THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER 
Country: Israel/Germany/France 2010 Comedy/Drama The human resources manager of Jerusalem’s largest bakery, separated from his wife, distanced from his daughter and stuck in an unfulfilling job, finds himself at the centre of a PR scandal when the body of a woman killed in a suicide bombing remains unclaimed for weeks at the city morgue, and is eventually identified as that of a foreign worker who had been one of his employees. The company is publicly accused of being cold-hearted and indifferent for having failed to even notice her absence, and it falls to the HR Manager to make things right. Director Eran Riklis’ “humane and observant drama” (The Hollywood Reporter) is a quirky road movie that follows the HR manager on a tragic-comic journey to restore his company’s tarnished reputation by escorting the young woman’s body back to her hometown in a remote and wintry Eastern European village. Far from home, on a mission to honor a woman he didn’t even know, but has somehow grown to admire, the HR Manager might just rediscover his own humanity along the way. Adapted from a novel by celebrated Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua, this award-winning film was Israel’s official 2011 Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film. Awards: Winner – Audience Award Locarno Int’l Film Festival Date & Time: Saturday, November 26th at 9:30 PM
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