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Photography: Ella Barak
About The Film

I THINK THIS IS THE CLOSEST TO HOW THE FOOTAGE LOOKED

Short film | 9 minutes | 2012

A man recreates with poor means a lost memory. A memory of the last day with his Mom.

Objects comes to life, in a desperate struggle to produce one moment that was gone.

A short film combining documentary cinema and object theater, winner of the Sundance Festival Short Documentary category,
second prize at the San Sebastián Student Film Competition, first prize at the Nashville Festival, and first prize at the Epos Festival
at the Tel Aviv Museum. Screened in Cannes, Hot Docs, the Jerusalem Film Festival, and is now featured in the New York Times
Op-Doc | 2012

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Credits

Directed by Yuval Hameiri

Co-creator Michal Vaknin

 

Cinematography Elina Margolin

Editing Yuval Hameiri, Yair Asher

Recording and lighting Yiftach Kedem

Original music Dan K.dar

Online Editing by Miron Auslander

Sound editing Itay Alter

 

Distribution Go2Films

 

Produced within the framework of the Steve Tisch Film and Television School, Tel Aviv University, with the support of the Tarbut movement, New York Times.

Reviews

"A smart and heart-wrenching film."

 

Yair Rave, Cinemascope

"This film is emotionally pulverizing, genuinely processing a grief

that is so personal it becomes universal."

 

Jury comments,

Sundance Film Festival, 2014

"It’s an extraordinary stroke of brilliance and one of the saddest stories I’ve ever seen in a short film. simply genius."

 

Oron Shamir, Achbar Ha׳Ir

"With a precise and sensitive cinematic language, Hameiri masterfully depicts an exceptionally powerful portrait of loss, while touching on pain in an original, surprising, and complex way that leaves no viewer indifferent."

 

From the jury's reasoning,

Epos Film Festival 2013

"I’ve never experienced anything like it."

 

Sarah Bex Rice, Indie Street

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"A masterful short film in its minimalist direction, heart-wrenching story and narration."

 

jewishfilmfestivals.org

 


"The film introduced me to Yuval Hameiri as a gifted storyteller, who gracefully leads in one direction and then manages to flatter the viewer who walked the long way with him while, modestly it should be noted, informing him that something bigger is happening here than he thought."

 

Oron Shamir, Srita

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