Cold Frost and Sunshine
60-year-old Margherita is a lonely librarian at a high school in a rough neighborhood in Jerusalem. She has a special relationship with 17-year-old Nehorai, an abandoned student by his mother and is on the verge of being expelled. Margherita uses poetry to get through to Nehorai. However, her poetic world is confronted by reality.
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Cold Frost and Sunshine
Written and Directed by: Kara Vshemesh
Fic. 18 min, 2020, Color
Production: The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School - Jerusalem (JSFS)
Language: Hebrew and Russian, with English subtitles
Cast: Svetlana Demidov, Gavish Bonano, Ruthy Borenshtein, Yoav Hait
60-year-old Margherita is a lonely librarian at a high school in a rough neighborhood in Jerusalem. She has a special relationship with 17-year-old Nehorai, an abandoned student by his mother and is on the verge of being expelled. Margherita uses poetry to get through to Nehorai. However, her poetic world is confronted by reality.
FESTIVALS:
Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel, 2019
Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Israel, 2020
International VGIK Festival, Moscow, Russia, 2020
Montreal Israeli FF 2021