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From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A tribute to Big Eyes – 1974. Baruch, a past basketball star, left the big city in the 70s and became an ultra-Orthodox Jew. He now returns to find Sivan, one of his mistresses that he left behind. This desperate attempt to savor some of his old life again fails, when she doesn’t let him back into her home, where she lives with his estranged son.
Festivals and Awards:
Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Israel, 2013
Director: Gill Weinstein
Producer: Efrat Choen
Cinematographer: Shai Goldman
Editor: Joseph Ibn-Wine
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Telvision, Israel Broadcasting Authority
Cast: Assi Dayan, Evelin Hagoel
Script: Gill Weinstein
Subtitles: Hebrew, English
Film Name in Hebrew: שחקן ספסל
From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A tribute to Big Eyes – 1974. Baruch, a past basketball star, left the big city in the 70s and became an ultra-Orthodox Jew. He now returns to find Sivan, one of his mistresses that he left behind. This desperate attempt to savor some of his old life again fails, when she doesn’t let him back into her home, where she lives with his estranged son.
Festivals and Awards:
Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Israel, 2013
Director: Gill Weinstein
Producer: Efrat Choen
Cinematographer: Shai Goldman
Editor: Joseph Ibn-Wine
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Telvision, Israel Broadcasting Authority
Cast: Assi Dayan, Evelin Hagoel
Script: Gill Weinstein
Subtitles: Hebrew, English
Film Name in Hebrew: שחקן ספסל
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