Festivals & Awards

Best First Feature Film - Jerusalem Film Festival

Best Actress - Jerusalem Film Festival

Best Cinematography - Jerusalem Film Festival

Best Female Supporting Role - Israely Academy Awards

She is coming home
2013

“She's coming home” is a film about delayed adolescence. At the end of a long relationship, Michal, 30, returns to her parent’s home.

Drama, 90 min.
Languages: Hebrew
Subtitles : Englis

Cast

Michal- Tali Sharon
Zeev- Alon Aboutboul
Liora- Liora Rivlin
Alex- Eli Cohen


 

Credits

Directed by – Maya Dreifuss
Produced by - Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait
Written by – Maya Dreifuss

In participation with Lama Films, The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts – Cinema Project

Cinematographer – Shai Peleg
Editor – Ronit Porat
Art Designer - Shunit Aharoni
Costume Designer - Natalie Sarig
Casting Director - Yael Aviv

Story

At the end of a lengthy relationship, Michal, 33, returns to her parents’ small, cramped apartment in Herzliya, a sleepy, bourgeois suburb.

Michal is a young, promising director, who should be devoting her time to writing a screenplay, but instead shuts herself up in her room, frustrated, and spends most of her time sleeping.

Things change when Michal meets Zeev - the principal of the local high school, a 50 year old married man, and falls in love.

The forbidden passion and stormy emotions that develop between Michal and Zeev reminiscent of first love. Unaware, Michal becomes a teenager all over again. But this time, contrary to her earlier adolescence, Michal rebels. The apartment, too small to contain two parents and a 30 year old teenager, is transformed into a pressure cooker teeming with conflict.

Can Michal commit, give her all and fulfill her love and passion? Or is she too attached to the fantasy youth that she has created to break away? Perhaps she is just too busy rebelling?