BABA JOON is an inspiring tale about a father coming to terms with a son who has far different plans for his life.


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Baba Joon

A Film by: Yuval Delshad
(Israel, 2015, 91 min, Farsi, Hebrew, English subtitles, Cast: Navid Neghaban, Asher Avrahami, Viss Elliot Safavi, David Diaan, Raphael (faraj) Eliasi)


Yitzhak runs the turkey farm his father built with his own two hands after they emigrated from Iran to Israel. When his son Moti turns thirteen, Yitzhak teaches him the trade, hoping that he will continue the proud family tradition. But Moti doesn’t like working in
the turkey barn; his passion is fixing up junkyard cars and bringing them back to life.

Moti's mother Sarah tries to reconcile between the two, while his grandfather pushes Yitzhak to take a firm hand with his son.Yitzhak takes Moti’s refusal to work in the turkey barn as a personal rejection. Though he loves his son dearly, he makes it his mission to impose the family farm on Moti.

The arrival of Darius, the uncle from America, sets off a chain of events that will undermine the familial harmony. Soon enough Yitzhak will learn that his son is just as stubborn as he is. The conflict is inevitable.

AWARDS, FESTIVALS & SCREENNINGS
• Israel's submission to the Oscars 2016
Israeli Academy Award Winner for Best Film 2015
5 Israeli Academy Awards Winner
Official selection by TIFF 2015
Haifa IFF 2015
• Palm Springs 2016
• Washington JFF 2016
• Miami JFF 2016
• Philadelphia Israeli FF 2016
• Bratislava JFF 2016
• Toronto JFF 2016
• Westchester JFF 2016
• Seattle JFF 2016
• East Bay JIFF 2016
• Bratislava JFF 2016
• Houston JFF 2016
• Nice JFF 2016
• Panama IFF 2016
• National Center for Jewish Film's Annual Festival, Boston 2016
• Bengaluru IFF 2016
• Geneva JFF 2016
• Brussels JFF 2016
• Copenhagen JFF 2016
• Silicon Valley JFF 2016
• Pittsburgh JFF 2016
• Ithaca College 2016
• Israeli Film Center Festival ,NY 2016
• palm Beach JFF 2016
• Ann Arbor JFF 2016
• Seret London 2016
• Israeli Flm Festival in Paris 2016
• Rochester JFF 2016
• Rady JCC, Winnipeg 2016
• Belgrade JFF 2016
• Israeli Film Center Festival, NY 2016
• Appalachian University 2016
• Greater Phoenix JFF 2017
• Shalom Europa JFF 2016
• MV Summer Institute JFF 2016
• UK JFF in Montreal 2016
• Oostende IFF, Belgium 2016
• Marseille JFF 2016
• San Francisco JFF 2016
• Avalon Theater, DC 2016
• Suffolk JFF 2016
• Sao Paulo JFF 2016
• Broward County JFF 2016
• Seret Zurich 2016
• Palm Beach Israeli Film Series 2016
• El Paso JFF 2016
• Ventura County JFF 2016
• SERET Amsterdam 2016
• UK JFF 2016
• Northern NJ JFF 2016
• Vancouver JFF 2016
• Silk Road IFF, China 2016
• San Antonio JFF 2016
• Film Archive Austria 2016
• Zagreb JFF 2016
• Michigan Israeli FF 2016
• Sarasota JFF 2016
• Tikvat Israel Congregation 2017
• Tirgan International Kids FF, Toronto 2017
• Greater Pheonix JFF 2017
• Zlin IFF 2017
• Congregation Beth El, MD 2019
• Vienna JFF 2019
• Los Angeles Israel Film Festival 2020

LINKS
http://www.babajoon.co.il/
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/israel-oscars-baba-joon-ophir-winner-1201599649/
http://tiff.net/festivals/festival15/contemporaryworldcinema/baba-joon

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