Animation Short Films

Israeli Short Films

  • Archive - Festival 38
  • Israel 2022
  • 102 minutes

Screening in the presence of the creators

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Israel 2022, Animation

 

Dir: Shahar Balfour
Pro.: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Sc.: Shahar Balfour
Animation: Shahar Balfour
Ed.: Shahar Balfour
Soundtrack Edinting: Shahar Balfour, Renen Adar
Music: Bar Karti
Produced with the support of: Rabinovich Fund
Source: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

 

A Little girl sets to explore a wondrous darkening street as evening falls, not noticing she was left alone. An elderly lady loses her way inside her own home, and the familiar space slowly becomes foreign and threatening.

In two paralel timelines, both characters lose their way as they wander on a journey between reality and imagination.


 

 

Green Lemon

Israel 2022, Animation

 

Dir: Rotem Meoded
Pro.: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Sc.: Rotem Meoded
Animation: Rotem Meoded
Ed.: Rotem Meoded
Soundtrack Edinting: Rotem Meoded, Amitai Walberger
Music: Amitai Walberger
Source: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

 

Ripening process of a sour memory. Between a childhood memory and reality, a girl returns to the lemon tree where she experienced sexual abuse in the past. At first the tree fills her with pleasant memories, but as she approaches the tree, walking slowly among shards of glass, hidden parts of the memories are revealed. An innocent children's game becomes a violent and hurtful act.


 

 

Friendly Fire

Israel 2022, Animation

 

Dir: Tom Koryto Blumen
Pro.: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Sc.: Tom Koryto Blumen
Animation: Tom Koryto Blumen
Ed.: Tom Koryto Blumen
Soundtrack Edinting: Danny Koryto, Nitzan Posti Rom
Music: Nitzan Posti Rom
Source: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

 

A friendly soccer game between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian boy that takes place on the West Bank barrier starts to escalate into an uneven battle.

The film was painted frame by frame on the wall and become part of the ongoing conflict by staining the wall with over a hundred liters of paint.


 

 

A Tale on Giants and Other Animals

Israel 2022, Animation

 

Dir: Rotem Halfon
Pro.: Rotem Halfon, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Sc.: Rotem Halfon
Animation: Rotem Halfon
Ed.: Rotem Halfon, Daniel Shuali
Soundtrack Edinting: Yotam Aluf
Music: Yotam Aluf
Produced with the support of: NFCT - The new fund for cinema and TV.
Source: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

 

In a world where instead of humans live packs of giants, we follow the journey of a lone female giant, too small for the world she lives in,searching for a home, a pack, or simply a place where she feels belong. The small giant fails to connect with the other giants, she’s always too small for anyone she meets, her fear prevents her from approaching the other giants. But brings her into contact with a creature she did not expect she’ll see as family.


 

 

Solace

Israel 2022, Animation

 

Dir: Tali Ditinsky
Pro.: Tali Ditinsky
Sc.: Tali Ditinsky
Animation: Tali Ditinsky
Ed.: Tali Ditinsky

Soundtrack Edinting: Uri Kalian
Source: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

 

A woman tries dealing with her boredom and decaying soul through meditation but falls into shopping binges. She reaches consolation, but it's only temporary.


 

 

SZZZ

Israel 2022, Animation

 

Dir: Dafna Inbar
Animation: Dafna Inbar
Compositing assistant: Vered Ben Zion, Lir Shpigler
Soundtrack Edinting: Danny Koryto, Nitzan Posti Rom
Music: Nitzan Posti Rom
Source: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

 

There is a certain moment that takes place before falling asleep, a moment between waking and sleeping, some king of dimension that exists between the two. It can feel like a quick and sudden fall into a bottomless pit or rather like a gentle sinking into a soft grass bed. Either way this is the moment where the film begins, the part before the dream itself, here we meet the dreamer, who left the world of wakefulness when she fell asleep and now she and the dream are interdependent. now the dreamer will travel through fragments of dreams that are gathered into one experience


 

 

NOOL

Israel 2022, Animation

 

Dir: May Grosman
Pro.: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Sc.: May Grosman
Animation: May Grosman
Ed.: May Grosman Shuali
Soundtrack Edinting: Itay Tamarov
Music: Itay Tamarov
Produced with the support of: Gesher multicultural film fund
Source: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

 

Nool is a young and joyful Black Macaque living at a zoo in Israel at the height of an ongoing military conflict. She’s curious about the world outside her cage and easily charmed by anything she sees. One night, mesmerized by the wondrous glow of missiles painting the night sky, the curious monkey slips out of her cage for a better view. Suddenly a missile charges down toward her and in one fateful moment her world changes forever.

*The film is based on a true event.


