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Sliding Flora (2004)

HEBREW TITLE

SHIBOLET BAKAFE

14

DIRECTOR

Talya Lavie

PRODUCTION

JSFS

LENGTH

12:31 Min

LANGUAGE

Hebrew

SYNOPSIS

Flora struggles to keep her job at a cafe in which the waitresses need to slide down without dropping the dishes. The film was shot in the sculpture garden 'The Golem' by artist Niki de Saint Phalle in Jerusalem.

DIRECTOR'S BIO

Talya Lavie (b. 1978) is a leading Israeli filmmaker. Her debut feature Zero Motivation premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and won the Best Film Award and the best femme-centric Nora Ephron Prize. Zero Motivation was released in Israel in 2014 and broke the box-office records, in addition to winning 6 Israeli Academy Awards. Lavie’s second feature Honeymood, will be released in 2020. Lavie teaches at the JSFS.

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