Reminded me the films of the Georgian-Armenian director Sergei Parajanov…
The high qualities of cinematography; the production design
and the architectural perception behind..
very suitable for the Art festivals….

Your film is a real poem

A fusion of aesthetic grace and metaphysical contemplation..
uniquely poetic and meditative cinematic language
Truly beautiful and I am sure our readers will similarly love it
it has a timeless quality….. I have no doubt it will become a contemporary classic.
Beautiful tribute to your grandmother I was really moved by it…

The movie tells about the importance of one's roots.

I saw the film for the first time, I found it incredibly beautiful!
It was really very.. very.. moving experience.
I think it was obviously Art built and I think Master full the way you combined
Issues of tradition with issues of place with issues of architecture
with issues of history and so forth I think that if someone asked me: what’s the film about, I would have to say
It’s really about the essence of HUMAN LIFE.
And what you did beautifully was, the talk about the essence of human life in the film and how it relates to all of these things that I listed: The place of Tsefat, the history of Tsefat, your family, architecture and so forth.
So congratulation, it’s a really remarkable achievement!
Really moving, I will recommend it to everyone I know.

Beauty is such a powerful emotion and your film is an exquisite soliloquy
on the poetics of architecture.
One of the more moving films I have ever watched quite frankly…
An elixir of faith in these troubled times.
What a gift.
The quality of your story beautifully reflected the remembered
spiritual quality of this amazing town in Israel.
Your architecture is memorable and eternal
and this film is born of the same creative genius.

This may be an understatement and in the eyes of an outsider of the
multidiscipline coverage,
it was a feast to the senses.
To be honest, there were scenes where I found myself at the edge of my seat…
I related to the filmmaker's take on what gives a place a soul,
what makes us feel an authentic sense of being "at home" in it. ...
I can almost imagine myself walking in her slow footsteps
but in my own memory of my hometown,
my grandmother's incomparable, unmatched cooking
and in my own experience of the strong influence of my religion as I was growing up.
I felt a profound depth in her architectural practice
and I felt lucky to be allowed a peak in her mind –
blurred lines between religion, art, culture.
How there are no accidents (or there shouldn't be) in design. Beyond function,
there is purpose.
I've read and heard these in the past, but watching it on film,
applied to physical structures and within the context of religion and culture
made me feel like it was spoken to and made to be understood by me.
It has been a while since an unconventional film has evoked this many
emotions and thoughts.
…..from my takeaways, my expectations were exceeded.

From the first few minutes I knew one thing – that I didn't want
this movie to end.
Because it's not “just” a movie.
It is a poignant, beautiful, philosophical, multidimensional, dramatic,
bitter, wise elegy about the world,
which on a daily basis is hidden under patches of peeling layers of time.
And yet so little is enough, and yet so much is needed
- light blue paint that will bring out the pattern of the bygone world from under the plaster, pure awareness,
that just as detail creates a whole, so our memory and love immortalize fleetingness.
Eternal moment - that's what this movie is about…
Watching it, I thought about Proust and Bruno Schulz.
You have created an extraordinary mystery of living memory and love. ...
I do not know how to describe it;
If I had to somehow express my delight, I would probably peel
an apple for you..,
or stir in basin with a stick for a long time,
to conjure up a bright blue color as thanks for this movie.
I like many scenes in this movie.
I was especially touched when, in the last scene, two women recite Psalm 1,
legitimately changing gender from masculine to feminine.
No wonder, after all, it was Mizmor L’Safta.

I was deeply moved by
the presentation, and I am of the opinion - as are Axel and Nora - that you have
succeeded in creating a real work of art.
I remember, for example, the Hebrew sound of
your voice, which gave the film an almost cabalistic atmosphere.
Furthermore, two scenes in particular have stayed in my mind
because of their intensity in terms of action, content, and colors…
the little girl very, very carefully took the carrot juice..
the trolley with the bowls containing the grapes and the
figs, with their absolutely beautiful colors, laboriously
rolling over the rough terrain....
And the dedication with which the food was prepared in the kitchen..
mindfully, sustainably…..
For me the film is more than just personal..
it has several dimensions, such as the mediation of customs
which are also shown and which seem strange to us
and at the same time fascinating...
I hope that a lot of people will have the opportunity to see the film

I was at the screening of your Film at MIFF 2018 Mumbai.
I was overwhelmed
By the re-creation of childhood memories of the place you grew up. At certain
stage of life it happens with most of the people that they create mental images of
the places and people associated with bygone era.
Your film helped me to do exactly that for me.
It is strength of the cinema and images that transcend geographies and cultures.
Unknown languages and rituals do not become obstacles.
Your film successfully portrays Timelessness and simplicity, and repeating
patterns emerging out of man- made structures.

