AMERICA

By Ofir Raul GRAIZER

BETA CINEMA - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2022

When a swimming coach from Chicago returns to Israel after 10 years of absence, a visit to a childhood friend and his fiancée will set a series of events in motion that will affect everyone’s lives.

Festivals
& Awards

Karlovy Vary IFF 2022
Official Selection - Competition
American Film Market (AFM) 2022
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • CZECH REPUBLIC, GERMANY, ISRAEL
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, HEBREW
    • Duration
    • 127 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ofir Raul GRAIZER
    • Producer(s)
    • Itai TAMIR (Laila Films), Marcos KANTIS (Schiwago), Jan MACOLA (Mimesis Film)
    • Synopsis
    • Eli is an Israeli swimming coach living in the United States. A phone call notifies him that his father, who he hasn’t been in touch with, passed away. Eli reluctantly travels to Tel Aviv for the first time in 10 years to deal with the estate. On his short trip he decides to visit his childhood friend, Yotam. Yotam is running a small and beautiful flower shop in Jaffa, together with his fiancée Iris, a talented florist who, like Eli, is not in touch with her family. When Eli comes to visit the two, he will set in motion a serious of events that will affect everyone’s lives. A story set between a flower shop and an ancient monastery, between a swimming pool and the Mediterranean, between life and death - and somewhere in the middle.