Tiburon International Film Festival

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Year:  2003
Running Time:  76 minutes
Country:  Israel
Language:  Hebrew
Genre:  Documentary
Showtime:   Sunday, March 13, 2005 @ 09:25 PM
Director:  David Ofek

Description:  In June 2002, a bus on its way to Tiberius from Tel Aviv, was bombed. 17 people were killed, 16 were identified. No. 17 wasn’t. He was buried a few weeks later – anonymous. The police stopped searching, believing that he must have been a foreign worker. This is where the filmmakers step in, documenting in real time over a period of six months the search for the identity of a man no one claimed missing. The film takes the form of a detective investigation, but also pursues the stories of several people who were affected directly or indirectly, by this bombing, creating a tragic-comic portrait of a society living under the shadow of death. When it seems that the investigation has reached a dead end a vague lead appears...

Screening With:

200 Dirhams

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