Israel / 2011 / 103 mins / Dir. Joseph Cedar
Language: Hebrew (with English subtitles)
Cast: Shlomo Bar-Aba, Lior Ashkenazi and Aliza Rosen

Fresh from its Cannes prize-winning premiere comes the latest film by acclaimed director and writer Joseph Cedar (Beaufort, Time Of Favor).

Cantankerous professor Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar-Aba) is a Talmudic scholar, who has laboured for years in relative obscurity, whereas his ambitious son, Uziel (Lior Ashkenazi) has far greater success. When a bureaucratic mishap leads to Eliezer being informed he has won a prestigious prize that was in fact intended for his son, the old man’s vanity and resentment explode to the surface.