Mabul (The Flood) Trailer

Directed by Guy Nattiv.

Everything is complicated in Yoni’s life. He’s almost 13, real gifted, but physically undeveloped and struggles daily to grow up before his threatening up-coming Bar Mitzvah. He sells homework in order to secretly buy a body building wonder powder, which so far does nothing, he stretches every night with heavy weights tied to his legs and screams with full force in front of the wind to thicken his girlish, unstable voice, that gave him the ridiculous nick name — Helium. His new classmates, a year older and two heads taller, bully him at every chance they get and his parents barely say a word to each other and communicate through him, if at all.

As if all this isn’t enough — only a week before the ceremony — his autistic brother, Tomer, 17, hidden for years in a hostel that is now shut down — returns home. This shakes not only Yoni’s life, but the unstable foundation of the entire family. Being the only real adult in his family — Yoni ends up coping alone with a brother, he hasn’t seen for ten years, who becomes obsessed with “Noah’s Tale” which Yoni practices towards his ceremony in the synagogue. Grasping the world a little differently — Tomer inhales every word, and starts collecting and pairing animals, placing them in an old boat in the shed and inventing “The Flood” game.

In a pretty rough growing-up journey — Yoni finds out painful truths about his dysfunctional parents, about mistakes of the past, and sorrows of the present.