A coming-of-age drama and debut feature for writer-director Yuval Delshad, set in a Persian immigrant moshav in the Negev during the early 1980s.
Tuesday, November 3, 20157:15 PMLaemmle Ahrya Fine Arts Movie Theater8556 Wilshire BlvdBeverly Hills, CA 90211
The Y&S Nazarian Center is proud to be a major community sponsor of the 29th Israel Film Festival and to host a special screening of the award-winning film Baba Joon.
Following the screening there will be a conversation with the writer-director Yuval Delshad, producer David Silber, and cast members Navid Negahban and David Diaan.
About the Film
The story of the struggle between generations -- the immigrant parents, holding on to the past and traditions from their home country, and the sabra (Israeli-born) children, born into a new identity and seeking a new life.
Three generations of the stubborn Morgian family struggle to manage a ramshackle turkey farm in an isolated desert community of Farsi-speakers. Yitzhak runs the turkey farm his father built with his own two hands after they emigrated from Iran to Israel. When his son Moti turns thirteen, Yitzhak teaches him the trade, hoping that he will continue the proud family tradition. But Moti doesn’t like working in the turkey barn; his passion is fixing up junkyard cars and bringing them back to life. Moti’s mother Sarah tries to reconcile between the two, while his grandfather pushes Yitzhak to take a firm hand with his son. Yitzhak takes Moti’s refusal to work in the turkey barn as a personal rejection. Though he loves his son dearly, he makes it his mission to impose the family farm on Moti. The arrival of Darius, the uncle from America, sets off a chain of events that will undermine the familial harmony. Soon enough Yitzhak will learn that his son is just as stubborn as he is. The conflict is inevitable.
Running time: 91 minutes. In Farsi and Hebrew, with English subtitles
http://www.israelfilmfestival.com/films/baba-joon/