FEATURE FILM
Disengagement
Ana and her Israeli half-brother Uli reconnect during their father’s funeral in Avignon. She decides to go to Israel with him to find the daughter she abandoned 20 years earlier. Together they cross borders and find themselves in the midst of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza…
NOTE
At times reminiscent of Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, Amos Gitai composes a series of scenes in movements… The director reconnects with the poetic and aesthetic experimentation of his earliest fiction films such as Berlin Jerusalem and Golem, The Spirit of Exile. This approach allows him to link an acute and unique crisis (the eviction of the illegal settlers from Gaza) with a broad reflection about great contemporary tragedies, misery and oppression, forced migrations, the collapse of community identity, and the most intimate questioning of the sense of filiation and sharing.
Jean-Michel Frodon, Amos Gitai: 5 films, CulturesFrance, 2010
FESTIVALS
• Biennale di Venezia/Mostra d’arte cinematografica 2007 – Out of competition
• Toronto International Film Festival 2007 – “Masters” Section
CREDITS
Screenplay Amos Gitai, Marie-José Sanselme
Cinematography Christian Berger
Sound Michel Kharat, Oded Ringel, Stéphane Thibaut
Music Simon Stockhausen
Editing Isabelle Ingold
Production design Eli Zion, Manu de Chauvigny, Tim Panen
Costumes Moïra Douguet
Casting Ilan Moskovitch
Cast Juliette Binoche, Liron Levo, Jeanne Moreau, Barbara Hendricks, Dana Ivgy, Hiam Abbass, Tomer Russo, Israel Katorza, Yussuf Abu Warda, Uri Klauzner, Amos Gitai
Production Agav Films, Pandora Film Produktion, Agat Films & Cie, Hamon Hafakot, R&C Produzioni, Intereurop, Arte France Cinéma
With the participation of Coca Color
Coproduction Eurimages Council of Europe, Pandora Filmproduktion, R&C Produzioni
Producer Laurent Truchot
Coproducers Tilde Corsi, Pierfrancesco Fiorenza, Christoph Friedel, Patrick Sobelman, Claudia Steffen
Line producer Gadi Levy
Associate producer Richard Lormand
Ana and her Israeli half-brother Uli reconnect during their father’s funeral in Avignon. She decides to go to Israel with him to find the daughter she abandoned 20 years earlier. Together they cross borders and find themselves in the midst of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza…
NOTE
At times reminiscent of Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, Amos Gitai composes a series of scenes in movements… The director reconnects with the poetic and aesthetic experimentation of his earliest fiction films such as Berlin Jerusalem and Golem, The Spirit of Exile. This approach allows him to link an acute and unique crisis (the eviction of the illegal settlers from Gaza) with a broad reflection about great contemporary tragedies, misery and oppression, forced migrations, the collapse of community identity, and the most intimate questioning of the sense of filiation and sharing.
Jean-Michel Frodon, Amos Gitai: 5 films, CulturesFrance, 2010
FESTIVALS
• Biennale di Venezia/Mostra d’arte cinematografica 2007 – Out of competition
• Toronto International Film Festival 2007 – “Masters” Section
CREDITS
Screenplay Amos Gitai, Marie-José Sanselme
Cinematography Christian Berger
Sound Michel Kharat, Oded Ringel, Stéphane Thibaut
Music Simon Stockhausen
Editing Isabelle Ingold
Production design Eli Zion, Manu de Chauvigny, Tim Panen
Costumes Moïra Douguet
Casting Ilan Moskovitch
Cast Juliette Binoche, Liron Levo, Jeanne Moreau, Barbara Hendricks, Dana Ivgy, Hiam Abbass, Tomer Russo, Israel Katorza, Yussuf Abu Warda, Uri Klauzner, Amos Gitai
Production Agav Films, Pandora Film Produktion, Agat Films & Cie, Hamon Hafakot, R&C Produzioni, Intereurop, Arte France Cinéma
With the participation of Coca Color
Coproduction Eurimages Council of Europe, Pandora Filmproduktion, R&C Produzioni
Producer Laurent Truchot
Coproducers Tilde Corsi, Pierfrancesco Fiorenza, Christoph Friedel, Patrick Sobelman, Claudia Steffen
Line producer Gadi Levy
Associate producer Richard Lormand
SALES / DISTRIBUTION
STUDIO CANAL
1, Place du Spectacle.
92130 Issy-Les-Moulineaux – France
+33 (0)1 71 35 35 35
AGAV FILMS
6, cour Berard. 75004 Paris – France
+33 (0)1 42 40 48 45
agav@amosgitai.com
SALES / DISTRIBUTION
STUDIO CANAL
1, Place du Spectacle.
92130 Issy-Les-Moulineaux
France
+33 (0)1 71 35 35 35
AGAV FILMS
6, cour Berard. 75004 Paris
France
+33 (0)1 42 40 48 45
