Mama,l’chaim!
Mama,l'chaim!
Both lively, funny characters, 62-year-old Chaim Lubelski lives with his 95-year-old mother in a one-bedroom apartment in a Jewish residential home for the elderly. The Holocaust is a daily presence. Screened before Europa, East.
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Full Moon
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Anna Blume
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El boxeador
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Kissing Faces
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Death of the Poet
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Videojuego
One camera angle, one situation, with a strong emotional charge. A child plays a video game while in the background his parents divvy up the…
Film details
- Countries of production
- Belgium, Germany, USA
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
