Sidewalk
Directed by: Duki Dror
Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
2007 | Israel | Beta SP | Color | Sneak Preview | 57 min
Topics: Israel, Youth, Middle East Conflict, Israelis & Arabs
Part of special program Israeli Documentaries
Director in person
When does it all begin--how do we become who we become? How does it happen that we get slotted into our places in the social pecking order? How did any of us survive the tribulations of childhood? These are some of the questions that may pass through your mind as you watch Sidewalk, the latest documentary by Festival favorite Duki Dror (Taqasim, SFJFF 2003; My Fantasia, SFJFF 2005; Mr. Cortisone, Happy Days). Dror presents a simple, child's-eye view that may jog a few of your own childhood memories. Beyond that, Sidewalk is filled with marvelous observations--some wry and hilarious, others painful and poetic--as he follows kids on their daily journeys to and from school. Dror has the same wondrous gift of bittersweet nostalgia that the cartoonists Charles M. Schulz and Lynda Barry have. They all remind us that the touch of our childhood is with us--and marks us--forever.
Director will be in attendance in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Rafael.
Co-presented by the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay and by Temple Sinai of Oakland