From the moment of birth, man is timed. For Israelis, time ticks double speed, pursued by a glorious past, an uncertain future and a dubious present.

Four jazz musicians accompany the story of the improvised management of time since the unplanned birth of the Israeli state. The film is a chance to experience time as you watch it.

It's a mosaic of dialogues; with a little girl, a psychiatrist, an Olympic swimmer, a news editor, a lifeguard, a stand-up comic, and others.
 
It's about time in a country in which Middle Eastern time coexists with Western time, where religious time rubs shoulders with secular time. A country in which the ticking of uncertainty threatens adults and challenges youth. Yet in this land of compelling diversity, everyone, without exception, marches to the beat of time, from the day they are born till the day they die. After all, isn't that what people do everywhere?
 
This is a very human story about people wondering if they have used time to its fullest, or if they could have done it any other way.
Have you got the time to see this film?

 NHK Japan Prize International Educational Program Contest –
won the Grand Prix  and the Govenor of Tokyo Prize  for Best Documentary, 2002
 Jerusalem International Film Festival - won the
Wolgin prize for Best Documentary and the Lipper Prize for Best Script, 2001
 Toronto International Film Festival, 2001
 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, 2001
 INPUT, Rotterdam - selected for Best of INPUT showcase,2002
 Goteborg Film Festival (Sweden), 2002
 Venice International Television Festival,2002
 Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival, 2002
 Wisconsin Film Festival, 2002
 Mediawave Film Festival, Hungary, 2002
 Israel Film Festival, U.S.A, 2002
 Stockholm Jewish Film Festival, 2002
 Kalamata International Documentary Film Festival, Greece, 2002
 Docupolis, Barcelona, 2002
 Boston Jewish Film Festival , 2002
 Washington Jewish Film Festival, 2002
 Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, 2002
 Tucson Jewish Film Festival, 2003
 ISRATIM - Paris Israeli Film Festival, 2003
 Allentown Jewish Film Festival, 2003
 Minneapolis Festival of Jewish Film, 2003
 THE PROMISE - THE LAND festival, Linz, Austria, 2003
 New Jersey Jewish Film Festival, 2003
 Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, 2003


QUOTES

"A deliciously head-spinning hourlong dissertation on the ways Israelis perceive time's flux, set to a percolating jazz score."
THE BOSTON GLOBE

"This stunning film uses an inventive post modern structure, and extraordinarily tight editing, to open out a narrowly national question into the universal realm of philosophy. And along with everything else, it's a laugh a minute." 
KAY ARMATAGE, TORONTO INT. FILM  FESTIVAL


"This film provides an honest and penetrating look at the Jewish state at the beginning of the 21st century. It may be the best documentary of its kind that I have ever seen."   
WASHINGTON JEWISH WEEK

"Surprisingly thoughtful…a documentary about temporal relativity that would bring a wry smile to Albert Einstein." 
THE PALM BEACH POST

"A superbly crafted cinematic essay, realized with great humour and intelligence…a delightful celebration of insight, humanity, and universal relevance." 
JURY'S VERDICT - Best Documenatry Award Jerusalem Film Festival

"From zippy credits and slick editing to its cool jazz score, pic ticks along with near perfection." 
VARIETY

"It is rare to see a program that can delight, provoke, cause to question, and entertain in such an original way. The fact that it deals with one of the most abstract and intractable notions makes it all the more worthy of this prize. This is a program that truly is ahead of its time - as well as being all about time."
 JURY'S VERDICT - Best Documentary Film, JAPAN PRIZE 2002