TISFF’S Selection #6 – Tom Shoval’s Selection

The Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival has been postponed to new dates in September (20-26), but until then we bring to you in collaboration with T-Port, a renewing selection of some of the best short films we know.

This week we’re presenting 3 films carefully selected by Israeli director Tom Shoval (“Youth”).

*Available here till April 4th.

I chose three films from four young, promising filmmakers, that in my mind represent the wide range in which the new generation of Israeli film operates.

Each one of these films exhibits a different, original, audacious and bold voice. These films are a testament of the extraordinary cinematic prospect that is ahead of us.

All three films surprisingly (and unsurprisingly) demonstrate the complicated Israeli entanglement the young generation in trapped in; in between search of meaning, questions of existence, identity and gender. Questions of ethnicity, the results of national and personal alchemy, the burden of history and uncertainty of the future. 

Three different cinematic styles, that use the language of film in different ways, but share one similar cry.