Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, children, and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter vacation. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories.
Ben arrives to his native Kibbutz and plans to ask his distant father Albert to help him recover a family apartment looted in WWII. But Albert has other plans... Completely drunk, he has bet that he could cross the country from north to south on a tractor in less than a week.
The filmmaker uses watercolor to reconstruct the memories of her father. Together, they go back in time to the year the Yom Kippur War began. The attempt to deal with his memories reveals a gap between the invincible father and one who hides within an unforgotten war and fear of death. The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2022
Anna, a 60-year-old actress, is long past her prime. Several days after her purse is snatched in the street, she begins to give diction lessons to a 17-year-old boy, who turns out to be the thief. Despite the age difference, the two develop an unconventional romance. German director Nicolette Krebitz depicts the relationship with a unique cinematic language, containing a plethora of humor and emotional intelligence.
A young man is accused of raping a young woman. The two protagonists, their families, and friends will see their lives and faith torn to shreds in the public eye in the search for the truth. Based on Karine Tuil’s novel Les Choses humaines.
A young Ethiopian-Israeli experiencing an anxiety attack, must rescue his younger brother from a conflict with the police. With every passing moment, the bad blood between the two brothers only makes matters worse. Israeli Short Film Competition - Program 1
Beryl shares her obsession with drawing while exposing the addictions of her eccentric family, which include pickling, screw threads, and pet taxidermy. Oscar Nominated Shorts - Animation 2022
A young Kyrgyz woman is kidnapped and forced to marry. A drama about the desire for freedom in the clutches of tradition. Oscar Nominated Shorts - Live Action 2022
Reut, a young prosecutor, takes over a sexual assault case, based on the sole testimony of Efrat - a rebellious yet fragile victim, who lives with her wild female partner. Reut is reluctant, but as the trial progresses and Efrat collapses, Reut learns the true nature of strength, love and sisterhood.
An Israeli man returns to Israel after 10 years of absence. An encounter with a childhood friend and his future-wife will change everyone’s lives. A story set between a flower shop and an ancient monastery, a swimming pool and the Mediterranean Sea, life and death - and somewhere in the middle.
Ten years after AMERICAN DUST, French filmmaker, Arnaud des Pallières brought AMERICAN JOURNAL to this year's Berlin Festival. The new film continues the colorful and historic style of his previous work as a cinematic essay - an interwoven tapestry of various private and anonymous archival material and intertitles reflecting thoughtful speculation and extraordinary poetry.
At Turkey’s oldest zoo, a lonely manager and a neglected female officer form an unlikely bond. In order to stop zoo’s privatization process, they hide the death of the zoo’s oldest inhabitant, an Anatolian leopard, and fake its escape. They set in motion an absurd charade that spins out of control.
Philippe Lemesle and his wife are in the process of separating, their love irretrievably damaged by pressures of work. An executive working for an industrial conglomerate, Philippe no longer knows how to respond to the contradictory demands of his bosses. Yesterday they wanted a manager, today an enforcer.
Assi is a gay sailor who returns for a one-day visit to his conservative hometown. While trying to meet the child he once abandoned, Assi must face his former life and come to terms with his estranged relatives. Israeli Short Film Competition - Program 3
A family of five, their two goats and donkey, live in the middle of nowhere, not far from their native village. When the father decides to provide running water for the family by illegally diverting water onto their land, the newly free-flowing water re-awakens the instinctive desire for freedom they have been repressing all these years, causing a rift in the family.
Cédric is suspended from work after kissing a female reporter on live TV. Stuck at home with his girlfriend and their crying baby, he teams up with his brother to co-author a book apologizing for their past misogyny. Enter Amy: A mysterious and provocative babysitter who forces the trio to confront their sexual anxieties.
Excerpt: Barik Sale, a refugee from Darfur, fled his home as a child and arrived in Israel alone as a minor. The film tells the story of his escape, and recreates his traumatic journey through audiovisual means, using foley studio recordings and binaural field recordings. The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2022
A childless young ultraorthodox couple faces a crisis after a traumatic treatment for barrenness. When the difference between good and bad is unclear, the family must deal with unresolved secrets that raise fundamental questions about religion and faith.
Memories of women who migrated to Bat Yam are weaved in movement within the urban landscape. The women’s encounter with the city creates a complex portrait, at times painful, at times poetic, with the local body and the local space. The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2022
A thrilling documentary portrait of famed composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Using the maestro’s own voice and incredible visual language, the film follows Leonard Bernstein’s intimate, complicated, heartbreaking, and passionate life story with the ultimate goal of trying to inspire us viewers to create change today’s society.
Ingrid is working in the Chilean Intelligence Directorate (DINA) in 1975. Her relationship with her dog, her body, her fears, and frustrations reveal a grim fracture in her mind and in an entire country. Oscar Nominated Shorts - Animation 2022
Paweł is a single man who works on a small river ferry. Day by day he keeps doing the same things until he meets Mohammad, an illegal immigrant. The European Film Academy 2021: A Selection of Short Films - Program I
Shortly after artist Dan Robert Lahiani arrived at the 12th floor of the Clal Building for an osteopathic session, his personal quest for connection, home, and healing became entangled with the dilapidated and crumbling building’s angsts, aches, and neglect. The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2022
Delicate ballerina Olya meets Evgeny, a rough boxer who personifies “strong but silent.” With very different lives and worldviews, will they be brave enough to embrace their feelings? Oscar Nominated Shorts - Animation 2022
Sanghyeon struggles with debt. Dongsu works at a Baby Box facility – an organization that provides temporary shelter for infants. One rainy night, they steal one of the babies left in the Baby Box, and attempt sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives are watching, and they quietly track them down to capture crucial evidence.
