In writer-director Oren Gerner’s slice-of-life drama “Africa,” memories of a nature lover’s vacation in Namibia anchor an Israeli retiree to a sense of fulfillment, now absent from his everyday life as industrious husband and loving grandfather.
Starring the filmmaker’s parents, Meir and Maya Gerner, in fictionalized iterations of themselves, this is a trenchantly written and concise portrait of an aging man quietly unraveling.
In his…
