INVISIBLE – לא
רואים עליך
– Credits & Information
Name of the Film: Invisible
Original Title: Lo
Roim Alaich
Director:
Michal Aviad
Country: Israel – Germany 2011
Language: Hebrew
and English with English subtitles
Length: 90 min
Format to be screened: 35 mm
Festivals &
Awards:
Winner of the Ecumenical Prize Berlin International Film Festival (February 2011)
Taormina Film Festival, Sicily, Italy (June 2011)
Montreal World Film Festival (August 2011)
Israel Film Festival, Moscow (September 2011)
Rio International Film Festival (October 2011)
Thessaloniki Film Festival (November 2011)
International Women Film festival Israel (November 2011)
Goteborg International Film Festival (February 2012)
Producer: Ronen Ben-Tal
Script: Michal Aviad, Tal Omer
Camera: Guy Raz
Editing: Era Lapid
Cast: Ronit Elkabetz,
Evgenia Dodina, Gil Frank, Sivan Levy, Mederic Ory
Production Company: Plan B Productions ltd., Tel Aviv
Synopsis:
Haunted by the same unspeakable nightmare in
their past, a random encounter brings two women together. Emotions that were once left buried will have
to be dealt with and confronted.
Lily (Ronit Elkabetz) is an outspoken left-wing
activist, Nira (Evgenia Dodina) a reserved television editor. Both are
outwardly independent and strong women. Lily is married with two grown
children, her marriage long dead. Nira is a single mum who refuses to think she
could ever be interested in a man being a part of her life. Twenty years
earlier they both experienced a trauma so severe, they had to suppress the
ordeal to be able to survive. A fleeting moment unites them and the two women
join forces to confront the past, realizing how this tragedy has deeply
affected their lives and relationships. Now they must bridge the gap
between the women they once were and the women they have become. They must
either continue to push the pain in or confront the cracks in their lives. It’s time to heal and move on.
What begins as a hard yet liberating journey
turns into a subtle and moving friendship: through this relationship, they will
finally be able to stop feeling humiliated and guilty. They will no longer be
INVISIBLE. An emotionally powerful film, INVISIBLE mixes fact with fiction
using televised material and recorded testimonies of women who like Lily and
Nira, have survived despite their nightmare.
Note on Director:
Michal Aviad is a
faculty member of the Tel Aviv University's Department of Film and Television.
Aviad writes, directs and produces award-winning documentary films that examine
the complex relations between women's issues and the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict, militarism, and ethnicity. Her credits include: Acting Our Age (1987),
The Women Next Door (1992), Ever Shot Anyone?
(1995), Jenny & Jenny (1997), Ramleh (2001) and
For My Children (2002). Invisible, her feature debut won Best
Israeli Film and Best Actress Awards in Haifa International Film Festival, it
was presented in the Panorama section of the 2011 Berlin Festival and
won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.
Trailer Link:
Stretch (65mb) - http://www.4shared.com/video/CiKKyREP/invsbl_trlr_WMV_6000.html
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