14th Cinemarket - Work in Progress

Amal (Hope)

Amal (Hope) is a realistic dramatic film, inspired by true events, and directed mutually by Jewish and Arab directors. Amal (45) is a mother who sets off to rescue her son from his preordained fate. It is set in a world seething with violence, which threatens to overflow and inundate the entire place.

Directors: David Ofek, Nahad Bashir

Producer: David Mandil, MoviePlus Productions

As If You Were Never Here

In a small forgotten village up the snowy mountains of Georgia, the arrival of a foreign woman disturbs the peace. Israeli Lawyer Marina seems to have escaped her suffocating traditional Georgian roots. Now she comes back to Georgia, representing Nino, who left Georgia 11 years ago, leaving her son behind and now wants him back. Determined to bring the boy back to his mother, Marina reaches Dato, Nino’s brother and the child’s caretaker. Despite his hostility and great anger for his abandoning sister, he agrees to help. The more time they spend together, the two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.

Director: Eti Tsicko

Producers: Ayelet Kait, Amir Harel, Lama Productions

Some Notes on the Current Situation

Absurdist and somewhat divorced from reality, 'Some Notes on the Current Situation' is an anthology composed of 6 short films. 

Each sheds light on a different and unique perspective of the existential, human, and social conditions of the present moment. 

Director: Eran Kolirin

Producer: Shahar Katzenstein, Moon Over Bat Yam Productions Ltd

The Strecher

At the peak of the Second Lebanon War, a young and promising Golani officer is tasked with leading three worn out soldiers back to Israel's borders with the body of a dead Hezbollah fighter. In their first war as soldiers, four young Israelis find themselves entangled in a surreal, incomprehensible and increasingly complex mission.

Director: Ronen Guy

Producer: Amit Eran, Shelly Guy