Ha'Ulpan
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David Ofek
Idan Einav
Sari Ezouz
Sari Ezouz
Edna Kowarsky
Elinor Kowarsky
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Chin left her daughter in China and came to Israel to make a living there. She cleaned Ehud's house, and they fell in love. Sasha never considered immigrating to Israel. But four years after his wife left Russia with their daughter, he understood that life without his child would be worthless. He abandoned a thriving business, only to find himself in Tel Aviv's worst neighborhood. Marisol grew up as a Jewish princess in Lima, Peru and came to Israel to learn something about life. An unplanned pregnancy alters her plans. These and other characters meet in a Hebrew language Ulpan, where their personal stories melt with the complexities of Israeli reality. The immense effort of learning a new language is revealed through their encounter with a strange culture and an unfamiliar environment. Israeli society is revealed through the foreigner's eyes. This gaze--at times funny, at times sad--paints daily reality with irony. But beyond the obvious differences, the human common denominator of longing and love triumphs time and again.
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Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Images From a Region) January 24-February 4, 2007.
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dialogue Hebrew, Mandarin, Russian, German, Spanish and English
