UK Jewish Film Festival 2014 Magic Men

A moving and beautifully shot father-and-son road trip movie from the director of hit Israeli comedy A Matter of Size.

Dispatched by his boss to an obscure town twinning ceremony in Greece, Avraham is confronted by his own buried past as a young Greek Jewish boy hidden during the Second World War by a local magician. Avraham’s Hassidic rapster son is sent to keep an eye on him and the poisonous cocktail of their difficult and estranged relationship make for an explosive journey with some surprising and often amusing twists and encounters.

Nativ and Tadmor’s thoughtful film is an ambitious and poignant portrait of family relationships, the divide between religious and secular and the coming together of cultures.

Dirs. Erez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv, Israel 2014, Hebrew with English subtitles, 100m.