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Visually iridescent and unexpectedly uplifting, America is the hotly anticipated award-winning film from The Cakemaker director Ofir Raul Graizer. Sincerely felt to the last with vibrant production design reminiscent of the best in Pedro Almodovar’s established oeuvre, the film follows a Chicago-based swimming coach who is unexpectedly forced to return to his native Israel after his father’s death. After contacting an old friend he hasn’t seen in 10 years – as well as meeting his fiancée – an incident soon occurs that creates a seismic shift in the lives of each of them. A summery melodrama, bright and verdant and attuned to the languor of the Middle East heat, America has a novelistic sprawl and an intimate bent as it carefully unfolds the three well-drawn characters in beautifully captured chapters. Winner of the Best Actress Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival, this sensual cinematic and cinephile experience is a work of true magic, all built with love and redeemed by love. To learn more about
