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Arik Bar Adon (65), a poet from Tel Aviv, stopped writing a few months before the birth of his son Adam (17), who was born with Down Syndrome. When Adam was 6 years old his mother died. The father, a powerful man and Director of the Israeli Institute for Arts, is left alone in the house with a son with special needs. Adam is secluded in his own bizarre world, until he discovers that his father was once an artist. Suddenly, there’s a radical change in their lives, as Arik decides to write again.
Festivals and Awards:
First Prize at the Rome International Film Festival, Italy, 1997; Israfest, New York, USA, 1997
Director: Nitzan Aviram
Producer: Simcha Medioni
Production Company: Per Capita Productions Ltd.
Cinematographer: Jorge Gurevich
Editor: Naomi Press-Aviram
Original Soundtrack: Avner Dorman
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Keshet TV
Musicians: Art Director: Shahar Katzav
Cast: Yoseph Shiloach, Dekel Shikortzy, Rubi Duanis, and Arieh Moscuna
Script: Nitzan Aviram (based on the short story “The Continuing Silence of a Poet” by A.B. Yehoshua)
Co-Production: G.G. Israel Studios Ltd.
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: בן
Category: Family / Health / People with Disabilities
Tag Words: art artist Down Syndrome fatherhood Orphan Poet special needs Tel Aviv
Arik Bar Adon (65), a poet from Tel Aviv, stopped writing a few months before the birth of his son Adam (17), who was born with Down Syndrome. When Adam was 6 years old his mother died. The father, a powerful man and Director of the Israeli Institute for Arts, is left alone in the house with a son with special needs. Adam is secluded in his own bizarre world, until he discovers that his father was once an artist. Suddenly, there’s a radical change in their lives, as Arik decides to write again.
Festivals and Awards:
First Prize at the Rome International Film Festival, Italy, 1997; Israfest, New York, USA, 1997
Director: Nitzan Aviram
Producer: Simcha Medioni
Production Company: Per Capita Productions Ltd.
Cinematographer: Jorge Gurevich
Editor: Naomi Press-Aviram
Original Soundtrack: Avner Dorman
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Keshet TV
Musicians: Art Director: Shahar Katzav
Cast: Yoseph Shiloach, Dekel Shikortzy, Rubi Duanis, and Arieh Moscuna
Script: Nitzan Aviram (based on the short story “The Continuing Silence of a Poet” by A.B. Yehoshua)
Co-Production: G.G. Israel Studios Ltd.
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: בן
Category: Family / Health / People with Disabilities
Tag Words: art artist Down Syndrome fatherhood Orphan Poet special needs Tel Aviv
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