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Hummus The Movie
''Hummus the Movie'' is a 2015 documentary film by Oren Rosenfeld. The film presents the unifying power of a foodway through three main characters. ''Hummus'' is pegged to three stories about hummus-related careers, a Muslim, a Christian and a Jew. The Muslim is a woman named Suheila who runs a hummus restaurant in Acco and is known for her charity to the poor. The Christian is a young man whose family has been making hummus in Ramle for three generations and who is torn between staying in the family business or following his girlfriend to Berlin. The Jew, a man from a secular background who has become devout, joined the Breslover sect, and now sells hummus at a food stall in a gas station in the Israeli town of Yokneam. The segment features Yehoshua Sofer, a Jamaican-born rapper who had a hit Israeli pop song about hummus and influenced the Jewish hummus shop owner in Yokneam to become pious. ''Hummus the Movie'' premiered at the 2016 Seattle International Film Festi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oren Rosenfeld
Oren Rosenfeld (born 29 January 1976) is an Multi-Emmy Award winning Israeli documentary filmmaker, photojournalist, and film producer. Career Rosenfeld was born in Jerusalem on 29 Januar 1976. He started his career as a photojournalist covering the 2nd Palestinian Intifada. In October 2016, he Directed and co-wrote Israel's Arab Warriors for the BBC. In the film, he and cowriter Jane Corbin followed the first unit of Israeli Arab soldiers to serve in the West Bank. Rosenfeld's award-winning film '' Hummus The Movie'' stirred controversy when the Guinness Book of World records refused to send representatives to judge the world's largest plate of hummus due to alleged security concerns. In 2017 Rosenfeld joined Jane Corbin to write and Direct '' The Real Fauda'', a BBC documentary about the real story behind the hit Netflix drama Fauda. Rosenfeld discussed the nature of the documentary, and the uniqueness of the project for I24 News In early 2018, Rosenfeld returned to In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |