Christopher Vourlias Strand Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights for “Africa,” Israeli director Oren Gerner’s personal story about an aging man learning to reinvent himself, Variety has learned.“Africa” is the story of 68-year-old Meir, a retiree who discovers that after 30 years of planning the annual village celebration, the job has been given to an inexperienced group of local teens instead.
As the ground beneath his feet gives way at this sudden upheaval, he begins to search for a way to restore a sense of meaning and vitality to his life.The film stars the director’s father, Meir, as a semi-fictionalized version of himself, alongside other members of the Gerner family and their community in the Israeli town of.
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