Life According to Agfa

Myth has it that the film's title was supposed to be "Life According to Kodak" but the Kodak company didn't want to be associated with such an explosive and divisive film and so the production team turned to Agfa, which in turn engraved its name forever on a film that changed Israeli cinema.
Dalia owns a pub named "Barbi" which is short for "Abarbanel", the name of a famous mental hospital in Israel. Tonight, a suicidal young woman, Dalia's partner, a group of soldiers, a policeman, the bar's loyal pianist, three friends with low self-esteem and the Palestinian kitchen staff all try to find personal salvation in a black and white, contrast reality perpetuated on an amateur photographer's Agfa film.
Assi Dayan's dark and ironic film represents a landmark in Israeli Cinema; it seals an era and opens a new chapter suggesting an on-going rough feature, one however that offers a new, colorful cinematic language in which diverse perspectives come to play a prominent role.