Katia and Maurice loved two things — each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring volcanologists roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and documenting their discoveries. Director Sara Dosa fashions a lyrical celebration of the intrepid scientists’ spirit of adventure, drawing from the couple’s spectacular archive.
When her adult daughter moves back home after a crisis of the heart, homemaker Flora tries to awaken her own diminishing love life. Israeli Short Film Competition - Program 3
An intimate, poetic portrait of the fragile balances that govern everyday life in a domestic setting. The European Film Academy 2021: A Selection of Short Films - Program I
A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing and spend some precious time with each other. The sun is shining, and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down.
A documentary portrait by German master Volker Schlöndorff. For decades, Tony Rinaudo has been growing trees in the most barren of areas by restoring live stumps and roots as an “underground forest,” thereby securing the livelihood of thousands of African farmers.
Carmel works as the head of security on a cruise ship. Her world turns upside down when Covid-19 hits and the tourism industry shuts down. The ship is stuck at sea, and she has no clue when she’ll be able to return home. Israeli Short Film Competition - Program 3
Edina, a female bodybuilder, is ready to sacrifice everything for the dream she shares with her life partner and trainer, Adam: to win the world championship. The expensive steroids and supplements force Edina to take a side gig as an escort. New ways of desire make her see the difference between her dreams and her true self.
In a neglected house at the edge of a forest, a boy whose mother is coping with mental illness demands a cure from God. But the depression has its own divine source, and the boy struggles to keep his sanity in a world abandoned by God. Israeli Short Film Competition - Program 1
Emmanuel Anati (90) has been researching desert culture on Mount Karkom for more than 40 years, and claims it is the biblical Mount Sinai. The establishment has turned its back on him, but he knows that his last climb will prove him right. Israeli Short Film Competition - Program 1
The video shows a failed resuscitation attempt reconstructing a life situation of a conversation that was spoken, of a grandmother I loved. The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2022
Different characters living outside the norms in the fictional city of Jöteborg, strikingly similar to real-life Göteborg. Although not a documentary, most of the people seen in the film are non-actors more or less playing themselves. Screened together with the short AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SCENE NUMBER 6882 (9 min).
This documentary explores the life of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, “Hallelujah.” The film accesses a wealth of never-before-seen archival materials, including Cohen’s personal notebooks, photographs, performance footage, and extremely rare audio recordings.
Rahim is in prison for a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against part of the sum. But things don't go as planned. Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Two brothers entertain themselves in a game of hide and seek. As one counts, the other hides in a small cabinet. Seconds pass... then minutes... years... and decades. The European Film Academy 2021: A Selection of Short Films - Program II
The extraordinary adventure of the young members of the Piedmont Speleological Group who, having already explored all the caves of Northern Italy, changed course in August 1961 and ventured south to explore other caves unknown to man.
A wild, zany parody of Israel in the early 1960s. Zohar is a new immigrant who opens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. The absence of clients doesn’t deter Heffner from opening a competing business directly across the road. A new digital copy.
A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer," who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners. Recipient of the Best Actress Award at Cannes for Zar Amir Ebrahimi.
Samuel and Isaac are South Sudanese teenage refugees, who grew up in Israel but were deported. They now live in Uganda, and dream of making their musical talent known to the world. Amir, an Israeli musician, arrives to work with them, to try to make their dreams come true, within this complex reality
Filmmaker Oeke Hoogendijk tries to understand why her mother refuses to leave her house. What may at first seem perfectly ordinary – a woman in a living room watching TV with her cat – gradually turns into an oppressive reality where inside and outside worlds collide and the Holocaust is a daily presence.
An unbearable heatwave in Jerusalem forces a young woman to find a new battery for her air conditioner. But how will she survive the heatwave and stay human? Israeli Short Film Competition - Program 3
The piercing experiences of three interpreters of the Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague and their position as a channel between speakers and listeners, witnesses and defendants, judges and attendees. The European Film Academy 2021: A Selection of Short Films - Program II
Alain and Marie move to a quiet suburb. A mysterious tunnel in the cellar of their new home will turn their lives upside down. Filmmaker Quentin Dupieux follows his previous work, the internationally acclaimed MANDIBLES, with this delightful and endlessly surprising comedy.
When Abel learns that his 60-year-old mother Sylvie is about to marry a man in prison he freaks out. With the help of his best friend, Clémence, he will do whatever it takes to protect her. But meeting Michel, his new stepfather, may well offer him a new perspective.
The consequences of putting one's foot down – or failing to do so – are explored in several unrelated stories. The second feature film by Ruben Östlund (TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, THE SQUARE).
Late at night, a girl wakes up in a hospital after dreaming of her father's passing. Realizing that her dream will soon materialize, she embarks into the dark corridors for the hardest task – to accept and let go. Israeli Short Film Competition - Program 2
