Origin: Israel | Fiction | Director: Tawfik Abu Wael | 109 minutes

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Atash

Tawfik Abu Wael 109 min - Drama Israel 2004

A family of five, their two goats and donkey live in the middle of nowhere
far from their village home. They earn meager living by producing & selling
charcoal, made from the surrounding trees. The father and son are the only
ones who ever return to their native village. The Mother & two daughters
have not left this place since the day they abandoned home, 10 years ago.
One day the father decides to provide running water for the family by
illegally diverting water onto their land. The three women recoil from the
idea but the teenage son obeys submissively anything to be allowed to
continue attending school. The water surging through the pipe parallels the
surging resentment the family feels towards the father. He brought them to
this place against their will and they know the reason they left their home
is also the reason they can never return, but the newly free-flowing water
on their land re-awakens the instinctive desire for freedom they have been
repressing all these years.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oLJQ6jJ7Xk

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