Private Project

Shockwaves

While the kids in her class went to the local country club, she went to swim with the amputees. Her “vacation resort” was full of handicapped people in wheelchairs and it didn’t seem to bother her at all. On the contrary, she was fascinated by them. How do they struggle to live every day life while carrying in their bodies and souls the burden of war and terror attacks. What's happening to their families, whose worlds were suddenly turned upside down and since then they are forced to deal with a new and complex life they didn't choose.
3 stories about 3 families from a curios child point of view who's trying to explore how far and deep the shock waves are travelling. This child grew up to be, the film's director, a daughter of an I.D.F injured veteran.

  • Kineret Hay Gillor
    Director
    How much love , All That remains
  • Kineret Hay Gillor
    Producer
    All That Remains
  • Yaniv Raiz Sheffy
    Edit
  • Jonathan Bar Giora
    Original music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Galey Hadef
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Television
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 9 minutes 53 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 5, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    Israel
  • Country of Filming:
    Israel
  • Language:
    Hebrew, Russian
  • Shooting Format:
    HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • The Jewish Film Festival Jerusalem
    jerusalem
    Israel
    preview
  • The Jewish women film featival
    New York
    United States
  • Picture That Film Festival
    Calgary
    Canada
  • Theatrical screenings around Israel at cinematheques
    Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Dimona, Rosh Pina,
    Israel
  • Maine Jewish Film Festival
    Maine
    United States
    March 11, 2019
Distribution Information
  • Go2films - Hedva Goldshmidt
    Country: Israel
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Kineret Hay Gillor

Born in Israel in 1979. She graduated from 'The Sam Spiegel Film and Television School' in Jerusalem, where she was the recipient of several achievement awards. "How Much Love" her first feature length documentary as a director, has been broadcast on Israeli TV and screened at lots of film festivals in the world. It won Best Director prize and an Honourable Mention. "All that Remains" her second film as a director, was also participated in numerous film festivals and "Shock waves" it's her third film. She is currently working on a new documentary "The Hugers".

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Director Statement

We all hurt when we hear about a terrorist attack or a military campaign in which casualties are involved. We weep for the dead, we are shocked to hear how many people
were wounded and then we generally get on with our lives. But the wounded victims’ are left with the challenges, as are their entire families, whose world is turned upside
down in an instant and they are forced to deal with a new and complex life. My father is handicapped and “Beit Halochem” was my ‘second home’. It took me a while to
realize that what I deem natural and ordinary is generally hidden from the public, the pain and hardship is not discussed, only the act of heroism.
I decide to return to the place where I ‘grew up’, the place where war is fought on a daily basis by the handicapped to live as normal a life as possible and just as important,
where the families struggle to get used to a life that is unlike the one they dreamed about and knew. How does this experience impact their personalities and how does it affect
their relationships? Something in the naïve perspective is undoubtedly shattered and how does one go on?
“Shockwaves” is not a gloomy, depressing film. It is a combination of two extremes. On the one hand it brings to the screen the anguish and insufferable pain which the
handicapped and their loved ones must confront and on the other, the hope and strength that fuel them on.
The handicapped victims are not lifeless, predictable or “righteous”, on the contrary. Some feel that they are allowed to think, say and do what others may not.