Six Floors to Hell of Video 48 awarded the RAI-3 at CMCA

Broadcasting Prize, awarded by RAI-3 (Italy's third state channel) in the CMCA Film Festival, to Jonathan Ben Efrat, Director of Six Floors to Hell

With grace and intimacy, the director successfully tells the story of Jalal and other young workers who survive in the depths of an abandoned shopping mall in the heart of Tel Aviv. Six Floors to Hell excels in portraying the internal exile of human beings in their own land. The portrayal is at once universal, painful and sensitive.

The topic of exile runs like a secondary thread through all the films that were presented to us.

Palestinian thinker Edward Said put the matter quite simply: "Exile is always forced by one group of people on their fellows. Exile tears millions of human beings away from the nutritive embrace of tradition, geography, and family."

I believe it is our task to treat this wound, today more than ever.

Francesca Catarci
Documentary Director
RAI 3—Italy