I watched the film 4 times it’s really such a beautiful film, I couldn’t get enough of it..
One of the screenings that I did, I just read the subtitles..
Then going back to the film and knowing that I have already knew
what you are talking about.
It’s a quite film…just listening things happens…no dialogues…unlike most films
Experiences- jam packed with noise and so many things happen simultaneously…
It was a relief and blessing to watch your film over and over..
It was like a prayer in a sense, it had that kind of intensity.
Very slow camera movement, amazing sounds, it had a lot of layers.

It’s a really contemplating experience to see your film.
It really slows you down, and it’s really about embodiment and emotions
-intuition that you bring the viewer into your family.
It’s really great!. I mean it’s beautiful…
At the end of the film I am part of your family.
Reading the subtitles they are very tense.
And suddenly in the state of meditation and silence
I am dropped into these very powerful insights-they take me in and suddenly
I am out and you bring me in again…It’s like when you meditate –
your mind goes up and then you kind of bring it back…

Your film 'And the alley she whitewashed in light blue' was indeed an insightful film.
I have been asked to create a report on your film, and your work for my college magazine….

Thank you again for your presentation - your amazing film you showed us here
which was greatly appreciated by your audience.

Yesterday Karin and I watched Nili’s film
It was a wonderful experience. The film had two effects on us:
It stimulated our thoughts, while simoultaniesly it invited us to meditation.
Maybe this is due to Buddhist spirit, the Dalai Lama and Zen being cited.
We were touched to learn about Nili’s grandmother’s hotel
and her laborious life - only once a year, at Passover, she had no guests, went to
the synagogue and celebrated with her family.
By citing Christopher Alexander and - I assume – Nili’s thoughts, the film
presented deep thoughts on architecture.
A bell was ringing in me, when the fundamental and ubiquitous role of patterns
was stressed (“Pattern formation and pattern recognition in Synergetics”).
The courtyard example intrigued me particularly:
emptiness acquires its significance and charm by its surroundings - the transition
softened by arcades – twins of emptiness and solid columns.
Nili’s film is a real present.

The film is beautiful, sensitive and emotionally moving!

Your film is really wonderful. It contains the revealed and the hidden,
it deepens to the roots of the soul…
It's a smart movie and one pleasant viewing.
All my day my friend and I speak of its qualities.
Turn it upside down and do not go out of its alleys….

It's a beautiful creation. I enjoyed it very much, it reminded me of such excellent films as Sergei Parajanov or Tarkovsky's "Mirror" especially
In an attempt to reach the essence of the term "home"

The movie is charming! Fine, beautiful, touching accurately, beautifully edited,
excellent text, extremely moving music, really very beautiful ....
Hope we will see it in all kinds of places, because it is most worthy, well done !!
This is a film that succeeds in combining Buddhism with aesthetic questions
concerning harmony and universal vision of the concept of beauty.
Family heritage, a girl who sees the beautiful meaning of religion, Grandmother's
life, and what Tsefat is with the holiness that is floating over it.
All of these, to combine in a film with the right balances is really not simple.

You moved us to tears today.
We were very happy to take part in an enjoyable and unique viewing of your wonderful film.
Flooding us with moments of delightful nostalgia.
The originality of the cinematography of all the magical corners of the wonderful hotel of
your Grandmother ….
We have always felt part of your warm and unique family - all its generations.
The Dining room tables ...the afternoon seating corners for the coffee and cookies....
the wonderful courtyard we always had a hiding places.. the famous pomegranate tree you
spoke about so much, the kitchen of your grandmother that was an ideal place for hiding…
the garden with the pine trees was a special piece of God.
To this day, when I hear the sound of pine trees, I immediately see the garden of the Hotel
in front of my eyes ..Everything was so innocent, impeccable.
The memory is strong, and forever remains.....
Thank you Nili for allowing us to be part of your journey

