Under the Domim Tree (1994)

Original title

עץ הדומים תפוס

Directed by

Eli Cohen

Genre

drama film

Country

Israel

Runtime

1h 42m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Aviya is a girl sent to a boarding school in 1950s Israel. She and her classmates navigate friendships and tensions between native-born Israeli students and those who survived the Holocaust.

melancholicreflectivegentlenostalgictendersomberslow-paced

What happens

Under the Domim Tree (Hebrew: עץ הדומים תפוס, romanized: Etz Hadomim Tafus) is a 1994 Israeli film based on the 1992 book of the same name by Gila Almagor. The film was directed by Eli Cohen, and screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Both the book and the film are sequels to Almagor's 1985 autobiographical book, Summer of Aviya, about the protagonist's childhood in the 1950s in Israel. Under the Domim Tree tells of Aviya's years in the Oudim boarding school and about the relations that are formed between the Israeli-born students and the students who survived the Holocaust. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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