Aviva, My Love

Aviva, My Love (אביבה אהובתי) is a 2006 Israeli drama film directed by Shemi Zarhin.

Plot
Aviva Cohen (Asi Levi) is a cook in a hotel in Tiberias, where her dream to be a writer has been suppressed for years. She draws ideas for her stories from her life. She carries a small notebook where at every opportunity she writes about small events that happen to her and she later weaves these events into her stories. With the help of her sister Anita (Rotem Abuhav), who lives next door, Aviva goes to Oded Zer (Shashon Gabai), a well-known writer who lives in Tel Aviv, a writer who reads her works and promises to help Aviva achieve her dream. The path to achieving her dreams was influenced by Aviva's family life- her unemployed husband- Muni (Dror Kern), three teenage children- Osherat (Dana Ivegi), a soldier, Alon (Itay Turgeman), and Ofek (Dekel Eden), her troubled mother, Violet (Lavna Finkelstein), and her sister Anita.

In her difficult financial situation, Oded Zer offers her a deal that she doesn't really understand its effects on her life. But at the same time the owner of the restaurant in the hotel also offers her to return to her job as a cook. However, her sister, Anita, intervenes in her life, until the point where Aviva accidentally witnesses Muni cheating on Aviva with her sister, which hurts Aviva deeply. Everybody around her worries about Anita, because she left her works with the writer, who is about to go abroad. Aviva must make decisions which is better for her: the money or the artistic work.

Cast

 * Asi Levi – Aviva Cohen
 * Rotem Abuhab – Anita
 * Levana Finkelstein – Violette
 * Dror Keren – Moni Cohen
 * Sasson Gabai – Oded Zar

Soundtrack
In March 2020 Helicon Music released the film's soundtrack, which includes new remixes and tracks that were not included in the original release. The theme song "My Spring Shall Come" ("האביב שלי יגיע") was performed by Miri Mesika, and it appears in two different versions. The soundtrack features the following talents:


 * Limor Oved – Vocalization
 * Yankale Segal – Oud
 * Nitzan Hen Razel – Violin
 * Oren Fried – Percussions
 * Jonathan Bar Giora – Piano and keyboards
 * Shemi Zarhin – Synth qanun and voices

As the film was released in 2006 a special mix was released to the radio, in which, in addition to the original players, also feature Dudu Tassa on the guitar, Yaniv Teichman on the Oud and the Bağlama, Asher Pedi on the drums and Uri Zach on the keyboards.