Agenda

The matchmaker

Movie Nights at the Jewish quarter

Thursday, July 4,

Call de Girona

The matchmaker
Israel, 2010
Director: Avi Nesher
Duration: 118 min.
Genre: drama
V.O.S.C.

Arik, a teenager growing up in Haifa in 1968, lands a summer job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankeleh, a mysterious Holocaust survivor , has an office in the back of a movie theater in the seedy area of the city near the port.

While working with Yankeleh Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart. At the same time he finds himself falling in love with Tamara who has just recently returned from America and is full of talk of women's rights, free love and rock 'n roll.

Awards:
Nominated for 7 Ophir Awards (Israeli Oscar)
Adir Miller - Ophir Award - Best Actor 2010
Maya Dagan - Ophir Award - Best Actor 2010

Activity in collaboration with Festival de Cinema Jueu de Barcelona.