official Selection - San Sebastian Film Festival
winner of Best First Feature Film - Haifa Film Festival
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM
GUADALAJARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
BERGAMO FILM MEETING ONLUS
TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
PINK APPLE FILM FESTIVAL
JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN & POSTDAM
On a deserted beach in west of France lies an unconscious man. His identity is unknown, no one seeks for him and he does not speak.
Ruben Vardi ,a former Israeli, retired police investigator will arrive from Paris to try and solve this mystery
Drama, 90 min
DCP
Languages: Hebrew/ French
Subtitles: English
World Sales- http://www.le-pacte.com/france
Ruben: Niels Arestrup
Hanoch: Lior Ashkenazi
Paolo: Guy Marchand
Fabien: Emma De Aunes
Fogel: Moni Moshonov
Yael: Dana Adini
Moro: Mathieu Amalrik
Directed by –Yossi Aviram
Produced by -Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait, Yael Fogiel, Leticia Gonzales
Written by –Yossi Aviram
In participation with-Lama Films,Les Films du Poisson,
The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts – Cinema Project,
CNC avance sur recette, Le Pacte, RegionAquitaineRegion Ile de France
Cinematographer - Antoine Héberlé
Editor – Francois Gedigier
Art Designers – Emmanuel de Chauvigny & Boaz katzenelson
Costume Designers – Alexia Crisp – Jones & Li Alembik
Casting Director – Marion Touitou
Hanoch, a man in his forties, decides to leave his life in Tel Aviv and to fly to Paris. For mysterious reasons, he starts to secretly follow a 65-year old man, Ruben, before suddenly leaving the capital. Ruben is about to put an end to his career as a police officer. He is slowly sinking into gloom when a colleague asks him to investigate on a last case of disappearance.
Through the course of several accidents and chance encounters, they will meet and each of them will have to face a page of his personal history, a page that they both need to turn for good.
Jay Weissberg - Variety
Yossi Aviram makes an uncommonly sensitive debut with this beautifully understated drama about a father and his long-estranged son.
An uncommon film of great sensitivity, “The Dune” delivers a beautifully understated portrayal of the consequences of choosing a particular path at life’s crossroads. First-time feature helmer Yossi Aviram proves exceptionally gifted with his stellar cast, whose nuanced performances find gold in the spare script about an older gay police officer in France whose long-estranged son in Israel comes to make a connection. Perceptively commenting on the passage of time, the film is the kind of sleeper that appears out of nowhere yet makes an impact;