The film left me with a feeling of strange distress that I wanted to share ... It
accompanies me still, and also the indecision about what a home is. It is more a
sense of a strong experience that leaves you with question marks….
On one hand - wonderful aesthetics and longing, and on the other -
melancholy that I can't find the reason for.
A sense of penetration into the world of the dead… and a question that constantly
in my mind: What is a home, and if a home is in anyway a place? Is it a nostalgia
for the stones? to the childhood dreams? to the people?
The sense of dreaming in the film …sometimes with a few moving extras than returning
to their freezing, as well as the music accompanying the film was an excellent choice.
Long after the screening, I was still preoccupied with the question of why the distress?
Perhaps because of the feeling that our memory can't really be reconstructed ...
perhaps because of the void? Perhaps because of the lack of life….

Since I watched the film for the first time, its amazing images come back to my
mind and arouse thoughts and longings. You managed to convey in once the
child's gaze, the feeling of the space, the materials of place and time.
The close-ups and the pace of the apple peel, the layers of lime ... the superposition
of the site in the landscape and the apples in the pot,
the rhythm, the music and above all the pure love for a woman that with ten
fingers built a world and good for all people ...
There was not even one piece in the film that did not stir our heart ...
M respect and appreciation ....

I enjoyed it a lot…. The film is well and beautifully photographed, with great
understanding in the light, beautifully edited.
aesthetically pleasing, with an excellent rhythm, with great work of color, light and
shade as well as well - made reconstruction. Good job!

Your sensitive film taking us through the enchanting landscapes of the Galilee, to
Tsefat of the time of your childhood, to the alleys and hotel Tel Aviv that your
grandmother founded is exciting and moving. Clarifies the sources of your creation
as an artist and architect.
Thank you for the experience

Watching your wonderful movie for the second time,
Sharpened the attention to the details embedded in it,
enhancing the pleasure of your sensitive and invested creation.

It was emotionally exciting yesterday,
the film is charming, sensitive and exciting. You did a wonderful job
in a good part of it I sat with tears in my eyes,
you managed to convey pleasant memories that are also hidden in me,
into lively and moving visuals.
You managed to explain a little about who Nili is and why she is the way she is today
and most of all you fulfilled a dream, it's inspiring

I identified with the girl, I was moved and felt as if returning in the tunnel of time.
Reminding, enlightening, and well describing unforgettable magical moments.
I still think about the wonderful film.

A "Breathing" film, could last another hour or two..
There is something addictive in walking through the alleys….
You made me want to peel an apple and not just bite it…..
A special and moving film. Nili breathes life into a world that has disappeared…

Your film continued to engage the group even after we split,
and in the evening when we met again….
It is clear that each viewer see different things in one same creation, but your film
went to the extreme in this respect.
It contains the strong story of your grandmother and the hotel, the scenes that looks
like a beautiful paintings, the architectural fable,
And the weave it all together !
There are shots that will sure come back to me later in the week.
The ceremonial, the two women stop to talk to two neighbors standing on the
balconies, the repetition of patterns, plucking the feathers, cutting the herring ....
How many apples did she is peel every day? ...
and how much I discussed with Ilan the layers of the lime…..
As one of the viewers said "the film is not perfect, it is more than that"!
And this is my great appreciation, about your courage. You dared to make the film,
and make it like that. You can't describe such an aesthetic and poetic film as a war
movie, but that's what I thought when I watched it, that one can't underestimate
you as a warrior. That was your answer to the young man's question to "how do
you live in this world"? "Accepting the horrible tension between the dream and
the constrains - the opposing forces". You just do it. Optimism is a moral duty.

I watched the film today and enjoyed it a lot.
Watching the viewers reactions - they were fascinated !

I really enjoyed the movie. The rhythm of the film really pleased me thanks to the
Zen Buddhist education I received in the past…
The technique of the cinematography is excellent. What else can I add?
Touching the heart and excellent

Great thanks to you for screening the film.
I enjoyed it a lot..... I really liked the soundtrack! the exposition.
Enjoying the choice of the music and your quiet narration.
Almost possible to immerse myself in memories via your film, and to sense
a feeling of a place.
Thank you!!!
You could see an auditorium full of excited viewers.

