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Things Behind the Sun

Camera 12 Theater, San Jose
San Jose, CA


THINGS BEHIND THE SUN (Devarim MeAchorey HaShemesh)

A debut feature from an emerging young Israeli director. This melodrama peers into the lives of the dysfunctional Grossman family, who are facing reconciliation after the wife’s paintings expose her family’s secrets. A nurse calls from the hospital to say that their elderly father and grandfather, whom they had not seen for 10 years, has taken a turn for the worse. She suggests that it might be a good time to visit. Each family member struggles to find love and intimacy with him while sealing themselves from the others. The youngest daughter does not reveal that she understands the English her parents use in private or that she has begun visiting the hospital. The older daughter conceals her lesbianism – even from herself. The 30-year-old son pretends to participate in life, but stays in his pajamas all day. The  husband  will not talk about the visits with his father, whose death seems suddenly less imminent. The wife, an artist on the verge of her long-awaited first major show, has not told her family how she used them in various nude forms in her art. No one discusses the reasons that the man in the hospital, once an integral part of the family, has been estranged from them for so long. As the family members begin to talk,  they reveal their hidden information? The process by which the pretenses dissolve is entertaining and fascinating, without a single morbid moment.

Israel, 2006. Hebrew with subtitles.
Winner, Assi Dayan, Best Actor, 2006 Israeli Academy, “Ophir” Award, Jerusalem Film Festival.

Director: Yuval Shafferman                                               Length: 110 Min  

Note: Parking free. If lot full, park at S. 2nd & San Carlos streets. Parking $5. $2 discount coupon available: www.sjjff.org/sviff.html

Kid Friendly: No
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: No
Wheelchair Accessible: No


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Who: Lisa Ceile Goldfus
Phone: 1-800-838-3006
Web: http://www.sjjff.org
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Event Owner: Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival
On BPT Since: August 22, 2006


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Event Details
Dates
 
Start: Wednesday May 09, 2007 7:30 PM
End: Wednesday May 09, 2007 9:30 PM

Prices
  $8.50 - $10.00

Location
  Camera 12 Theater, San Jose
201 S. Second Street
San Jose, CA 95113
United States

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