THE MONKEY HOUSE
THE MONKEY HOUSE
AVI NESHER
2023
year
121
Minutes
Synopsis
Inspired by a true story: The career of Amitai Kriv, an Israeli author who’d enjoyed great success in the 1960s, has declined over the years. Now, in the late 1980s, Amitai decides to fight for his place in the annals of Israeli literature. To achieve this comeback, Amitai needs to hire a young and ambitious researcher of literature or at least someone who can pass as one. Margo, a failed actress living at her sister’s, jumps on the mysterious job offer. Thus begins the meeting of a desperate author and eccentric young woman, destined to change each other’s lives.
Producer(s) or Production Company: Moshe Edery, Leon Ederyi, Avi Nesher, David Silber, Elad Gavish
Screenplay: Avi Nesher
Director of Photography: Ziv Berkovich
Editor: Isaac Sehayek
Music: Avner Doram
Sound: Ronen Nagler
Cast: Adir Miller, Suzanna Papian, Shani Cohen, Ala Dakka, Yaniv Biton, Eran Zaracovitz, Shira Naor
Awards - Winner: N / A
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: Awards of the Israeli Film Academy (Award of the Israeli Film Academy - Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Art Direction)
Director's Biography
AVI NESHER
Avi Nesher is an Israeli Film producer, Film director, screenwriter and actor. His many award-winning films have been integral to Israeli cinema, placing him as one of Israel’s all-time greatest Filmmakers. With more than 20 feature films to his credit as director, his work has received prestigious awards and nominations at major international festivals and has won several Ophir Awards (the Israeli equivalent of the Academy Awards) over the last 30 years. Many of his most acclaimed films have premiered at the Miami Jewish Film Festival, including THE MATCHMAKER (2011), PAST LIFE (2017), THE OTHER STORY (2019), and IMAGE OF VICTORY (2021), among others.
- Asian Cinema Competition
- Chitrabharati (Indian Cinema) Competition
- Kannada Cinema Competition
- Contemporary World Cinema
- Country Focus
- Critics Week
- Bio-Pics
- Kannada Cinema of Popular Entertainment
- Women Power in Filmmaking
- Unsung Incredible India - Films from little known languages
- Retrospective
- Centenary Tributes
- Homages & Remembrances
- 90 Years of Kannada Cinema and Suvarna Karnataka Sambhrama
- Curated Thematic Films on Human Rights and Values
- TEST
- 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES
- 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
- AMAL
- BANEL & ADAMA
- CITY OF WIND
- DELEGATION
- DESERTS
- DORMITORY
- ENDLESS BORDERS
- EXODUS
- FALLEN LEAVES
- FOUR DAUGHTERS
- FREMONT
- GOODBYE JULIA
- HEROIC
- HESITATION WOUND
- INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL
- JE’VIDA
- KIDNAPPED
- ME CAPTAIN
- OMEN
- SIX FEET OVER
- SLOW
- THE BURITI FLOWER
- THE DELINQUENTS
- THE MONK AND THE GUN
- THE OLD OAK
- THE RYE HORN
- THE TEACHER
- TOLL
- FOUR LITTLE ADULTS
- PARADISE IS BURNING
- DAAAAAALI!
- BLAGA’S LESSONS
- SWEET DREAMS
- MATRIA
- LET ME GO
- CLOSE YOUR EYES
- THE LAND WHERE WINDS STOOD STILL
- BONJOUR SWITZERLAND
- IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE
- ALL EARS
- A WHOLE LIFE
- WITHOUT AIR
- BROTHERS
- THE TASTE OF THINGS
- RADICAL
- ALL THE SILENCE
- YANNICK
- TEMPORARIES
- PARADISE
- ABOUT DRY GRASSES
- HOFFMAN'S FAIRY TALES
- DAMAGE
- EMBRYO LARVA BUTTERFLY
- EMPTY NETS
- THE MONKEY HOUSE
- SHIVAMMA