Sasson Gabai won the Silver Peacock Award for the Best Actor(Male) at the 42nd International Film Festival of India .

Sasson Gabai won the Silver Peacock Award for the Best Actor(Male) at the 42nd International Film Festival of India for his acting in Israeli filmmaker Yossi Madmoni's debut film Restoration, a family drama about efforts to save an ailing antique restoration business. The film had previously won the screenwriting award at Sundance's World Cinema Dramatic competition and the Grand Prix Crystal Award ($30,000) at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. After his longtime business partner dies, Yakov Fidelman discovers that his antique furniture-restoration shop is in grave financial difficulty. He's forced to deal with his estranged son, Noah, a lawyer, who, seeing no hope for the failing store, proposes building apartments above it. One day Fidelman's new apprentice, Anton, finds a neglected piano in the workshop: an 1882 Steinway that, given a new baseboard, would be worth enough to save the store. The elegant story lines of Yossi Madmony's first feature yield a complex set of frayed character relations for which restoration proves an apt metaphor. Refinishing the piano's exterior would be worthless without replacing the cracked cast-iron board holding the string tension. Marked by restrained writing, which leaves significant details open to interpretation, Restoration depicts the rich texture of modern Israeli society. Anchored by Sasson Gabay's mesmerizing performance, Fidelman is a stoic man who uses his shop to shut out the world, clinging to the illusion that he can maintain a vanishing way of life.