Highway 65 - KVISH HA'SARGEL

Pitch

A few months after being forced to move from Tel Aviv to the small town of Afula, Daphna, a brilliant detective, finds Orly Elimeech’s lost phone. Well-known for her ties to the powerful Golan family, this former beauty queen is nowhere to be found. While no one else seems the least worried about this disappearance, and despite the mistrust of the town who criticise her above all for being a single woman with no children, Daphna throws herself heart and soul into the search for Orly… “Highway 65 is a fine film set in a place which isn’t fine at all, with a woman who seems all right but who dresses badly… The truth is always full of contradictions, made up of a mixture of opposites… Before being a woman, Daphna is a human being. She doesn’t dress to please others, doesn’t flirt, prefers practical considerations to seduction. She is like the town of Afula : far from cliches, neither horrid nor extraordinary… A woman like any other in a strange place where she can be thought provocative through her attitude, taking no account of what other people think.” Maya Dreyfuss