MEDUSES, LES -Jellyfish- directed by : Etgar Keret & Shira Geffen
 Israel / France - 2006 - 78 mn - 35 - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SRD - Feature - Drama
 Original language : Hebrew / English   Original title : Meduzot   

 

 

At her wedding reception, Keren breaks a leg, unwillingly forcing her to cancel her honeymoon in the Caribbean. A strange little girl comes out of the sea and follows Batya like a shadow; the woman's life is transformed when she takes the little girl under her wing. Joy is a maid from the Philippines working for a tough old woman; unwittingly, she helps the woman reconcile with her estranged daughter A composite film made from scraps of humanity, like so many messages in a bottle verging on the absurd. A portrait of a messy world in which everyone scrapes by as best they can, looking for love and something to remember or to forget. Such is life in Tel Aviv...

->French synopsis

 

 

 

 

Screenplay : Shira Geffen
Dir of photography : Antoine Heberle AFC
Sound : Gil Toren, Olivier Dô Hùu & Aviv Aldema
Music : Christopher Bowen
Editing : Sasha Franklin & François Gédigier
Costumes : Li Alambic
Set : Avi Pahima
Producer : Amir Harel & Ayelet Kait
Production company : LAMA PRODUCTIONS LTD
Co-producer : Yaël Fogiel & Laetitia Gonzalez
Co-production company : LES FILMS DU POISSON

 

Sara Adler : Batia
Naama Nissim : Naomi
Ma-nenita De Latorre : Joy
Noa Raban : Keren
Gera Sandler : Michael
Ilanit Ben Ya’akov : Galia
Zaharira Harifai : Malka

 


 

2007 :

Cannes Film Fest
Critics'Week
Winner of :
-Camera d'Or
-Young Critics' prize
-SACD prize

San Luis IFF
Puntano de Oro for best film

Cine Decouvertes IFF
(Brussels)

Melbourne IFF

Toronto IFF

Athens IFF

Warsaw IFF

London IFF

London Jewish IFF

Sydney Jewish IFF

Tapei Golden Horse IFF

San Sebastian IFF

Zagreb IFF

Warsaw Jewish IFF
Best Cinematography

Copenhagen IFF

Santa Maria IFF
(Portugal)

Seville IFF

Filmex IFF
(Tokyo)

Bratislava IFF
Special mention of the jury

2008 :

Tromso IFF

Belgrade IFF

Mumbai IFF

Hong Kong IFF

Istanbul IFF

Dublin IFF

Febiofest IFF
(Rep Tchèque)

Vilnius IFF

Stockholm Jewish IFF

Barcelona Jewish Film Fest

Sao Paulo Jewish Film Fest

Osian Cinefan
India

Tartu IFF
Estonia

Jewish Film Fest Mexico

Portimao IFF

2009 :

Kaohsiung Film Festival

Molodist IFF

 

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in French

Le jour de son mariage, Keren se casse la jambe et doit renoncer à sa lune de miel aux Caraïbes…
Une mystérieuse petite fille sortie de la mer change la vie de Batya, la jeune femme qui la recueille et qu’elle suit comme son ombre…
Joy, une employée de maison en exil va, sans le vouloir, renouer les liens entre une vieille femme sévère et sa fille…

Bouteilles jetées à la mer, fragments d’humanités qui flirtent avec l’absurde…Dans un joyeux désordre chacun cherche sa place, l’amour, l’oubli ou sa mémoire, car telle est la vie à Tel-Aviv…