Awards: Israeli Film Academy - Best Director/Best Editing/Best Film/Best Screenplay Best Supporting Actress, Berlin International Film Festival - Don Quixote Award, Chicago International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize

This fine blend of national politics and universal emotions was last year's big winner in the Israeli version of the Academy Awards. Set in Jerusalem in 1981, it tells the tale of a woman who almost desperately wants to become a working member of a new settlement and convinces the man in charge that she will fit in. Thinking that her being a widow is working against her, Rachel (Michaela Eshet) agrees to blind dates with a truck driver and a rich cantor. Complicating matters for Rachel are her two daughters, both of them coming-of-age but each reacting differently to the political events around them. What makes Campfire particularly fascinating is the way in which Cedar wraps primetime drama in a mantle of conservative Israeli politics; he pulls you into the bigger issues by seeming to focus on a small family group. Campfire is a winner. ~ Nick Salerno.

Principal Cast: Michaela Eshet, Hani Furstenberg, Moshe Ivgy, Maya Maron, Motkeh, Oshri Cohen

Producers: David Mandil, Eyal Shiray, Dan Shiray
Cinematographer: Ofer Inov
Editor: Einat Glaser-Zarhin
Music: Ofer Shalchin

Shows: Sunday, Oct. 9 at 2:00 pm and Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 5:45 pm

Official Website: www.campfiremovie.com/eng/index2/index.htm

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