Around the Bed of a Dying Collaborator

Israel, 2018, 50’
Directors and Scriptwriters: Tal Michael and David Ofek
Cinematographer: Tulik Galon
Producer: Ronnie Manor
Sound: Ronnie Calderon
Editor: Ido Bahat
Production Company: Maagalot Productions

“We are guilty, we’ve brought shame on ourselves”. This is how Unes Awida summarizes decades of collaboration with Israeli security forces and helping Jews to buy land from Palestinians. Now he is slowly facing death in his bed, in a house guarded by several cameras and constantly under the threat of a lethal attack from Palestinians seeking to exact justice on the collaborator.

Tal Michael

Tal Michael, born in 1974, is a film & TV director and content editor. Michael is a graduate of the Film and Television department at Tel Aviv University, and a former PhD student in Comparative Literature. Her film works gained prizes and participated in international festivals and acquired by various channels in Israel and abroad.

Filmography
No Rain (1999),
Bench Player (2001),
Who’s Afraid of Mordechai Vanunu? (2002),
Israel is not waiting… (2005),
My Little Empire (documentary TV series, 2006),
Pitbulls: Flesh&Blood (2014),
Around the Bed of a Dying Collaborator (2018).

David Ofek

Born in Ramat Gan, David Ofek graduated the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School in 1992. Ofek’s graduation documentary “High-Tech Dreams“ won 1993 Jerusalem Film Festival Best Short Award. His extra graduation short Home participated in dozens of film festivals worldwide. Today David Ofek is one of Israel’s leading and prolific documentary and television series makers.

Selected Filmography
The Barbecue People (2002),
No. 17 is Anonymous (2003),
Melanoma My Love (2006),
Bright Days (2007),
The Tale of Nicolai & the Law of Return (2008),
Luxuries (2011), In Between (2013),
Handa Handa 4 (2013),
House Call (2016),
Born in Deir Yassin (2017),
Toklomaty (2018),
Around the Bed of a Dying Collaborator (2018).