Celebrating 10 years to the “Cinema Law” there will be free film screenings at cinematheques throughout Israel. Coming up on Sunday, November 27, 2011 at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque will be two films: Lone Samaritan and It Kinda Scares Me. Entrance is FREE and does not require pre-registration.
Lone Samaritan by Barak Heymann – focuses on Israeli actress Sophie Tzedaka, the choices she and her sisters have made and the impact of these choices on her family. A member of the Samaritans, a small and very strict religious sect, Sophie and her sisters have left the sect to pursue individual lives and careers in the wider, open Israeli society. Yet for her parents and brother, who have remained in the Samaritan community, suffer the consequences. An illuminating and moving look at family relationships, the conflict between the desire for freedom and the desire for community, and the role of women in religion.
It Kinda Scares Me, by Tomer Heymann – follows Heymann’s work with a group of delinquent youth in a rough neighborhood. As he develops a mentoring relationship with the boys, working together on a play created from their life experiences, Tomer reveals that he is gay. How will they react to this shocking news? Will the show go on? Watch and find out.
Screenings will take place at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque on Sunay, November 27th:
19:15 Lone Samaritan followed by a discussion with Barak Heymann at 20:15
20:30 It Kinda Scares Me follwered by a discussion with director Tomer Heymann at 21:30.
Additional screenings will take place: It Kinda Scares Me – Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at the Haifa Cinematheque at 18:30; Lone Samaritan – Saturday, December 3, 2011 at the Holon Cinematheque at 21:00; It Kinda Scares Me – Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at the Holon Cinematheque at 20:30.
