Original title: Balada L'aviv Ha'bocha.
Benny Toraty, Israel, 2012, 105 min.
Synopsis:
Yosef Tawila, a member of a band of musicians, is involved in a car accident on the opening night of 'The Ballad of Weeping Springtime'. Tawila survives the accident with his best friend and his lover, but two members of the band are killed. The protagonist is tried and sentenced to several years in prison. The story opens 20 years later with the arrival of his best friend's son, Avram Mufradi, who brings him the bad news that his father is suffering from lung cancer. He gives her the notes of the symphony they composed together but never performed. Tawila then embarks on a journey into the past and attempts to assemble a unique group of musicians to grant his friend's last wish before he dies.
Israeli film series 'Stories of Life'.
This January, 'Tuesday Cinema' invites us on a journey through Israeli cinema in recent years. The Fundación Tres Culturas, in collaboration with the Embassy of Israel in Spain, will screen a series of feature films that have won awards at the world's most prestigious film festivals, which have aroused enormous curiosity among international audiences. Israeli cinema has a great diversity of themes, a wide production of dramas, comedies, documentaries and short films, and a quality that is internationally recognised. Many Israeli films deal courageously with issues such as multiculturalism, politics, the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, among others. Israeli cinema has its own voice and its own vision, recognising the other, the different, and giving its narrative a more personal vision where the filmmakers bring us closer to their most personal and intimate stories.
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