Winner, Grand Jury Prize - Sundance Film Festival
WINNER, Best Picture - Israeli Film Academy
WINNER, Glass Bear - Berlin International Film Festival
Best Actress Nominee - Israeli Film Academy
Best Actor Nominee - Israeli Film Academy

"An appealing coming-of-age tale that takes on the difficult issues of mental illness and conformity."
- Bruce Demara, THE TORONTO STAR

"This is a film from the heart, from a firsthand familiarity that yields conflicted emotions over the gap between an ideal and its realization."
- Kirk Honeycutt, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"Sad, sweet and tragic."
- Jim Slotek, JAM! MOVIES

"Subtly directed and flawlessly acted, Sweet Mud packs a genuine punch."
- Shlomo Schwartzberg, BOX OFFICE MAGAZINE

In this dark yet comedic coming-of-age story, a boy enters his bar mitzvah year on a southern Israel kibbutz in the 1970s. Trying to reconcile the community’s motto of equality with the reality that his mentally ill mother has been abandoned, he comes to learn that not every person fits into Utopia.