Hebrew with English translation , 12 minutes , 2023 ,Israel

“The LGBTQ+ person is like an embryo. There is no one to teach them how to survive, there is no one to guide them or direct them on what is right and wrong, how pleasure is supposed to feel.”
This film presents excerpts from my personal life, from childhood memories to maturity – as an analogy for a child who learns the world anew. Accompanied by my friends from the LGBTQ+ community, who tell from their points of view the norms, the challenges and the search for a sense of belonging in the community.

Director: Nadav Levy
Screenwriter: Nadav Levy
Producer: Nadav Levy
Cast: Jessica Van De Rovaat, Gal Suss, Tomer Romn, Fadi Daeem

Hebrew with English translation , 14 minutes , 2023 ,Israel

Shani’s provocation at her mother Ariela goes wrong. The two are dragged into conflict, caught in the range between dedication and abandonment.

Director: Keren Shemesh
Screenwriter: Keren Shemesh
Producer: Alona Amram
Cast: Chelli Goldenberg, Hadas Yaron

Hebrew with English translation , 7 minutes , 2023 ,Israel

A part of a course on documentary journals in Bezalel Academy. This film talks about self-acceptance in the face of a family that does not accept, a personal and exciting journey with the same camera that photographed me as a child.

Director: Odeya Laske
Producer: Odeya Laske

Arabic with Hebrew and English translation , 7 minutes , 2023 ,Israel

Hoping to “introduce” her partner to her father, Yasmin brings her partner, Lena, to her father’s grave where she finds herself spiraling into a whirlwind of emotions.

Director: Anna Maria Hawa
Screenwriter: Anna Maria Hawa
Producer: Donna Hawa, Nitai Shanni
Cast: Maysa Daw, Maria Zriek

No words, 9 minutes , 2023 ,Israel

A short queer film about the complex experience of a bisexual woman in the closet, who desires her lesbian neighbor that she spies on from her balcony and then fantasizes about while pleasuring herself. She wants to be her and to be with her at the same time, but can only live it through the fantasy.

Director: Shir Green
Screenwriter: Shir Green
Producer: Shir Green
Cast: Yael Castel, Eival Naama Luria, Anna Ariel, Tom Piha

Hebrew with English translation , 9 minutes , 2023 ,Israel

Nervous and desperate after being kicked out of her apartment, Shadi takes to the lonesome streets of Tel Aviv, looking for a place to call home.

Director: Moria Rabbani
Screenwriter: Moria Rabbani
Producer: Nitzan Raivitz
Cast: Moria Rabbani, Meital Carmeli

Hebrew with English translation , 17 minutes , 2023 ,Israel

Soli, A young activist, meets Ameline at an anarchist eco rebel camp in Jerusalem. Soli’s search for tenderness and intimacy, leads her to guide Ameline through her existential struggle, living in a toxic world.

Director: Sivan Eyal
Screenwriter: Sivan Eyal
Producer: Yasmin Schefft
Cast: Shani Kagan, Sharon Kohen Raz

Hebrew with English translation , 27 minutes , 2023 ,Israel

Arava, a troubled teen, reluctantly goes on a trip with her best friend, Tzipi. The two runaways hitchhike through small-town Israel to the mystical gravesites of the northern city of Safed, in pursuit of an antique Jewish tradition for redemption. Along the way, they’re confronted with the intricacies of their individual identities, hopes, losses and their relationship with one another.

Director: Sarah Meital Benjamin
Screenwriter: Sarah Meital Benjamin & Batel Zaharaa Mann
Producer: Michael Utznik
Cast: Batel Sahara Mann, Swell Ariel Or, Itamar Rothchild

Hebrew with English translation , 16 minutes , 2023 ,Israel

Ruth, a religious married woman “in the closet”, undergoes conversion therapy and prays for a miracle which will heal her heart from her love for a neighbor, a religious woman cello player. What happens when God forces her to confront her passion at a decisive holy moment?

Director: Tzlil Golov
Screenwriter: Tzlil Golov
Producer: Tzlil Golov
Cast: Yael Shayovitz, Yonatan Kunda, Tammie Ellmakies

French with Hebrew and English translation, 22 minutes , 2023 ,Israel

Layla lives in the shadow of her own name (“night” in Hebrew ). She wakes up when the sun sets and everyone goes to sleep. This is where she feels alive, in the silent night. But this silence will soon be broken by the arrival of Pauline into her life.

Director: Noa Li Sitbon
Screenwriter: Noa Li Sitbon
Producer: Guy Kol
Cast: More Ayala Engel, Emily Shabes