Sweet Mud

Israel, 1974. On a secluded kibbutz in the desert, 12-year-old Dvir realizes that his mother is mentally ill. In this closed community, Dvir navigates between the kibbutz’s absurd attempts to implement the ideal of equality and the painful reality that his mother has been abandoned by their community. Dvir tries to save his mother until he is forced to make a chilling decision that will change his life forever…

Dror Shaul is an award-winning film and commercial writer/director from Tel Aviv, Israel. His first feature film „Sima Vaknin” (Witch) was released in July 2003. In 2003 Shaul participated in the Sundance Directors’ and Screenwriters’ Labs with his latest script „Sweet Mud”. „Sweet Mud” won several award, for example the Crystal Bear in Berlin and the Award of the Israeli Film Academy as Best Picture.