AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
Christie Isn't Coming Back

Israel 2018 | 13 minutes

Jerusalem Film Festival

When Filipina stay-at-home nurse Christie disappears, Araleh is forced to help his brother tend to their dying father. Trying to protect himself, he begins scattering white lies, which only bring closer the inevitable end they all feared.

Director: Avner Matsliach

Source: Stav Meron Morag, Pardes Films

A Filipina caregiver working in Israel finds herself falling for a younger man and must confront the complexities of working illegally.
Dicatat oleh בְּשֵם יְהוָֹה וְיֵשׁוּעַ וְרוחַ מִרְיָם di 7:28:00 PG
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Walang ligaya sa lupa na hindi dinilig ng luha.

Filipino Proverb: There is no earthly bliss not watered by tears.

Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.