Zrubavel (2008)

Original title

זרובבל

Directed by

Shmuel Beru

Genre

drama film

Country

Israel

Runtime

1h 12m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An eight-year-old Ethiopian Israeli boy named Yitshak dreams of becoming a film director like Spike Lee. In his neighborhood, Yitshak observes his aunt Almaz as she wants to marry a distant cousin against family tradition, his brother Gili tries to join the army despite a brother killed in war, and his parents disagree over whether he should go to a religious school or a soccer academy.

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What happens

Zrubavel, en ivrit זרבבל es un filmo yisraeli del anyo 2009, opera prima del direktor de orijin etiope Shmuel Beru. El filmo es la istorya de Yitshak Zrubavel, un ninyo etiope de ochu anyos, ke kere ser direktor de sinema, komo Spike Lee. A traverso de los ojos de Yitshak, el filmo kuenta la istorya de la su tia Almaz, konosida komo la mansevika mas linda de la máale, una kantadera ke kere kazarse kon un primo distante, anke eya konose la tradisiyon famiyar de no kazarse kon dinguno de la su famiya en syéte djenerasiones, myentras ke el su ermano Gili tenta entrar al Tsahal i azerse piloto de kombate, afilu un ermano de el fue amortado en la gerra, mas el su padre, ke fue koronel de la armada en Etiopia insiste para ke vaya sigir una karriera militar. Por otro lado, los padres de Yitshak diskuten si el va yir a una yeshiva o a una akademia de futbol. El filmo fue kriado kon adjuda finansiera del Israel Film Fund i la Gesher Foundation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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