Dad's Age

The human unconscious works unceasingly to tell artists they are immortal. that's what my father thought having me and my twin sister two months before he turned 52. He married my mother, who is 20 years younger than him, in his late 40’s and a few years later my twin sister and I were born. People are always surprise to hear we’re his first offsprings. when they ask why, I tell them what he always told me: “I never thought of having kids until I met your mother”. He was busy, broke and uncertain after starting his acting career in his late 30’s. Even though he was always healthy as a horse, I used to be mad at him for being older than most fathers and the fear of losing him was an inseparable part of my life. The fear has become tangible around his 80th birthday, when I was 29. His health quickly started to deteriorate and after 50 years of acting in hundreds of films and plays in Israel and abroad, he was forced to leave the stage. Due to his condition, my mother has became his caregiver, and I didn’t know who to worry about more - my sick aging father or my mother, who started living for two. Curious about my parents unusual life choices and overwhelmed by father’s condition, I chronicles the last four years of my father’s life - from his last day on stage to becoming invalid. “Dad’s Age” is a personal, profound and touching film dealing with old age, parenthood, love and art.