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The Matchmaker

  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Avi Nesher
  • Israel 2010
  • 112 minutes
  • Hebrew
  • Subtitles in English

The screening will be preceded by a discussion: Director Avi Nesher talks to Shmulik Duvdevani (Ph.D)  about The Present-Past Trilogy

The award winning second installment in Avi Nesher's Present Past Trilogy was both a commercial and critical success. It is considered by many one of the best films ever made in Israel.
The year is 1968 and a Haifa-born teenager gets a summer job with a Holocaust survivor, who makes ends meet by brokering marriages and smuggling goods. Throughout the summer, the mysterious Matchmaker takes the boy on a dangerous initiation into the deepest, darkest urban underbelly of Haifa, where love takes surprising shapes and history becomes mythology.


  • Director Avi Nesher
  • Production David Silber, Avraham Pirchi, Tami Leon , Chilik Michaeli, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, Natan Caspi, Avi Nesher
  • Script Avi Nesher
  • Cinematography Michel Abramowicz
  • Editing Isaac Sehayek
  • Actors Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Dror Keren, Dov Navon, Tuval Shafir, Netta Porat
  • Festivals Toronto Film Festival, Chicago Film Festival (Silver Hugo), Ophir Award for best leading actor (Adir Miller), Ophir Award for best leading actress (Maya Dagan)
  • Source Metro Communications, Tel Aviv; Artomas Communications, Tel Aviv; UCM, Tel Aviv; United King Films, Ramat Hasharon

The Matchmaker