Israeli Shorts Program – Starry Eyed

Summary:

Israeli Short Genre Films – Romantic Program
7 Films, 81 Mins Total

Shhh
Israel, 2019
Director: Jonathan Mordechay
Cast: Noa Koler, Erez aderiges
Horror Comedy. Most importantly – do not wake up the baby, who just fell asleep, things might go unimaginably wrong.
The film was presented at over sixty film festivals around the world.
13 mins, Non-speaking film

St. Honoré
Israel, 2020
Director: Yotam Laor
Cast: Naomi Levov, Yotam Laor, Gaia Shlita Katz, Ofek Nick Cohen
Horror Comedy. A bourgeois dinner with friends gives rise to some of its participants’ suppressed emotions, as they completely loose control.
2 min, Hebrew, English Subs.

Antideafobia
Israel, 2020
Director: Alon Newman
Cast: Adi Salhov, Ilan Ben Ovadia, Natalie Dimant, Daniel Zirlin
Horror, fantasy. When a mysterious duck hunted Sally, she decides to confront him in order to overcome her anxieties.
6 min, Hebrew, English Subs

Meant to Be
Israel, 2018
Director: Sigi Golan
Cast: Kama Berman, Masha Shmulian, Ziv Gidron
Fantastic Drama. During a picnic with her boyfriend, Maya finds a ring hidden in his backpack. Unable to contend, she flees into the forest.
Produced at the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School.
10 min, Hebrew, English Subs

Alex & Nadia Forever
Israel, 2020
Director: Ronen Naor
Cast: Sandro Zildman, Xenai Dorfman, Gadi Livschitz, Batel Tomasov
Magic realism, Mystery. Drenched in guilt and longing for his late lover Nadia, Alex begins to adopt her identity, one step at a time.
Produced at the Sapir college, supported by the Israeli New Fund for Cinema and Television NFCT.
20 min, Russian, Hebrew, English & Hebrew subs

Bordo
Israel, 2020
Director: Dor Pe’er
Cast: Alon Leshem, Efrat Arnon
Horror thriller. Worried by his wife’s behavior, a man tries to reveal if she is aware of his secret life.
Produced at Minshar School of Arts, supported by The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts and by the Israeli Ministry of Culture.
14 min, Hebrew, English Subs

Parallel Worlds
France, 2020
Director: Sofia Gutman
Cast: Amlan c Larcher, Guillaume Gaudfrin
Science Fiction. A couple goes hiking into a forest, expecting to witness an extremely rare meteor shower. As they have a conversation about their relationship, the forest around them deforms and become more and more alien, getting them separated.
15 min, French, Hebrew subs