RESTORATION 
Country: Israel 2011 Drama An antique 1882 Steinway piano in need of restoration serves as an apt metaphor in this complex and allusive drama about generational strife that Screen International called “an elegantly made and intelligently nuanced film”. For 70 year-old Yaakov Fidelman, a skilled craftsman and restoration artist, his antique furniture restoration workshop has been his life’s work. After his long-time business partner dies suddenly, he discovers that the shop is in dire financial straits, and is forced to deal with his estranged son Noa, an ambitious lawyer who has a more lucrative real estate redevelopment plan in mind for the site. Intent on hanging on to the workshop, and to the only way of life that he knows, Fidelman finds an unlikely ally in Anton, a mysterious young drifter who he has hired as his new apprentice. As a fragile bond develops between the two, with Anton becoming like a surrogate son to Fidelman, a triangle develops that is further complicated by the growing attraction between Anton and Noah’s wife, Sarah. Featuring superb cinematography and a beautiful musical score, this insightful and compassionate character-study has garnered critical acclaim and multiple international awards, including Best Picture at the Jerusalem Int’l Film Festival, where the jury praised the film for "its exploration of fatherhood in its many manifestations – tender, angry and finally hopeful – in a highly original and moving context." Awards Winner – Best Picture, Karlovy-Vary Int’l Film Festival 2011
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