2010
Not Rated
Film Movement
1 h 40 m

2010
Not Rated
Film Movement
1 h 40 m

Summary Tarek, a Palestinian forced on a suicide mission in Tel Aviv to redeem his father's honor, is given a second chance when the fuse on his explosive vest fails to detonate. Forced to spend the weekend in Tel Aviv awaiting its repair, Tarek must live amongst the people he was planning to kill. To his surprise he connects with several Isra...

Drama

Directed By: Dror Zahavi

Written By: Ido Dror, Jonatan Dror

2010
Not Rated
Film Movement
1 h 40 m

2010
Not Rated
Film Movement
1 h 40 m

For My Father

Name: For My Father
Genre: Drama
Released: 2010-01-29
Duration: 1 min 40 s
Rating: 56
Cast: Shredi Jabarin, Hili Yalon, Shlomo Vishinsky, Khawlah Hag-Debsy, Johnny Arbid

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews

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Drama

Directed By: Dror Zahavi

Written By: Ido Dror, Jonatan Dror

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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews

33% Positive
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews

33% Positive
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New York Post

The Israeli feature For My Father is a rarity indeed: A sweet, sentimental movie about a suicide bomber.

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Miami Herald

The movie takes a completely apolitical look at the lives of its three main characters, focusing not on their differences but on how, in a way, they are trapped by their cultures.

By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW

Village Voice

While films like “The Band's Visit,” “Jellyfish,” and “Waltz With Bashir” suggest a subtler, more psychologically directed path for Israeli film, Dror Zahavi's For My Father is old-school social melodrama (plus bombs), all the way.

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The New York Times

Well-intentioned but philosophically timid, For My Father wants to meditate on the moral reshuffling that can accompany imminent death. But the director, Dror Zahavi, is ill served by a screenplay (by Ido Dror and Jonatan Dror) too attracted to coincidence and too repelled by the existential brink.

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Variety

Israeli helmer Dror Sahavi's well-meaning but simplistic terrorist melodrama, gingerly counterbalancing religious fanatics on either side of the Israeli-Palestinian divide, utilizes a lyrical "Romeo and Juliet"-type encounter between a reluctant suicide bomber and a Jewish escapee from Orthodox closed-mindedness to plead mutual tolerance.

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Time Out

Too on-the-nose to resonate past the end credits, this slickly produced film still deserves praise for being progressive-minded, as Tarek isn’t a hateful man but a product of his circumstances who is only trying to help his family. It’s frustrating to see such a humane movie suffer from oversimplification.

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Production Company Praxis Films, Israfilm Ltd., Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Relevant Film

Release Date Jan 29, 2010

Duration 1 h 40 m

Rating Not Rated

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Awards

Awards of the Israeli Film Academy

• 7 Nominations

Moscow International Film Festival

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

Hamburg Film Festival

• 2 Nominations

For My Father

Top Cast

Shredi Jabarin

Tarek

Hili Yalon

Keren

Shlomo Vishinsky

Katz

Khawlah Hag-Debsy

Fatma

Johnny Arbid

Abed

Shadi Fahr-Al-Din

Salim

Dina Golan

Sara

Chaim Banai

Rehavia

Oren Yadger

Shaul

Michael Moshonov

Shlomi

Amir Yerushalmi

Avinoam

Yisrael Aharoni

TV Moderator

Rozina Cambos

Zipora

Dani Israelis

Yakir

Avital Pasternak

Adina

Yussuf Abu-Warda

Salah

Adel Abou Raya

Ali

Yonatan Miller

Military Officer

Haim Zanati

GSS Investigator

Daniel Mozes

GSS Investigator

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