Film Programme

PINCHAS
fiction , Wed, 18:30
Israel, 2008, 32'
Director: Pini Tavger
Producer: Rafi Barbiro
Director of photography: Gonen Shahar
Writer: Pini Tavger
Composer: Sharon Shama
Editor: Shai Rododgovsky
Synopsis: Nine-year-old Pinhas comes from a Russian family. He lives with his mother, without a father or siblings. His mother barely makes a living working night shifts as a cashier at an “AM-PM” supermarket. In the afternoons, when Pinhas comes home from school, she still sleeps, and she devotes her spare time to the affair she has with a married man. On the third floor lives a religious family, Pinhas is drawn to the warmth and unity that characterize this family. there he meets a girl his age, and her older brother, who slowly introduces him to religion. The trouble begins when the two worlds – his mother and his new father figure – collide. Pinhas must choose.
Director: Pini Tavger
Born at 1978, Jerusalem, Israel. Graduate of the "Nisan Nativ Acting Studio" in Tel Aviv. Son of Russian new-comers to Israel, "Weitzman Street no.10" was his first short film, completed in 2006. Now living in Tel Aviv, Pini is a 4th year student at the Tel Aviv University Film & TV Department as well as a practicing actor (You could find him in the cast of Sweet Mud by Dror Shaul, winner of the grand jury prize in Sundance 2007), and is currently working on his graduation film.