Free Zone (Ezor Hofshi). DVD. PAL. The best female actor award of Cannes 2005.

Available in PAL (Europe) system ONLY

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This film was awarded best female actor for the Cannes Film Festival 2005.

Israel (2005)

Length: 90 Min.

Genre: Drama

Director: Amos Gitai

Starring: Nathalie Portman, Hanna Lalso, Hiam Abass, Aki Avni, Carmen Maura

Language: English, Hebrew

Subtitles: English, French, Hebrew

Sound: 5.1

Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large sum of money.

"Three women -- an American, an Israeli and a Palestinian -- become temporary traveling companions in a remote area of Jordan in "Free Zone," Amos Gitai's most satisfying pic since war drama "Kippur" (2000). Schematic set-up is given a human face by fine performances and a physical journey that's often more interesting than the characters' emotional ones, which are weakened by the Israeli auteur's tendency toward convenient doctrinaire-ism and chunks of expository dialogue."

Derek Elley

"The film is as simple as it is effective. (...) Women are both central and powerless here, victims yet perpetrators. They are conflicted as the region itself, carrying the pain and complexities of life in the Middle East within them. But they also carry a willingness to go beyond these struggles, to find some kind of common ground, and this is the space rendered in Free Zone. Gitai's camera is as marvellous as usual, a silent observer of people and landscapes, and his actors are exemplary- immediate and present - crafting characters defined pointedly against each other and the territory that delineates and traps them."
Piers Handling, Toronto International Film Festival 2005

 
Festivals
Cannes: Festival de Cannes 2005 - Official selection, in competition. Hanna Laslo, Best Actress
Toronto International Film Festival 2005 - Programme "Masters"
Valladolid : Semana Internacional de Cine 2005