Gum Films
Maya Linik is 82 years old. She has 5 sons but in her mind, she has no one. Maya used to have 6 sons. her 1st born- Zohar- died in a training accident, during his military service. He was her favorite boy. When they told her he was killed, she didn't cry. (She's from Germany, and Germans don't cry). She sat on the porch and smoked one cigarette after another. That was 40 years ago. In the time that has passed, she filled the house with his photos, and turned it into a mausoleum. Mayas 5 living sons grew up on their own. Today they are men in their late 40's and 50's but they still ache for a mothers love. We are told that a mother should love her children equally. This film is about the taboo surrounding motherly love.
Director: Aya Somech
Script: Aya Somech & Haggai Linik
Producer: Yoav Roeh & Aurit Zamir
Duration: 60 min
Year: 2010
Status: In production
Language: Hebrew
Subtitles: English, Hebrew
Partners: Rabinovitch Film Fund
Broadcasters: Channel 8- Noga Communications
Photography: Nadav Hexelman Editor: Sara Solomon Sound: Sharon Luzon
Copro pitching forum- Tel Aviv 2009
Aya Somech graduated the Film and Television Department in the Tel Aviv University. Her graduation film “Questions of a Dead Worker” (2002, Fiction, 16 mm, 19 min.) won the Cannes Film Festival Cinefondation’s 3rd Prize. The jury included Martin Scorsese, The Iranian director Abas Kiarostami and actress Tilda Swinton. Currently directing a Documentary film "Cigarettes", and co-writing the script for her first feature film “Damaged Goods” (awarded 10,000$ for script development by the Israeli Film Fund ; 5,000$ by the "Gesher Film Fund" and won the Haifa Film Festival Pitching contest). Working as an editor (among her works the documentaries: "A Snail in the Desert", “State of Israel vs. Tali Fahima" etc).
