A HIT LAST SEASON – AN ENCORE TONIGHT!
TUESDAY, MAY 19 • 4:00 PM • MIDTOWN CINEMA – buy tickets
Israel, 2024/Drama, 99 minutes/Hebrew, w/subtitles/Written by Shlomo Efrati and Erez Tadmor/Directed by Erez Tadmor
Eva (Rotem Sela, Beauty and the Baker), a beautiful seamstress, causes quite a stir when she and her daughter move into a working-class neighborhood in Israel, 1954. Among her suitors is the married Shalom Gottlieb (Lior Raz, Fauda), a former partisan leader and current factory foreman, who sees in Eva an unexpected chance at happiness. But rumors of Eva’s past as a Kapo during the Holocaust shake the community, and Shalom must weigh his desire against his duty to uncover her secret, for the sake not just of his family, but of his fellow partisans as well.
Erez Tadmor is one of Israel’s most prolific and successful writer-directors. His films have won awards at more than 40 international film festivals, and he is equally at home with comedic and dramatic narratives. Among his credits are A Matter of Size, Matchmaking (1 & 2), and Magic Men. Soda, nominated for three Israeli Academy Awards, is his most personal film to date.
A pre-recorded Zoom interview with Erez Tadmor will follow the screening.