Just Announced at the Jerusalem Film Festival!
The award in the Haggiag Competition for best Israeli feature film is presented to:
Oxygen, directed by Netalie Braun, Producers: Aviv Ben Shlush, Adi Bar Yossef, Netalie Braun
The following are the remarks by the Jury:
“A radical reading of Israeli existence
centered on a mother who boldly chooses to stop being a victim of the Israeli
ethos, no matter the cost. The film is layered with endless facets of Israeli
reality, presented from a new perspective, giving an almost biblical dimension
to the story of a mother facing the sacrifice of her son. Director and
screenwriter Netalie Braun deconstructs this ethos—from the liberation of
Jerusalem to crawling on the carpet as a result of PTSD—dismantling the image
of the Israeli hero. A film with an inner rhythm, powerful and tumultuous,
conveyed through the eyes of an empathetic protagonist, with a marvelous
performance by Dana Ivgy that almost physically conveys the country's
collective helplessness.”
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