Films screening in 2009

Screening times

Sydney
Event Cinemas Bondi Junction
14th November - 9:15pm
Melbourne
ACMI Cinemas Federation Square
24th November - 6:45pm
Classic Cinema Elsternwick
18th November - 7:00pm
 
Australian Première

FOR MY FATHER

Israel 2008 Dror Zahavi 102 mins In Hebrew & Arabic; English subtitles

Israeli filmmaker Dror Zahavi takes a familiar genre – a romantic drama in which a Palestinian and Israeli fall in love – and turns it and its clichés inside out. In this compelling thriller, Terek, a would-be Palestinian suicide bomber who infiltrates Israel wearing a belt packed with explosives, is given a second chance when the fuse on his explosive vest fails to detonate. Forced to spend the weekend in Tel Aviv awaiting its repair, Terek must live amongst the people he was planning to kill.  To his surprise, he is befriended by several Israelis on the outskirts of mainstream society, including the attractive Keren, who is estranged from her ultra-Orthodox family. With nothing to lose, Terek and Keren open up to one another, and an unlikely love blooms between two isolated individuals raised to be enemies. However, with the deadly load of explosives still strapped to him, he must spend 48 hours in the city, caught between the men that sent him (and can remotely blow up the bomb by cellular phone), the ever-alert Israeli police patrolling the streets and his new-found companions.

erdigroup Foxtel Kelemen Gelatissimo