AMERICA Trailer, Miami Jewish Film Festival 2023

Visually iridescent and unexpectedly uplifting, America is the hotly anticipated awardwinning film from The Cakemaker director Ofir Raul Graizer. Sincerely felt to the last with vibrant production design reminiscent of the best in Pedro Almodovars established oeuvre, the film follows a Chicagobased swimming coach who is unexpectedly forced to return to his native Israel after his fathers death. After contacting an old friend he hasnt seen in 10 years as well as meeting his fiancée an incident soon occurs that creates a seismic shift in the lives of each of them. A summery melodrama, bright and verdant and attuned to the languor of the Middle East heat, America has a novelistic sprawl and an intimate bent as it carefully unfolds the three welldrawn characters in beautifully captured chapters. Winner of the Best Actress Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival, this sensual cinematic and cinephile experience is a work of true magic, all built with love and redeemed by love. To learn more about