(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 26 - We will all remember 2020 as the year of the pandemic but for the talented Shira Haas it also represented the beginning of a period of continuous professional triumph.
First with Unorthodox, the Netflix miniseries that has earned her various awards including an Emmy nomination and which will probably also lead her to the GoldenGlobes competition.
Now with Asia, the first feature by director Ruthy Pribar, who after winning three awards (including Best Actress for Shira Haas) at the Tribeca Film Festival, has been chosen to represent Israel in the race for the Oscar for best international film.
"It was just a normal year, like everyone else - joked the 25 year old actress in the streaming meeting on the film organized by The Wrap -. Somehow I'm still metabolizing it. However, having to stay in my 'safe place', at home mine, it has also allowed me not to end up overwhelmed by everything that is happening to me and makes me feel truly grateful. "
'Asia', which has also won nine Ophir Awards (Israel's leading film awards), stages a mother-daughter bond that grows and becomes so strong that it becomes almost symbiotic, under the worst of circumstances.
The protagonist is Asia, a nurse and single mother who grew up in Israel as an immigrant from Russia, her 17-year-old daughter Vika, who fights against a neurodegenerative disease (she is not named but one can think of ALS, ed).
Their initially difficult and detached relationship changes dramatically as Vika's disease suddenly worsens.
The film, of great intensity, was born from a personal experience lived by the director, born in 1982, who lost her sister 14 years ago.
Shira Haas finished reading the script in tears "and it's not so usual, I don't cry so easily in life. Every part of my body told me to make the film. I considered it an honor to be able to play such a wonderful and complex character. of mourning, of loss, but in history there is also a profound sensitivity and empathy ".
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