| What a Wonderful Place | |
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| Directed by | Eyal Halfon |
| Written by | Eyal Halfon |
| Produced by | Assaf Amir Yoav Roeh |
| Starring | Uri Gavriel Evelyn Kaplun Avi Uria Yossi Graber |
| Cinematography | Nily Aslan |
| Edited by | Einat Glaser-Zarhin |
| Music by | Avi Belleli |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | Israel |
| Languages | Hebrew Filipino Tagalog Russian English |
What a Wonderful Place (Hebrew: איזה מקום נפלא - Eize Makom Nifla) is a 2005 Israeli drama film directed by Eyal Halfon. It includes three seemingly unrelated storylines which intersect at the end, set in southern Tel Aviv, the Arabah and an unidentified Israeli urban suburb. The film deals with issues of trafficking of women and the lives of foreign workers in Israel.
The plot follows three stories that seem unrelated, that intersect in a uniform plot line. The first story takes place in South Tel Aviv, and follows Franco, a former policeman who undertakes to work for a big mobster, goes through a process of self-discovery through Zhana, an escort who is under his protection. In parallel, another plot line is underway in the fields of the southern Arava, where Seltzer, a farmer working in the Arava, tries to find Zhanna following a picture he found by chance, and has to trust one of his Thai workers in his search. The third story takes place in a housing estate in an urban suburb, where Aloni, a nature reserve inspector who leads a pursuit of foreign workers, is forced to deal with his sick father, and does this with the help of Eddie, a Filipino nurse. During the film, the viewer is exposed to the world of the foreign workers in the State of Israel.