Genre
- Thriller / Drama
Countries of Production
- Germany / Israel
Language
- Hebrew
World premiere
- 15th July 2017 – Jerusalem FF, Israel
German cinema release
- 30th November 2017
a production by
- Pallas Film, Inosan Productions
with the support of
- MDM – Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
World Sales
- Inosan Productions
Distribution
- Neue Visionen Filmverleih
In a perfect world, Lily would have grown up with a loving father, a caring mother, a sane sister and a brother who wasn’t madly in love with her… But you can’t always get what you want… and Lily finds herself in her living room, staring at four dead bodies.
She goes to her therapist after hours, to confess and make sense of this confusing day. But Lily’s therapist isn’t home. Her teenage, judgmental, insensitive daughter is. Lily finds herself once more, locked in a battle of wills for some serious adult attention.
„Family“ is the portrait of every family, if it’s being taken in the dark.
„There’s no way to deal with a broken home, but laugh about it or write it as bloody as possible. This film has been my vision for years, and I just would like to get it out of my system already. This film puts us on the side of a girl who must kill her family to be free. The only way this young photgrapher can finally get the family picture she’s been praying for, for years – is if she shoots them all dead first.“ – Veronica Kedar, director
Lily Brook
- Veronica Kedar
Dad
- Eli Danker
Mom
- Evgenia Dodina
Smadar Brook
- Hen Yanni
Adam Brook
- Arie Hasfari
Talia
- Tommy Baremboem
Written by
- Veronica Kedar
Directed by
- Veronica Kedar
Producers
- Thanassis Karathanos, Moshe Danon
Director of photography
- Christian Huck
Editor
- Veronica Kedar
Set design
- Yoel Herzberg, Tanja Arlt
Sound
- Johannes Hampel
Sound Design
- Claus Störmer
Costumes
- Ofir Hazan
Make up
- Hila Elkayam
Production Manager
- Marc Wächter
- Israeli cinema day
- Jerusalem IFF
- Warsaw IFF
- PÖFF-Tallinn Black Nights FF
- B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Germany
- Utopia FF, Israel
- Imagine FF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- ImagineIndia IFF, Madrid, Spain
- Fantaspoa- Int. Fanatstic FF, Brazil
- Raindance FF
- MoMA-The Museum of Modern Art, US / screening & discussion
- Beloit IFF, USA
- Cinequest FF, San Jose, USA
- Insólito Festival de Cine, Peru
- Award for Best Original Score / Jerusalem FF
- Post-Production Award / Haifa IFF
- Best Screenplay / Jerusalem Int. Film Lab,
- Awards for Best Director & Best Music / ImagineIndia IFF
- Best Feature in der 'head trip' section at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, USA
- Nominated for 3 Israeli Academy Awards ImagineIndia IFF 2018
- Nominated for 4 awards (Best International Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography) at Raindance FF
