- Struggling with post-retirement life, 68-year-old Meir goes out on a personal journey to reconstruct his shaken sense of meaning and vitality, in this cinematic experience of an aging parent crafted by the hands of his loving son.
- When retired 68 year-old Meir discovers that his 40 years of planning the annual village celebration have been summarily discarded and the job has been given to inexperienced local teens instead, the ground beneath his feet begins to give way. In his effort to restore a sense of meaning and vitality, Meir begins to rebel against the inevitable: the betrayal of his physical body, the growing distance from his children, and the loss of relevance. Reconstructing fiction from real life, AFRICA is the cinematic journey of an aging parent crafted by the hands of his loving son, in this deeply personal story on reinventing oneself, as years go by.
- In the village of Nirit, located close to the border of the West Bank, 68-year-old former engineer and retiree Meir (Meir Gerner) discovers he has not been asked to plan the traditional village ceremony as he has for the past 30 years. After failed attempts to regain the job, which was handed off to the local youth, Meir turns his efforts toward building a new wooden bed for his grandson in an attempt to restore his sense of vitality and purpose. Through this new fixation, Meir's inner struggle slowly unfolds: the betrayal of his body, his attempts to communicate with his distant children, his injured masculine pride, and the lingering search for life's meaning. The energy and obsession underlying his actions are a rebellion, rebellion against the body that's betraying him, rebellion against the absence of meaning in his life, rebellion against the terminal nature of a human's time on the planet. Yet through this struggle, a new meaning, one with the possibility of redemption, is born. Meir's reflections are punctuated with conversations with loved ones and through precious vignettes of a past vacation to Namibia with his wife Maya (Maya Gerner), which distantly echo his inner life.—Toronto International Film Festival
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