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| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: January 28, 2007 |
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'Sweet Mud,' an Israeli narrative of a boy coping with his mother's mental illness on a kibbutz in the 1970s, won the jury prize for world cinema Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival.
"This is unprecedented," said 'Sweet Mud' director Dror Shaul in a phone conversation from the United States. "The Israeli filmmaking industry bombarded Sundance as Simon Dotan's 'Hothouse' won the documentary award and we won the international competition."
'Sweet Mud' portrays kibbutz life in the 70s, questioning the socialist idealism of the kibbutz movement and breaking many taboos. It tells the story of Dvir, a captivating 12-year-old boy (played by talented 14-year old Tomer Steinhof) growing up on a kibbutz alongside his mentally unstable and widowed mother. The story spans four seasons from the summer of '74 to the spring of '75.
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