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2026
Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival (TISFF)
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Partner: Minshar School of Art
Director:
Layla Avital
Filmmaker's profile
When Will the Skies Open? follows Danny, a sensitive 22-year-old returning from India into Israel’s first COVID-19 lockdown. Trapped in a South Tel Aviv commune, she confronts a lost love, isolation, and the inner fears she can no longer escape.
Duration: 24min.
Country: Israel
Language: Hebrew
Year: 2025
Genre: Fiction (Comedy), Fiction (Drama)
Topic: Adolescence, Adventure, Adventurous Person, Alcohol, Biography, Capitalism, Coming of age, Community, Desire, Drugs, Love
Director: Layla Avital
Production company: lyla avital(Minshar school of arts)
Writer: Lyla Avital
Cinematographer: Daniel Nahum
Editor: Goni Perl
Music: nimrod gilboa
Actors: Michal Toporek , Nadav Eder , Iftach Greenberg
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