Also known as “Sweet Mud”
Excerpt from Sundance Review by Kim Voynar:
It’s 1974 and Dvir, just about to turn twelve and entering his Bar Mitzvah year, lives on a Kibbutz in Israel with his mother and older brother. His father died some years earlier, but no one will tell Dvir anything other than that it was an accident. Dvir’s mother, Miri, is fragile and mentally unstable, and Dvir does his best to look out for her during the limited time each day he’s allowed to spend with her. We learn early on that Miri spent time in a sanatorium following her husband’s death, and she’s clearly never fully recovered. While in the sanatorium, she was taking a walk on the beach when she met a man named Stephan -the one-time Swiss Judo Champion- with whom she has maintained a correspondence through the years. Now Stephan is coming to the Kibbutz to visit Miri (this being a Kibbutz, though, she has to ask permission of the entire group just to have her boyfriend come out for a couple weeks). Stephan comes, and Dvir, resentful at first, soon learns to love Stephan for how kind he is to Miri and himself. He wants Stephan to stay forever and be his mother’s savior, but when Stephan breaks the arm of another adult Kibbutz member while defending Dvir from the man, the Kibbutz votes to kick Stephan out. Dvir begs his mother for them to leave with Stephan for Switzerland, but Miri steadfastly refuses to leave the Kibbutz. Meanwhile, as Dvir tries to cope with his mother’s increasing instability, he’s also struggling with feeling the first stirrings of adolescent lust for Maya, a lonely French girl who’s recently moved to the Kibbutz.
Kibbutzim, which began in earlier forms in response to oppression of the Jewish population in Russia, was flourishing as a social system in the 1970′s in Israel. The kibbutzim were founded on principles of socialist equality — each person giving as much as he or she was able, and taking only what he or she needed. The members of the kibbutz provided everything the kibbutz needed to survive as a whole, and in return the kibbutz as a whole took care of the individual needs of its members. Kibbutzim were seen by many as social uptopias, and many seekers, both Jewish and not, came to the various kibbutzim looking for models on which to found similar communal intentional communities.
Boy Actor(s)
Tomer Steinof (as Dvir)
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