditions in primitive places, the model for which is Kaneto Shindo's The Island and the most celebrated recent example, Walter Salles's Behind the Sun.