Off-White Lies
Year
2011
Runtime
86 mins
Language
Hebrew, English
Subtitles
Hebrew language with English subtitles
Canadian Premiere
Winner of the Best Actor Award and nominated for 6 other Israeli Academy Awards including Best Film, Director and Screenplay, Off White Lies begins when Libi, a 13-year-old Israeli girl played by newcomer Elya Inbar, visits Northern Israel with her long-estranged father. When a Lebanese air strike forces the two into in an underground shelter, Libi learns that her father is currently “in-between apartments”. As the area starts to be evacuated, he senses an opportunity to reinvent the pair as refugees in hopes of being given new lives in Jerusalem. As her father works towards creating a new life, Libi is forced to go along with his lies while at the same time coming to grips with her own burgeoning identity.
- Awards
- Festivals
- Berlin Film Festival 2012, Palm Springs Film Festival 2012, Busan Film Festival 2012
- Director
- Maya Kenig
- Producer
- Yoav Roeh, Orit Zamir
- Screenwriter
- Maya Kenig, Dana Diment
- Cinematographer
- Itay Vinograd
- Editor
- Or Ben David
- Production Design
- Ido Dolev
- Music
- Udi Berner
- Cast
- Gur Bentvich, Elya Inbar, Tzahi Grad