"A daring leap... Nothing about the film is predictable or ordinary"

The Hollywood Reporter
  • Archive - Festival 36
  • Director: Boaz Yakin
  • USA 2020
  • 115 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Aviva is a young Parisian who develops an online romance with Eden, a New Yorker. After a long courtship, they meet in person and fall in love. Their lives are not without struggle for inside each one of the young lovers exist warring factions of masculine and feminine energies battling for primacy.

Incorporating exultant dance sequences, and featuring a pair of principal characters played by four different actors externally expressing their masculine and feminine sides, Aviva captures a restless, frenzied and very fluid moment in time. All the parts are played by dancers, many of whom used to be part of Israel’s prestigious Batsheva Dance Company.

Filmography: Safe (2012), Remember the Titans (2000), Fresh (1994).

Contains scenes of a sexual nature

A video talk with the director


  • Director Boaz Yakin
  • Production Carlos Zozaya, Boaz Yakin, Bobbi Jene Smith
  • Script Boaz Yakin
  • Cinematography Arseni Khatchaturan
  • Editing Holle Singer
  • Music Asaf Avidan
  • Festivals SXSW
  • Actors : Zina Zinchenko, Bobbi Jene Smith, Tyler Phillips, Or Schraiber
  • Source Alief, Hackney