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A Film by Michal Aviad with Ronit Elkabetz & Evgenia Dodina Contact: Ronen Ben-Tal 10 Pumbedita St., +972 54 6649771 Plan B Productions ltd. Tel Aviv 64234 Israel [email protected] Winner of the Ecumenical Prize Winner of Best Israeli Film & Best Actress Awards Berlin International Film Festival Haifa International Film Festival A film by Michal Aviad with Ronit Elkabetz & Evgenia Dodina Lo Roim Alaich Israel – Germany 2011 90 min | 35 mm | Hebrew with English subtitles Two women meet by chance and discover they were both raped by the same rapist. Individually and together they must confront the past and finally integrate the long repressed trauma into their lives. From the Press (for a full list see below): "'Invisible' is a powerful film… it puts at its front the social dimension and a view of the world… remarkable…" (Michel Ciment, France Culture, Projection Privée, 19.2.11) "Aviad's impressive 'Invisible', with outstanding performances by Evgenia Dodina and Ronit Elkabetz, is different from other films about rape….Aviad tries to do practically the hardest thing of all – shining a light on reality such that its innerness is revealed to the viewers…." (Uri Klein, Ha'aretz, 23.12.11) "Screen highlights some of the new directors...who shone in 2011: MICHAL AVIAD, DIRECTOR… Aviad’s powerful and provocative debut feature 'Invisible' is a haunting Israeli film driven by passionate and impressive performances by Ronit Elkabetz and Evgenia Dodina." (Leon Forde, Screen, 3.1.12) 1 Cast List Crew Lily – Ronit Elkabetz Director – Michal Aviad Nira – Evgenia Dodina Producer – Ronen Ben-Tal Michel – Mederic Ory Screenplay – Michal Aviad, Tal Omer Amnon – Gil Frank DOP – Guy Raz Dana – Sivan Levy Editor – Era Lapid Shir – Bar Miniely Co-producer – Gerd Haag – TAG/TRAUM Yuval – Gal Lev Associate Producer – Alexander Bohr – Taxi Driver – Miki Leon ZDF/ARTE Dr. David Giladi – Rami Baruch Sound Design – Aviv Aldema Superintendent Lahav – Shlomo Sadan Location Sound Mixer – Moti Heffetz Policeman – Itamar Malul Casting – Yael Aviv Set Design – Adi Sagi-Amar Costume Designer – Laura Sheim Make Up and Hair – Ziv Katanov Synopsis Over twenty years after Lily and Nira were raped by the same serial rapist, an unexpected encounter brings them together. Single mother Nira, a reserved television editor, comes across charismatic Lily, a left-wing activist who is helping Palestinians harvest their olives. So intense is the chance meeting, that Nira finds herself digging into her past, stirring up memories, and trying to bridge the gap between the person she once was and the person she has become. Nira becomes increasingly obsessed with her ‘mission’ to find out all she can about the rapist. She discovers that although he behaved violently towards all the women, the press named him the Polite Rapist and described him as “well-mannered” since he forced his victims to spend hours with him, talking to them and raping them in turn. Lily, bound up in a profound crisis in her marriage, tries to prevent the trauma from surfacing, but it penetrates every part of her life. Her relationships with her son, daughter and husband are strained to the limit, and Lily eventually realizes that she has no option but to confront the cracks in her life. Nira and Lily must join together. What begins as a hard yet liberating journey turns into a subtle and moving friendship: through this relationship, they will finally be able to stop feeling humiliated and guilty. They will no longer be INVISIBLE. An emotionally powerful film, INVISIBLE mixes fact with fiction using televised material and recorded testimonies of women who like Lily and Nira, have survived despite their nightmare. 2 Festivals & Awards > Winner of the Ecumenical Prize, Berlin International Film Festival (February 2011) > Winner of Best Israeli Film and Best Actress Awards, Haifa International film Festival (October 2011) > Taormina Film Festival (June 2011) > Montreal World Film Festival (August 2011) > Israel Film Festival in Moscow (September 2011) > Rio International Film Festival (October 2011) > Thessaloniki Film Festival (November 2011) > Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival (November 2011) > International Women Film festival, Rehovot – A special daylong event dedicated to Invisible: Sexual Violence in Films – Ethics and a New Cinematic Language (November 2011) > Third Eye Asian Film Festival in Mumbai (December 2011) > Kerala International Film Festival (December 2011) > Bangalore International Film Festival (December 2011) > Goteborg International Film Festival (February 2012) > Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (February 2012) Release date in Israel: 10 November 2011 Trailer: http://www.4shared.com/video/FLsPa3FJ/invsbl_trlr_4-3_WMV_6000.html 3 Biographies Director Michal Aviad Michal Aviad was born in Jerusalem to an Italian-born mother and a Hungarian-born father. After finishing high school, she studied literature, philosophy and cinema. During the 1980s she lived in San Francisco, where she started making films and became a