Friday Music - Israeli Short Films

Israel, 2025, 3 minutes

On his 24th birthday, Eden (Adam Zvi Habani) finds out about Almog’s betrayal and leaves him to face the consequences of his mistakes. Based on Almog’s real-life experiences as a young oriental gay man and the problematic history with his ex-boyfriend.

בימוי: אריאל מלול
תסריט: אריאל מלול
הפקה: אופיר מלול
עם: אלמוג חרוש, אדם צבי חבאני

Israel, 2025, 3 minutes

“One Woman in the City” is a song written by Pat Parker, aiming to raise awareness about the issue of solidarity among women. Israeli society is very diverse, so we thought it was important to write the Israeli version of the song. We reached out to Israeli women and asked them to write about themselves, about their identities, in the poetic structure of Pat Parker’s song. The question “Is she our sister?” always echoes in the background.

Director: Zehavit Sabag, Naama Hacohen
Script: Zehavit Sabag, Naama Hacohen
Producer: Zehavit Sabag
With: Naama Hacohen

Israel, 2024, 3 minutes, Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles

The music video tells the story of Adam (played by Avi Buskila), the protagonist of the song—a gay man who came from the periphery, became wealthy, and now enjoys the gay lifestyle that Tel Aviv has to offer. Deep inside, Adam longs for simplicity and feels trapped within the endless choices.

Director: Ari Gilad
Script: Ari Gilad
Producer: Ehevi Nachmani
With: Avi Buskila, Ofek Yfrach Azulay, Nuri Amit Gil, Hadar Binyamin, Yonatan Alster, Amit Hayat, Daniel Yaron, Yuval Borodati, Yarden Meshulam, Roi Dekel

Israel, 2024, 3 minutes, Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles

2016, Alma, a young soldier, is falling in love with her female commander. She dreams of a wedding and stops to wonder about a famous Hebrew wedding vows phrase, then goes on a journey trying to explain it through this song. The videoclip is a classic stop-motion, that accompanies a lady trying to write her wedding vows for her wife.

Director: Alma Kalbermann
Script: Alma Kalbermann
Producer: Alma Kalbermann
With: Sharon Hindi, Yaara Haleva

Israel, 2024, 3 minutes, Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles

The film depicts the protagonist’s yearning for love in a space of spiritual dryness. Throughout the video, the dancer appears as the object of the protagonist’s love—an illusion that gradually draws closer, sometimes distancing and evading. The video features camera play with scales, spaces, and more.

Director: Ari Gilad
Script: Ari Gilad
Producer: Ehevi Nachmani
With: Ofek Ifrah Azulay, Ofek Saada

Israel, 2025, 3 minutes, Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles

Set to a lesbian pop song, the video, filmed in Arnhem, Netherlands, tells a story of a complex gender identity that lives within us and accompanies us – sometimes haunting, when we just want to be one simple and clear thing, all through the life of a dancer and the shadow of the feminine energy within him, on a journey to accept it as part of him.

Director: Alma Kalbermann
Script: Alma Kalbermann, Hagar Shafrir, Yaara Haleva
Producer: Alma Kalbermann
With: Amit Palgi, Mariona Vinyes Ràfols

Israel, 2025, 3 minutes, Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles

The music video for the song “Y.L. Peretz” portrays the escapades of Tel Aviv’s streets, known for their “chill” activities—group gatherings in private homes for sex, drugs, and socializing. Created using AI by Uriel Peer, the video highlights the contrast between the experience itself and the speaker’s loneliness.

Director: Oriel Peer
Script: Oriel Peer
Producer: Oriel Peer

Israel, 2024, 4 minutes, Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles

Times of distance and Co-vid19, Pride Month. All you can do is connect through art. Alma and Assaf’s love song becomes the Pride Month anthem for the first time in collaboration with all the LGBTQ+ communities and organizations from across the country, and queer celebrities from all over the rainbow such as Orna Banai, Yizhar Cohen, Moran Rosenblatt, Yedidia Vital and more.

