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Two years after Yossi and Jagger, American born, Israeli director Etan Fox returns with Walk on Water, a colorful, contemporary road movie that takes its characters around Israel and later to Berlin. A hit man for Mossad is given the mission to track down the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex Nazi officer, who might be still alive. Pretending to be a tour guide he befriends his grandson Axel, who is in Israel to visit his sister. He wants to convince her to come back to Germany for their Father’s birthday party.

The two men set out on an extended tour of the country during which, Axel’s frank and open attitude challenges Eyal’s rigid, clichéd values. Their friendship grows until he learns of Axel’s homosexuality. From there the two men explore their prejudices, fears, and desires with a remarkable outcome.