Here Comes The Sun

Feature Film, Drama/suspense/ western, 100 min.

Guy Meirson ,Eitan Anner, Gal Greenspan, Roi Kurland

Can you ever really leave the place where you are from?

SYNOPSIS

After 20 years in the United States, Avner Mendelson returns to Israel with his American wife, Karen, and their 4 year old daughter to carry out a well- intentioned, politically conscious, eco-friendly project: building a solar field in the Negev desert with the local Bedouin population.

But the Bedouins don’t see it that way. Avner faces an uncooperative and mistrusting labor force, a stubborn shepherd who refuses to vacate his pasture of 400 years, and neighbors who repeatedly breach the boundaries of his private property and his domestic life. Also, the chicken he bought from the locals won’t lay eggs.

While Karen’s principles seem unscathed by the realities of life in the desert, where she offers shelter to a Sudanese refugee, she watches in bewilderment as her Israeli husband finds himself shedding every last righteous pretence and embarks on a no-holds-barred battle to get the job done.

TRIGGER

We originally conceived of this film as an Israeli Western. It is an attempt to explore the parallels between the American frontier myth and the Zionist myth of conquering the desert.

FILMMAKERS

Guy Meirson / Writer, Meirson is an Israeli screenwriter who spent time in the United States and now lives in the north of Israel with his half American wife and 4 year old daughter. He writes for film and TV, teaches dramatic writing, and is trying to hold on to the last scraps of his righteous pretence.

Eitan Anner / Director, Eitan Anner is a writer and a director, among his works: Poker Face – Best TV Drama Award, Banff intl. T.V. festival. Love and Dance – official selection Berlinale (Generation K+), Official selection (in competition) Moscow intl. film fest. Official selection Rome intl. film fest. Released in 12 territories including Germany, Brazil and India.

Gal Greenspan and Roi Kurland / Producers, Green Productions: dedicated to the creation of quality art house films of promising young Israeli writer/directors which offer both innovation and excitement to its audiences, Green Production specializes in feature length productions and documentary films and manages a library of award-winning shorts.

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