Galoot
Director: Asher de Bentolila Tlalim
Running Time: 155 mins
2003


Post Screening Discussion with Director

Galoot (Exile) in Hebrew is an intimate saga that touches the seeds of the pains and tragedies transformed nowadays into the locked Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

A temporary exile from his homeland allows an Israeli filmmaker to see the conflict with new and provocative eyes. Through his Palestinian and Israeli friends and through his and his wife’s personal journeys, Galoot provides a reflective voyage through homes and deserted homelands in Israel, Palestine, Poland, Morocco and England.

Galoot was four years in the making and in the fourth year, the Israeli Film Board withdrew its support for the project – they said ‘We should not do this kind of thing’.
The film was sold out at the Berlin Film Festival and Ulrich Gregor remarked:’ Galoot … is one of the most exciting films I have seen in the preparation for the International Forum of the Berlin Film Festival in 2003’.

Asher de Bentolila Tlalim has made over 50 films receiving many awards including in 1994, An ‘Israeli Oscar’ and Best Documentary and Excellence Award at the Jeruslalem Film Festival for ‘Don’t Touch My Holocaust’. He is currently a Senior Tutor at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield and has also taught at The Sam Spiegel Jerusalem Film School and the Film Department at Tel Aviv University .