Urban Feel

Running time: 105 mins

Will connecting with the one we love free us from despair and want? What if the despair and longing are from what we love? This is the world of the inhabitants we meet in Jonathan Sagall's Urban Feel--a chain of events linking their pasts and the cycle of saturnine acts that continue to keep them apart. The eccentric characters in Urban Feel are strangely enough very real. We witness Eva and Robby as chaos impinges on their well-ordered marriage by their permitting Eva's former lover, Emanuel, to move in. Emanuel's compelling presence and charm makes resistance futile. But not even the healing magic of his bath herbs can wash away the consumptive nature of restless souls. Urban Feel is a captivating journey through an endless maze of search and wants with the only exit being one's accepting the bitter reality of what love is. Awards: Winner, Best Picture - Haifa Film Festival; Winner, Best Actress - Israeli Film Academy Awards; Winner, Best Supporting Actress - Israeli Film Academy Awards. --Barinda Samra