AWARDS &
SELECTED SCREENINGS
3 NOMINATIONS Including Best Actor,
Israeli Academy Awards
AUDIENCE
AWARD, Reheboth Beach Independent Film Festival, 2007
OFFICIAL
SELECTION, Jerusalem
International Film Festival (2006)
OFFICIAL
SELECTION, UK
Jewish Film Festival (2007)
OFFICIAL
SELECTION, Palm
Springs International Film Festival (2007)
OFFICIAL
SELECTION, Munich
Film Festival (2007)
CLOSING
NIGHT FILM, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (2007)
OFFICIAL
SELECTION, Central
New Jersey Jewish Film Festival (2007)
OFFICIAL
SELECTION, Chicago
Festival of Israeli Cinema (2007)
OFFICIAL
SELECTION, San
Diego Jewish Film Festival (2008)
OFFICIAL
SELECTION, Sacramento
Jewish Film Festival (2008)
OFFICIAL
SELECTION, Denver
Jewish Film Festival (2008)
OFFICIAL
SELECTION,
Israel
Nonstop, NYC (2008)
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In Tel Aviv
in the 1960s 10-year-old Hilik knows his goal in life–to make his
parents happy and compensate for the grief they both suffered in the Holocaust.
The fragile equilibrium of Rivka and Moishe’s new, post-war life
begins to waver when Moishe convinces himself that Yankele, his son from
his first marriage, didn't actually die in Auschwitz, but rather survived
to become the “Jack Waldman” he sees pictured in a newspaper.
When a deluded Moishe writes a letter to Waldman, Hilik takes matters
into his own hands.
A coming-of-age
story written and directed by the son of survivors, Dear
Mr. Waldman beautifully captures the milieu of mid-century
Israel and the peculiarities of growing up amid the emotional wreckage
of the Holocaust.
CRITICAL
ACCLAIM
“The
hilarious and heart-rending chaos that erupts transcends cliché.
A scene in which two Holocaust survivors clutch together in an illicit
embrace passes from broad comedy to wrenching pathos to stark horror,
and the performances, especially from the changeling-like Port, haunt
the memory.”
– Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix
“The
film's performances are uniformly outstanding. Rami Heuberger gives one
of the best leading performances I've ever seen in an Israeli film as
the emotionally wounded father. Yavgenia Dodina the celebrated stage actress
who began her career in Russia is pitch-perfect as the mother who can
seem cold but is simply adept at survival. It's the kind of naturalistic
low-key acting that is easy to overlook because it feels so real.”
– Hannah Brown, Jerusalem Post
“Dear
Mr. Waldman is about compassion, family relationships
and loss. It is about death and resurrection, and about the ghosts we
carry around in our hearts.”
– Susan Jacobs, Jewish Journal
ARTICLES
"LEADING
LADIES RETURN IN 6 ISRAELI FILMS"
World Jewish Digest, October 2007 (pdf)
EXTERNAL
LINKS
www.dearmrwaldman.com
Review:
BangItOut.com
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