GEI ONI Valley of Strength 2 Trailer JMT Films Distribution

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GEI ONI (Valley of Strength) • Director: Dan Wolman / Based on the novel by Shulamit Lapid / Israel 2010 • Category: Feature Film • Production: for IBA1, Channel One, Israel. • Language: Yiddish, Hebrew, Arabic. Subtitles: English / French • Length: 105 minutes • Synopsis: The story of Gei Oni is an historical epic which interweaves the story of the first wave of Jewish European migration to Palestine, at the end of the 19th century, with an unusual love story between Fania, a young Russian immigrant, and Yechiel, a native Jew. • Seventeen-year-old Fania, her baby daughter, her elderly uncle, and her emotionally impaired brother arrive at the port of Jaffa, having survived a pogrom in which all other members of their family were killed. Having no real choice, Fania marries Yechiel, a widower whose wife died of malaria, leaving him to care for their two children himself. The two set out to a small settlement near Safed, where Yechiel and a few other daring settlers are trying to cultivate the barren lands which they bought from local Arabs. Fania is burdened by a harrowing secret she is unable to share with anyone else. but unless her husband Yechiel shares her secret, their marriage cannot be consummated. • Cast: Tamar Alkan, Zion Ashkenazi, Ya'akov Bodo, Levana Finkelstein. • Festivals Awards: • Best Fiction Film Award: DIFF Delhi International Film Festival - India 2012 • Best Foreign Film Award (audience's choice): China Golden Rooster One Hundred Flowers Film Festival - China 2011 • Best Film Award: Shalom Europa film festival, Strasbourg - France 2012 • Best Film Award (Gerhard-Klein Award): Berlin Jewish Film Festival - Germany 2012 • Best Actress Award (Tamar Alkan): Association of Israeli Film Critics - Israel 2011 • Special Jury Award: MECEFF Medias Central European Film Festival - Romania 2011 • KIFF Kochi International Film Festival - India 2012 • Cinémas du Grütli, Geneva - Switzerland 2012 • Jerusalem Film Festival - Israel 2010 • Web Site: http://www.JMTFilms.com/document • CONTACT: Michael Treves - JMT Films Distribution _ [email protected]

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