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Requiem for a Whale

Ido Weisman · Israel · Documentary · 15 min · 11K views

Directed by Ido Weisman · 2022

When a dead fin whale washes up on an Israeli beach, the people who gather around it reflect on its life, its death and their own.

A quietly moving observational portrait of how strangers grieve a giant from the sea.

After a deceased fin whale washes ashore in Israel, onlookers process its life and death, in a short documentary by Ido Weisman.

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