WHAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH
Director Binyamin Haneman
Israel
Runtime 120:53
Completion Date:June 1, 2020
Benny Haneman the director takes up his camera to explore the love, sadness, jealousy and loyalty that exists between him, his father and his older brother Gidi, who has a complex combination of special needs. For the first time, Haneman comes face to face with the fact that it is his childhood perception of his brother that informs their relationship today. Using his camera and a rich variety of archival footage shot by his father since Gidi’s birth, he creates a safe space in which the father and two brothers can eloquently and intelligently express what they have been going through, over the years.
CROSSING LINES
Director Shir Eldad
Israel
Runtime 13:59
Completion Date:June 1, 2020
Aya, a social worker in her twenties, volunteers at an "at-risk" teenage mobile unit in the city center. One night, she accidentally gets drawn into a gang of youths and their night time activities.
TREATMENT AREA
Director Avital Goldberg
Israel
Runtime 16:12
Completion Date:July 1, 2020
Tahel, a religious young girl, undergoes laser treatment for the first time ever, on intimate areas of her body. Her response, visceral and unexpected, confronts those who work in the clinic and society as a whole.
SIMHONA
Director Batel Kaniel
Israel
Runtime 23:00
Completion Date:July 1, 2020
In 1954, baby Simhona's parents, new immigrants from Iran who were living in a refugee tent city, were told that their daughter was ill and needed to be hospitalized. She was tkaen away from them by a "nurse", and they never saw the nurse or the baby again. Days later, they were informed of Simhona's death, though no body was returned to them. Simhona's mother, now in her 90s, never recovered emtionally form the loss of the baby.
THE DISTANCE TO YOU
Director Rivka Fertig
Israel
Runtime 13:36
Completion Date:
In this lyric documentary, Rivka Fertig, an ultra-Orthodox young filmmaker, delves into the emotional lives of three other ultra-Orthodox Jewish women struggling to balance their love for art and self-expression with the restrictions of their community.
REFLECTION
Director Shirel Paz
Israel
Runtime 15:18
Completion Date:August 1, 2020
Roy is suffering from a social phobia that makes it difficult for him to manage with people and especially with girls. In his work at an archive, he feels in full control, but outside, things do not go lightly. Every time he goes out on a date, his anxiety takes over and after a few minutes he runs away. One day he meets a mannequin in a shop window who changes his life.
GRANDMA'S MEMORY
Director Avital Goldberg
Israel
Runtime 10:53
Completion Date:August 1, 2020
Dementia is an incurable disease. My grandmother Hadassah has it. In this movie, Grandma, once a mythic math teacher who now cannot do the simplest calculations, shares her feelings about the manifestations of her memory loss.
LICORICE
Director Hillel Klein
Israel
Runtime 12:00
Completion Date:October 1, 2020
Yosef, a special needs young adult, listens to tape recordings from his dead father in order to help him get through the day.
Regime change
Director Yana Sad
Russian Federation
Runtime 18:10
Completion Date:April 1, 2020
Two brothers live in a tiny house on the outskirts of a small town. They are young, one of them, Oleg, is special, being autistic. They follow a strict schedule. Ivan takes care of his brother and it is difficult for him to have his own life. Once Ivan cheated Oleg, left him and went out on a date.
Til Life Do Us Part
Director Aaron Goldenberg
United States
Runtime 17:39
Completion Date:March 30, 2020
Barnaby and Timothy are a match made in the grave. One is a miserable misanthrope and the other a paranoid hypochondriac; together they are 70-year-old best friends who make a suicide pact to spite the world and end it all before a disease does.
When Timothy unexpectedly chooses life, Barnaby accuses him of betraying the sacred suicide pact, corrupting their friendship into a struggle for the ground they walk on or the dirt underneath it.
The Choice
Director Amitai Kasher
Israel
Runtime 20:00
Completion Date:August 9, 2020
Ofri is constantly abused by a friend of her mother (Avi), after she went to take his lighter from him.
Ofri talks her friend (Nimrod) about Avi and then decides to take revenge on him
Ofri's sister tries to talk to her and show her the moral way to deal with the situation.
Ofri is left with a dilemma, and she has a choice to make.
Ballad for the Medic
Director Gilad Levine
Israel
Runtime 13:00
Completion Date:July 30, 2020
When a soldier gets injured in battle, a combat medic must stay behind to treat his wounds, and get him to the extraction point in time. The pair must work together and overcome physical and emotional challenges if they are to make it out of the war alive.
Subtropics
Director Levan Borissoff
Russian Federation
Runtime 29:57
Completion Date:December 10, 2019
Documentary short film about my father, his horrible job ( as a forensic pathologists) and my memories about him.
On Every Street
​Director Jackie/Junyi Fang
United States
Runtime 7:55
Completion Date:May 1, 2018
An elderly man with Alzheimer’s disease who decides to run away from his family on his birthday.
The Sacred Talisman
Director Mihhail Plutahhin
Russian Federation
Runtime 33:42
Completion Date:May 20, 2020
Combining the techniques of object theater with cinematic ones, the authors create a fragile visual and musical world of childhood memories. In this world, there is a cozy little light in the window and the clock is ticking. And then, this secluded children’s world is ruthlessly invaded by a large adult war. The camera captures details and scrutinizes textures, immersing the spectator into history through a biography of things, where music and sound design become the main vehicles. The soundtrack of the performance-film features songs and poems in Yiddish from the repertoire of Leibu Levin, reader and composer.
Ballad of music notes
Director Xi Chengzhuo
China
Runtime 4:18
Completion Date:July 1, 2020
In the eyes of every piano performer, the score is not just as simple as it looks on the surface. There is a world in the score. The piano book is the carrier of this world. Every time they play it, it is a journey in that world. The same score, played by different people, the same world can also present different states. A teacher is teaching students to play the piano. The world under the teacher's rule places great emphasis on rules and order. Every beat, pause and note must follow their due rhythm and strong and weak rhythm. The students are more creative, and the notes in his world are more free and can be combined at will. In a piano lesson, the two worlds are facing the crisis of conflict
Tina's Escape
Directors Simon TOUITOU, Maxime Bruyere
France
Runtime 01:11:54
Completion Date:June 17, 2020
In the South of France, Sam, in his fifties, does odd jobs on the port of Sète. His couple is in crisis. His wife, Laura no longer accepts her poor life.
Tina dreams of escaping beyond the seas.
A chance encounter could change fate…
A Trip with Mom
Director Sophie SHUI
Taiwan
Runtime 25:00
Completion Date:March 3, 2019
In order to take care of his old mother (played by Liou, Yiin-Shang), who has lost her intelligence and is disabled, Xia Changming (played by Yi-Wen CHEN) remains unemployed at home.
A family of four, who have been relying on the wife Xiaoling (played by CHIN, TZU-YEN), who is an insurance salesperson, for many years
Berlin, Connecticut
Director Tristan St Germain
United States
Runtime 01:23:13
Completion Date:June 1, 2020
A student with severe anxiety becomes the unwitting star of a young director’s chaotic film project. When the director goes missing, our hero must descend into the dark underworld of his hometown to save her.
You Have Me
Director Yoel Darwish
Israel
Runtime 7:17
Completion Date:September 1, 2019
A short film about love’s confusing nature and the question of commitment.