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Elish’s Notebooks
82-year-old Elisheva Rise passed away. After her death, her children clear out her home, and find some journals she secretly wrote to each of her seven children, documenting 57 years from their birth to the day she died. It was her life’s work. Every evening she would sit in her home in Kibbutz Ein Tzurim and write to her children, whom she had never hugged nor kissed.
Now, they open the journals for the first time.
Following the treasure she left behind, they embark on an emotional and painful journey, learning about childhood, motherhood, and parenting.
Festivals and Awards:
Docaviv festival, Israel, 2017.
Director: Golan Rise
Producer: Haggai Arad, Elad Peleg
Production Company: Daroma Productions
Cinematographer: Daniel Kedem
Editor: Sharon Yaish
Soundtrack Editor: Aviv Aldema
Original Soundtrack: Sharon Rise
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, The Second Authority for Television and Radio
Script: Golan Rise, Sharon Yaish
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: המחברות של אליש
82-year-old Elisheva Rise passed away. After her death, her children clear out her home, and find some journals she secretly wrote to each of her seven children, documenting 57 years from their birth to the day she died. It was her life’s work. Every evening she would sit in her home in Kibbutz Ein Tzurim and write to her children, whom she had never hugged nor kissed.
Now, they open the journals for the first time.
Following the treasure she left behind, they embark on an emotional and painful journey, learning about childhood, motherhood, and parenting.
Festivals and Awards:
Docaviv festival, Israel, 2017.
Director: Golan Rise
Producer: Haggai Arad, Elad Peleg
Production Company: Daroma Productions
Cinematographer: Daniel Kedem
Editor: Sharon Yaish
Soundtrack Editor: Aviv Aldema
Original Soundtrack: Sharon Rise
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, The Second Authority for Television and Radio
Script: Golan Rise, Sharon Yaish
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: המחברות של אליש
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