Q&A Guests:
Ariel Elbert (director Feels Forever), Oleg Yakovlev (director Life Must Go On), Zohar Wagner (dirrctor Cookies For Life), Itai Osterman (director Final Chord), Ruth Blory (director Final Chord), Rotem Paz (director Hotel Sanctuary)
Film Programme
Final Chord
#Animation#Personal
Ruth Blory, Itai Osterman, IL 2024, 7 min
Lily and Keren are best friends, united by their love of music and dance. On October 7, the morning of the terrorist attacks in Israel, Lily is in a shelter and fears for Keren, who was at the Nova Festival and is now unreachable. This animated film finds touching images for loss and grief.
Life Must Go On
#Doc#Personal
Oleg Yakovlev, IL 2024, 11 min
On October 7, Ilya's life changed abruptly: terrorists attacked his kibbutz, took one of his children and abducted the other. In this life-affirming short portrait, Ilya shows how he learns to deal with grief and uncertainty and to move on.
Tunnel Vision
#Fiction
Rani Avidan, IL 2024, 3 min
Even in times of war, the garbage has to be taken out - even in the most difficult moments, life goes on and finds a smile.
Cookies For Life
#Doc#Fiction#Personal
Zohar Wagner, IL 2024, 58 min
On October 7, Rachel Edri was held hostage for 20 hours by five Hamas terrorists in her home in Ofakim. She survived thanks to her ingenuity, humor and talent for improvisation. This incredibly dense and captivating hybrid film was created from re-enacted scenes and original footage.
Hotel Sanctuary
#Doc#Family
Rotem Pesachovish Paz, IL 2024, 10 min
This short documentary tells the story of the inhabitants of Kibbutz Nir Am, who lived in the Harrods Hotel in Tel Aviv for months after the attack on October 7. In the long corridors of the hotel, the stories of families searching for normality in the midst of uncertainty are told.
Feels Forever
#Doc#Personal
Ariel Elbert, Maximiliam Neudeck, DE 2024, 7 min
This animated short documentary is a collage of images and sound that shows us the perspectives of young Jewish people from Germany. Their thoughts, fears, questions and new realities after October 7 are interwoven in an impressive and sensitive way.
Dead Eye Night
#Animation
Adi Shinar, IL 2024, 2 min
After the attack on October 7, this animated film takes us on a journey into the inner eye - a dense visual world of war that burns itself into the heart at night. A haunting cinematic experience between dream, trauma and reality.