Israeli movie The Cakemaker brings home Special Jury Award
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Award winning Israeli movie “The Cakemaker”

  •   “The Cakemaker” brings home Special Jury Award from Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
  • 7/26/2017
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    ​Israeli filmmaker Ofir Raul Graizer’s debut movie “The Cakemaker” tells the story of a German pastry maker who travels to Jerusalem in search for the wife and son of his deceased lover. The film won the Special Jury Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2017: “A feature melodrama whose strength rests in its subtle treatment of the love theme.” At the premiere of the Israeli-German coproduction the audience gave standing ovations for several minutes. 
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    Business trips can bring a variety of surprises – sometimes even a new love.
     
    During his frequent business trips to Berlin Oren, a married Israeli architect, meets Thomas, a young German baker and they get involved in an affair. This young love is abruptly torn apart by a tragic event. Oren dies in a car crash in Israel. In his grief Thomas travels to Jerusalem to find answers and be close to his lover’s family.
     
    Under a false identity, Thomas enters the life of Anat, Oren’s newly widowed wife, who owns a small café in downtown Jerusalem and their son whom she raises alone now. Despite initial mistrust at his German origins, Anat employs Thomas as pastry chef and his German cake and cookie creations help her business strive and her son overcome his grief. Thomas becomes part of Anat’s life in a way far beyond his anticipation, and to protect the truth he stretches his lie to a point of no return.
     
    Israeli filmmaker Ofir Raul Graizer’s debut movie “The Cakemaker” featured at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2017 (KVIFF) in several prize categories and won the Special Jury Award. At the premiere of the Israeli-German coproduction the audience gave standing ovations for several minutes.  Well established officials of the festival said that it had been a long time since they had last seen such applause.  “A feature melodrama whose strength rests in its subtle treatment of the love theme. Delicate and nearly imperceptible emotions are foregrounded, while painful secrets are only gradually revealed. This formally accomplished debut manages to deliver a powerful statement on love that isn’t contingent upon sexual orientation,” writes Sandra Hezinova from the KVIFF. "This is an important moment of recognition," said Graizer at the award ceremony held in the picturesque Czech town of Spa, "a good reason to make films."
     
     
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