Michal Aviad will attend the screening
Michal Aviad’s powerful debut feature Invisible is the gripping story of two women who meet by chance and realise they are still haunted by a shared nightmare from their past. Driven by passionate and impressive performances by Ronit Elkabetz and Jenya Dodina, this haunting Israeli film details how two intelligent women attempt to deal with the fact that they were victims of a serial rapist some 20 years earlier.
Reserved television editor Nira (Dodina) comes across Lily (Elkabetz), a left-wing activist, while covering an event, and realises that she knows her from attending the line-up to identify the rapist. Both are strong, independent, women but at the same time both are haunted by what happened. Nira becomes obsessed with looking back to the rapes and gently inserts herself into Lily’s life. Elkabetz makes a striking impact as the seemingly perfect wife/mother/campaigner whose life is beginning to crack ever-so-slightly. Equally fine is Dodina, who realises that re-living the past will help the two women deal with their futures.
Director Michal Aviad shoots with restraint, never exploiting the harrowing subject matter, but allowing the moving story of two women dealing with a long repressed trauma be told in an engrossing and emotive manner.
Mark Adams, Screen International
Winner, Ecumenical Prize, Berlin Film Festival
