Sliding Flora

When you’re in your early twenties, your best friend is a like a song you can’t stop listening to on a loop, until you never want to hear it again. Sad City Girls is a dramedy about that kind of friendship, and the moments of magic and obsession, the good vibes and bad news, that make it so wonderful and terrible.

A bride and groom arrive at their lavish honeymoon suite on their wedding night. When the bride, Eleanor, discovers her now-husband has received a ring as a wedding gift from his ex-girlfriend, a knock-out fight ensues. At Eleanor’s insistence, the newlyweds leave the hotel and set out on an expedition to return the ring. Their simple mission quickly derails into an all-night odyssey through the streets of Jerusalem. Over the course of a single night, the couple are forced to confront past lovers, repressed doubts, and the lives they’ve chosen to leave behind.

Zohara has been waiting to go home ever since she was first stationed at a distant military base, but when the day arrives her hopes evaporate. The soldier sent to replace her appears to be suicidal. Instead of leaving, Zohara is ordered to guard the new girl.

Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their time pushing paper, battling for the top score in Minesweeper, and counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment—from friendship to love and country—are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit.

A moving musical comedy about three female soldiers in an adjustancy office on a remote military base: the spoiled Daffi, a paper shredding NCO, who will do anything relocate to the Kirya. Her friend Zohar, a mail NCO and a sharp-tongued kibbutznik, who is fighting to find love. And Rama the officer, the commander of the two, who is actively fighting for her promotion. The three understand that the only way to win their wars, within a hierarchical, rigid and masculine framework, is with the help of a fighting sisterhood, even if the weapon they wield is only a staple gun.