The Ritz East
125 South Second Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Sunday, March 25, 2018, 7:00 pm

General Admission: $15, Senior $13, Student $6
Eran Riklis, director of Lemon Trees, Syrian Bride and Dancing Arabs, has created a wonderful spy thriller. Set in Germany and Israel the film deals with a Mossad agent (Neta Riskin) who is sent on a mission to protect a Lebanese informer (Golshifteh Farahani) while she recovers from plastic surgery. What should be an easy assignment quickly turns into a labyrinth of espionage and intrigue inside a safe house. In the complexities of a torn world, Riklis frames a story where nothing is safe, nobody is secure and everyone is searching for shelter.
Country: Israel
Release Date: 2017
Time: 93 minutes
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Language: Hebrew, English and Arabic with English subtitle
Director: Eran Riklis
Topics: Mossad
Guest Speaker: Neta Riskin, Actress Neta Riskin is an Israeli actress. She is known for her work on Shtisel (2013), The Gordin Cell (2012), A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015), and Shelter (2017). Though she didn’t decide on a career in acting until later in life, Riskin has become an icon of Israeli acting. She starred in the psychological TV thriller “The Gordin Cell” and the movie “Shelter,” in which she plays a Mossad agent. As a “sideline” she is an accent coach, her most famous client being Natalie Portman, whom she taught to perfect her Hebrew for her role as Amos Oz’s troubled mother in “A Tale of Love and Darkness.”