SHORTIME — The Israeli Short Film Collection

SHORTIME — The Israeli Short Film Collection

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SHORTIME — The Israeli Short Film Collection
  • Kapunka

    A wild Jewish western comedy about the conflict of living a traditional and modern life. In order to get around, a requirement for Jews to leave their fields once every seven years. Shmulik "sells" his land to his Thai laborer leading to unexpected consequences.

    Year: 2015
    Language: Hebrew, Engl...

  • Who Are You?

    When a daughter visits her sick mother who suffers from memory loss, she finds herself reliving a childhood trauma.

    Year: 2019
    Languages: Hebrew & Russian, English subtitles
    Director: Tanya Yakovlev
    Producer: Yoel Eilat
    Starring: Alina Litvinov, Yhali Handros Digmi, Tamara Klingon, Irit Digmi

  • The Mouse

    A hard-working family in an Israeli suburb in the '70s. Through the kids' point of view, we follow the message the adults deliver to their children and how that will shape the adults they will become.

    Year: 2019
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Liat Akta
    Producers: Shraga Bar, Marco...

  • Street Shot

    A street photographer wanders the streets of south Tel Aviv, looking for images. When he spots a homeless woman on a nearby bench, he shoots her as well. An innocent offer changes the whole picture.

    Year: 2017
    Director: Yael Danon
    Producer: Moran Blecher
    Starring: Ora Meirson, Itai Amos

  • Foreign Film

    In a surreal world where time and space have no meaning, one man, with a suitcase handcuffed to his arm, unwillingly joins a ship of weirdos. Together they embark on a hallucinatory ride in the desert sands. No one on this ship understands the language of the other and they have only their body a...

  • Wrong Rhythm

    Yifat and Moav, a young religious Jewish couple, discover in weird circumstances that they are expecting a baby. Eight months later, on the day of her brother's wedding, Yifat rushes to the doctor and there she is told she lost the baby. She chooses to keep it a secret from everyone, even her hus...

  • Test

    Tomer (25) is helping his fellow student to unload technical equipment for a film shooting. While the photographer and his assistant perform tests on the camera, Tomer is captured while getting a disturbing call from his sister, informing him about the hospitalization of their father.

    Year: 2015...

  • The Opportunity

    Married to a star-picker who aimed for the sun and failed, a woman deals with the consequences of her man's shattering ego. Could any of her efforts put him back together again?

    Year: 2015
    Language: English
    Director: Tatia Rosenthal
    Producer: Tatia Rosenthal
    Starring: Alex Karpovsky, Tzahi Grad

  • I Will Drink My Tears

    Yonatan, a young rascal, needs fifteen Shekels. Everything else is not important right now.

    Year: 2011
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Tom Shoval
    Producer: Gal Greenspan
    Starring: Yonathan Carmel, Amir Wolf, Shira Farber, Amit Itzcar

  • The Unknown Soldier

    This film is the testimony of a World War II veteran and an intimate portrait of the main protagonist, Uncle Nusya. It presents a real person whose identity is hidden behind a jacket full of medals. What's also important are his feelings and a past captured in the form of tattoos on his body.

    Ye...

  • True to Life

    In the near future, humanity has reached a pinnacle in Robotics Science: the ability to create an anatomically exact duplicate of human beings… But are they true to life?

    Year: 2011
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Assaf Ehrenreich
    Producers: Yuval Greenfield, Rom Weissman, Yuval Ka...

  • Two of Every Kind

    The flood, one of the most colossal events in the history of mankind. Two of every kind, two of every living thing, went inside of Noah’s Ark in order to save themselves. Not many know but amongst the couples were also two male peacocks. In this extraordinary stop-motion animation, we can see the...

  • Everlasting Longing

    Tang poetry and moments in Xien City, China.

    Year: 2015
    Language: Mandarin, English subtitles
    Director: Maya Meiri
    Producers: Ding Ning, Fan Jin

  • Nino

    On the eve of the terrorist attacks in the Alley pub in Tel Aviv, Nino is on her way to her apartment in the south of the city. It's night time and the taxi service is crowded with men only. She feels threatened, lonely and more vulnerable than ever.

    Year: 2016
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitle...

  • Gefilte Fish

    In this family, every woman before getting married, must make gefilte fish.

    Year: 2008
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Shelli Kling Yossef
    Producer: Meirav Lavin
    Starring: Orit Gal, Yishay Golan, Esty Kosovichky, Jarmain Onikovsky, Alex Ansky

  • Clásico

    A complex relationship between two brothers, David and Kobi, traveling to Barcelona for the "El Clásico" match, is revealed due to an unexpected delay. A forced journey around the airport will lead them to shocking revelations and fateful decisions.

    Year: Eli Korn
    Language: Hebrew, English subti...

  • Nights

    A married couple in their forties sit in their living room. Together they recall their first meeting, but while he remembers the lights on the dark river, she remembers the wind that blew through the sunny field.

    Year: 2015
    Language: English, Hebrew subtitles
    Directors: Yosh Ginotn, Michal Maria...

  • 97%

    A man discovers, through an app on his cell phone, that a 97% "love match" is close to him. Will he find her before the train reaches its destination?

    Year: 2014
    Director: Ben Brand
    Producer: Caviar Amsterdam
    Starring: Bert Hana

  • The Woman Who Wanted to Kill Someone

    A curious girl fantasises about being above the law but takes the fantasy one step too far.

    Year: 2015
    Language: English
    Director: Veronica Kedar
    Producer: Storyvid
    Starring: Hen Yanni, Amit Itzcar

  • A Knock on the Door

    In the life of a successful writer, a man emerges who attaches a gun to his temple and demands a story from him.

    Year: 2013
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Eliran Elya
    Producer: Oren Rogovin
    Starring: Assi Dayan, Rotem Keinan, Eliana Schejter, Assaf Ben Shimon, Tom Hagi

  • Against the Reinheitsgebot

    The day her husband passes away Saraleh, a Holocaust survivor, wishes to carry on with her daily routine of brewing beer, just as she and her husband used to do. Her daughter Gal is not pleased and demands they sit Shiva, (the customary seven-day mourning period in Judaism) out of respect for the...

  • Acting Stupid

    A committed actor preparing for an audition as an undercover police officer tests out his improvisation skills with an unpredictable young drug dealer. But he soon learns that unlike the movies, in real life there’s no one to shout “cut” when things are getting out of control.

    Year: 2020
    Languag...

  • Repression

    Repression is a defense mechanism responsible for the removal of conscious memories and emotions into the subconscious. This short film displays the consequences of repression through day-to-day metaphors.

    Year: 2016
    Director: Mor Egoz
    Producer: Mor Egoz

  • Chickens

    12-year-old Yonatan adores his father, Ze'ev, the chickens coop manager at the kibbutz. When a plague hits the chickens and Ze'ev is blamed by the kibbutz, an inconvenient truth is about to change everything.

    Year: 2020
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Alma Givoni
    Producer: Adonis M...