The Dive- Studio Darom Participants 2016
Synopsis
It's Thursday and the second Lebanon war is raging. After a year of absence, Yoel, 27, returns to his native Kibbutz, on the Lebanese border, to bury his father, who died a year earlier and donated his body to science. Upon his arrival he discovers that his younger brother, Micha, 19, a soldier in the army, is due to enter the Lebanese front on Saturday but he is showing alarming signs of panic and even asks Yoel to help him run off.
Yoel, a post traumatic officer who was discharged from the army, refuses to help. Itai, 30, the eldest and militant brother, discovers the youngest brother's situation, and begins a series of intensive and violent training in order to "Break the fear" and prepare Micha for war. Reluctantly, Yoel joins his brother's training and finds himself drawn back to his father's legacy and the violent world he tried to escape from. After one of the brother's friends dies in battle, the journey spins out of control.
Yona Rozenkier | Director
35, Born and raised in kibbutz Yehiam. Graduated from TAU, Film & TV Department.
Writer and Director of Raz and Radja (short, 2012). Festivals: Venice, Busan, Clermont Ferrand, Santa Barbara and more. Writer and director of Bugs on a helmet (short, 2011). Festivals: Shanghai IFF, Rome IFF and more. Co-writer Till day's end (short, 2014). Shanghai IFF (winner best short), Jerusalem IFF, Clermont Ferrand, Plus Camerimage IFF Poland and more.
Currently working on his first feature film "The Dive" (development grant from the Israeli Film Fund) which is in funding stage, and his second feature film "Decompression", in development in the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab; and writing a commissioned Daily drama for HOT (Israeli cable).
Kobi Mizrahi | Producer
30, Graduated from the Film and Television Department of Tel-Aviv University. Produced Israeli-Palestinian film projects: SPORT (2015, Rome FF, Mostra Sao Paulo FF), WATER (2012, Opened critics' week, Venice FF, Busan, won Amnesty International award), and Jerusalem Moments 2012 (Jerusalem IFF). TV series “24 hours with…” based on the ITV British format for Keshet Broadcasting (Channel 2) and Channel 8. “Flavors from the Golan Heights”, Documentary (Channel 10). Producer of Perlov Film Fund 2013-2016. In addition, Produced 13 award winning short films which have been screened in international film festivals.
Producing "Flooded", a Fiction feature film, currently in post production.
Edgard Tenembaum | Producer (France)
Edgard established Tu Vas Voir Production Company in 2001. Edgard Tenembaum has produced critically acclaimed documentaries and feature films such as Dover Kosashvili's Late Marriage, which went on to worldwide success following its World Premiere at the 2001 Cannes International Film Festival; Le Souffle (winner of two awards at the 2001 Venice International Festival); Motorcycle Diaries (Academy Award ® Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and Winner of Best Song, Buena Vida Delivery, Gifts From Heaven, Sweet Mud (Sundance 2007 Best Foreign Film, Cristal Bear Berlinale, Toronto Film Festival 2006 Prix du Jury), It’s Your Fault (Berlin Film Festival 2010 Panorama) Top Floor Left Wing (Berlin Film Festival 2011 Panorama) and Water (Opening the Critics weeks in Venice 2012). Won silver bear in Berlin FF with his last film IXANUL (Volcano 2015).