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Arava

Two runaway teenage girls hitchhike through small-town Israel to a Northern Jewish sanctum in pursuit of spiritual redemption. Along the way, they’re confronted with the complexities of their relationship.

Details

Duration: 27min.

Country: Israel

Language: Hebrew

Year: 2023

Genre: Fiction (Drama)

Topic: Coming of age, Coming Out, Dream, Feminism, Friendship, Gender, Holocaust, Indigenous, Jewish, LGBTQ, Loneliness, Love, Love & Time, Middle East Conflict, Portrait, Spirituality, Survival, Teen love, Teenagers, Trauma, Underground, Urban, Women, Youth

Cast & Crew

Production company: self-produced

Writer: Sarah Benjamin, Batel Zaharaa Mann

Cinematographer: Keren Bergman

Editor: Maya Klar

Actors: Batel Zaharaa Mann, Swell Ariel Or, Itamar Rothchild, Itamar Abuhatzira, Shlomi Stern, Elisha Swartz

Festivals & Awards

2023

Palm Springs ShortFest

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