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Agora/Market Manual - 51st Thessaloniki IFF-2010Crossroads ProjectsDownpourIsraelProduced by: GUM FILMSDirector: Mori Li-DarScriptwriter: Mori Li-Dar & Itai NisimProducer: Yoav Roeh & Aurit ZamirCo-Producers: -Budget: 753.500 euroSecured Financing:Script development Israel Film FundLocation: IsraelLooking for:Co-producers, Broadcasters, World SalesSYNOPSISJerusalem. A city beset with strife and uncertainty. In its unsettling fabric of hostility one family tries to copeand live its life.The films main protagonist is Or, 17, who lost her boyfriend in a terrorist attack and refuses to be consoleddespite the passage of time. Her father Dani, battles with anti-Zionist graffiti that appear on the walls of hisneighborhood. Nava, his wife, is drawn more and more toward her comatose mother. Lior, 18, is busy trying toplease everyone, while losing sight of his desires. Ben, 7, living in fear of death, builds a safe haven in his grandmother’shouse.The stories reach their climax on a tragic night when the family is forced to confront its weaknesses, and thedownpour that threatens to wash everything away. Downpour is a film about family and the search for love in aholy city devoid of God.DIRECTORS’ STATEMENTI was born in Jerusalem. For years I grew up in a city that never ceases to steal the world’s focus and mediaattention, a city, which many consider a symbol, an ideal, a coveted and sacred concept. But to me, Jerusalem isfirst and foremost a city of childhood, of coming of age and of people trying to survive, to live, to love. It is myhome, and Downpour is the story of that home. Through the eye of its teenage protagonist Or I try to tell thestory of life in a city overburdened by the history of its dead; of the tug of war between the explosiveness ofyouth and Jerusalem’s explosive streets; and of the rage at the unfairness of life, inherited to us by our elders. Asa filmmaker, I hope to recreate this delicate tiptoe which once was my own, and is unfortunately still thebalancing act of many.GUM FILMSGum Films is a Tel Aviv based production house for feature films and documentaries. Their slate includes the releaseddocumentaries Long Distance (Fipa Silver prize, London Doc Film Fest, San Francisco Film Fest, 2010),Mama (Doc Aviv 2010). Their first narrative feature Off White Lies will be released in summer 2011. Their latestfeature film Damaged Goods will be shot in Feb 2011. Films in development include The Lab (IDFA Forum,Hotdocs), Manpower (Cinemart 2010), Friends (Copro 2010) and Downpour.Gum Films is a home for fresh talents and unique cinematic voices.PRODUCER’S CONTACT INFORMATIONGUM FILMST. +972 36205194M. +972 526010403info@gumfilms.comaurit@gumfilms.comwww.gumfilms.com42