Production year : 2020   |   Fiction 

Lenght : 15’  |  Digital 2.39  |  Son 5.1   |   Hebrew, english subtitles

Synopsis 

Since his daughter’s death, Moshe lives alone rejecting his wife whom he blames for this tragedy. In order to get out of his confinement, he accepts a job from the Jerusalem Post Office, unaware that it is for a very special division : The Department of Letters to God. Moshe will face humanity in its most secret privacy, sometimes most fanciful wishes. He doesn’t believe in anything anymore but a series of strange events will transform his bitterness and lead him to discover how forgiveness can reconcile him with his wife and bring him peace again.

 Reality, source of fiction

“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”  Jessamyn West

The department of letters to God was established by the Israeli Post office in 1948. By international convention, Post offices around the world transfer letters addressed to God to Jerusalem. Once a year, this mail is put into the Wailing Wall, the holiest place in Jerusalem.