“Forgiveness” got a lukewarm reception at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.

A joint Israeli/U.S. film venture set in Israel, the story concerns an American Jew named David Adler (Itay Tira), who trying to escape his overbearing father leaves the United States and moves to Israel joining the Israeli military.

One day he awakens to find himself as a patient in a mental institution that sits on the ruins of a village called Deir Yassin. This village was the site of the massacre of 100 Arab Palestinians in 1948. Adler becomes haunted by the ghosts of the murdered victims and the ghost of a 10-year old girl may well hold the key to the regaining of his sanity.

The film is an uneven mix of horror, the supernatural, memories of the Holocaust and an overlying mix of Jewish/Palestinian politics and relations. It is a movie for a specific audience and those outside that focus group may find it mundane and overstated, however, the film has been picked up for international distribution.