The Farewell Party

Genre

• Drama / Comedy

Countries of Production

• Germany / Israel

Language

• Hebrew

World premiere

• 29th August 2014 – Venice Days

German cinema release

• 24th September 2015

a production by

• Pie Films, 2-Team Productions

in co-production with

• Twenty Twenty Vision, Pallas Film, United King Films

with the support of

• Israel Film Fund, Jerusalem Film & Television Fund, Reshet, Yes Satellite Television, MDM – Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung

World Sales

• Beta Cinema

Distribution

• Neue Visionen

Yehezkel, age 75, living in a Jerusalem retirement home, decides to fulfill his terminally ill best friend Max’s wish to die in peace. Despite the objections of his wife Levana, Yehezkel and Max’s wife Yana enlist the help of Dr. Daniel, a veterinarian, and retired police officer Raffi Segal to help them with their mission. At the moment of truth when the group realize that none of them is willing to “pull the trigger”, Yehezkel builds a machine for self-euthanasia. But after Max is gone, rumors about the machine begin to spread, and the group receives more pleas for help. Meanwhile Yehezkel refuses to face the reality of his wife’s deteriorating dementia. As Yehezkel navigates between new requests for the machine, and Levana’s growing dependency, boundaries begin to blur, and the moral dilemmas the group face become impossible to bear.