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Aviva, My Love (Aviva Ahuvati)
Saturday, April 5, 7:30 PM at CINERAMA THEATRE
Director(s): Shemi Zarhin
Country: Israel
Screen Date: 2008-04-05
Year: 2006
Length: 107 MINUTES
Format: 35mm
Language: Hebrew
Website: http://www.avivamylove.com/english/index.html
An Israeli commercial and artistic triumph, Aviva, My Love is the richly-layered story of a working-class woman desperate to escape her provincial life in the seaside town of Tiberius. Aviva Cohen (in an award-winning performance by Asi Levi) is barely staying afloat. She supports her unemployed husband working as a hotel kitchen cook while caring for rebellious teenage children and an unstable mother. Aviva finds herself on the brink of fulfilling a lifelong ambition to be a writer when she is introduced to a famous novelist by her sister (played by Rotem Abuhav, who won the Israeli Oscar for Best Supporting Actress). In the face of brutal ambition, can Aviva fulfill both her own emotional needs and those of her family, without selling her soul? Winner of six Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Script and Best Director honors for acclaimed filmmaker Shemi Zarhin ("Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi", SJFF 2003).
Topics: Israel, Relationships, Women
PRINT SOURCE: United King Films
WEBSITE: http://www.united-king.com
PHONE: +972-3-5177101
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Lilach Adler, Festivals Coordinator, lilach@metrocom.co.ilSponsors
Community Partner: American Technion Society Northwest Chapter.
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