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Kindergarten

The intolerable ease with which people can ruin a person’s life with one hasty accusation and the dilemmas that this creates. Ramat Hasharon, 1992: A well-known kindergarten teacher is accused of severely abusing the children in her care. An ambitious police officer obtains incriminating testimony from the parents. The kindergarten teacher is thrown into a detention cell with prostitutes and drug addicts. Twenty-four years later, every morning the kindergarten teacher leaves her home, which is next door to the kindergarten that is no longer under her supervision, and wanders the streets without hope.

Festivals and Awards:

The Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel, 2016

Director: Era Lapid, Haim Lapid

Producer: Avishai Peretz, Levi Zini

Production Company: Doc Films

Cinematographer: Yoram Millo

Editor: Era Lapid

Soundtrack Editor: Ronen Nagel

Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Keshet, The Second Authority for Television and Radio

Script: Haim Lapid, Era Lapid

Subtitles: English, Hebrew

Film Name in Hebrew: גן ילדים

The intolerable ease with which people can ruin a person’s life with one hasty accusation and the dilemmas that this creates. Ramat Hasharon, 1992: A well-known kindergarten teacher is accused of severely abusing the children in her care. An ambitious police officer obtains incriminating testimony from the parents. The kindergarten teacher is thrown into a detention cell with prostitutes and drug addicts. Twenty-four years later, every morning the kindergarten teacher leaves her home, which is next door to the kindergarten that is no longer under her supervision, and wanders the streets without hope.

Festivals and Awards:

The Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel, 2016

 

Director: Era Lapid, Haim Lapid

Producer: Avishai Peretz, Levi Zini

Production Company: Doc Films

Cinematographer: Yoram Millo

Editor: Era Lapid

Soundtrack Editor: Ronen Nagel

Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Keshet, The Second Authority for Television and Radio

Script: Haim Lapid, Era Lapid

Subtitles: English, Hebrew

Film Name in Hebrew: גן ילדים

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