Hila

18.12., 19:00, With an introduction by Frank Stern and Klaus Davidowicz

A touching film about single-parent documentary filmmaker Hila and Noemi, her seven-year-old daughter. Shaul, Hila's great love, returns from abroad with his new family after years away. However, he is unaware of Noemi's existence and avoids Hila. The man's rejection and coldness lead to a deep traumatic crisis in which memories of Hila's childhood and her mother play a role. Hila's neglect of Noemi takes on particularly disturbing proportions. One trauma overlaps the other ... There is hardly an Israeli director who has embodied more impressive women than Michal Bat-Adam in all her films that have challenged conventions on and off the screen since the 1970s. ‘HILA is certainly one of her best films.’ (Jerusalem Post) (Frank Stern)