01/11/2026 | 17:30 | Cinematheque - Hall 2
Moving Image is a development lab for dance films, bringing together filmmakers and choreographers to create work in the South. The pitch event will present four selected projects, alongside sample scenes created during the development process, offering a glimpse into the filmmakers’ cinematic worlds and perspectives. The event explores the encounter between movement, body and cinema, and launches the next call for Moving Image lab 3.0 by the Negev Film Fund.
Featured Projects
Birtukan | Tai Morris, Dege Feder, Tzipi Nir
Nine-year-old Birtukan arrives in Israel from Ethiopia without her family. On her first day at the absorption office in Be’er Sheva, she is forced to navigate a bureaucratic system that does not understand her language or her world. Shy and unable to communicate, facing separation from the group of immigrants she arrived with and the possibility of being sent to a boarding school, Birtukan must find a way to convince the system to let her stay with them.
Don’t move | Bar From, Tali Zavilevich, Yana Goldschmidt, Omer Ben-David
While shooting a commercial to promote development in the Negev, a cinematographer and a dancer begin to push against the artificial world they are meant to create, slipping into a creative duet where camera and body trade roles, until it becomes impossible to tell who is watching and who is being watched.
Current Affairs | Yoav Erteschik, Bosmat Nossan, Talia Tai Biton
In a world where war has become routine, a young dance company arrives at a community cultural center in southern Israel to perform their choreographer’s piece. Stranded on the way back home, their obedience turns into violence.
Slug on Hot Asphalt | Naama Manor, Shay Ater, Oryan Yohanan, Ofir Habot
Two women on the run – childless, secular Michal and pregnant, ultra-orthodox Ruth – meet at a desert oasis, where a radical new possibility is born.
