Six standout short films from the past year – special premiere screening with the filmmakers in attendance
105 minutes | Israel 2025
Crownless Queen of the Garden
Israel | 2025
Directed by: Alon Retter
Production: Lev Orlov
Screenplay: Alon Retter
Cinematography: Tal Ninyo
Editing: Yasmine Scheft, Barak Cohen
Sound design: Shahaf Wagshall
Music: Haim Cohen
Casting: Naama Shmueli
Featuring: Alon Retter, Meshi Kazaz, Tom Zinder
Source: Lev Orlov Films
Produced with support from: Jerusalem Film Fund, The New Israeli Film Fund
20 min | Hebrew | English subtitles
Alon, the film’s director, looks back on a Purim night when he returned to sex work in Jerusalem’s Park—only to pay for a Queen Esther costume. Through a fusion of cinematic reenactments, documentary moments, and a renewed connection to Esther herself, he seeks in Purim an answer, a redemption, and a new meaning.
Venus Sucks
Israel | 2025
Directed by: Sivan Eyal
Production: Hadar Amitay
Screenplay: Sivan Eyal
Cinematography: Anna Maria Hawa
Editing: Noa Meir
Sound design: Lishay Barnes
Music: Liav Bitan
Casting: Natalie Amosi
Featuring: Alma Yoels, Perah Bar Miniely, Avigayil Rose,Itamar Levi ,Matan Guggenheim, Natalie Amosi, Dima Bogoslaviz, Alex Korpatov
13 min | Hebrew and English | Hebrew and English subtitles
Yana sets out with her sharp, shady friend Sheli for an afternoon adventure at the mall, determined to leave her innocent days behind. In search of a blue movie, fast food, and male attention, the girls drift into a series of unexpected encounters — and an unplanned lesson in the praises of the arts of seduction.
Fading Memory
Israel | 2025
Directed by: Yiftach Samocha
Production: Tamar Miron and Yiftach Samocha
Screenplay: Yiftach Samocha
Cinematography: Nitay Parnes
Editing: Ella Michaeli
Music: Udi Schneider and Yuval Kraft
Featuring: Naomi Harari, Uri Blufarb, Odelia moreh-Matalon and Shira Alterman
29 min | Hebrew | English subtitles
Naomi, a young and ambitious actress, arrives at an audition for a coveted role, determined to do whatever it takes to get it. But when the director asks her to improvise a scene alongside Uri, an actor who has already been cast, the line between reality and imagination becomes completely blurred.
LOSS
Israel | 2025
Directed by: Sivan Levy Zakin
Production: Rotem & Sivan Levy Zakin
Screenplay: Sivan Levy Zakin
Cinematography: Ziv Berkovich
Editing: Arik Lahav Leibovich
Sound design: Ronen Nagel & Nin Hazan
Music: Sivan Levy Zakin
Featuring: Gili Weiss & Amit Rahav
Produced with support from: Arava Film Fund
Gesher Film Fund
14 min | Hebrew | English Subtitles
Goni is nine years old. She always runs faster than the boys. Always scores more goals. Until one day, they decide they’ve had enough. Her brother finds her in the yard, rinsing blood from her knees. He carries her into the desert. There, he teaches her how to defend herself among red rocks and wide silence. Fourteen minutes of quiet rupture, about the cost of being who you are, when that’s exactly what no one wants to see.
Yemima's Journey
Israel | 2025
Directed by: Omri Yavin, Elance Diamant
Production: Elance Diamant
Screenplay: Omri Yavin
Cinematography: Gal Rumbak
Editing: Tamar Peled
Sound design: Shelly Bar-On
Music: Uri Ofir
Casting: Naama Shmueli
Featuring: Rivka Bachar, Ezra Dagan, Ofira Rachamim, Shiraz Laciano, Hai Maor, Yuval Rahav, maayan Tamar Cheikin
Source: Spear Head Productions
Produced with support from: Galil Cinema Project, The New Fund for Cinema and TV, The Israel Film Council
18 min | Hebrew and Arabic | Hebrew and English subtitles
A walking journey undertaken by Yemima, an elderly woman from Beit She’an, using a walker, from one end of the town to the other, to visit her estranged husband, who is now ill, and bring him a healing dish from her kitchen. During the journey, which lasts an entire day, Yemima relives her wedding and sanctifies herself, in order to complete the separation from the husband who abandoned her and to make peace with him.
Leave Me There
Israel | 2025
Directed by: Shirit Gal Kedar
Production: Dafna Danenberg, Ethel Benbenisti
Screenplay: Shirit Gal Kedar
Cinematography: Daniella Nowitz
Editing: Sharon Yaish
Sound design: Ronen Nagel
Music: Frank Ilfman
Casting: Dalit Cohen
Featuring: Uri Gabriel, Chelli Goldenberg, Ron Shahar, Alma Dishy Plaut, Shlomi Tpiaru
Source: EIGHT PRODUCTION, SK Productions, Costanza Film Distribution
12 min | Hebrew and English | Hebrew and English subtitles
A peaceful family gathering on a Saturday afternoon is shaken to the core when the elderly and ailing father announces his plan to embark alone and on his own terms, on a coast-to-coast trip to America.
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