Luxuries

Name: Luxuries
Director: David Ofek
Released: 2011

David Ofek 2011

An elusive “coordinator,” vague formulas that calculate “survival capacity”, warehouses cramped with rotting goods, and donkeys dressed up as zebras – all take part in the mosaic that sketches a surreal reality in which evil and stupidity merge.
Director David Ofek takes the viewer on a journey to the absurd front of the Israeli “blockade on Gaza”, revealing the consequences of a policy that limits the flow of goods into Gaza.

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Running Time:	54 min.
Subject(s):	Conflicts, Current Affairs, Health, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jewish Studies, Law and Justice, Middle Eastern Studies, Politics, Poverty
Language(s):	Hebrew
Subtitles:	English
Director(s):	David Ofek
Producer(s):	Edna Kowarsky, Elinor Kowarsky
Cinematographer:	Dror Lebendiger, Hen Lasker
Editor(s):	Noit Geva
Production Company:	Eden Productions

Press

Pnai Plus review.

"David Ofek's 'Luxuries' turns the Gaza blockade into a Fellini film."

Yair Raveh
Ha'aretz Review

"With a humorist touch, a film that elegantly portrays the insanity here -- a sort of homage to Felini."

Moran Sharir,
Globes Review

"David Ofek is an incredible filmmaker. He has the ability to take what seems a two-dimensional reality and find the small angles that really make the big picture that twists the viewer."

Nir Kipnis

Festival Participation

In the Spirit of Freedom The Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel - 2011
Cinema South Festival, Israel - 2011
Official Selection - Toronto Jewish Film Festival, USA - 2012
Shanghai TV Festival, China - 2012
DOK Leipzig International Film Festival, Germany - 2012

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- YES-doco, Israel

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