 

 

Sky's About to Rain

Israel 2022, Animation

 

Dir: Tal Darmon, Orian Melamed
Pro.: Tal Darmon, Orian Melamed
Sc.: Tal Darmon, Orian Melamed
Animation: Tal Darmon, Orian Melamed
Ed.: Tal Darmon, Orian Melamed

Soundtrack Edinting: Ori Kadishay
Music: Ori Kadishay
Source: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

 

As a rite of passage, Kay, a young knight, is out on a quest to get the sword in the stone. To achieve his goal, he will confront Hector, the old knight guarding the sword, and confront his own haunting memories from his past.


 

 

In Boxes

Israel 2022, Animation

 

Dir: Hila Vakrat, Gilad Pfeffer
Pro.: Hila Vakrat, Gilad Pfeffer

Sc.: Hila Vakrat, Gilad Pfeffer
Animation: Hila Vakrat, Gilad Pfeffer
Ed.: Hila Vakrat, Gilad Pfeffer

Soundtrack Edinting: Yotam Aluf
Music: Yotam Aluf

Zohara just moved into her partner’s Stav apartment. When the only thing left is to unpack, Zohara is set on postponing the task for tomorrow. Stav, who prefers to get it over with so that they can start their new chapter together, decides to open one of the boxes and the two find themselves lost inside the cardboard world of things Zohara struggles to express. Inside this world, the two will find out how magical and scary intimacy can be, and will have to decide if they are ready for this next step. The movie combines both classical animation and stop motion.


 

 

Mushkil'e

Israel 2022, Animation

 

Dir: Kami Shefer
Pro.: HIT – Holon Institute of Technology
Sc.: Kami Shefer
Programming: Peleg Vineberg
Cast: Bilha, Yuval Levi, Dani Hertziano, Tomer Peled, Avraham Pirchi
Soundtrack Editing: Yuval Buchbut
Music: Avidan Ezra
Source: HIT – Holon Institute of Technology

The film is about my relationship with my grandmother who has been sick with Alzheimer for the past ten years and my slow separation from her due to the slow mental deterioration caused by the disease. Mushkile’ moves between memory and now, between imagination and reality, and between the various feelings that arose throughout this journey as a granddaughter of an Alzheimer's patient. The film consists of various stories from my grandmother's life and describes the relationship between me and her over the past years. (Kami Shefer)


 

 

Pears

Dir: Julia Trachtenberg
Source: Sapir College - School of Audio and Visual Arts


 

 

IRL - In Real Life

Israel 2021, Animation

 

Dir: Shira Avigad
Pro.: Sapir College - School of Audio and Visual Arts
Sc.: Shira Avigad
Animation: Shira Avigad
Soundtrack Edinting: Yaniv Sela, Rom Hecht
Music: Liav Bitan

Source: Sapir College - School of Audio and Visual Arts

 

Ronnie is a teenage girl who’s struggling to find her place in the world. But that’s okay because she has a best friend, emi, whom she never met. Together they do everything, talk about everything and Ronnie even asks for advice for an upcoming date. Ronnie learns about herself from the farthest person she ever met.


 

 

Be My Guest

Israel 2021, Animation

 

Dir: Sivan Elashvili
Pro.: Sapir College - School of Audio and Visual Arts
Sc.: Sivan Elashvili

Animation: Sivan Elashvili
Ed.: Sivan Elashvili

Soundtrack Edinting: Lior Waitzman

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

Source: Sapir College - School of Audio and Visual Arts

 

For the Georgians, A toast is more than a polite gesture, it’s an act of respect.
During a Georgian dinner, the head of the family tries to raise a glass as tradition requires. Suddenly, his successful brother arrives and humiliates him in front of the family.
Defeated, he is determined to maintain control in front of his family.


 

 

The Academy Gate

Israel 2021, Animation

 

Dir: David Ashkenazi
Pro.: Sapir College - School of Audio and Visual Arts
Sc.: David Ashkenazi
Animation: David Ashkenazi
Soundtrack Edinting: Liav Bitan
Music: Liav Bitan

Source: Sapir College - School of Audio and Visual Arts

 

After a hard night, Nissim the tired security guard dreaming of a cup of coffee. He tries to find Creative ways to get to the long-awaited cup of coffee.


 

 

A Journey with My Dad

Israel/France 2022, Animation

 

Dir: Mor Israeli
Pro.: Tamar Surovich
Sc.: Mor Israeli, Tamar Surovich
Ed.: Efrat Berger

Animation: Mor Israeli
Soundtrack Edinting: Aviv Aldema
Music: Tamar Surovich

Produced with the support of: CNC, Gesher Multicaltural Film Fund, Mifal Hapais, Privat donors

Source: Su Art Productions, Studio Wasia

 

For the first time, Tamar (5), accompanies her dad in a hotel where vacationers look a bit
strange ...
Through the eyes of the child then begins a journey tinged with surrealism. Tamar will eventually discover the hidden story of her father, a part of his life that she does not know.