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The Kindergarten Teacher
(Haganenet)

Director in Person
$12 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Nadav Lapid.
With Sarit Larry, Avi Shnaidman, Lior Raz.
Israel/France, 2014, DCP, color, 119 min.
Hebrew with English subtitles.

00:00 / 00:00
      The Kindergarten Teacher (Haganenet) introduction and post-screening discussion with filmmaker Nadav Lapid and Haden Guest.

      The discovery of a preternaturally erudite poet in her kindergarten class opens a complex door for Nira, the unsettled character of the title. It seems all who encounter young Yoav experience the phenomenon in a different way, and no one except for Nira seems to recognize the depth of his strange gift. Holding him in a sometimes uncomfortably exalted regard, Nira wants to foster his poetry without corrupting its purity, yet even she is not immune to taking advantage of his seemingly effortless lyricism for her own, unresolved ends. With Lapid’s uniquely quiet strains of humor, pathos and suspense, the film darkly ponders what to do with transcendence, with authentic expression, with elusive, baffling beauty and truth. In the midst of a world burdened by so much surface noise, Nira attempts to realize her own radical poem through one direct, impossible action.

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