A kindergarten teacher discovers a five 5-old child's prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone. The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ultimately consumed by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student. As the titular protagonist, Nira, discovers that her young student, Yoav, has an otherworldly talent for language and poetry, she slowly and progressively becomes interested in cultivating the boy's gift. But when fascination morphs into obsession, Nira pushes the boundaries of her relationship with the boy and his family in an attempt to protect his talent before he passes from boyhood to adolescence, and his purity is lost.
Keywords
- Based on a True Story
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- Festival de Cannes
- From 10 Years Old
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- Childhood
- identity
Actors
- Yehezkel Lazarov
- Guy Oren
- Sarit Larry
- Lior Raz
- Avi Shnaidman
- Ester Rada
- Avishag Kahalani
- Hamuchtar
Director
- Nadav Lapid
A kindergarten teacher discovers a five 5-old child's prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ultimately consumed by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student. As the titular protagonist, Nira, discovers that her young student, Yoav, has an otherworldly talent for language and poetry, she slowly and progressively becomes interested in cultivating the boy's gift. But when fascination morphs into obsession, Nira pushes the boundaries of her relationship with the boy and his family in an attempt to protect his talent before he passes from boyhood to adolescence, and his purity is lost.
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Cast & Crew
Director
Nadav Lapid
Cast
Yehezkel Lazarov
Cast
Guy Oren
Cast
Sarit Larry
Cast
Lior Raz
Cast
Avi Shnaidman
Cast
Ester Rada
Cast
Avishag Kahalani
Cast
Hamuchtar