THE FLYING CAMEL

A comedy portraying an unlikely friendship between two men on the fringes of society, THE FLYING CAMEL is an irresistible new film set in Tel Aviv. Bauman, a retired Jewish History Professor, lives in a junkyard shack and is fixated on preserving Tel Aviv's Bauhaus architecture, spending his time collecting old Bauhaus artifacts. An Arab garbage collector, Phares, bursts in on Bauman's quiet life, determined to replant his father's orange grove on the site of Bauman's shack. To sweeten the situation, a dubious young Catholic nun, named Gina, with liberal views on carnal lapses, parks her caravan in the junkyard. The three join forces when Phares discovers a piece of one of the great Bauhaus monuments, “The Flying Camel”, symbol of Tel Aviv's renewal of the 1930s. Serious, dire issues between divergent cultures are treated with humor and sensitivity, a relief from the hard-hitting nightly news. Director Na'Aman says, “In the fire that threatens to destroy what we have built, there is also the seed of hope for a new beginning.”In Hebrew with English subtitles.