Won Best Israeli Film award. Scene from "Campfire"
Acclaimed local film set for U.S. release
“Campfire” depicts struggles of 42 year-old widow who wants to join founding group of new religious West Bank settlement following peace agreement with Egypt
“Campfire,” the award-winning film by New York-born director Joseph Cedar, is scheduled for U.S. commercial release in September.
The film (titled Medurat Hashevet in Hebrew), which won a Special Mention at the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival and five Israeli Academy awards, including Best Film honors, is scheduled to be screened initially in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles, and later in San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Boston as well.
Distribution contracts have also been signed with distributors in France, Canada, Mexico, Scandinavia, Greece, Turkey, and Brazil.
“Campfire,” starring Michaela Eshet, Hani Furstenberg, and Moshe Ivgy, is set in 1981, shortly after the peace treaty with Egypt and Israel’s subsequent withdrawal from the Sinai desert.
The film depicts the trials and tribulations of a 42 year-old widow and mother of two beautiful teenage daughters, who wants to join the founding group of a new religious settlement in the West Bank.
However, the settlement’s acceptance committee refuses to admit her unless she remarries and proves that she and her daughters can meet the group’s religious and ideological standards.
