Shared Psychosis - Studio Darom Participants 2022

Synopsis

Ido is a psychologist doing his internship at a psychiatric hospital. Ido doesn’t allow his emotions control him. He’s valued and liked at work. The head of the ward assigns him to treat Mia, a charismatic singer with borderline personality disorder. Trying to get Ido to release her, Mia gets him to fall in love with her, but along the way, finds herself falling in love with him too. Ido he wrestles with questions regarding religion and hispast as an ultra-Orthodox man who has gone secular When Ido tries to put an end to the taboo affair, the rug is pulled from under his feet. Dark secrets from the past surface, in relation to the department head and Maia’s influential father, raising questions of morality and of personal liberty. When passions and the need to conceal reach boiling point, one patient decides to burn everything to the ground.

Shai Itzhar director Shared Psychosis

Shai Itzhar | Director

Shai studied psychology and philosophy (BA) at the Open University of Israel before entering the world of film. Those studies had an impact on the subjects he chose to deal with during his MFA studies in film directing at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. His final project, Alouette (2016), is a short dramatic musical and was screened at international film festivals around the world and won several awards. Shai is currently developing this short film into his debut full-length feature film. His filmography includes the films: Guard I am (2014); Alouette (2016); Pomsel & Goebbels (2022). 

Kobi Azran producer Shared Psychosis

Kobi Azran | Producer

Kobi finished his producer course in 2013, at Sam Spiegel Film School. Since then, he produced as an independent film producer several short films and worked as
a line producer in many full-length films and TV series. As a producer, his passion is to accompany young filmmakers and help them find their unique voice from the early development stage through the distribution. His Filmography as a producer includes the films: Daily Bread (2013); The Average Man (2015); Freedom Runners (2015); Fatherland (2015); Ella’s Men (2017) and TV series such as VIP 2, Sad city girls 2021, Ron 3.