Ahed's Knee (2021)

Original title

הברך‎

Directed by

Nadav Lapid

Genre

drama film

Country

Israel, Germany, France

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

12

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An expatriate filmmaker returns to Israel to make a film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is invited to a screening at a government institution where he confronts censorship and his own past.

self-reflectivefrustratingunsettlingintensecerebralconfrontationalslow-burn

What happens

Ahed's Knee (Hebrew: הַבֶּרֶךְ, romanized: Habereḵ, lit. 'The Knee') is a 2021 autobiographical drama film written and directed by Nadav Lapid. Starring Avshalom Pollak as Y, it follows an expat filmmaker returning to Israel aiming to produce a film about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, but is invited to a screening of one of his films in a government institution. The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on 7 July, where it won the Jury Prize. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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