2016 Movies : Adaptation

With Natalie Portman • Ram Bergman • Amir Tessler • Shira Haas • Gilad Kahana • David Mandil

Recounts the time Amos Oz spent with his mother, Fania (Natalie Portman), who struggles with raising her son in Jerusalem at the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. Dealing with a married life of unfulfilled promises and integration in a foreign land, Fania battles her inner demons and longs for a better world for her son.