LET’S ASSUME, FOR A MOMENT, THAT GOD EXISTS

direction: Ram Loevy

70 minutes

Tuesday, 20.5.

19:30

KINO TUŠKANAC

This documentary treats reality as somewhat more than what we see and hear. An Arab shepherd and his wife are leading a flock of sheep down the hillside into the Israeli city of Ramat Gan. Scenes like this were common here, before the Nakba in 1948 (the flight and the expulsion of the local Arab population). Now they are an attraction. The film focuses on the day-to-day life of owners of tiny shops and their customers, of people celebrating in the city square, and of yet others talking on their cellphones in the street. But the film will some- times dare to reconstruct also their innermost memories, aspirations, and anxieties. Toward the end of the film, a man in a grey coat uses his cellphone to speak with his father in a nursing home: “But when you left Buchenwald you said that the God of Israel Himself slaughtered six million Jews! That filthy German with the little moustache was only His mess- enger! Well, there are six million Jews living in Israel now. Is God counting us again?”

NAGRADE | AWARDS
This film wasnominated for the Best Israeli Documentary film at Doc Aviv, Tel Aviv 2013 and Ram Loevy also received the Life time Achievement Award of the Israeli Film Academy