Melting Away

Melting Away
Directed by Doron Eran
Produced by Doron Eran
Moshe Edery
Leon Edery
Billy Ben-Moshe
Micky Dotan
Written by Billy Ben-Moshe
Starring Hen Yanni
Ami Weinberg
Limor Goldstein
Music by Michael Harpaz
Cinematography Daniel Kedem
Edited by Reut Han
Release date
  • January 12, 2012 (2012-01-12)
Running time
 86 minutes
Country Israel
Language Hebrew
Anna (Hen Yanni) and Shlomo (Ami Weinberg)
Hen Yanni as Asaf
Hen Yanni as Anna
Hen Yanni as Anna

Melting Away (Hebrew: נמס בגשם‎‎, Namess Ba’Geshem) is a 2012 Israeli drama film written by Billy Ben-Moshe and directed by Doron Eran, starring Hen Yanni in the lead role. This is the first Israeli feature film deals with parents coping with their transgender child. [1]

About the movie

The idea for the movie was conceived after the 2009 Tel Aviv gay centre shooting. Doron Eran and Billy Ben-Moshe watched TV and heard that parents refused to visit their injured kids at the hospital because they were afraid that their friends and relatives would know that their son is homosexual or their daughter is lesbian. The director Doron Eran made auditions for 120 actors until he found Hen Yanni, the actress he chooses for the lead role. [2]

Plot

Shlomo Shapira discovers one day that his teenage son Asaf likes to wear women's clothes. With the silent consent of his wife Galia, he decides to teach his son a lesson. On a rainy night Asaf returns to his parents' home after a party but they refuse to open the door, even though he cries. Shlomo tell Galia that after Asaf discovers the hard world outside he will come back home and will forget all of this nonsense, but he was wrong. Four years later, Shlomo is dying from cancer and Galia turns to Eytan, a private investigator to find her son and tell him about his father. Eytan finds Asaf in a Tel-Aviv gay night club. It turns out that Asaf changed his sex and has become a beautiful singer named Anna. On the next day a woman named Anna came to the hospital where Shlomo is hospitalized saying she is a private nurse sent from the insurance company. Anna visits her father day after day and they gradually get to know each other. She succeeds in conquering Shlomo's heart with her charming personality. At the same time, Galia visits her daughter Anna a few times and gradually she accepts her.

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