Avi Mograbi's Between Fences (2016) is showing on Mubi from March 17 - April 16, 2017 as a Special Discovery.Between FencesIn a bare room, two seated men pretend to offer a deal to a third. They will give the man 2,000 shekels and a passport if he agrees to leave Israel and go to back to Africa. “Your brothers don’t get it,” the boss says. “They’re stupid, but you look smart.” The man listening to the deal, a Sudanese refugee, insists that he must stay in Israel for his own safety. The two men, who are revealed through context to be border patrol agents, up the ante to 3,000 shekels. But the catch is, if the man stays in Israel he will go to Saharonim, a prison-like detention center for an unspecified period of time—“1, 2, 3 years in jail.” As the negotiation wears on, the border agents threaten him with one year, then two,...
- 3/17/2017
- MUBI
The Israeli feature "For My Father" is a rarity indeed: A sweet, sentimental movie about a suicide bomber. Don't get me wrong, director Dror Zahavi doesn't condone terrorism; in fact, he pictures it as an avoidable evil. The story takes place during one eventful weekend. Palestinian Tarek (Shredi Jabarin) is awakened at home by his mom and driven to Tel Aviv by two cohorts. He's been outfitted with a vest of explosives that he is to set off in a crowded marketplace. But the trigger doesn't work, and Tarek finds...
- 1/29/2010
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
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