Zaytoun (2012)
- Directed by
- Eran Riklis
- Genre
- drama film, adventure film, thriller film
- Country
- France, Israel, United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 33 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An Israeli fighter pilot is shot down in Beirut during the 1982 Lebanon war. A Palestinian boy helps him escape through the war-torn city and into Israel.
tenseadventurousshifting moodsgrittyemotionally chargedunpredictablebleakdetermined
What happens
Zaytoun (Hebrew: זייתון, Arabic: زيتون, romanized: Zaytūn, "Olive") is a 2012 Israeli adventure thriller film directed by Eran Riklis and produced by Gareth Unwin and Fred Ritzenberg. It premiered in September 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival. The screenplay was written by Nader Rizq, a Palestinian-American living in the United States. What started as a hobby in 1991 ended up making the semi-finals of the 2001 Nicholl Fellowships run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Subsequent re-writes again placed in the Nicholls and semi-finaled in the Ohio Independent Screenplay Awards. In late 2007, American producer Fred Ritzenberg came aboard and helped further develop the script. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
Rock the Casbah (2012)
Lebanon (2009)
Alyah (2012)
The Inheritance (2012)
Capernaum (2018)
When I Saw You (2012)
The Glow of Heavens (2012)
God's Neighbors (2012)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.