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Ami Shinfeld was a young boy from an ultra-Orthodox family in Bnei Brak who managed to fulfill his dream and become a top cardiac surgeon at Sheba Hospital. A few years ago, when the town of Sderot came under missile fire, Dr. Shinfeld decided to help its residents. Since then, he’s volunteered as a community doctor, helping his patients receive public care on par with private medicine. He may clash with the bureaucracy of the public medicine system, but he refuses to go into private practice, despite all the money it offers. He is saving people’s lives, but he is also giving up his free time. Now, with the steep financial cost and the burden his work imposes on his family, he is left to wonder whether he should abandon his patients in Sderot and go into private practice.
Festivals and Awards:
DocAviv Festival, Isral, 2016;
Director: Gad Aisen
Producer: Gad Aisen, Anat Arzi
Production Company: Gad Aisen Film
Cinematographer: Gad Aisen
Editor: Yinon Porat
Soundtrack Editor: Ronen Nagel
Original Soundtrack: Baruch Ben Yitzhak
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Channel 8 - HOT, Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, Pais Culture and art council
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: עניינים שבלב
Category: Borders and Periphery / Family / Israeli Society
Tag Words: money poverty private medical doctor public health sacrifice wealth
Ami Shinfeld was a young boy from an ultra-Orthodox family in Bnei Brak who managed to fulfill his dream and become a top cardiac surgeon at Sheba Hospital. A few years ago, when the town of Sderot came under missile fire, Dr. Shinfeld decided to help its residents. Since then, he’s volunteered as a community doctor, helping his patients receive public care on par with private medicine. He may clash with the bureaucracy of the public medicine system, but he refuses to go into private practice, despite all the money it offers. He is saving people’s lives, but he is also giving up his free time. Now, with the steep financial cost and the burden his work imposes on his family, he is left to wonder whether he should abandon his patients in Sderot and go into private practice.
Festivals and Awards:
DocAviv Festival, Isral, 2016;
Director: Gad Aisen
Producer: Gad Aisen, Anat Arzi
Production Company: Gad Aisen Film
Cinematographer: Gad Aisen
Editor: Yinon Porat
Soundtrack Editor: Ronen Nagel
Original Soundtrack: Baruch Ben Yitzhak
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Channel 8 - HOT, Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, Pais Culture and art council
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: עניינים שבלב
Category: Borders and Periphery / Family / Israeli Society
Tag Words: money poverty private medical doctor public health sacrifice wealth