Director: Udi Aloni
Screening time: 17.01.2016. 21:00
Screening location: MINI TEATER
Runtime: 69 min
Synopsis:
LOCAL ANGEL is not an easy film to characterize. It is a documentary about the root causes and present contradictions of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a deeply personal odyssey of discovery, and a surreal work of art combining poetry, music, and images both beautiful and horrific. While its subtitle is “Theological Political Fragments,” the film ends by tying its many elements together in ways the viewer may not expect. Moved by the destruction on Sept 11 of the World Trade Center, one of the temples of capitalism, Aloni returned to Israel to grapple with the concepts of sacrifice and the sacred embedded in the history of a much more ancient edifice - the Temple Mount, a Jewish touchstone on which now sits the Muslim Dome of the Rock. The heat of the film is in Udi’s effort to understand the theological-political background he inherited from his mother, Shulamit Aloni, founder of the Israeli Civil Rights Movement in Israel and a leading peace activist.
