Asphalt Zahov (Yellow Asphalt)

Israeli writer and director Dan Verete explores the outside influences on Bedouin lives in three excellent short films set in the Judean desert. The first film "Black Spot" is about two Israeli truck drivers hitting and killing a small boy on a highway. After being surrounded by the villagers, the truck drivers trade a spare tire for the dead boy that leaves every body content except for the grieving mother. The second film "Here Is Not There" a European woman who married a Bedouin tries to escape her husband after the village elders denied her to leave with her children. The third and most powerful film "Red Roofs" is about an adulterous affair between an Israeli farmer and his Bedouin maid. When the maid escapes her abusive husband to seek refuge by her lover, she starts a chain of events that causes death and destruction. Verete manages to tell powerful stories about real life in Israel beyond the war where two different cultures clash on daily basis. YRCinema's coverage of films on DVD.