My Beloved Country
Israeli Figures • 1h 22m
A literary-documentary journey into Block 461 in Ma'alot. The film presents cooperation and confrontation between documentary expression and the literary text written by the novelist Sara Shilo.
Year: 2017
Languages: Hebrew, Arabic, Russian & Hindi, English subtitles
Directors: Yael Kipper, Ronen Zaretzky
Producers: Yael Kipper, Ronen Zaretzky
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