Campfire (film)

Campfire
Film poster
Hebrewמדורת השבט
Directed byJoseph Cedar
Written byJoseph Cedar
Produced byDavid Mandil
Eyal Shiray
StarringMichaela Eshet
Hani Furstenberg
Moshe Ivgy
Maya Maron
CinematographyOfer Inov
Edited byEinat Glaser-Zarhin
Music byOfer Shalhin
Distributed byFilm Movement
Release dates
  • February 2004 (2004-02) (Berlin)
  • 9 September 2005 (2005-09-09)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryIsrael
LanguagesHebrew
English
Box office$34,835 (U.S. domestic)[1]

Campfire (Hebrew: מדורת השבט, romanized: Medurat Ha-Shevet, lit. 'Tribal Campfire') is a 2004 Israeli film written and directed by Joseph Cedar. Set in 1981, the film focuses on a woman seeking to join an Israeli settlement on the West Bank, despite the protests of her teenage daughters.[2]

The film premiered at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2004.[3] The film won five Israeli Academy Awards and was Israel's official submission for the 77th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category (but did not get a nomination). The film was well received in Israel, the United States, and in international film festivals.[4]

Synopsis

The story of a young widow, mother of two beautiful teenage daughters, who wants to join the founding group of a new settlement of religious Jews in the West Bank, but first must convince the acceptance committee that she is worthy. Things get complicated when the younger daughter is sexually abused by boys from her youth movement.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Campfire (2005)." Box Office Mojo. 1 June 2016.
  2. ^ Stephen Holden (September 9, 2005). "A Time of Tangled Transition in Israel, and in a Family". The New York Times. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  3. ^ Edwards, Russell (February 17, 2004). "Campire". Variety. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
  4. ^ Tugend, Tom. "Religious Tensions Spark ‘Campfire.’" Jewish Journal. 4 November 2004. 31 May 2016.


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