mother. Since returning to Israel in 1991, she has continued to write, direct and produce award-winning documentary films. Her films include: Acting Our Age (1987, USA), The Women Next Door (1992, Israel), Ever Shot Anyone? (1995, Israel), Jenny & Jenny (1997, Israel), Ramleh (2001, Israel), For My Children (2002, Israel). Aviad’s films examine the complex relationships between women’s issues and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, militarism, and ethnicity. Aviad has been working on co-writing and directing Invisible since 2006. It is her first feature length fiction film. She is a faculty member at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Film and Television. Aviad shares her life with her two children and her boyfriend, in unbearably sunny Tel Aviv. Producer Ronen Ben-Tal Ronen Ben-Tal grew up in Tel Aviv, studied cinema at Tel Aviv University and has written scripts and directed short films. Ben-Tal has been soloist and songwriter for the alternative rock group Ur Kasdim since the 1980s. In 1983, he established “DB Studios”, which remains the leading music and sound post production studio in Israel, designing and editing most Israeli films. In recent years, Ben-Tal left DB Studios and today focuses on the production of films and television. Among others he produced The Bubble, directed by Eytan Fox. Ronit Elkabetz (Lily) Ronit Elkabetz is an actress, director and screenwriter. Although never formally studying acting, right from the beginning of her career, Elkabetz has played a variety of main roles and made her mark as one of the central female figures in Israeli cinema. Elkabetz has starred in many Israeli and foreign films and won recognition and awards for her achievements in Israel and Europe – among which are three Israeli Academy Awards (1994, 2001, 2007), a commendation for her contribution to Israeli cinema (2010) and the American Critics Association for best actress (2003). Elkabetz is the first Israeli actress to have won the France Culture Film Award at the Cannes Film Festival (2010). Among the films in which she has participated are: Late Wedding by Dover Koshashvili (2001), Alila by Amos Gitai (2003), Or by Keren 4 Yedaya (2004), The Band’s Visit by Eran Kolirin (2007), Zion by Joseph Dadoune (2007), Ashes and Blood by Fanny Ardant (2009), Jaffa by Keren Yedaya (2009), La Fille du RER by André Téchiné (2009), Hands Free by Brigitte Sy (2010), Turkish Head by Pascal Elbé (2010) and Mabul by Guy Nattiv (2010). Together with Shlomi Elkabetz, Ronit Elkabetz has written and directed two full-length films – To Take a Wife (2004), and The Seven Days (2008) – which gained an enthusiastic response in Israel and abroad and brought her many additional awards. Her flourishing acting career includes an appearance both in a television series and in theater. Elkabetz is currently playing the main role (Penelope) in the play Ithaque, by playwright Botho Struss, directed by Jean-Louis Martinelli, and alongside actor Charles Berling (Odysseus) at the Theater Nanterre-Amandier in Paris. Evgenia Dodina (Nira) Evgenia Dodina studied acting at the State Academy of Art in Moscow. In 1990, she emigrated from the Soviet Union to Israel and was part of the Gesher Theater from the day of its inception. Dodina played the lead in most of the plays in this theater and won enthusiastic critical praise in Israel and abroad. In 2007, she left to work with the Habima National Theater. Among her roles are: Ophelia in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Miriam in The Dreyfuss Affair, Armanda in Moliere, Aglaya in The Idiot, Jenny in Adam Resurrected, Doreen in Tartuffe, Masha in Three Sisters, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wanda-Sarah in The Slave, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Medea in Medea, Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, Anna Karenina in Anna Karenina, Rita in Little Eyolf by Ibsen, and Sarah in A Railway to Damascus by Hillel Mitelpunkt. Her roles in the plays A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Slave won Dodina the Israeli Theater Award twice in a row (2001/2002 and 2002/2003). In addition to her work in theater, Dodina has appeared on television and in many Israeli films, among them:Clara Hakedosha by Ari Folman (1996), Zirkus Palestina by Eyal Halfon (1998), Total Eclipse by Shmulik Maoz (2000), Made in Israel by Ari Folman (2001), Nina’s Tragedies by Savi Gavison (2003), and Adam Resurrected by Paul Schrader (2008). At the Warsaw International Film Festival, Dodina was awarded best actress for her main role in the filmSnow Paper (2003) by Slava and Nina Chaplin. Dodina is one of the most outstanding and respected actresses in Israel today. In 2010 she was awarded an honorary doctorate in Philosophy by Tel Aviv University. 5 About the Film Michal Aviad on the film: Many films include scenes of rape in their stories. Those scenes are often portrayed as a combination of sex and violence, two crowd pleasing elements. But the effects of rape on their victims are hidden and silenced.
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