Gershman Y
401 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

Saturday, April 25, 1998, 8:30 pm

Gershman Y
401 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

Sunday, April 26, 1998, 2:00 pm
An aggressively funny coming of age story set in a remote industrial Israeli town sometime in the future. The film centers on a teenage clairvoyant named Claire who causes strange things to happen at school and in the town. She is a beatific Russian immigrant from a family o bear-hunting psychics, and enjoys prescient powers that bring the entire town to the brink chaos.
Country: Israel
Release Date: 1996
Time: 85 minutes
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
Director: Ari Folman and Uri Sivan
Topics: Coming-of-Age, Immigrants to Israel
Guest Speaker: Ari Folman, Co-Director Ari Folman an Israeli film director, screenwriter, animator and film score composer. He is best known for directing his Oscar-nominated animated documentary film Waltz with Bashir (2008) as well as directing the live-action/animated film The Congress. Folman lives in Tel-Aviv.
 
Awards
Beat Picture and Best Actress, 1996 Israeli Academy Awards; First Prize, 1995 Haifa International Film Festival