Don't Forget Me
Ram Nehari
An intimate and yet unfathomable love story of two young people in Tel Aviv
The film is best described as an eccentric near-love story, a slightly disturbing Romeo & Juliet.
The story of a mentally ill young man named Neil, who meets Tom, an anorexic girl. He is on a vacation from the institution where he is normally confined while she has run away from the hospital where she is a current patient. They set out on a nocturnal journey that reveals their dreams of returning to the people they were before their minds betrayed their hearts. The characters in this film are chemically and emotionally unbalanced. They experience no epiphanies. Their adventures are small, even a bit pathetic, and their dreams are bound to fail. And yet they meet.
"In the most beautiful Israeli film of the year, Don't Forget Me, the talented Nitai Gvirtz and Nitzan Layla Shavita have created characters from the depths of their hearts, and have brought them to life on the screen. Ram Nehari has constructed it all with such accuracy as to create a unique world, natural and honest."
I tend towards eccentric rom-coms, though I detest romance and am a terrible cynic. For many years I mentored and directed short films made by mentally ill people. Don't Forget Me is based on these experiences and encompasses all of my obsessions; the things that bother me, and the things that make me laugh. It's important that this film be funny. Making people laugh is my battle for self-respect; making them cry is begging for pity. I wanted characters that are chemically end emotionally unbalanced. They undergo no epiphanies. Their adventures are small, even a bit pathetic, and their dreams are bound to fail, but because I do love a good rom-com, they do emerge. They've met one another.
Director RAM NEHARI
Producer YIFAT PRASTELNIK, VERONIQUE ZERDOUN, CHRISTOPH PETZENHAUSER
Camera SHARK DE MAYO
Editor IDO MOCHRIK