Decompression

One night my mother woke me up in a hurry shouting: "Come quick! Dad is in a hypoglycemic state!" Actually, he was jumping on the sofa completely naked while miming his lips like a fish. I grabbed the honey jar and charged into battle. I managed to feed the old crazy bastard, not before he bit my leg. After he regained his wit, he calmly started lecturing me about how smart he was never to use hard drugs. "Imagine what I would do to you then", he said.
My late brilliant and amazing father was born in a cold sepulture in occupied France, where he spent the first years of his life. This forever damaged his heart but gave him lust for life and an atheist, existential, humanist view of the world. As a holocaust survivor he was always extremely sensitive to racism or prejudice. The film’s tone is inspired from the perception and ideology he taught me: be nice to others, smile when happy, cry when sad and always remember: in the end, the most important thing in the world is to always know where the closest toilette is.
The film deals with Albert's post-trauma from the Yom Kippur War. My military service was rough and difficult and left a big mark on me. For years I suffered from a post Trauma and Albert's character represents the person I fear to become.
This is not the first time I have dealt with that issue. If in my first feature THE DIVE I tried to explain to parents their son's post-trauma, then here I am focusing on their father’s post-trauma, and in a way am trying to help the children understand what happened to their parents.
In the kibbutz where I grew up, I saw the pain and distress of the older men (parents of friends) who were in the Yom Kippur War; and in this film I seek to illuminate the post-trauma of a generation that has hardly ever been treated. Tens of thousands of such households are scattered throughout the country (and in many others countries), and I believe in the film's ability to spark an important discussion and, hopefully, also help many of them.

My mother never converted to Judaism. And therefore, I am sensitive to the issue of racism towards the not Jewish in Israel.
In the script, I aim for a slow and strange road movie through the forgotten periphery. In this journey I try to show a divided country, full of stereotypes and prejudices.
It is important for me to make it clear to the reader that throughout the script I break down the stereotypes one by one. Whether it is Naomi who turns out to be the most courageous of them all together, Lena (the Russian woman) who is looking for a job or the scary Palestinian Said who turns out to be a thoughtful existentialist. Consistently and on purpose, each time I start with a cliché or stereotype and then break it down to pieces.
In summary, I want to create a colorful, almost surrealistic and absurd Road movie. A movie about a post-traumatic father and his son who are given one last chance to bury the hatchet, through a slow journey in a country suffering from racism, schism and post-trauma. I had a father who gave me so much. The least I can do for him- is this movie.