First and foremost, we enjoyed the film.
I learned in a clear and beautiful way about public space, the meaning of an inner
courtyard, the boundary between an open space and a private - intimate space,
and the universality of it all.
The film made me see places connected to my home in the past and the present,
in a new light, complex, more interesting ...
At the beginning of the film you wonder "What makes a place a feeling of a home ?"
In this film it is clear that Grandma's personality is what makes the hotel and its surroundings…
Thank you for such a beautiful film

Thank you so much, Nili, for your remarkable film.
When I returned home Shabbat after watching the film and speaking with you, I traveled all over the internet to read and watch videos on your thinking and work.
In Felicia Blumenthal Music center (you designed), I noted immediately
that the space and details were completely different from what I’ve experienced
in this city Tel-Aviv.
Similarly, the cheerful space on Rashi Senior Citizens day center (you designed)
If possible, I will watch the film again.

Run to see!
It is a film from another world - slow, lingering, in a way that makes it possible to truly listen to things, experience them and marvel at them.
A corrective experience in the face of the speed and jerks that is common.
Great pleasure!

Your movie is stunning!

I loved the movie

The film is very sensitive and beautiful
I greatly enjoyed it
Well done
I will recommend to friends

I greatly enjoyed it
It's not just a movie
It's a movie with depth, with many layers

It is more than nostalgic, more than religion and philosophy,
but about living structure that can be objectively identified in our surroundings.

The film takes you into places of depth, inspiration and stimulating questions
I invite you to watch this beautiful film

The film stimulated thoughts and arguments till we got home
It was nice to watch it for the second time !

My friend was so touched by the film, that she invited all her family to come and see it.
I hope I can see it once more too

Thanks for the experience, the opportunity to return in the time tunnel
Watching the periodic reality that should be screened for many people
especially for those who in their age can be identified with your reconstruction of the period and the special atmosphere of Tsefat at that time
To your credit it should be noted: bringing the idea, the script, the directing,
the editing and most importantly..the production

Dear Nili, I was glad to experience once again your stunning film, not yet been satiated of it..

I have seen it. An exiting experience! It is highly! recommended

Thank you very much for an interesting evening, that the tenants of the Mediterranean Towers enjoyed

Warmly recommended!!!
The most sensitive and original film!

Very poetic, work of art ,I intend to see again!
Nice pictures of my aunt and cousins. Beautiful.

The film is enchanting and charming.
A “little film” in the greatest! sense of the word.
When I write "little Film" I meant it was a Zen film for me.
Clear and pure!.
Touches simplicity, which creates a tremendous depth .
I loved its spiritual aspect very much.
Spiritual in the deep sense of the word (and not New Age spirituality) .
For me spirituality is a dominant element in the feeling of ‘home’ and belonging and that is what the film managed to convey….
It is clear to me that the selection of music was done
in strict manner to suit the spirit of the film.
I really liked the Tibetan hymns.
Including all the very precise Buddhist texts .
I love Safed. It was nice to see what it looked like decades ago.
Thank you

I enjoined the film a lot
Very special, between the very personal and the very general
Correct links to archetypal infrastructures….

Wonderful! Wonderful!
A director who would come from the film industry would never be able to create a film like you made.
Your film is a real poem.

I really enjoyed watching your film.
It provokes one to think

I really admire the work you’ve done
and would like to explore synergies between both of us
to see how we can collaborate and make this world a better place.

Worth watching, highly recommended !

