Firebird

For ten-year-old Ori, his mother’s life as a theatre actor holds as much fascination as it does fear.




Approaching adolescence in an unstable home, he is haunted by her nightly stage appearances, and the suspicion and resentment her profession evokes in people around her, at home and among their neighbours. Increasingly consumed by an obsessive hatred of the stage, Ori is irrevocably drawn into a pa...