Tsili
Israel, France, Italy, Russia / 2014 / 84 min.
Director: Amos GITAI
[Introduction]
Based on the eponymous novel by renowned Israeli author Aharon APPELFELD, this mostly Yiddish-language drama depicts the journey of a Jewish woman attempting to evade the Holocaust who wanders the grassy plains of Ukraine in the closing days of World War II. Screened at the Venice Film Festival.