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Director Statement I was born in Kibbutz Kfar Gaza in 1986. The eldest son of two urban parents who chose to come to Kibbutz to fulfill the dream of a house with a garden. My father, a handsome, strong and tough man, decided to give me the name Yahav - security, hope. From the moment I was born, I felt the yoke of God on my shoulders, because in my head there were dreams, reflections and high sensitivities that made me cry from almost every situation. I grew up in the kibbutz as an alpha male blessed with blue eyes and an athletic body, one who was prophesied to be an elite officer or even, if he really succeeded, a pilot. But I, for as long as I can remember, have felt split. A boy who fails to grow up. Trying to be serious and concentrate on the "important" things in life like cars, business and money, but I couldn't. Instead I grabbed a guitar and sang. Or I told stories. Life in the kibbutz as a child I remember as heaven on earth. Green lawns, a pool, paths you can walk on barefoot. I only remember the nights as scary. I sleep in a bunk bed with my little brother under me, unable to fall asleep because of the sounds of the muezzin coming from Gaza. My father was angry with me for not falling asleep. In 2006, Paradise started to become less magical. Israel-Gaza relations began to heat up and souvenirs from Gaza in the shape of exploding pipes began to fall on the kibbutz. One day an exploding pipe fell on my neighbor Jimmy, my best friend's father, and I was the first to see him. This event carved a hole in my heart and from that moment I embarked on a path from which the return was long. Shortly after the incident, I left the army on my own accord. My father, my beacon, took it very hard. His child went crazy, and the whole kibbutz knew. Chronic knee pain began to develop for him. But instead of being angry with me, he internalized it and did an act of his that I will cherish to this day - he took me to work with him in the field, so that I would be close to him. We would drive in silence, father and son on the tractor, yellow wheat fields to our left, Gaza to our right. We didn't talk much, but in those days it was a lifeline for me. He was my hero. I remember that somewhere I developed an awareness of wars, as absurd as they are but inevitable. The tanks and jeeps that used to travel in our fields, trampling the farmers' work without recognition because everything is kosher when it comes to a military operation, would travel on the way to small and cunning Gaza, "to show them what it is" and who knows what kind of life they will harvest there. There were days when I couldn't digest the thought that whole families were being wiped out three kilometers from me and we have another cooking show on TV. In my film I try to capture a tragic and human triangle of the therapist, the patient and the absurd. My father - the therapist, I - the patient and the impossible and endless situation of the envelope and the Gaza Strip - the absurdity.
Country: Israel
T-Port Partner: Minshar School of Art
2012-2014 - Acting studies at the Nissan Netiv higher education studio 2017- 2021 - Cinema studies at Menasher for the Arts As an actor - 2014-2018 - Actor at the National Theater and also in movies and TV series. As a director - *I directed five short films as part of my studies. *I'm going to shoot my first full-length film at the end of 2023. * Winner of the Keren HaNegev Incubator for the production of a long film. * Winner of the Gesher Foundation scholarship for student films. As a producer - * The producer of the film "NEURIM" which was purchased by the Arta company and was selected to the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Cinefondation Working - 2018 - 2021 - Head of the camera department at Mobi Mobile 2021- present - Production manager of the cinema department at Sapir College. 2018 - Role playing - short 2019 - Deepbreath - short 2019 - Faith - short (winner best film in solidarity film festival and best script in lwff) 2020 - Indian Grave - short 2023 - Hyeled - short 2023 - Kibutz stories - feature (shooting at June 2023)
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