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Dawit Tekelaeb, left, and Daniel Gad star in the Israeli Oscar contender White Eye. (Tomer Shushan via JTA)
An Israeli film examining the lives of African migrants in the country was nominated Monday for an Oscar in the Best Live Action Short Film category, after being selected from a shortlist of ten films.
“White Eye,” by 33-year-old director Tomer Shushan, tackles an Israeli problem familiar to Americans: Explicit or subliminal prejudice by much of the population and police against non-white residents, especially migrants.
The film already won the Best Short Film Award at the Haifa International Film Festival in 2019 and the Grand Jury Award at the SXSW Film Festival 2020, as well as awards at a film festival in the United Kingdom.
A scene from “White Eye.”
The Israeli short film “White Eye” received an Oscar nomination for Best Live Action Short Film, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday.
Directed and written by Tomer Shushan, the 20-minute Hebrew language film is about a man who tries to retrieve his stolen bicycle from a stranger and in the process “struggles to remain human.” The movie addresses the topics of immigration and privilege.
“White Eye” is based on a true story that happened to Shushan, the director told Atlanta’s
Fox 5. His bike went missing the same day he planned to see his writing mentor, and after arriving late to the meeting and sharing the details, his mentor realized it could make for a plot; forty minutes later, Shushan wrote the script for “White Eye.” The entire film was shot in one night in one fluid take, without any camera cuts.
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