Hide and Seek

Set in British Mandate Palestine, HIDE AND SEEK portrays the relationship between Uri, a 12-year-old boy, and Balaban, his teacher, while Uri's parents are away and involved in underground activities against the British occupation. There is a growing suspicion of an informer amongst the Jews, and when Uri watches Balaban meeting and exchanging letters with an Arab, he reports Balaban as a spy. Only later does he discover that Balaban is not an agent for the British but the homosexual lover of the Arab. HIDE AND SEEK thus becomes a remarkable study of the inability of a siege state to tolerate difference.

Born in Jerusalem in 1941, Dan Wolman is one of Israel's leading directors of TV dramas, documentaries and feature films. His work has been screened in film festival around the world, and includes a number of prestigious co-productions. In 1999 Dan Wolman was awarded a Lifetime Acheivement Award at Jersusalem's International Film Festival. He spent the first years of his life in Ethiopia. Then, after finishing high school in Jerusalem, Dan studied cinema at the Film Institute of City College New York from 1962-1965, then completed his studies at New York University from 1965-1968. In 1968 Dan returned to Israel and shot his first feature THE DREAMER, which was an official entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1970. Since then, Dan has written and directed over 20 short and feature-length films.