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2025
Rome International Film Festival (RIFF)
San Diego Jewish Film Festival
Breaking Down Barriers
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Partner: Sapir College – School of Audio and Visual Arts
Director:
Yoni Handelsman
Filmmaker's profile
Anna is the Nursing assistant of Maxim a Holocaust survivor and former painter, they live together, in a small old house. Maxim is a hard and bitter person who suffers from dementia which he denies and the real relationship between them is revealed .
Duration: 26min.
Country: Israel
Language: Hebrew
Year: 2025
Genre: Fiction (Comedy), Fiction (Drama)
Topic: Family, Fatherhood, Friendship, Health, Holocaust, Human Relationship, Loneliness, Love, Mental Health, Old Age
Director: Yoni Handelsman
Production company: benshalom production
Writer: Yoni Handelsman
Cinematographer: Shaked Gorbatt
Editor: Yoni Handelsman
Actors: Dafna Donat , Shmil Ben Ari
Rome International Film Festival (RIFF)
San Diego Jewish Film Festival
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