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Shalom Italia

2017 · 71 min

A quiet, intimate road trip through memory, where elderly brothers bicker and reconcile while revisiting a childhood shadowed by flight and survival.

Directed by: Tamar Tal Anati
Genres: Documentary

Overview: Shalom Italia tells the story of three brothers, who set off on a journey to find a cave in the woods of Tuscany. The place where they, as children, hid to escape the Nazis. But more than a search to find a geographical location, the brothers are on their way to locate the common ground of memory, the nexus where the conflicting versions of their stories can come to rest.

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Directed by: Tamar Tal Anati
Genres: Documentary

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
family
trauma
survival
aging
Places: countryside
wilderness
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	3
Realism	10
Romance	0
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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