NEW - RACC Diaspora & Art Film Festival presents Monument (a film by Bryan Singer)

This central event of our festival presents the premiere of an outstanding film, distinguished by its particular relevance within the context of contemporary historical realities. The film is based on a true story told to director Bryan Singer by the films protagonist—architect Amnon Rekhter—during a chance encounter. In 1999, as Israel’s withdrawal of southern Lebanon nears its breaking point, renowned Israeli architect Yacov Rechter is commissioned to design a monument honoring fallen soldiers of the Christian South Lebanon Army. His son and successor—the idealist Amnon—challenges him, proposing the creation of something radically different: a memorial to all victims of the war, both Christian and Muslim. As father and son clash in debates over loyalty, complicity, and art, their creative journey becomes a mirror image of the fate of a divided nation and a fractured region; and the monument itself—which stood for a mere 36 hours, thereby becoming the shortest-lived in history—transforms into a poignant symbol of a peace that never took hold. From the acclaimed director of BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, X-MEN and THE USUAL SUSPECTS
With: Joe Mazzello (Bohemian Rhapsody), Jon Voigt (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy), Ori Pfeffer (Terrence Malick’s The Way Of The Wind, For The Love Of a Woman), Alon Aboutboul (Two Fingers From Sidon), Igal Naor (House Of Saddam).