This is a unique film, poetic, beautifulyly photographed and thought-provoking

Thank you very much for coming all the way to Ávila to show us
This beautiful film and for your interest to discuss it.
It was indeed very touching, as if you were inviting us into your intimate reflexions
And childhood memories.
I found it very intriguing, probably because I'm interested in Israel’s life
I felt grateful for this opportunity.
But objectively it took my attention your perception of the small details of everyday life
which makes us feel at home.
Your search for what does make us feel at home, places where we want to come back
again and again that are filled with humanity.
One of the Jewish intellectuals that had to move during the Nazi persecution,
Wrote that home is our language.
But I think your film gazes upon another direction:
Where home is unreachable by language....
There’s a dimension of the Real which escapes to every possibility of nominating which
you compare to the art of Zen,
Saying that you your grandmother didn’t need to know it
To live in the spirit of selflessness.
That intrigued me, as to say, what made you compare her spiritual attitude rather to the
Buddhism tradition than to Judaism mysticism,
And do you see some approximations between them?
Another interesting point was the dynamism between the scenes that happened in the
hotel and in the graveyard,
As if the movie was showing us something that Freud points out to be
The Unheimlich - that familiar-unfamiliar feeling.
This also shows up when the movie highlights that the family's everyday life was always
shared with foreigners. It also gave me the impression that death itself was
being secretly shown as the foreigner par excellence.
The hotel tells not only the history of your family, but also the history of the building,
Where there's a kind of strong condensation between
Religious, educational and nourishing traces.
The boundaries between sacred and secular are not easily distinguished;
The trees that determined that place where not to build…
The way that your grandmother prepared the food is shown as
A kind of spiritual exercise.
And also liturgical times are compared to nature cycles..
The architecture also is related to passages.
The archways are presented as passages between the courtyard and the house,
The courtyard as an actual essential part of the building,
And not something that is left over.
I just moved in to Granada and looked for an apartment
Where I could start feeling at home.
When I visited this first apartment I just felt it,
Although not being able to rationally explain why.
The movie made me reflect on that!
Reminding me of the mysticism I experience at my own grandmother’s house.
In our talk on the city language I also remembered that Freud states similarities
between the works of the psychoanalyst to that of the archaeologist,
And our psyche to the city of Rome.
Having the feeling of a home is a mystery
That as a researcher on mysticism, I believed it's not totally possible to explain.
When you showed us there were some objective things,
I kept thinking how you think that objectivity can be underlined
But the mystery remains?
And you answered, that your hypothesis is
That there are superstructures - patterns that appear repeatedly,
Despite looking different in form, just like Chomsky talk about languages.

I just wanted to say it was fabulous to watch your art in motion.
Your explorations of space, consciousness and oneness were powerful
and made a huge impression on me.
So thank you very much for sharing a piece of you with us!
We were so fortunate to have you and your work as a part of our festival.

It seems that people were surprised by all the sensory and non-sensory space they met.
well done. Pleasure.

Your movie stays with me ... which is a sign of a good movie for me
Those who stay with us forever .... In its sense forms and colors ...

I saw the film yesterday and was quite overwhelmed by its clarity and depth.
It is a rare work of cinematic art...

I have watched your beautiful and very moving ..
and the alley she whitewashed in light blue..Bravo!
I would have enjoyed the movie even more had I not had to read the subtitles
rather than taking in the beauty, the colours , the spectacular photography!
What a wonderfully artistic way to convey your life loves incorporating from
architecture, Buddhism, your grandmother's village and serene pace of life.
The little girl playing the lead role is totally adorable…..
The ideas for your love of courtyards...perfect!!
You should rightfully be proud.

I enjoyed in an unusual way.
The film is a masterpiece in my view, so many interfaces and associations....
it met me both on the artistic level and on the meditative practice level...

This film is worth being seen
for its beauty, reflection and spirituality.

When I saw the film, after a while I was so calm. I have not experienced in recent times something that made me so calm.
It was almost like.. I almost could cry, so that’s how it was!
And it reminds me also of connection I had with my older parents
who had a similar situation so I can completely connect on that level too…
but the slowness, the calmness, the meditation I mean that was along all the film
in addition to the essence of life, I completely understand that, this incredible normal things one by one very simple:
cutting apples, preparing the breakfast, walking in the street, in a very beautiful environment, the environment is so incredible , and people are in there in ways that we don’t experience today, when everything is busy busy busy or empty empty empty,
but it’s not this connection of buildings and people in a very..
I mean how they put together, so it’s fantastic! I am quite quite amazed!

Masterful film!
I don't think I have ever watched anything like it.
Is it storytelling, prose, documentary or a history lecture?
It is a very thoughtful piece that transcends the usual.
Great mind!

Thanks so much for sharing your film with our Jewish community.
It was wonderful to have a meditative film experience that took us
out of the chaos of our lives today.
You could see from the comments that people really were able to relate to the film and their own memories about Tsfat, Israel, and family.

