THE FUTURE
Noam Kaplan
Gum Films (IL), fiction
THE FUTURE stretches the boundaries of realism and squeezes the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a clinical scenario by literally and emotionally, locking two women in an actual clinic.
Dr. NURIT BLOCH, 41, a world-renowned profiler, is trying to find a surrogate mother to carry her baby while recruited by the Israeli Security Service to profile a young Palestinian woman who assassinated the Israeli Minister of Space and Tourism. Over several weeks they face each other in Nurit’s home studio for a harsh interrogation. A meandering murder plot emerges which is meshed up with yet another plot – one of motherhood and liberation.
NOAM KAPLAN / IMDB
NOAM KAPLAN is an honorary graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film School. Upon graduation, selected for Residence du Festival de Cannes program. His first feature length film, MANPOWER, premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and locally at the Haifa International Film Festival, earning the FEDEORA Special Mention Award. It was then theatrically distributed in Israel to acclaimed reviews.
Director’s statement:
THE FUTURE is a story about our future, which unfolds in the present and rooted in our conflicted past. It is a truth searching journey – while our heroin tries to compile the profile of the assassin by revealing her true motifs, she confronts her own inner fears, self-lies, and harsh, possibly horrible truth. In that sense, this is a film about liberation despite the closed-off clinical space in where most of the plot unfolds. Liberation from what? I believe that we, myself included, are living in a self-lying contradiction – we have children, which means future, while we maintain an ongoing occupation, which means no future. We are entangled in this scenario with our Palestinian neighbors.
Where are we at?
Budget: 900.000,00 EUR
Finansing in place: 750.000,00 EUR
Sales agent: Intramovies
Teritories available: World, except Israel
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Finance for finishing the film.
Production company profile
GUM FILMS is a Tel Aviv based production company. Founders and owners, Yoav Roeh and Aurit Zamir, graduated from the prestigious Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, and have been in the art and business of making movies ever since.