Movies about father-son dynamics tend to transcend language — but what about when the father and son in question don’t speak in the same tongue? That was one of the impressive feats of “Baba Joon,” Israel’s Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film, director Yuval Delshad revealed at TheWrap’s Screening Series on Monday. Moderating the affair at Los Angeles’ iPic Theater, TheWrap founder and editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman welcomed Delshad and cast members Navid Negahban (“Homeland”), Viss Elliot Safavi and David Diaan for a panel following the film. Also Read: TheWrap Screening Series: Why Kurt Cobain's Art Mattered...
- 11/4/2015
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
Baba Joon
Written by Yuval Delshad
Directed by Yuval Delshad
Israel, 2015
This year’s edition of the Haifa International Film Festival has a strong Iranian inflection, highlighting a Mohsen Makhmalbaf retrospective and Yuval Delshad’s Baba Joon, the first Farsi-language Israeli feature film. Baba Joon premiered internationally at this year’s Tiff and is Israel’s submission to the Academy Awards foreign language category. Yuval Delshad’s feature debut stars Homeland’s Navid Naghaban as Yitzhak and British actress Viss Elliot Safavi as Sarah, an Iranian-born turkey farming couple in an early 1980’s agricultural settlement somewhere in the Negev desert of Southern Israel, and newcomer Asher Avrahami as Moti, their only child.
The crux of the drama is a time-worn premise of inter-generational conflict and changing times – thirteen-year-old Moti’s distaste for turkey farming goes against his father’s and grandfather’s ambitions of continuing the family business. In fact,...
Written by Yuval Delshad
Directed by Yuval Delshad
Israel, 2015
This year’s edition of the Haifa International Film Festival has a strong Iranian inflection, highlighting a Mohsen Makhmalbaf retrospective and Yuval Delshad’s Baba Joon, the first Farsi-language Israeli feature film. Baba Joon premiered internationally at this year’s Tiff and is Israel’s submission to the Academy Awards foreign language category. Yuval Delshad’s feature debut stars Homeland’s Navid Naghaban as Yitzhak and British actress Viss Elliot Safavi as Sarah, an Iranian-born turkey farming couple in an early 1980’s agricultural settlement somewhere in the Negev desert of Southern Israel, and newcomer Asher Avrahami as Moti, their only child.
The crux of the drama is a time-worn premise of inter-generational conflict and changing times – thirteen-year-old Moti’s distaste for turkey farming goes against his father’s and grandfather’s ambitions of continuing the family business. In fact,...
- 10/2/2015
- by Zornitsa Staneva
- SoundOnSight
Navid Negahban [pictured] to star in first Persian-language film shot in Israel.
Production is set to begin later this month on Baba Joon, the first Persian-language film shot in Israel.
Directed by Yuval Delshad, the film stars Navid Negahban, who played Abu Nazir on Emmy-winning series Homeland, alongside the likes of Viss Elliot Safavi and David Diaan. It will also feature Iranian-Israelis acting on the screen for the first time.
Baba Joon tells the story of Moti (Asher Avrahami in his feature debut) who decides to rebel against his father and to object to the tradition and rules that have been handed down from generation to generation.
Delshad wrote the screenplay inspired by his own personal story as the son of Iranian immigrants.
Produced by David Silber of Metro Productions and Moshe & Leon Edri of United King, the film will shoot in the Negev desert for five weeks.
It is funded by the Rabinovich Fund for the Arts...
Production is set to begin later this month on Baba Joon, the first Persian-language film shot in Israel.
Directed by Yuval Delshad, the film stars Navid Negahban, who played Abu Nazir on Emmy-winning series Homeland, alongside the likes of Viss Elliot Safavi and David Diaan. It will also feature Iranian-Israelis acting on the screen for the first time.
Baba Joon tells the story of Moti (Asher Avrahami in his feature debut) who decides to rebel against his father and to object to the tradition and rules that have been handed down from generation to generation.
Delshad wrote the screenplay inspired by his own personal story as the son of Iranian immigrants.
Produced by David Silber of Metro Productions and Moshe & Leon Edri of United King, the film will shoot in the Negev desert for five weeks.
It is funded by the Rabinovich Fund for the Arts...
- 5/14/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
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