A Comic drama that tells the story of the Geva family – a bourgeois family from Jerusalem. When the mother of the family, Ora, goes into a coma after a car accident, the family members try to bring her back in every way possible.
Hill Start
A Film by: Oren Stern
(Israel, 2014, 92 Minutes, Color, Hebrew, English subtitles, Cast: Shlomo Bar Aba, Mali Levi Gershon, Itay Tiran, Rotem Zisman Cohen, Idit Teperson, Romi Aboulafia, Yossi Marshak, Yousef Sweid, Albert Illuz).
In this comic drama Ora is in a coma as the result of a car accident. As her children and other family members try to help her regain consciousness the viewer meets plastic surgeons, a wheelchair-bound marathon coach, a tough private investigator, a yoga instructor, a sensitive belly dancer and a big star in the Arab cinema.
AWARDS, FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
• Embassy of Israel in Zagreb 2014
• Philadelphia Israeli Film Festival 2015
• Jewish Cinema Mississippi 2015
• Broward County JFF 2015
• NJ Festival of Israeli Film 2015
• New Hampshire JFF 2015
• NJ JFF 2015
• NIFF 2015
• Maine JFF 2016
• SERET - London Israeli Film Festival 2015
• The Avalon DC, 2015
• American University DC 2015
• JCC of North Shore 2015
• Edmonton JFF 2015
• Australia JFF 2015
• American University,DC 2015
• Sid Jacobson JCC 2015
• Montreal Israeli FF 2016
• Miami JFF 2016
• Central NJ JFF 2015
• Houston JFF 2016
• Nashville JFF 2015
• San Diego JFF 2015
• Fort Lauderdale JFF 2015
• UK JFF 2015
• Hong Kong JFF 2015
• Budapest JFF 2015
• Seret in Amsterdam 2015
• Molodist IFF 2015
• Cincinnati JFF 2016
• Santa Barbara JFF 2016
• Rochester JFF 2016
• UK JFF in Montreal 2016
• Palm Beach JFF 2016
• The Hampton Synagogue 2016
• JW3 Cinema, London 2016
• Hartford JFF 2016
• Vienna JFF 2016
• YESH Zurich JFF 2017
• Laissez Passer 2017
• SERET Amsterdam 2018
• Sonoma County JFF 2018
• Kinematek Hamburg 2018
• Wilmington JFF 2019
• Vienna JFF 2021
RELATED LINKS
http://www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk/blog/seret-2015-reviews-hill-start
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/An-easy-ride-371844