For My Father
Israeli filmmaker Dror Zahavi takes a familiar genre - a romantic drama in which a Palestinian and Israeli fall in love - and turns it inside out.
In this compelling thriller, Terek, a would-be Palestinian suicide bomber who infiltrates Israel wearing a belt packed with explosives, is given a second chance when the fuse on his explosive vest fails to detonate.
Forced to spend the weekend in Tel Aviv awaiting its repair, Terek must live amongst the people he was planning to kill. To his surprise, he is befriended by several Israelis on the outskirts of mainstream society, including the attractive Keren, who is estranged from her ultra-Orthodox family.
With nothing to lose, Terek and Keren open up to one another, and an unlikely love blooms between two isolated individuals raised to be enemies.
However, with the deadly load of explosives still strapped to him, he must spend 48 hours in the city, caught between the men that sent him (and can remotely blow up the bomb by cellular phone), the ever-alert Israeli police patrolling the streets and his new-found companions.
