Sweet Mud
(Adama Meshugat)

Directed by Dror Shaul (Israel /Germany, 2006) * 100 minutes * Hebrew with English subtitles

On a kibbutz in southern Israel in the 1970s, Dvir Avni realizes that his mother, Miri, is mentally ill. It is the year of his Bar Mitzvah, and in a series of sometimes funny, sometimes frightening tasks, Dvir and his classmates have to prove their ability to live up to the social standards of the Kibbutz. In this closed, unique society, bound by rigid rules, Dvir navigates between the kibbutz motto of equality and the stinging reality that his mother has, in effect, been abandoned by their collective community.

Winner of the Berlinale 2007 Crystal Bear for Best Feature Film, Winner of Sundance 2007 Dramatic World Cinema Jury Award, 2007 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Winner of Israeli Academy Best Film Award 2006.