Director: Alma Kalbermann
Script: Alma Kalbermann
Producer: Alma Kalbermann
With: Alma Kalbermann, Asaf Orr, Moran Rosenblatt, Yedidia Vital, Orna Banai, Yoni Livne, Adi Carmeli, Chen Amram, Reut Nagar, Shir Reuven, Tess Hashiloni, Sivan Noam Shimon, Anat Nir, David Lavi, Yizhar Cohen

Israel, 2025, 2 minutes, Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles

“The Rabbi of the Kaparot” is a bold, satirical protest song by Zehavit Sabag, performed by Naama Cohen. It critiques patriarchy, religious control, and homophobia, spotlighting the struggles of Mizrahi and queer women through powerful, feminist, and emotionally charged storytelling.

Director: Zehavit Sabag
Script: Zehavit Sabag
Producer: Zehavit Sabag
With: Naama Hacohen

Israel, 2024, 4 minutes, Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles

“Pipes” is an experimental, multi-layered music video that unfolds as a collage of images and thoughts. Blending dense editing with overlapping visuals, it captures the tension between confusion and clarity, suffocation and freedom. What emerges is an intimate journey through emotional chaos, tracing the delicate line between restraint and release.

Director: Noam Peri
Script: Noam Peri
Producer: Noam Peri
With: Noam Peri

Israel, 2025, 4 minutes, Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles

A video clip for the Rutie Stern song – All That Is Left – a lesbian love song that was written in time of war.

Director: Lior Klein Stern
Script: Tomily Shani and Lior Klein Stern
Producer: Lior Klein Stern

Israel, 2025, 4 minutes, Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles

Music video for the single by Udi Schneider.

Director: Tamar Miron
Script: Tamar Miron
Producer: Maxim Pevzner
With: Udi Schneider

Israel, 2025, 3.56 minutes, Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles

In the song and music video, Yuval explores his relationship with his mother — from childhood to the present day — from a personal and proud perspective. Beyond the personal connection, Yuval also examines the relationship between gay men and their mothers in general — a unique and often very strong bond, with a very deep understanding that begins already from the closet and continues through later stages. Questions about the closet arise already in childhood — “You didn’t always know, but you guessed, I’m sure.” Issues of body image during adolescence are also addressed — “Carelessly plucking hairs — you came with tweezers and shaped my eyebrows.” There’s also the need to help his mother understand the difficulty of finding a partner within the community — “When you ask about a boyfriend, you want me to be happy. What can I do, Mom, when I have nothing at all?” It’s hard for me with boys, and it’s hard for boys with me. I wish it were easier; I’d bring him to Friday dinner.” The video itself is colorful — in terms of backgrounds, styling, and imagery: a pile of laundry, sitting on a chair in a classroom, a bathroom — images from childhood, colors, and desire.

Director: Guy Hazam
Producer: Guy Hazam

Israel, 2025, 4 minutes, Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles

In the song, Yuval describes loneliness and a desperate need for external validation. Sn a Friday evening, instead of a family Shabbat dinner, he finds himself alone in an apartment in Jerusalem, lying on the bed. He waits for likes and comments, he’s on Grindr, and no conversation leads anywhere. He’s hungry, searching for warmth and closeness, but encounters coldness, indifference, and the void only grows bigger and bigger.

It’s a personal experience, but it also reflects a broader phenomenon among gay men — in apps, in sex, in loneliness. The video is black and white, bleak, drawn from horror aesthetics. Heavy makeup, an empty and lonely Shabbat table, cold transparent plastic suffocating him, a flamenco dancer symbolizing the storm within, and a computer on the Shabbat table.

Director: Guy Hazam
Producer: Guy Hazam

Israel, 2025, 3 minutes

Music video for the song by Tom Schneid.

Director: Tom Schneid
Script: Tom Schneid
Producer: Tom Schneid
With: Tom Schneid, Jenny Penkin, Dana International