Free Zone
2005 | Fiction | Runtime 90' | 35 mm | Colour

DVD/Video

Free Zone
1 DVD PAL Zone 2
Globus United (Israel)

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World sales
Bac Films
88, rue de la Folie Méricourt
75011 Paris
France
Tel.: +33 (0)1 53 53 52 52
Fax: +33 (0)1 53 53 52 51
E-mail: s.moreau@bacfilms.fr
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France
Bac Films
88, rue de la Folie Méricourt
75011 Paris
France
Tel.: +33 (0)1 53 53 52 52
Fax: +33 (0)1 53 53 52 51
E-mail: s.moreau@bacfilms.fr
Web: www.bacfilms.com

Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large of sum of money.

"The film is as simple as it is effective. (...) Women are both central and powerless here, victims yet perpetrators. They are conflicted as the region itself, carrying the pain and complexities of life in the Middle East within them. But they also carry a willingness to go beyond these struggles, to find some kind of common ground, and this is the space rendered in Free Zone. Gitai's camera is as marvellous as usual, a silent observer of people and landscapes, and his actors are exemplary- immediate and present - crafting characters defined pointedly against each other and the territory that delineates and traps them."
Piers Handling, Toronto International Film Festival 2005

Cast Natalie Portman, Hanna Laslo, Hiam Abbass, Carmen Maura, Makram Khoury, Aki Avni, Uri Ran Klauzner, Liron Levo, Tomer Russo Screenplay Amos Gitai, Marie-José Sanselme Cinematography Laurent Brunet Sound Michel Kharat, Alex Claude, Stéphane Thiébaut Music Hava Alberstein Editing Isabelle Ingold, Yann Dedet Production design Miguel Markin Costumes Aline Stern, Natali Kanevtsky Casting Ilan Moscovitch Production Agav Films (France), Agat Films & Cie (France), Golem (Spain), Artémis Productions, Agav Hafakot (Israel), Hammon Hafakot (Israel), Arte France Cinéma, Cinéart (Belgium) Executive producer(s) Gadi Levy Producer(s) Nicolas Blanc, Michael Tapuach, Laurent Truchot, Amos Gitai Associate Producer(s) Patrick Quinet, Jean Labadie

Festivals
Cannes : Festival de Cannes 2005 - Official selection, in competition. Hanna Laslo, Best Actress
Toronto International Film Festival 2005 - Programme "Masters"
Valladolid : Semana Internacional de Cine 2005