The Galilee Eskimos

The Galilee Eskimos Hebrew is a 2006 comedydrama film directed, produced and cowritten by Jonathan Paz. It was filmed on location at Kibbutz Yehiam and premiered at the Haifa International Film Festival in September 2006.

Director Jonathan Paz grew up on Kibbutz Mizra in northern Israel, where he was a member until 1971. In a 2009 interview, Paz stated The idea for the film came to me some seven years ago, in the final year of my dear mothers life. On one of my visits to the kibbutz which, incidentally, treated her and her contemporaries in a wonderful way, as do, to the best of my knowledge, all of the other kibbutzim, we spoke of Globalization, insensitive Capitalism and the poor state of the kibbutzim. Many of the kibbutzim had begun the process of Privatization no more Communal Living or Each contributes according to his abilities and receives according to his needs no more equality and cooperation, only Differential Wages etc.. I spoke to my mother about loneliness and the fact that life passes so quickly even though my mother lived to the ripe oldage of 97, alert and lucid to the end. I asked her, Mother, which period of your life do you miss the most? She answered without any hesitation, I would like to go back to the time when we founded the kibbutz. I knew right then that I had a story There was a film to be madeThe Galilee Eskimos pays tribute to the founding generation of kibbutzniks and Pazs respect for the egalitarian values and mutual help their lives embodied. In the same 2009 interview, Paz emphasized that I made my film with a great deal of love, nostalgia, longing and homage to those people who founded the kibbutz. I really admire and love those people. ........

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