Israeli Shorts
ISRAELI SHORTS
Sponsored by Elaine Lindy
All Philadelphia Premieres
CURL
Directed by Shalom Hager and Sigalit Lipshitz
Narrative Short | 2018 | 25 min | Hebrew with English subtitles
Tomer Capon, best known for his roles in acclaimed Israeli TV series like Fauda and When Heroes Fly, is remarkable as David, a Hasidic father of four, who must find a way to reconcile his faith in the wake of a tragic accident.
DINA MALUL FIGHTS BACK
Directed by Amit Saragosi and Adar Shafran
Narrative Short | 2019 | 22 min | Hebrew with English subtitles
Dina, a hard-working, feisty supermarket cashier, begins a revolution among her colleagues when she decides not to charge customers for all of the items in their carts.
GREY ZONE
Directed by Gal Sagy
Narrative Short | 2020 | 10 min | Hebrew with English subtitles
Inappropriately groped by a stranger passing by on the street, a female jogger seeks out the man who did it to find out why.
OUR WAY BACK
Directed by Moshe Rosenthal
Narrative Short | 2018 | 26 min | Hebrew with English subtitles
A romance set against the beautiful Israeli desert, OUR WAY BACK stars Lior Ashkenazi (Foxtrot, Footnote) as a married man whose trip with his much younger, male lover takes a dangerous turn.
POP 30
Directed by Shira Billig
Narrative Short | 2019 | 18 min | Hebrew with English subtitles
Hopeless romantic Mika struggles to come to terms with her boyfriend breaking up with her after she proposes marriage. Produced by Jerusalem’s Ma’aleh School of Television, Film & Arts, this delightful and stylish short is a love song to the 1980s.
Includes pre-recorded virtual interview with directors Shira Billig (POP 30), Moshe Rosenthal (OUR WAY BACK) and Adar Shafran (DINA MALUL FIGHTS BACK)!