The Israeli entry for the Academy Award’s best foreign language film of 2007, Sweet Mud focuses on a troubled family alienated from the communal conformity around them and, not incidentally, on the failings of the kibbutz system.

The story is told through the eyes of 12-year-old Dvir, who sees the psychological disintegration of his emotionally fragile mother Miri and the disappointing, flawed adults who cannot help her. Soon, Miri spins into a dark despair that spreads over the lives of all.

Called Adama Meshug’at (Crazy Mud) in Hebrew, it holds within its delicate, insightful grasp the illuminating convergence of political reality and the individual in a personal struggle to transcend the constraints of the human condition.

Sundance 2007 Winner