Pitch Point Shorts Jerusalem will be held for the 17th time as part of Industry Days at the 42nd Jerusalem Film Festival. For the sixth consecutive year, the event will feature a unique category dedicated to independent short film projects, presented in collaboration with the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund.
Pitch Point serves as a professional platform for presenting Israeli projects to key figures in the international film industry, with the aim of increasing visibility, encouraging collaboration, and expanding funding opportunities for emerging filmmakers in the development stage.
This year, seven outstanding independent projects will compete for a 370,000 NIS grant from the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund.
We believe that the short film is not merely a preliminary step in the development of a cinematic career, but a distinct cinematic form—one as old as cinema itself. It enables fresh, boundary-pushing creation, and offers a unique platform for stories that often remain untold in other formats.
Event open to the public, free admission.
The Projects
My Father in the Room
Director: Dotan Moreno | Estimated Length: 15 minutes
With her father’s death, Esther is drawn back to that Yom Kippur long ago, when the man who had once abandoned them came to visit her and her mother in the immigrant neighborhood where they lived.
Writer: Dotan Moreno
Director: Dotan Moreno
Producer: Lev Orlov, Lev Orlov Films
Two Thirty-Seven
Director: David Ofek | Estimated Length: 15 minutes
A woman answers a phone call while having her hair dyed at a salon. It’s a casualty officer. There’s been an incident — her son is injured. She bolts from the salon with a wet, brown mixture still on her head and picks up her husband. On the frantic drive to Tel HaShomer Hospital, the couple sways between what was and what might be.
Writer: Sharon Eyal Azulay
Producers: Chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi, UCM – United Channels Movies
Clear Conscience
Directors: Sharon Maymon, Erez Tadmor | Estimated Length: 15 minutes
Eyal, a soldier in a military unit that captures deserters during wartime, discovers that a soldier he caught and returned to the battlefield was killed. His conscience begins to haunt him.
Writers: Eyal Raz, Sharon Maymon
Producer: Shemi Shoenfeld, ComeBack Films
The Man Who Invented the Post-Military Trip
Director: Raanan Tessler | Estimated Length: 15 minutes
Grandpa Moti Commando is about to turn 75, and at the request of her grandmother Tamara, Daniella sets out to make a film for the occasion. As filming progresses, Daniella, a film student, realizes she has much more than just a birthday video in her hands. She surprises the family with exciting news that will take the project to the next level — but ends up being surprised herself when her grandfather's long-buried secret is finally revealed.
Writer: Raanan Tessler
Director: Raanan Tessler
Producer: Adi Navon
Black Bee
Director: Yona Rozenkier | Estimated Length: 14 minutes
An architect locks himself inside his apartment during wartime. His balcony, filled with plants, childhood toys, and a colony of black bees, becomes a battlefield where worry, memories, guilt, and longing clash.
Writer: Yona Rozenkier
Director: Yona Rozenkier
Producer: Thomas Alfandari, Bustan Films LTD
Flamingo Pose
Director: Lior Dayan | Estimated Length: 15 minutes
When Lior, a divorced father in recovery, learns his 4-year-old daughter dreams of mastering the “flamingo pose,” he takes her on a spontaneous journey to southern Israel to see real flamingos. She’ll learn the pose from the source, and he’ll learn something about himself.
Writer: Lior Dayan
Director: Lior Dayan
Producer: Uria Kedem
Heavenly Assistance
Director: Shiri Nevo Fridental | Estimated Length: 15 minutes
In a hidden Galilean forest, two strangers — a Ukrainian clarinetist and a war-scarred Israeli — meet by chance. Haunted by guilt, they are drawn into a tense tango of pain and grace beneath a sky of endless war.
Writer: Shiri Nevo Fridental
Director: Shiri Nevo Fridental
Producer: Lev Orlov, Lev Orlov Films