THE KIND WORDS

Shemi Zarhin

Canada/Israel | V.O. Hebrew/French | ST French | 2015 | 118 min | DCP | color | Fiction | Quebec Premiere

Three siblings joined by the death of their mother, and a revelation about the identity of their "real" father, who to their shock and chagrin may have been an Algerian Muslim. They set off on a quirky journey from Israel through Paris and Marseille, but ultimately into the past, and their own confusing selves. GPHQ

Distribution
Director Shemi Zarhin
Music Daniel Scott
Cinematographer Ronald Plante
Screenplay Shemi Zarhin
Cast Rotem Zissman-Cohen, Roy Assaf, Assaf Ben-Shimon, Tsahi Halevi, Florence Bloch, Louise Portal
Production AMÉRIQUE FILM, PIE FILMS, UNITED KING FILMS
Distribution AXIA FILMS

Biographie

Shemi Zarhin

Shemi Zarhin is an award-winning director, screenwriter and novelist who won the prestigious Landau Prize in 2009. He has directed dozens of commercials and television shows, worked as a script editor and consultant for numerous film projects and has written articles and reviews for the Israeli newspapers. He teaches directing at the Sam Spiegel School in Jerusalem.