THE WORLD IS FUNNY

HAOLAM MATSHIK

By Shemi ZARHIN

PIE FILMS - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2011

This is an Israeli story as you have never seen before, far away from the politics and news headlines.

Festivals
& Awards

Chicago IFF 2012
International Film Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2011
    • Genres
    • Drama, Comedy
    • Countries
    • ISRAEL
    • Languages
    • HEBREW
    • Duration
    • 120 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Shemi ZARHIN
    • Writer(s)
    • Shemi ZARHIN
    • Producer(s)
    • Talia KLEINHANDLER (Pie films)
    • Synopsis
    • In a small town in the north of Israel a young man wakes up from a coma after 8 years to discover he is no longer a boy, a woman discovers she is pregnant and does not know how? A radio DJ tries to save his dying lover by making her laugh, and a young writer searches for an ending to stories that only have beginnings. They and 50 other characters come to life in THE WORLD IS FUNNY.
      Between the secrets of their past and their longing for a better future their stories enfold to the moving and funny tale of one family