"Strikingly photographed in high contrast black-and-white, Tikkun — the title is a Hebrew word meaning fixing and rectification — is impressionistic."
Frank Scheck - The Hollywood Reporter
TFL Awards
TFL Production Award 2012 (€ 60.000)
festivals & awards
Competition, Locarno Film Festival 2015 / Silver Leopard Special Jury Award
synopsis
God’s plan for Haim-Aaron seems to end with the ascetically devout Yeshiva student dead in the shower, killed by a slip that results in a brutal blow to the head. But his father, seeing his son’s naked corpse stretched out in the family’s living room, refuses to give up when the EMTs do, and he continues performing CPR until his son — dead for 40 minutes — somehow sputters back to life. Haim-Aaron finds himself reborn and seeing the world — once an austere prison of devotion and books and head-rocking prayer — through new eyes. Almost literally, as he discovers he no longer needs his glasses. He also finds his faith shaken, his family alien and his stifled sexual desires raging. Unable to sleep Haim-Aaron begins hitchhiking from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, where he slowly dares himself to experience the sensual and carnal pleasures of the world.
info
original title
Tikkun
genre
Drama
country
Israel
running time
120’
produced by
Plan B Productions Ltd. - Israel
The Mouth Agape Production - Israel
United King Films - Israel
directed by
Avishai Sivan
sales
Bleiberg Entertainment
