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Bliss

Country: Israel, Language: Hebrew, 125 mins

Original Title

Hemda
  • Director: Shemi Zarhin
  • Writer: Shemi Zarhin
  • Producer: Leon Edery, Moshe Edery

CGiii Comment

This tender observational drama explores the fragile equilibrium of an older couple's relationship as they navigate love, aging, and family obligations. Celebrated Israeli actors Sasson Gabai and Asi Levy costar as Sassi and Effi who, despite a large age gap and daily struggles—Sassi’s impotence and his son’s debts—maintain emotional balance rooted in humor and devotion. Their lives are shaken when two young men—a grandson returning from Europe and a former student of Effi’s—reopen old wounds and create new tensions. With Israeli Academy Award-nominated lead performances, director Shemi Zarhin's meditative examination of the human desire for bliss gains poignancy, as filming locations in northern Israel, including Zarhin's hometown, were ravaged in the Israel-Gaza conflict.


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Cast & Characters

Sasson Gabay (as Sassi)
Assi Levy (as Effie)
Maor Levi (as Omri)
Adi Alon
Lital Shwartz
Roy Assaf
Shadi Mar'i
Lotem Tushinsky
David Shaul
Guy Arieli
Daniel Moreshet
Noa Carmi
Amir Khoury
Ido Bartal
Itzik Cohen
Levana Finkelstein (as Levana)
Khawlah Hag-Debsy
Micki Peleg