31 Days Film:
SWEET MUD
- 2006
- 90 mins
- Color
Film Ratings/Favorites
Appeared at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival
Despite its pastoral setting, Israeli filmmaker Dror Shaul's revealing drama about growing up on an orthodox Jewish kibbutz during the 1970s is far from idealized. Shaul calls upon his own experiences to tell the story of 12-year-old Dvir (Tomer Steinhof), who must deal with the recent death of his father, his mother's metal instability and the rigid, highly repressive collective community in which he and his mother live. This tragic, very human, darkly comic glimpse of a man-made utopia won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
Despite its pastoral setting, Israeli filmmaker Dror Shaul's revealing drama about growing up on an orthodox Jewish kibbutz during the 1970s is far from idealized. Shaul calls upon his own experiences to tell the story of 12-year-old Dvir (Tomer Steinhof), who must deal with the recent death of his father, his mother's metal instability and the rigid, highly repressive collective community in which he and his mother live. This tragic, very human, darkly comic glimpse of a man-made utopia won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
Violence, Adult Language, Adult Content
SCREENINGS:
CAST & CREW:
| Director | Dror Shaul |
FOLLOWED BY
SHORT:
Director: George EL RASSI /NAJAT
Runtime: 18 minutes
Appeared at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival
