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Exclusive: Trio of films to explore theme of the “the past”.

Israeli film-maker Avi Nesher is due to start shooting the first film in a trilogy of works devoted to the theme of ‘the past’ this autumn.

“They’re all based on really strange true stories,” Nesher told ScreenDaily.

“In Past Life, the past is a villain, in Past Tense it is a mystery and in the final film it will be a lover.

“I was a film critic before I became a director. I figure that if I invent anything I’m probably ripping off old movies I once saw which is why I like to work with real-life flights of fantasy,” continued Nesher, whose credits include The Wonders(2013), The Matchmaker (2010) and The Secrets (2007).

“The past is a complicated issue in Israel. We deal with a Jewish past and an Israeli past. Sometimes they’re parallel, sometimes they’re the same, sometimes they’re...

Ania Bukstein And Michal Shtamler In Director Avi Nesher'S The Secrets. Courtesy Monterey Media. Avi Nesher seems to have had two careers as a filmmaker rather than just one. Nesher's dual identity partly stems from the fact that the Israeli writer-director spent most of his childhood and teenage years in New York and only returned to the country of his birth after attending Columbia University. Once back, Nesher wasted little time in establishing himself as one of the brightest young figures in Israeli cinema with hits like The Troupe and Dizengoff 99 (both 1979). In 1985, Rage and Glory, Nesher's film about the 1940s Israeli terrorist group the Stern Gang, caused massive controversy and the level of hysteria prompted him to leave for...