DCJCC Presents: 'One Week and a Day' Film Screening

Dir. Asaph Polonsky

(98min, Israel, 2016)
Hebrew with English subtitles
Narrative

When Eyal finishes sitting shiva (the traditional Jewish week of mourning) for his late son, his wife Vicky urges him to return to their daily routine. Instead, he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for.

As Vicky fights off school teachers, stray kittens and dental clinic workers, Eyal gets loopier by the minute, vibrating on a frequency caught between goofy childishness, and a state of complete mental breakdown. A black comedy that borrows from the best traditions of stoner comedies and family dramas, One Week and A Day is in the end a therapeutic journey full of laughs and genuine, unadulterated responses to the deepest loss imaginable.

Winner of the Gan Foundation Award at the 2016 Cannes Critics Week.

Link: https://www.wjff.org/films/oneweekandaday/

Contact Email: info@wjff.org

Contact Number: 202-777-3241