Gabriel

Oren (27) comes to his parents’ house to pack his belongings before moving with his girlfriend to their new apartment. During this day, out of seemingly simple interactions, the family dynamics reveals itself, and exposes the protagonist’s place- between child and adult, between intimacy and alienation. The house constitutes the space in which past, present and future mix into a chronicle of separation. Winner of San Sebastian International Film Festival short competition.

Director Oren Gerner ponders aging and family in a time of transition in this inventive quasi-factual feature about an elderly man (played by Gerner’s father) seeking purpose and meaning as the years tick by.

Ora (57) arrives to a spiritual awareness workshop in the desert, and needs to adapt to the unique dynamics of the place in order to gain some time with her daughter Tali (34). As the workshop progresses, dark elements from their past arises, and obliges Ora to deal with their implications for the first time.