Word: friedlich
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Perhaps the most abstract film of the four from the Ma'ale school was Hadar Friedlich's Fast of Words, an examination of the attempts of a writer, photographer and musician to spend an entire day without speaking. The remaining films were concerned with issues particular to Judaism, yet the issues were nonetheless resonant among even non-Jews. Yaakov Freedland's Fragments of a Dream set the archetypal figures of the willful: an army-bound son and the proud father unwilling to leave his violent homeland amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The theme of self-sacrifice for the sake...