A Tale of Love and Darkness, Natalie Portman’s feature film directorial debut, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year and proceeded to trickle down through the film festival circuit. Now with a U.S. release for August 19, 2016 from Focus World, a new trailer has debuted with English subtitles.

The film is an adaptation of the memoir of the same name from Amos Oz, an Israeli writer and journalist who lived in Jerusalem during the war between Israel and Palestine during the 1940s. Portman also plays his mother in the film who commits suicide, forever changing the boy’s life. Oz would grow up to support a two-state solution to the on-going conflict.

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