Tom Nesher reworks a personal tragedy into an affirmational call to “choose life,” casting radiant Lia Elalouf as a thinly ...

"Come Closer" is the official Israeli submission ... a 20-year-old woman whose teenage brother (Ido Tako) is struck by a car and killed. Eden discovers that her brother had a secret girlfriend ...

“Come Closer” does the work of confronting this tragedy, but not in the way you might expect: The film opens with charismatic young Nati (Ido Tako) nearly getting run over on a bike. In this ...

She began writing the screenplay for Come Closer not long after her brother ... still very attached to her younger brother, ...