Director: Samuel Maoz
Script: Samuel Maoz
Cinematographer: Giora Bejach
Editing: Arik Lahav Leibovich Guy Nemesh
Sound: Alex Claude, Samuel Cohen, Ansgar Frerich
Music: Ophir Leibovich, Amit Poznanky
Cast: Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonathan Shiray, Shira Haas, Karin Ugowski
Production: Pola Pandor, Spiro Films, A.S.A.P. films, KNM, Arte France Cinéma
Distribution:
Sophie Dulac Distribution
60 rue Pierre Charron
75 008 Paris
Tel: 0033 1 44 43 46 00
fax: 00331 47 23 08 02
[email protected]
www.sddistribution.fr
Year: 2017
Screening: 2019
DCP, Color, 113 min
O.V. Hebrew, German, Arabian with French Subtitles
Silver Lion Award Venise Film Festival 2017
Michael and Dafna who have been married for 30 years enjoy a happy life in Tel Aviv. Their eldest son, Yonatan, is doing his military service at a border checkpoint in the middle of the desert. One morning, soldiers ring at the door of the family home. The shocking news will awaken for Michael a deep wound which has always been buried deep down within him. Their marriage is shaken. The masks fall apart.
“This film is a tragedy inspired by Greek tragedies: characters who dig their own graves, who are moving towards a foretold death, trapped by their own self-deception. It is also that of Israeli society as a whole, incapable of ridding itself of the weight of the past which contaminates its present more than ever. What I am trying to show in Foxtrot is that fate itself is determined by how society conditions each citizen.” Samuel Maoz