FOONOTE

115 min | PG
Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film of 2011 and winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Screenplay Award, this poignant Israeli comedy–drama promises to be more than a mere footnote in your moviegoing agenda. It focuses on the rivalry for Israel’s most prestigious academic award, with the competitors a cantankerous, traditional professor of the Talmud and a younger, more progressive professor. The fact that they’re father and son stirs the emotional fires even more intensely. The film sheds light on the rivalries among academic circles while exploring the depths of domestic, generational conflicts.