Zion and His Brother | |
Director: | Eran Merav |
Producer: | Assaf Amir Charles Gillibert Marin Karmitz Nathanaƫl Karmitz Talia Kleinhendler Thomas Springer Helmut Weber |
Starring: | Reuven Badalov Ronit Elkabetz |
Music: | Blake Williams Mary Lago Williams |
Cinematography: | Itzik Portal |
Studio: | EZ Films K5 Film United Channel Movies |
Distributor: | Regent Releasing Cinemax MK2 Diffusion |
Runtime: | 84 minutes |
Country: | Israel France |
Language: | Hebrew |
Zion and His Brother is a 2009 French-Israeli drama film starring Reuven Badalov and Ronit Elkabetz. The film, written and directed by Eran Merav, premiered on 17 January 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival.
Amidst the circumstances of an absent father and a single mother busy making ends meet and satisfying her boyfriend, the oldest son Meir takes care of his younger brother, Zion and they evidently have an inseparable powerful bond. Meirs is there to handle the situation when Zion confesses that a schoolmate has stolen his soccer sneakers. Yet things unravel when the thief seeks a reprisal, and soon Zion understands he is complicit in a secret only he and Meir share. This pressure and Meir's clashes with their mother's boyfriend leave the fraternal allegiance in disarray.[1]
Ghent International Film Festival