Father’s Rigths is a documentary, which tells the story of the first gender based men’s organisation in Israel. It follows, over the course of five years, four divorced men estranged from their children by a variety of false claims made by their wives. They are Yaki, a carpenter from Tel-Aviv, Nissim, an orthodox Jew, Michael, an unemployed Physics professor and Ilan, an AC technician. They embark on a public campaign to get their story heard, a difficult story to explain as it involves the intricate details of a massive array of perverted rules and regulations concerning child custody and support, and police and social workers’ policies that the public is hardly exposed to, and this movie for the first time exposes and articulates...
The film also tells the personal stories of a small group of men that are the victims of the system, and follows them as they fight for change. But more than that, this film is about love, the kind of love that sometimes is not taken for granted as well as it should – the love of fathers for their children.
Since its broadcast on Israeli TV on June 2011, it has generated more public debate and controversy than any other documentary in recent years in Israel.
