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Dolphin Boy

Director: 
Yonatan Nir & Dani Menkin
Country: 
Duration: 
72Min
Year of production: 
2011
Movies language: 
Production: 
Dani Menkin
Yonatan Nir
Judith Manassen-Ramon
Synopsis: 

Morad is an Israeli-Arab young man who has lost touch with reality as the result of severe physical abuse. As a last resort prior to hospitalization in a mental institute, his father, As'ad, takes him to the Red Sea, for rehabilitating treatment with dolphins. His condition has since improved dramatically; however, the process is not complete. Morad has exchanged his own identity with that of a beach-boy; he has a Jewish, soldier, girlfriend and has completely renounced his own past. This is the story of a father's struggle over his son's sanity, and about the dolphins as healers of the human soul.

 

Bio Director: 

Yonatan Nir: Came to filmmaking from photojournalism and marine photography. His photo essays from many countries around the world have been featured in newspapers and magazines worldwide, and won numerous prizes, including the prestigious “Asian Geographic Best Photojournalist of the Decade Award".

David Menkin: Wrote, produced and directed the award-winning HBO/Cinemax documentary, 39 PoundsOf Love (USA, 2006). Todd Schwartz from CBS called it "The best documentary of the year". The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in Israel and was also the Best Documentary short list of the Oscars during the 2006 US Academy Awards.

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