Like A Man
Director: Shaya Chesner
International Short-Narrative
Drama |
Israel |
13 min
Hebrew w/English subtitles
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Rugged and macho; Ronen (40), takes his excited and innocent 13-year-old son Aviv on a Bar-Mitzvah hike to a lake in northern Israel. In spite of his attempts to present himself as the ideal masculine figure, Ronen’s vulnerabilities and fears are blatantly exposed during an encounter with three Israeli Arabs, who have arrived at the same spot for a day of hiking and leisure.
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Director’s bio:
Shaya graduated from the Maaleh Film School after four years of full-time study in scriptwriting and directing.
He has a degree in communications, and literature, and is presently the director of a media production company.
On several occasions I also magined that Arabs surrounding me were actually terrorists preparing to attack, and on each occasion I experienced tremendous fear and panic. I recall that on my wedding day, when I was with my wife in the Golan Heights, a Druze family was picnicking nearby and I experienced a full blown anxiety attack, fearful that we were about to be attacked. My wife tried to calm me down, but my out of control anxiety caused her too to become frightened. Instead of celebrating our wedding day, we were submerged under a dark cloud of fear and depression