A Tale of Love and Darkness (Hebrew: סיפור על אהבה וחושך, romanized: Sipour al ahava va'khoshekh) is a 2015 drama film written and directed by Natalie Portman in her directorial feature debut.

[5] Amos reflects on his early childhood in British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) with his mother Fania and father Arieh.

They warn Amos to be quiet and not make much fuss lest he offend their hosts, but while playing with a swing he accidentally injures the Arab's little son.

On November 29, 1947, Amos' family and others from the neighbourhood gather around a radio in the street to hear the passing of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, which adopted a plan to partition Mandatory Palestine into independent Arab and Jewish states.

During a visit from his father, a teenaged Amos shows off his new life but admits that despite his attempts at being a strong and healthy farmer, he is still a pale and weak intellectual.

In order to play the role of Amos Oz's mother, an immigrant from what is now Ukraine, Portman made considerable efforts to remove all traces of an American accent from her Hebrew.

The website's critical consensus reads, "A Tale of Love and Darkness suggests greater things for debuting writer-director Natalie Portman — even if its reach slightly exceeds her creative grasp.