Only Human

Leni works in television and brings her fiancé Rafi home to dinner to introduce him to her family. The family is Jewish. Rafi is Palestinian, and Leni says so at the table. The house is already in chaos: a sister who belly dances, an intensely religious brother, an old grandfather playing with a knife, parents who are sick of each other. While Rafi is trying to fit in he has an accident, and the evening goes completely off the rails. The film was co-directed by Teresa de Pelegrí and Dominic Harari. The mould is the family-dinner comedy, and rather than taking on the great political question the film squeezes it into a single living room; nobody argues about it, everybody goes around it somehow. Norma Aleandro plays the mother. The humour is broad and direct, it plays with clichés and does not hide that. The film's claim is modest too: nobody at this table is a representative, everyone is only themselves.