In his debut feature film, director and cinematographer Ido Weisman (whose unforgettable short film REQUIEM FOR A WHALE screened in 2023 at JFBB), turns his camera toward a caravan settlement on the margins of Eilat, a desert resort city on Israel’s Red Sea coast. Hidden just beyond the glittering line of beachfront hotels, the site housed people most visitors never notice, and has since been cleared. Weisman builds three portraits with quiet patience: Eliezer, who works in waste collection; Amir, a post traumatic newcomer whose nerves fray in public; and Tova, a long-time resident with an Anglo Saxon background who has cut ties with her family. Their small, cramped spaces become sanctuaries of quiet, set against the looming "concrete monsters" of tourism and the fast lane of capitalism. Sun Bay challenges the Israeli ethos of rootedness, portraying a "Wandering Jew" choosing the margin as a refuge. In a society that has largely turned its back on them, these individuals cling to one another for fellowship, redefining the meaning of home and the vital difference between being alone and being lonely.
Text: Nir Ferber
Supporting Film: FROM A DISTANCE Omer Rosenberg, IL 2025, 22 min
