Special | Voices from Israel & Palestine
With the special “Voices from Israel & Palestine”, we present inside views from the Middle Eastern region. With four moving films, we experience diverse perspectives, life stories and aesthetics from recent years. Through film, we want to recognize connections between societies and better understand complex realities.
This special screening is co-presented by the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival and the Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg.
The Gun
Shaya (30) is literally attached at the hip to his handgun. As a result of the need to renew his firearms license, Shaya embarks on a journey of clarification regarding his fears and their effects, in the hope of unchaining himself from them.
Language: Hebrew (English Subtitles)
Credits
| Director | Shaya Chesner |
| Cinematographer | Yisrael Rohn Rigler |
| Editing | Isaac Sverdlov |
| Music | Amit Ben Atar |
| Screenplay | Shaya Chesner |
| Sound Designer | Amit Ben Atrar |
Oslo
Ziad, a Palestinian day laborer, is denied entry into Israel for work that day. Not wanting to return home empty handed after promising his daughter meat for dinner, he needs to get creative.
A poetic and tragic reflection on the everyday struggle of Palestinian breadwinners.
Language: Arabic (English Subtitles)
Credits
| Director | Shady Srour |
Hatatzpitanit (Lookout)
Timmy holds an lookout post in the military. As a diversion, she immerses herself into fantasy. But when violent reality of the border area sets in, her world is shattered.
Language: Hebrew (English Subtitles)
Credits
| Director | Noa Gusakov |
| Camera | Eitan Hatuka |
يوم وفاة أبي (The Day My Father Dies)
Salah, an acting student in Paris, returns home to Haifa to work on a play eulogizing his still-living father. During his stay, however, Salah slowly comes to realize that his father is not the hero he thought he was.
Language: Arabic, Hebrew (English Subtitles)
Credits
| Director | Nayef Hammoud |
| Cinematographer | Yaniv Linton |
| Editing | Michal Gassner Gasner |
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