Israeli film wins at Chicago film fest

The 2010 Chicago International Film Festival awarded a Silver Plaque to Israeli filmmaker Avi Nesher for his entry The Matchmaker.

“Silver Plaque to The Matchmaker (Israel) for the lighthearted but touching way it describes a coming of age in an Israel torn between memory & desire.”

Set in Haifa during the 2006 Second Lebanon War, the protagonist Arik recalls his own emergence (and that of the State of Israel) in 1968 following the Six-Day War as he befriends a Holocaust survivor Yankele, masterfully played by Ophir Award Winner Adir Miller.

Second City Tzivi provides a review here.