Duration: 75 minutes
Cinematheque 1, Tel-Aviv
Thursday, November 18, 2021, 18:00 – Tickets
The Tailor
Director & Script: Inbal Selah
Producer: Inbal Selah
Cast: Koren Solomon
Israel, 2021, 14 min, Hebrew with English subtitles
Oren is a transgender woman in the closet. She dreams of being a fashion designer and designing clothes that challenge gender norms. Her life of hiding damages her designs. She begins to break down the walls that hold her from being who she is.
Cosmopolitan
Director & Script: Moran Nakar
Producer: Kobi Mizrahi, Alona Amram
Cast: Adam Kende, Yakir Eliahu Vaknin, Stav Sabag
Israel, 2020, 8 min, Hebrew with English subtitles
Jacob goes out, for the first time in his life, to a gay party, but discovers that his skin color prevents him from being accepted into the community.
ReFeel
Director & Script: Omer Harel
Producer: Omer Harel , Leah Tonic
Cast: Gabriel Loukas, Omer Perelman Striks
Israel, 2021, 19 min, Hebrew with English subtitles
For their sixth anniversary, Dekel sweeps Neri into a journey through their past with the help of a new drug, which makes you re-experience memories. This trip reaches a breaking point when they go back to a joint sexual encounter, which floods Neri with feelings he tried to suppress.
Claude Bardini and I
Director & Script: Barak Cohen
Producer: Natalia Raz, Lev Orlov
Cast: Sagi Perez, Shmuel Atzmon Wircer
Israel, 2020, 13 min, Hebrew with English subtitles
Oshri, a young film student, volunteers to take Claude Bardini, a famous elderly French-Jewish documentary filmmaker from airport to the screening of his film as part of the Film Festival in Jerusalem. When Claude demands to go to the sea in Tel Aviv instead of his screening, he will help Oshri to profess his desire to become a director and break the spell of self-doubt cast by his father’s refusal to accept him.
Breath in, Breath out
Director: Hagai Saharai
Script: Hagai Saharai, Zohar Mutayn
Producer: Yonatan Volfin, Ehud Levin
Cast: Moshik Galamin, Yonatan Volfin
Israel, 2021, 4 min, Hebrew with English translation
“Breath in, Breath out” explicitly portrays the turbulence within the relationship of a gay couple who live in the same household, yet feel the tension of the last breathing moments of their relationship. Even though the alienation is obvious, we are still uncertain whether they are to overcome the hardship.
The Neighbor’s Dog
Director: Jonathan Ofek
Script: Hagai Saharai, Zohar Mutayn
Producer: Jonathan Ofek, Ravid Maimon
Cast: Ofri Bitterman, Adi Gilat, Ori Ziv
Israel, 2021, 17 min, Hebrew with English translation
Uri lives on his own. When a single mom and her young son move in next door, things become very strange.