Competition

GALOOT ("Exile")

Country of production: Israel, UK, Germany
Year: 2003
Language: English, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish
Mins: 100

Director: Asher de Bentolila Tlalim
Script: Asher de Bentolila Tlalim Cinematography: Asher de Bentolila Tlalim
Music: Gilad Atzmon
Editing: Ida Bregninge, Sasha Olswang Sound: Tom Tlalim
Producers: Asher de Bentolila Tlalim, Bettina Wilhelm, Uri Fruchtman
Source: Ruth Diskin
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Asher Tlalim understood his home better once he left it. When the filmmaker's wife was accepted into a Ph.D. program in London, they and their children left Israel for London. There, their exile ("galoot") introduces them to a whole new range of perspectives on their troubled homeland. Tlalim turns his camera on his family and a diverse set of new friends, including candid Palestinian exiles - one of whom lives in an apartment at #67 - and Israelis ashamed of their government's actions. Visiting once beloved family homelands in Poland, Morocco, and the Occupied Territories, GALOOT weaves a wide-ranging tapestry of tales of identity and displacement. A painfully honest and brave film, GALOOT was difficult to make: the Israeli Film Board withdrew from the film after viewing a rough cut. While GALOOT has no easy answers, it is a memorable testament to the ability of travel to broaden the mind.

Asher de Bentolila Tlalim was born in Tangiers, Morocco in 1950. He later moved to Israel. He is of the generation of Israeli filmmakers and artists profoundly shaped by the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

filmography as director
(selected)
GALOOT (2003)
HITCHHIKERS (1998)
BETWEEN THE CAROB AND THE OLIVE TREE (1998)
VIOLENCE IN ART (1995)
DON'T TOUCH MY HOLOCAUST (1994)
THE BATTLE OVER HERMON (1987)
HOLOCAUST AND REVOLT (1981)
THE DAY OF ATONEMENT WAR (1974)

Friday 02-Apr-2004 7:00 PM Gallery Theatre