Aviva My Love

Aviva My Love

A Film by: Shemi Zarhin
(Israel, 2006, 107 Minutes, Color, Hebrew, English Subtitles, Cast: Asi Levi, Rotem Abuhab, Levana Finkelstein, Dror Keren)

Between struggling to keep up with orders in the kitchen, tending to the quirky wrongdoings of her three children, and acknowledging the multiple suicide threats made by her unstable mother, aspiring writer Aviva Cohen barely has enough time to take the cap off of her pen—much less put  that pen to paper and get her stories published. When Aviva’s successful sister Anita introduces her star-struck sibling to famous author Oded Zar, it appears as if things may be finally turning around for the hapless literary wannabe. Unfortunately for Aviva, Oded is suffering from a bad case of writer’s block. Soon after accepting Oded’s offer to serve as her personal writing tutor, Aviva begins to realize that the man whom she once idolized and who deviously assumed the guise of benevolent mentor is little more than a creatively devoid plagiarist.

FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
• Winner of six Israeli Academy Awards, 2006
• Chicago International Film Festival - Plaque Award 
• Jerusalem Film festival - Wolgin Award
• Shanghai International Film Festival - Golden Goblet Award
• San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
• Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
• Palm Springs International Film Festival
• UK Jewish Film Festival
• New Jersey Jewish Film Festival
• Contra Costa International Film Festival
• San Diego Jewish Film Festival
• Hartford Jewish Film Festival
• Washington Jewish Film Festival
• Tampa Bay Jewish Film Festival
• Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival
• Tucson Jewish Film Festival
• Melbourne International Arts Festival
• Virginia Festival of Jewish Film
• Seattle Jewish Film Festival
• Philadelphia Israeli Film Festival
• Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival
• Pacific Jewish Film Festival
• Toronto Jewish Film Festival
• San Jose Jewish Film Festival
• Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival
• Durban International Film Festival
• Portland Jewish Film Festival
• New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival
• Boston Jewish Film Festival
• Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival
• The JCC in Manhattan
• Paranoia Film Festival
• Brattleboro Jewish Film Festival
• Nashville Jewish Film Festival
• Stamford JCC
• Dayton Jewish Film Festival
• The Israel Film Center NYC
• Ottawa Israeli Film Festival
• Mexico Jewish Film Festival
• JCC of Rhode Island
• Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando
• Chizuk Amuno Congregation, Baltimore
• Florence JFF 2014
• IAC LA 2019
• BetAM Shalom of White Plains NY 2019
• Arizona State University 2019