05/11/2026 | 10:00 | Cinematheque - Hall 2
This initiative, founded by Osnat Trabelsi and produced by the Israel Documentary Forum and the South Cinema Festival, strives to promote young filmmakers and their integration within the documentary film and TV industries. It features projects from across Israel’s film schools, and mentors and prepares the young creators for pitching.
As part of the event, the following documentary projects, currently in production, will be presented to a selection panel of broadcasting and film fund representatives. Standout projects will receive production grants of tens of thousands of shekels, courtesy of the Gesher Multicultural Cinema Fund and Kan – the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation.
Featured Projects
Still Here | Yakov Tsym
After losing his brother in the war, Yakov, the son of Soviet immigrants, turns the camera inward, searching for how grief transforms the place he has always called home.
Carrying You With Me | Tamar Weiss
At 19, before a medical test, I search for my place in the family – a silenced past behind me, autistic sister beside me, and within me fear of being just another link in the chain.
Hold Still | Maayan Alexandron
As her younger brother enters army sniper training during wartime, an older sister documents his service, trying to understand his transformation and fearing the person he might become.
Us | Ziv Kindler
After a grandfather’s death, a 60-year-old secret is revealed. A mother and daughter travel to Argentina to meet the family he abandoned, reexamining their identity and memories of him.
Director’s Cut | Erica Kosoy
Ofek, my best friend of 20 years and an emerging theater director, decides to open his adoption file from Romania, confronting his complex relationship with his adoptive mother. At the same time, he works on his own adaptation of Oedipus the King that also explores identity and the bond between a child and his mother.
The Requiem | Neta Shamgar
Michael Shani, conductor of the Tel Aviv Chamber Choir, struggles to keep it alive. A fateful performance of Mozart’s Requiem will determine the choir’s fate in an entirely unexpected way.
Between A and B | Yael Moinester
When my sister reveals she was sexually assaulted by a neighbor as a child, I search for the man next door, confronting family silence, fading memory, and the limits of justice.
