''One Week and a Day'' (or ''Shavua ve Yom'', he, שבוע ויום) is a 2016 Israeli

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directed by Asaph Polonsky. It was screened in the

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section at the

2016 Cannes Film Festival The 69th Cannes Film Festival was held from 11 to 22 May 2016. Australian director George Miller was the President of the Jury for the main competition. French actor Laurent Lafitte was the host for the opening and closing ceremonies. On 15 Marc ...

where it won the Gan Foundation Support for Distribution Award. It was one of five films nominated for the Best Film Award at the

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Plot

Eyal Spivak is shown at the end of a weeks mourning for his late son. He shows indifference to his neighbors since they purposefully avoided them when his son was near death. He and his wife Vicky agree to return to their routine, but instead Eyal chooses to go after a blanket they missed at the hospice and finds

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, prescribed for his late son, there. He smuggles it and decides to get high with the help of a young neighbor and bonds with him. Vicky asks him to book burial plots near their son, but he forgets and loses the plot. Eyal tries to get the plot and even attends the burial process of the person that is getting their plot and finds closure. Vicky who had a tough day gets emotional when she hears from Eyal that they have lost the plot. After the day Eyal sets out to change things in his life and consider living worth by starting to make his wife smile.

Cast

* as Eyal Spivak *

Tomer Kapon Tomer Capone (also Kapon or Kappon or Capon, he, תומר קאפון; born July 15, 1985) is an Israeli actor. He has starred in popular Israeli exported television such as ''Hostages'' and the political thriller television series ''Fauda''. In ...

as Zohar Zooler * Sharon Alexander as Shmulik Zooler * Carmit Mesilati Kaplan as Keren Zooler *

Jenya Dodina Evgenia Dodina ( he, יבגניה דודינה, russian: Евгения Додина, born 10 December 1964) is an Israeli actress of Belarusian origin. She has appeared in more than thirty films since 1987. Selected filmography References ...

as Vicky Spivak *

Uri Gavriel Uri Gavriel ( he, אורי גבריאל) is an Israeli theater, film and television actor. Winner of the Ophir Award and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2005 as Best Actor in film '' What a Wonderful Place''. In 2018, he appeared as ...

as Refael

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:One Week And A Day 2016 films 2016 drama films 2016 directorial debut films Israeli drama films 2010s Hebrew-language films