Contemporary Israeli Documentary Films

The Last Card

Sylvain Biegeleisen

The film takes place in Antwerp, Belgium, the city where the director was born. In it unfolds the story of the painful relationship existing between his mother, aged eighty-seven, and himself, the son who suffered his entire life from the silence which reigned in the family. Beyond the depiction of a relationship between a mother and son seeking restoration, the film touches upon the wider questions of parentchild relationships, memory, guilt, and old age, against the backdrop of World War II and its effects upon the lives of its survivors – and upon the lives of their children.

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Sylvain Biegeleisen

Sylvain Biegeleisen is a director, producer, photographer and musician. He directed the experimental short documentary film Naked Feelings and produced numerous films, including Machboim (Hide and Seek), winner of the Wolgin Award for Best Documentary Film. He is the founder and CEO of the Lahav N.G.O. for the advancement of values in (Israeli) society. His film, The Last Card, screened at 2009 ZagrebDox, won the best European film award in 2008 at Warsaw's Grand off European Independent Film Awards.

General sponsor

Haglouya Haahrona

Israel
2008, 58', color, video

Directed by:
Sylvain Biegeleisen

Screenplay by:
Sylvain Biegeleisen

Cinematography:
Sylvain Biegeleisen

Edited by:
Joelle Alexis

Music:
Adi Rennert

Producer:
Sylvain Biegeleisen