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Young Masters

AMERICA

• Director: Ofir Raul Graizer
• ISRAEL, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 126’ / English, Hebrew ; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Ofir Raul Graizer
• Director of Photography: Omri Aloni 
• Editing: Michal Oppenheim, Ofir Raul Graizer
• Music: Dominique Charpentier 
• Cast: Oshrat Ingedashet, Michael Moshonov, Ofri Biterman, Moni Moshonov, Irit Sheleg, Evelyn Shafir, Ruba Blal Asfur
• Producer: Itai Tamir
• Production Co.: Laila Films
• World Sales: Beta Cinema

2022 Jerusalem Best Actress (Oshrat Ingadashet)

A story set between a flower shop and an ancient monastery, between a swimming pool and the Mediterranean, between life and death—and somewhere in the middle. Ofir Raul Graizer, who had visited the festival in 2018 with the sweet The Cakemaker returns with a similarly appealing, sincere, colourful melodrama evoking Almodóvar and Douglas Sirk. Poetic, full of emotion, flowers, and fragrances, America follows Eli, a swimming coach, who returns to Israel from Chicago after 10 years of absence, upon his father’s death. On his short trip, he decides to visit his childhood friend and his fiancée, setting a series of events in motion that will radically affect everyone’s lives. America premiered at Karlovy Vary Film Festival within the main competition.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.