SHORTIME — THE ISRAELI SHORT FILM COLLECTION

SHORTIME — THE ISRAELI SHORT FILM COLLECTION

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SHORTIME — THE ISRAELI SHORT FILM COLLECTION
  • Let Go

    In the heart of the spiritual old city of Jerusalem, Joel finds himself at a crossroads. His heart shattered by a love lost, he seeks solace in the holiness of this ancient place. Surrounded by sacred sites and the whispers of countless prayers, Joel finds a refuge in the city's embrace.

    Just as...

  • Wrong Rhythm

    Yifat and Moav, a young religious Jewish couple, discover in weird circumstances that they are expecting a baby. Eight months later, on the day of her brother's wedding, Yifat rushes to the doctor and there she is told she lost the baby. She chooses to keep it a secret from everyone, even her hus...

  • Who Are You?

    When a daughter visits her sick mother who suffers from memory loss, she finds herself reliving a childhood trauma.

    Year: 2019
    Languages: Hebrew & Russian, English subtitles
    Director: Tanya Yakovlev
    Producer: Yoel Eilat
    Starring: Alina Litvinov, Yhali Handros Digmi, Tamara Klingon, Irit Digmi

  • Kapunka

    A wild Jewish western comedy about the conflict of living a traditional and modern life. In order to get around, a requirement for Jews to leave their fields once every seven years. Shmulik "sells" his land to his Thai laborer leading to unexpected consequences.

    Year: 2015
    Language: Hebrew, Engl...

  • Test

    Tomer (25) is helping his fellow student to unload technical equipment for a film shooting. While the photographer and his assistant perform tests on the camera, Tomer is captured while getting a disturbing call from his sister, informing him about the hospitalization of their father.

    Year: 2015...

  • The Mouse

    A hard-working family in an Israeli suburb in the '70s. Through the kids' point of view, we follow the message the adults deliver to their children and how that will shape the adults they will become.

    Year: 2019
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Liat Akta
    Producers: Shraga Bar, Marco...

  • Two of Every Kind

    The flood, one of the most colossal events in the history of mankind. Two of every kind, two of every living thing, went inside of Noah’s Ark in order to save themselves. Not many know but amongst the couples were also two male peacocks. In this extraordinary stop-motion animation, we can see the...

  • True to Life

    In the near future, humanity has reached a pinnacle in Robotics Science: the ability to create an anatomically exact duplicate of human beings… But are they true to life?

    Year: 2011
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Assaf Ehrenreich
    Producers: Yuval Greenfield, Rom Weissman, Yuval Ka...

  • The Unknown Soldier

    This film is the testimony of a World War II veteran and an intimate portrait of the main protagonist, Uncle Nusya. It presents a real person whose identity is hidden behind a jacket full of medals. What's also important are his feelings and a past captured in the form of tattoos on his body.

    Ye...

  • The Opportunity

    Married to a star-picker who aimed for the sun and failed, a woman deals with the consequences of her man's shattering ego. Could any of her efforts put him back together again?

    Year: 2015
    Language: English
    Director: Tatia Rosenthal
    Producer: Tatia Rosenthal
    Starring: Alex Karpovsky, Tzahi Grad

  • The External Tel-Aviv

    An ordinary day in the ordinary life of an ordinary family in Tel Aviv.

    Year: 2018
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Directors: Omer Ben-David, Dan Messer
    Producers: Omer Ben-David, Dan Messer

  • The Amazing Charleroux

    A magician and his assistant have found the perfect way to perform the "sawing a woman in half" trick by actually splitting a person in half.

    Year: 2011
    Director: Ido Fluk
    Producers: Itay Gross, Justin Edwards, Shira Aharony
    Starring: Dan Woren, Ellen Clifford, Michael Shaughnessy

  • Surprise

    This is the story about a 35-year-old man who doesn't like to waste his time. His mother sends him to the grocery store, while planning a surprise birthday party for him. While purchasing dairy products, he muses about the similarities between their expiration dates and his own life. He returns h...

  • Street Shot

    A street photographer wanders the streets of south Tel Aviv, looking for images. When he spots a homeless woman on a nearby bench, he shoots her as well. An innocent offer changes the whole picture.

    Year: 2017
    Director: Yael Danon
    Producer: Moran Blecher
    Starring: Ora Meirson, Itai Amos

  • Foreign Film

    In a surreal world where time and space have no meaning, one man, with a suitcase handcuffed to his arm, unwillingly joins a ship of weirdos. Together they embark on a hallucinatory ride in the desert sands. No one on this ship understands the language of the other and they have only their body a...

  • Sabbatical

    Lily is a teacher in her Sabbatical year, living in a Kibutz. She is having a hard time adjusting to her year off while life at school goes on without her. Her attempt at finding something else to do, at all costs, brings her to an unexpected showdown.

    Year: 2015
    Language: Hebrew, English subtit...

  • Saving Pooh

    An almost forgotten memory of grandma Matryona when she was a little girl. A lonely girl who only has one thing in the whole wide world: her best friend, Winnie-the-Pooh.

    Year: 2017
    Language: Russian, English subtitles
    Director: Julia Trachtenberg
    Producer: Julia Trachtenberg
    Starring: Lena Wisman

  • Elevator

    A man, a girl and a goat enter an elevator. They speak different languages and yet seem to understand each other.

    Year: 2017
    Languages: Hebrew & Arabic, English subtitles
    Director: Boaz Olander
    Producer: Hamutal Peretz
    Starring: Ala Dakka, Maya Nativ, Noa Lezer Keinan

  • I Will Drink My Tears

    Yonatan, a young rascal, needs fifteen Shekels. Everything else is not important right now.

    Year: 2011
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Tom Shoval
    Producer: Gal Greenspan
    Starring: Yonathan Carmel, Amir Wolf, Shira Farber, Amit Itzcar

  • Lashabiya

    In an elementary school courtyard, a young Palestinian man plays a dangerous version of the classical children's game "Red Light, Green Light", with an armed squad of Israeli soldiers. In this game players are disqualified for moving. The soldiers charge forward, deeply motivated to reach him, an...

  • Noga Does Not Exist

    Noga, a beautiful young woman, inclined to depression and existential despair, is sitting on a bench in downtown Tel Aviv, trying to find relaxation and clear her mind of all the negative thoughts. Johnny, a cool and sweet young guy, joins her for a cigarette and a philosophical conversation.

    Ye...

  • 97%

    A man discovers, through an app on his cell phone, that a 97% "love match" is close to him. Will he find her before the train reaches its destination?

    Year: 2014
    Director: Ben Brand
    Producer: Caviar Amsterdam
    Starring: Bert Hana

  • Far Away

    Friday afternoon. Itzik drives his son, Nimrod, back home. One question during that time forces Nimrod to learn about his father experience as a disabled man, his resentment towards his first family, and crippling loneliness. Nimrod faces his father's difficult dilemma: is it better to be loved a...

  • Ivan

    "Three years ago my brother Ivan passed away. Ivan and I were close, he was an important role module in my life and I thought I knew him as well as he knew me. After his death I realized I was wrong. During my search I found his blog. The blog opened up a whole new world and tons of information a...