Film Days of the Mediterranean: SHIKUN

38th Film Days of the Mediterranean 22.1. – 2.2.2025 Karlstorkino, Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 3, 69126 Heidelberg, admission €10, reduced €7.50, members Medienforum €6, advance ticket sales online: www.filmtage-mittelmeer.de or at the Karlstorkino (one hour before the first screening until the last film) or at the Montpellier-Haus (during opening hours). The film is inspired by the play “The Rhinos” by Eugène Ionesco and tells us about the emergence of intolerance and totalitarian thinking through a series of everyday episodes that take place in a social housing complex on the edge of the Be’er-Sheva desert in Israel. People of different backgrounds and languages, a cross-section of Israeli society, inhabit the SHIKUN building. Some of them will turn into rhinos, but others will resist. An ironic metaphor for life in our modern societies.

Israel, France, Italy, Switzerland, Brazil, United Kingdom 2024

Director: Amos Gitai

Cast: Irène Jacob, Yaël Abecassis,

Menashe Noy, Hana Laslo, Naama Preis

85 min. | frz./hebr./arab./yidd. OmdtU

Filmmaker Amos Gitai (*1950 in Haifa) made his feature film debut in 1980 with the documentary HOUSE and has since made numerous films that have earned him international acclaim, including invitations to Cannes, Venice and Berlin. Gitai also works as a theater director and has conceived installations and exhibitions of his works in many international museums.