
Students Competition
Students Competition Program 1
Tzipi Baider: Night Battles | Israel, 2025, 20 min
אלי, 62, מפקד צוות לשעבר בגולני, מתמודד עם שדה הקרב שבתוכו: טראומה שלא מרפה ממלחמת לבנון הראשונה. לילה שקט בבית החולים שבו התאשפז נקטע בפתאומיות כשקול מסוק נוחת משגר אותו חזרה לזיכרונות מהקרב. אשליות מטשטשות את הגבול שבין עבר להווה, חושפות טעות הרסנית שמלווה אותו מאז ומפגש אחד מכריע עם בנו הקצין גורם לו להודות במה שעשה.
Tal Michael Haring: It's Always There | Israel, 2025, 4 min
A visual exploration of the endless tension between life and death that pervades the Israeli present - through images of birth and drones.
Natanel Fish: Week 24 | Israel 2025, 23 min
שחר ודנה (בהריון שבוע 24) מגלים שיש בעיה התפתחותית בעובר שלהם בשלב מאוחר של ההריון.
Omer Tsruya: There I Was Among Everyone | Israel, 2025, 9 min
Moti spends his days riding trains, listening to strangers' stories without revealing who he is. The son of an Arab father and a Jewish mother from Eilat, he finds solace in the ever-changing passengers ,living out his right to be no one, or maybe anyone. But everything shifts when Yael, who knew him long ago, boards the train and asks for his companionship. The film explores freedom, the desire to love everything, and the beauty of simply existing.
Moria Rabbani: Summer, the Loneliest Season | Israel, 2025, 16 min
Wartime. Florentin is quieter than ever. Heartbroken Moran wanders the neighborhood; where every trace of joy has vanished and only ugliness remains. She pretends to be a victim of the war herself, searching for belonging in a city that feels indifferent.
Noa Rokni: No Limit | Israel, 2025, 7 min
Between fragments of reality and dream, between moments of peace and war, Ella wonders whether there is still hope for her relationship with Fadel. In her dream, she discovers that the question is more complex than she thought, and that the answer lies within herself.
Rivka Rashti: Marked | Israel, 2025, 11 min
In a world where any deviation is immediately flagged, Tamar finds herself under the scrutiny of the seminary and her family. As the pressure mounts, she is forced to make a decision that will change her life forever.
Amit Shalom Etkes: The Poem of Force and Misery | Israel, 2025, 12 min
An anti-war film examining the nature of political power and its destructive character. The film offers a different perspective on the calamity surrounding us, using abstraction of found footage combined with selected excerpts from the philosopher Simone Weil's essay 'The Iliad, or The Poem of Force'.
Nir Shenhav: Breeze | Israel, 2025, 16 min
Yair returns home from military service in the West Bank. He invites Yaara to his family’s bourgeois Jerusalem home. They play piano and open a bottle of wine. What seems to start as peaceful weekend together, is interrupted by a story about an innocent family whose house he invaded on the previous evening.
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