4 films from Israel at Short Shorts Film Festival 2023!

"Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2023" (SSFF & ASIA), one of the largest international short film festivals in Asia accredited by the US Academy Awards, will be held from June 6th to 26th at multiple venues in Tokyo and online venues (a part of the online venue started from Apr.27). This year, four films were selected from Israel.

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「Requiem for a Whale」

Director: Ido Weisman/Time0:15:21/Non-Fiction/2022

On a stormy night in early 2021, a whale’s body washed ashore at Nitzanim beach in Israel.Over the documentation of the encounter between people and the carcass, we hear the voices of several witnesses at the rare occurrence.

From the fabric of responses, a collective experience shines regarding the dialogue between life and death.

「Girl No. 60427」

Director: Shulamit Lifshitz /Time 0:21:51/Drama/2022

Tel Aviv, 1998, summer vacation. Reut finds and reads her grandmother's secret notebook from the

Holocaust. Grandma's story resonates in Reut's well-developed imagination, and the fun week in Tel

Aviv with Grandpa and Grandma turns into something else entirely.

In this stunning combination of live action and animation the director tells her own story.

「Happy BirthGay」　online only (～Jun.6)

Director: Niv Manzur /Time 0:16:09/Comedy/2022

Ronit throws her son Nadav a grandiose surprise party, celebrating a year anniversary of his coming out of the closet. However, he struggles to cooperate. Happy BirthGay is a sad farce about the mother's closet, rather than the son's.

「My Father in the Cloud」

Director: Ruth Patir /Time 0:24:46/Experimental/2022

My Father in the Cloud follows a series of attempts as director Ruth Patir tries and fails in utilizing new technologies to dance with her late father, a telecommunication engineer with a secret unrealized desire for Virtual Reality. As her journey unfolds she realizes the limitations of technology in replacing what she lost.