
Photography: Ella Barak
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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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.

"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
"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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