How the Lake became a River - Sevan Smolnik | Verbal Problems - Nitzan Satt | He Who Says No - Tamar Nissim | They All Died - Ayala Berger | Motherland - Dylan Joseph | Riding Out of The Saddle - Dan Robert Lahiani | Permanent Resident - Thalia Hoffman
The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Competition 2023
Dir.: Sevan SmolnikIsrael 202313 minutesHebrewEnglish subtitles
After years of separation and silence, a young man visits his mother and speaks to her for the first time about the indelible mark left on him by her and his drug-addicted father.
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Dir.: Nitzan SattIsrael 20234 minutesNo DialogueEnglish subtitles
Through images from pedagogy and translation, the film addresses the pain inherent in hidden capitalist values. The film was inspired by the years the artist worked as a teacher in the Bedouin villages of Ibtin and Ras Ali.
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Dir.: Tamar NissimIsrael 202311 minutesHebrewEnglish subtitles
A child sets out on an expedition to find a cure for the plague. Will he sacrifice himself when he does not withstand the mission? Brecht's play, performed by IDF's disabled veterans, loaded on a local level about the meaning of the refusal.
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Dir.: Ayala BergerIsrael 202311 minutesHebrewEnglish subtitles
The film follows the futile attempt of a mother and her only daughter to recreate a memory from the past. A cinematic reflection on reality and fiction in the space between loss and completion.
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Dir.: Dylan JosephIsrael 20239 minutesHebrewHebrew, English subtitles
Moments from reality in a militaristic society.
Dir.: Dan Robert Lahiani Israel 202311 minutesHebrewEnglish, Hebrew subtitles
From his studio located in Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood, the artist enters a dance choreographed by two workers spinning around the future controversial Dome of Beit Safafa’s mosque.
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Dir.: Thalia HoffmanIsrael 202315 minutesHebrew, ArabicHebrew, English subtitles
The work follows five women for whom the political space is ingrained in their life: Tatiana Hoffman, Maria De Pina, Yvonne Deutsch, Yuli Novak and Thalia Hoffman. Each woman has a complex relationship with her place of residence and with activism.
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