We loved the film and not only was it beautifully done but
it was a walk down memory lane for us.
A quirky highlight for me was being reminded of how your grandmother Rivka peeled green apples…

Really enjoyed your film of space and patterns and the unity within all.
I like how your story can only be told fully as an interpretation of light,
necessarily open ended in how it communicates its essence to the viewer.
Light sees your being as the whole through all its ages,
experiences and encounters without having to categories
what you have been through on the way.
Light shows the whole without division into separate classes.
This language of light, whether in life or buildings or making food,
is what has been usurped by the language of matter.
This contrast in the languages of light and matter is a concern of mine at the moment,
so timely to receive your film

I watched Nili's film and was greatly impressed.
It shows how art, architecture and living an enlightened life look
when they arise organically as expressions or
"diagrams of the inner human soul."
As far as nonduality, this is a film about practical nonduality
or how human life looks when enlightenment is recognized and valued.
That's what this film shows.
As someone trying to create something artful, ...
I find affinity with every scene in this film,
whether that affinity is with pavement tiles a thousand years old
or the sound and sight of an apple being peeled.
Nili captures the "timeless way" of building anything:
a literal building, a community, a bread roll, a life.
Shining through the film is the light blue whitewash,
about which you say "According to the Kabbalah,
this is the color that purifies you, the inner light that connects you to the heavenly."…..
It succinctly emphasizes the theme that architecture should reveal reality,
not try to create a reality….
This requires a "holistic approach" allowing the act of building
to be an "organic system" which can be recognized in the architecture
of all world culture as "mirroring the diagram of the human soul."
Of course, those themes are also state and exemplified in your film.

I was very touched by your film.
You did a beautiful job of invoking the spirit of place wrapped in memories.

Thank you very much for a great and very moving film esthetic.
Thank you very much!

The film was very impressed.
It was poetic, sensitive and beautifully choreographed like your architectural work…

I very much enjoyed watching the film.
Especially the sequences in the kitchen of the hotel where the atmosphere evoked
By the apparition of your remembered grandmother,
her gestures, and the delicate soundscape were utterly mesmerising.
I loved the image of you sitting in the landscape amid the scattering of rocks,
with the superimposed image of the apple quarters plopping
into the pail of water, arranging themselves on the surface.
This sense of the rhythms and patterns of deep practices
creating the ‘landscape’ of our lives.
How we are formed by what we contribute to forming, was powerful.

I enjoyed the film immensely.

A movie that challenges eye opener for every shot and reconsider your insight of:
"A world consists of physical "patterns" which have always generated the quality and beauty of a place, its pleasant feelings."
I thank you for your wonderful film, beautifully made,
meaningful, with a fantastic musical background.
Everything in it excites. I'm really impressed...

What a beautiful movie you created

I am looking at your film.. it is so moving and beautiful.. I am in tears. Thank you
And also, the Hebraic language is so warm and nurturing..

I watched with growing interest and in this sensitive and clever film you created.
A fascinating biography in which you also unfold
between your grandmother and the girl,
between the place and time,
Between the personal and the objective –
in deep concentration and without a drop of kitsch. Thank you!

I just watched the film and was very happy to witness so many subtle layers
of human sensibilities that have been carefully and tenderly woven into it.
In your narrative, the observant little girl, who is meticulously noting in the ALAYAVIJNYANA- as the Buddhists call it-
so many shades of her environment, associations with
family-surroundings-traditions-sounds-light-food
and of course the timelessness of architecture!
Your editing and the text are calm, exploratory of feeling,
and make an effort to bring the timelessness across
different cultures very vividly, and patiently.
One finds calmness in keeping pace with the time depicted in your sequences!
Many thanks indeed.

Today I took the time to watch your film, which I liked very much.
It is clear that your grandmother loved that place and the life that unfolded there.
And your effort to reproduce with your work that intimate relationship of love
between human beings and the place where they live touches me deeply.

I just watched the trailer of your film. It is very beautiful …
Your work has very deep foundations in tradition and family history
and there is a sense of re-finding, reconnecting,
feeling ones way through the patterns of movement,
tasks and story-telling and the deeper rhythm that flows beneath the Hebrew language.

I watched yesterday your movie and I loved it.
The feeling it conveys can still be found in some parts of Portugal and Spain
and resonates with my childhood too.
The daily tasks as a meditative state , such as the pealing of an apple in your movie
are still carried with full attention and full mind-body.
In fact I would go as far to say that that kind of feeling/attention put to the task at hand is the essence of art.

