Program 3 - Generations

Israeli Short Films

  • Archive - Festival 38
  • Israel 2022
  • 122 minutes

Seven films about intergenerational relation.

Screening in the presence of the creators

Chance

Israel 2022, short feature film

 

Dir.: Nadav Sella

Pro.: Film Department, School Of Arts - Hamidrasha, Beit Berl College.

Sc.: Nadav Sella

DP.: Kamar Abu Saada

Ed.: Itamar Abargil

Soundtrack Editing: Yaniv Sella

Music: Yaniv Sella

Source: Film Department, School Of Arts - Hamidrasha, Beit Berl College.

 

Shay, who works tirelessly with his father in debt collection in a criminal manner, gets a "chance" from an undercover cop that they caught, who acted as a man who owes them money, to betray his father and release him in order to get a second chance for a better life. Will he do it?


 

 

Bris

Israel 2022, short feature film

 

Dir.: Nachman Picovsky, Tamar Kay 

Pro.: Adi Bar Yosef

Sc.: Tamar Kay, Nachman Picovsky

DP.: Eitan Hatuka

Ed.: Tamar Kay

Soundtrack Editing: Shahaf Wagshall

Music: Nimrod Berko

Source: Baryo Film& TV Productions

Produced with the support of: The Gesher Multicultural Film Fund

 

In a story reminiscent of the Biblical tale “The Binding of Isaac”, taking place in 1988 Kyiv, 8-year-old Max must make a fateful decision as his family prepares to immigrate to Israel.


 

 

That is the Question

Israel 2022, short feature film

 

Dir.: Eyal Tzadik, Yotam Kislev

Pro.: Mika Kalderon

Sc.: Eyal Tzadik & Yotam Kislev

DP.: Gal Rumbak

Ed.: Eyal Tzadik & Yotam Kislev

Soundtrack Editing: Amotz Glass

Source: Zohar Pictures

Produced with the support of: Makor Foundation

 

During a covid lockdown, a lonely voyeur woman witnesses the suicide of her neighbor. The sight leads her to a deep self-examination of her own life and especially of her failed motherhood. Outside her window a pigeon nests, she is her only friend. This friendship is put to the test when the woman finds out that the pigeon had laid eggs. This might indicate that the bird will leave. Along with the arising motherhood memory, the distant voyeur's gaze shifts now and gets a quite horrible personal interpretation


 

 

Love Has Nothing to Do with It

Israel 2022, short feature film

 

Dir.: Yotam Knispel

Pro.: 2-Team Productions, Nova Productions

Sc.: Yotam Knispel

DP.: Zohar Mutayn

Ed.: Lynn Laor, Yotam Knispel

Soundtrack Editing: Yossi Appelbaum

Music: Yossi Appelbaum, Ronnie Markevich, Yotam Knispel

Source: 2-Team Productions

Produced with the support of: The Gesher Multicultural Film Fund

 

Rina can't look into the eyes of her son, who's under house arrest at her home.
Tomorrow, the court will decide if he can stay with her till the end of the trial. But the hostility of her neighbors and her increasing doubts regarding his innocence, make Rina question her ability to handle it.
Today, she will have to look in his eyes and hear the truth.


 

 

Motherland

Israel 2022, short feature film

 

Dir.: Hila Royzenman

Pro.: Uria Kedem

Sc.: Hila Royzenman

DP.: May Abady Grebler

Ed.: Mattan Kedem

Soundtrack Editing: Yossi Appelbaum

Music: Amit Poznansky

Produced with the support of: Gesher Multicultural Film Fund

 

Masha, a young Russian immigrant, dealing with a life altering crisis, seeks out her mother, Vera, at a quarry where she's employed. Instead of finding comfort, she’s sucked into Vera’s Passionate new life.


 

 

Cold Water

Israel 2022, short feature film

 

Dir.: Itamar Alcalay

Pro.: Rose Water Films

Sc.: Itamar Alcalay

DP.: Or Azulay

Ed.: Itamar Alcalay, Meital Zvieli

Soundtrack Editing: Nin Hazan

Music: Asher Goldshmidt

Source: Rose Water Films

Produced with the support of: Gesher Multicultural Film Fund

 

Galit, works in pilgrims' site in the Jordan river. She is the only woman on the male team and the Walkie Talkie is rattling all day. During the lunch break in which she tries to have a moment of silence, she encounters a wet child who has escaped from the cold water and a mysterious connection begins to form between her and him. When no one seems to be looking for him, and it is not clear if he is real or not, a sense of motherhood begins to rise.


 

 

Girl No. 60427

Israel 2022, short feature film

 

Dir.: Shulamit Lifshitz

Pro.: The Maaleh Film School

Sc.: Shulamit Lifshitz, Oriel Berkovits

DP.: Oriel Berkovits

Ed.: Shulamit Lifshitz, Oriel Berkovits

Soundtrack Editing: Jungle

Music: Ophir Leibovitch

Source: The Maaleh Film School

Produced with the support of: The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts

 

Tel Aviv, 1998, summer vacation. Reut finds and reads her grandmother's secret notebook from the Holocaust. Grandma's story resonates in Reut's well-developed imagination, and the fun week in Tel Aviv with Grandpa and Grandma turns into something else entirely. Reut’s relationship with her Grandma is changed forever.