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Turn Left At the End of the World
Israel , France / 2004 / 108min / 35mm / Colour
Original Title : Haolam Smola Language: Hebrew/English/French/Moroccan
Genre: Drama
Director: Avi Nesher
Producer:
Screenwriter: Avi Nesher, Sara Ezer, Rubi Perat Shoval
Cinematographer: David Gurfinkel
Editor: Isaac Sehayek
Art Director: Toram Shayer
Sound: Stephane De Rocquigny
Music: Krihna Levi
Cast: Aure Atika, Jean Benguicui, Linaz Channi, Netta Garti, Parmeet Sethi, Kruttika Desai
Synopsis: In the late 1960s, in a tiny Israeli village isolated, two immigrant families from Morocco and India become neighbours. They share nothing but a dream. And as they are forced to live together, the two communities attempt to build a sense of identity.In order to assert their imperial identity, the Indians from the village put together a rag tag cricket team.The Moroccans, who take the game as a ritualistic act of condensation, do their utmost to disrupt it. Meanwhile, each family has a teenage dauther negotiating the landscape of the sexual revolutuion. When the sultry Moroccan Nicol and the heady Indian Sara Become friends, their youth and desire for freedom help them overcome prejudices. In this isolated place, the road to harmony twists with many surprises.
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