Amazing Grace

While dying from AIDS, Amos Guttman took the knowledge from the perspective one gains when life won't develop as expected, to think about what human existence really means. The beauty can be found in the everyday – unexpected twists and turns included. 

Amazing Grace is the tale of two gay Israeli men and their families against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis. Jonathan is once again alone after leaving his older lover who enjoys playing around a bit too much. Thomas, the son of his neighbours, a loner, has returned from New York where he was trying to 'make it' as a musician, but instead picked up an all consuming addiction.

Jonathan falls for Thomas and around them their families play out their separate but connected trials of ordinary life: Jonathan's family wonders what future awaits the young lad and Thomas' grandmother hates growing old. 

Thanks to Guttman's fabulous sense of colours and light, the ordinary, which can so easily turn drab and dour is, again and again, revealed as a sphere of wonder and forgiveness

– Olaf Möller