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  • Blue Moon
  • As Silence Passes By
  • Another Simple Favor
  • Miles in Bello: Juan Bernier en la guerra de los españoles
  • Sirens Call
  • Skinny Love
  • Warm Film
  • Straight on Till Morning
  • There's a Zombie Outside
  • Twinless
  • Settle Down
  • Parenting (The)
  • Summer’s Camera
  • Toxico
  • Night Like This (A)
  • Drip Like Coffee
  • Clown in a Cornfield
  • Shrinking
  • One Day
  • Freaky Tales
  • Mea Culpa
  • Departures
  • Fatherhood
  • Lucky, Apartment
  • Manok
  • To Our Friends
  • Body to Live In (A)
  • Few Feet Away (A)
  • Truth or Dare
  • Where You Find Me
  • How to Live
  • Janine Moves to the Country
  • Ice Tower (The)
  • Houses
  • Hot Milk
  • Habibi, Song for my friends
  • Four Mothers
  • No Beast. So Fierce
  • Night Stage
  • Nature of Invisible Things (The)

Leave of Absence

Country: Israel, Language: Hebrew, 19 mins

Original Title

Shabaton
  • Director: Moshe Rosenthal
  • Writer: Moshe Rosenthal
  • Producer: Mika Timor

CGiii Comment

So much left unsaid...the subtext is deafening.

This is a beautiful film about a last hooray...and, regret. Moshe Rosenthal leaves so much to think about.

Stunning!


Watch...

Leave Of Absence - 2016 - שבתון from Daniel Miller on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

Before another stressful family dinner, Meir decides to escape. The middle-aged teacher unexpectedly finds what he needed when a chance encounter with former students plunges him into a night of pure rebellious energy.

Cast & Characters

Uri Klauzner as Meir;
Yoav Rotman;
Chen Hefetz;
Ben Heine