4. The Wonders (Avi Nesher, 2013) Israel
The Wonders is the new film by Israeli film-maker Avi Nesher. It's his seventh feature film and third film to screen at TIFF. It is being shown on Sun. 8 at 6:45PM, Tues. 10 at 3:15Pm and Sun. 15 at 12:15PM, as part of the Contemporary World Cinema programme. The Sunday screening will be it's International Premiere. The film is a, "dizzyingly funny and fantastical farce...about a good-natured slacker who becomes embroiled in a labyrinthine conspiracy in the weird criminal-religious underbelly of Jerusalem." A Jewish conspiracy film!?...the right wing conspiracists must be freaking out!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmakKvGtDS0 It follows, "Ariel Navon (Ori Hizkiah), a bartender, art-school dropout, and compulsive cartoonist whose pleasantly mundane existence is turned upside down late one night after he spots a strange flash of blue light emanating from an apparently vacant building." His curiosity leads him to meet, "famed modern-day prophet Rabbi Knafo (Yehuda Levi)," who may or may not be being held against his will. The Wonders, is chock-full-of, "red herrings, unlikely alliances, and cartoons that come to life when no one is looking". Nesher, himself, described the film as a mixture between "Lewis Carroll and Carol Reed".