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    Sedona Film Fest presents ‘America’ premiere July 5-11

    Powerful, award-winning drama finds past connections coming together in series of events
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    A swimming coach from Chicago returns to his homeland Israel after 10 years of absence. A visit to a childhood friend and his newly engaged fiancée will set a series of events in motion that will affect everyone's lives in “America”.
    A swimming coach from Chicago returns to his homeland Israel after 10 years of absence. A visit to a childhood friend and his newly engaged fiancée will set a series of events in motion that will affect everyone's lives in “America”.

    Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “America” showing July 5-11 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre.

    Eli is an Israeli swimming coach living in the United States. A phone call notifies him that his father, who he has not been in touch with, passed away.

    Eli reluctantly travels to Tel Aviv for the first time in 10 years to deal with the estate. On his short trip, he decides to visit his childhood friend, Yotam, who used to swim with Eli when they were young. However, Yotam has left swimming long ago. He is running a small and beautiful flower shop in Jaffa, together with his fiancée Iris, a talented florist who, like Eli, is not in touch with her family.

    A swimming coach from Chicago returns to his homeland Israel after 10 years of absence. A visit to a childhood friend and his newly engaged fiancée will set a series of events in motion that will affect everyone's lives in “America”.
    A swimming coach from Chicago returns to his homeland Israel after 10 years of absence. A visit to a childhood friend and his newly engaged fiancée will set a series of events in motion that will affect everyone’s lives in “America”.

    When Eli comes to visit the two, he will set in motion a series of events that will affect everyone’s lives.

    “America” is story set between a flower shop and an ancient monastery, between a swimming pool and the Mediterranean, between life and death — and somewhere in the middle.

    “Genuine, deep affection flows in all directions.” — Screen Daily

    “Bright, visually iridescent and unexpectantly buoyant.” — Variety

    “Engrossing, mesmerizing, extraordinarily moving.” — The Jerusalem Post

    “A novelistic exploration of duty and companionship that is as vibrant and colorful as it is humane.” — The Film Verdict

    “America” will be shown at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre July 5-11. Showtimes will be Friday, Saturday and Monday, July 5, 6 and 8 at 3:30 p.m.; and Tuesday and Thursday, July 9 and 11 at 6:30 p.m.

    Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.

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