ENDEARING! UNIQUE!
Another triumph for Israel, strongly represented on the Croisette this year. ~Variety Cannes Film Festival:
2007 Won Golden Camera: Etgar Keret, Shira Geffen
2007 SACD Screenwriting Award: Etgar Keret, Shira Geffen+Poignant, often witty and exceedingly cinematic, JELLYFISH (MEDUZOT), tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a bride who breaks her leg escaping a locked toilet stall, ruining her chance at a dream Caribbean honeymoon. And attending the event with an employer is Joy, a non Hebrew-speaking domestic worker who has guiltily left her son behind in her native Philippines.
As this distaff trio separately wends their way through Israel’s most cosmopolitan city, they struggle with issues of communication, affection and destiny—but at times find uneasy refuge in its tranquil seas. Directors: Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret
Writer: Shira Geffen+Cast:
Sarah Adler... Batya
Tsipor Aizen... Tamar
Bruria Albek... Relly
Ilanit Ben-Yaakov... Galia
Assi Dayan... Eldad
Ma-nenita De Latorre
Miri Fabian... Nili
Shosha Goren... Tikva
Tzahi Grad... Police Man
Johnathan Gurfinkel... Amir
Amir Harel... Doctor
Tami Harel... Nurse
Zaharira Harifai... Malka
Yitzhak Hizkiya... Eytan
Dror Keren... Taxi-Driver
Etgar Keret... Manager
Noa Knoller... Keren
Nicole Leidman... Girl
Naama Nisim... Neomi
Gera Sandler... Michael
Shalom Shmuelov... Menachem
Amos Shoov... Eyal
Yali Sobol... Amir
Liron Vaisman... Shiri"
