Fragile: Families – 3rd Israeli Cinema Week

December 11, 2014
Written by E.Tsiliopoulos

For the third year, Israeli Cinema Week is being held in Athens.

Organised by the Embassy of Israel, the tribute under the title Fragile: Families – 3rd Israeli Cinema Week will be held at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, until December 16; it includes nine prize-winning films from the period 2011-2014.

It is the third consecutive year that the Israeli Cinema Week is being organized in Athens. During the last years Israeli films have taken part and received awards at film festivals in Greece and across the world. They have also become commercially extremely successful. During the tribute “Fragile: Families”, the audience will have the opportunity to explore the mechanisms, the relationships and the problems of families from different backgrounds.

For the spectator, these stories of families form a window of sorts into the lives and homes of the Israeli people, like a social kaleidoscope from the quiet times of Jerusalem in the 60s (Fragile) to the busy Tel Aviv of today (Melting Away, Restoration), the difficulties of adolescence (Mabul), the restraints of religion (Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, Fill the Void), mixed families (Arabani), or a troubled past (Life in Stills, The Flat). Each family story presents the spectator with not only fragments of daily life in Israel but also with the ultimately human, bittersweet situations which occur within families.

During the Israeli Cinema Week, those who attend will also have the opportunity to look through and, if they wish, to purchase works of Israeli literature (translated into Greek).

The films are in Hebrew with Greek subtitles.

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