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Yaki and Shaul are siblings and live with their parents in a city outside Tel Aviv. The father, now unemployed, is depressed and about to lose the house in which they live, thus jeopardizing certain elements of his sons’ lives that had been immutable until then: their daily routine, their neighborhood and home. Yaki is in the military, which, for young people like him, has a distinct meaning: he is now entitled to carry a gun. To preserve his house and his father’s integrity, the brothers kidnap a rich girl from Tel Aviv but pick a terrible day to demand ransom: the Shabbat. Berlin 2013.
Tom Shoval
Born in Petach Tikva, Israel, in 1981. He graduated in film studies at the Sam Spiegel School for Cinema and Television in Jerusalem. He has directed the following shorts: Van Gogh in Tel Aviv (2005), The Hungry Heart (2005), Shred of Hope (2007), That’s the Spirit (2008) and I Will Drink My Tears (2011). He also wrote the screenplay for the short Ava, in 2012. This is his first feature as a director.
