Branches – Short Films, Beit Tami — Film Screenings, 17 нояб., 18:30

Short film strand · 5 films · 93 min

The bonds that shape us, and the closeness or distance they create. Family as a source of identity, memory and belonging — but also as a place we seek to grow beyond.

Programme:

The Sofa — Hadas Neuman (Israel, 2025, 14 min)
On a single red sofa, an unexpected movement opens a new distance between mother and daughter. But at night, far from the spotlight of the past and its residue, a small crack of closeness opens.

Trifles — Yarden Pelach, Ron Kohen (Israel, 2025, 25 min)
Tamar, a woman traumatized by childhood abuse, clings to her past wounds. In her thirties, she hopes to reveal her terrible secret to her parents for solace

Mamis Tvalebi — Tammy Mamistvalov (Israel, 2023, 15 min)
Amit, a young woman in her twenties, is living with her traditional Jewish parents. One ordinary Saturday afternoon, her mother urgently wakes her up, and asks her to go to the synagogue, since her father didn’t come back from the Morning Prayer, and she is worried.

Amit obeys her mother’s call and enters the sacred male sanctuary, only to find her father there, drunk. In the synagogue she also meets another significant figure in her life, she is forced to confront her father, and must break the rules in order to bring him back home.

Red Heart — Inbar Shtiglitz (Israel – Poland, 2026, 17 min)
Despite small moments of compassion, in Noga’s small family, each one carries the burden of daily life alone. Until on the first day of summer break, she meets Dima, the new neighbor, and through him tries to experience a different communication, warmth, and love.

Roma — Lev Brodinsky (Israel, 2025, 22 min)
Roma Gutman (16), is an immigrant from Ukraine, following the war there. While his father dreams of returning to their home country, Roma will do anything in order to fit in his new home.

KATZE Film Festival 2026 · 16 – 21.11.2026 · Beit Tami, Tel Aviv-Yafo