I found your film very beautiful and moving.
It was a mesmerizing and meditative hour.
I loved the unhurried pace and the wonderful repetitions of people and place
- especially the street journeys of your child self,
so perfectly undertaken by the young girls.
That walk through the old black and white photo of the town is brilliant.
And the pattern principles that I thought I understood intellectually
became more real and embodied.
It was a day devoted to the idea of our "responsibility to extend the beauty of a place."
It was the first time I have engaged with any aspect of life in Israel with real attention.

I totally loved watching your film.
It was so simple and very deep, emotional movie.
That’s what I would say.
What a brilliant work! Thank you

A stunning, poetic, visual masterpiece of the seasonal rituals
in her Grandmother Rivka’s hotel, at the end of an alley in that old city….

To the Podcast with Nili Portugali

Such sensible, universal, poetic, intimate and generous creation
to put in words / images what many of us have inside.
Amazing for architecture and art passionate. Thank you, beautiful.

"And the alley that she whitewashed in light blue." A magnificent film from
the author's cinema,
made, and directed by the Israeli architect Nili Portugali
that unites the narrative of her childhood in Safed, the city of
Israel's cabalists and mystics,
where her ancestors arrived 7 generations ago, with the figure of her
grandmother and the hotel that reigned,
as a background and excuse for a series of reflections on architecture and its function to offer the human being spaces that reflect their true ancestral essence and therefore attract us to live or be in them.
It is a song to spirituality and authenticity of being,
beautiful reflections imbued with the wisdom of the Kabbalists and a hand outstretched to the universality
of the human being that feels fundamentally the same regardless of place,
religion or culture.

רות דר (מעצבת תפאורות תיאטרון)

ראיתי את הסרט שלך, ואהבתי אותו מאוד! הוא מעניין, והוא מאוד מאוד יפה ויזואלית!
האוירה שיצרת, והתמונות של הבתים, הרחובות הצרים, המטבח , החצר הפנימית, הזכרונות המשפחתיים,
והחיבור לרעיונות האדריכליים שלך, שנובעים ומושפעים מהם, מחכימים ומרגשים בעת ובעונה אחת.
סרט יפה

ציפי שיץ (פסיכולוגית קלינית)

עשית יופי של סרט. הצילומים והמוזיקה - מלאכת מחשבת.

פרופ' שמעון לוי (החוג לאמנות התיאטרון אוניברסיטת תל-אביב)

צפיתי בעניין גובר והולך בסרט הרגיש והחכם הזה שיצרת.
ביוגרפיה מרתקת שבה את גם נפרשת בין סבתך והילדה, בין המקום וזמן,
בין האישי לאובייקטיבי - בריכוז עמוק ובלי טיפה קיטש. שאפו, ותודה!

שוקי פרידמן (מנהל המרכז תרבות סביון)

תודה רבה נילי על הקרנת הסרט והמיפגש
בהחלט היו תגובות טובות!

ורדה גינוסר (משוררת, עורכת ואוצרת)

נכחתי אתמול בהקרנה ובשיחה המעניינת איתך ...
השפה הויזואלית של הסרט היא כוכב בולט.
גם ההפשטה של השפה האדריכלית הצליחה להיות נוכחת במלל ובבחירת הפריימים ...
הסאונד היה גם הוא נוכח מאד - כמו בקילוף תפוחי העץ, קולות כלי בית מעבר לחלונות הסגורים,
וטיפוף צעדים שבים וחוזרים, כמו קטעי זכרון המתדפקים בתודעה ...
תודה על החויה היפה!!

רוני ראבד (תרפיסטית באמנות פלסטית לילדים)

מאד נהנתי מהסרט, רגיש ונעים ונקי,
בשבילי זה היה כמו מדיטציה.

אלי חיון (מנהל מרכז תרבות "האוזן השלישית" קיבוץ הגושרים)

קיבלתי דיווח שאירוע ההקרנה היה מרתק ומוצלח!

שירן רז (יועצת ארגונית רגשית)

ראיתי את הסרט פעמיים. למה פעמיים?
כי יש בסרט משהו שגורם לך לעבור איזו שהיא חוויה רגשית, טרנס דורית.
יכולתי למצוא את עצמי גם כנכדה לסבתא, כילדה לאמא,
יכולתי למצוא את עצמי בכל כך הרבה תיאורים שלך.
ירדת לרמת אוטנטיות שנתנה נפח של קדושה. זה מה שהרגשתי.
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