WomanFilms Pitching Event – 10th Cycle

Seven women filmmakers will present their documentary projects in development, including trailers, in front of an industry audience and will receive feedback from a panel of commissioning editors and other professionals, including the NFCT Artistic Director, Mr. Ron Goldman and Docaviv Artistic Director, Ms. Karin Rywkind Segal.
The event will be moderated by NFCT Executive Director, Ms. Dorit Inbar.

Program Director: Irit Shimrat
Program Producer: Astar Goldberg
Program Mentors: Noit Geva, Vidi Bilu, Jasmine Kainy

WomanFilms Hub Partners and Supporters: The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, The Fidelio Foundation, Ms. Anat Kerem-Angel, Anata and The Azrieli Foundation.

PARTICIPATING PROJECTS:

47 Apartments

Meged Gozani Fink

47 brothels over ten years were enough for Yana to say: ''Enough!'' Five years later, she still struggles to provide for her son. When crisis follows crisis, the ''gilded cage'' of prostitution beckons her. Through the dialogue that forms between the personal diary she films and the director's camera, a journey emerges; about decisions and consequences, trauma, identity, love and motherhood.

Mama Teresa

Lea Gelfenstein

When Lea, an actress and single woman, finds out that Teresa, her mother's practical and pregnant Filipino caretaker, is about to give birth, she returns to her childhood home, determined to fight Israeli law, threatening to separate the young mother from her baby. At home, she meets her mother, Mazal (82), an authentic and dominating Egyptian woman with preliminary dementia who doesn't remember what Lea cannot forget from her childhood. Together, they will go through a feminine coming-of-age journey – towards love.

Three’s a Company

Naomi Baniel

In a converted garage in south Tel Aviv, an eccentric thespian, her ex-husband and her current partner, run a fringe theater company – ''Tmuna''. Together, they stage and age and create an alternative family for themselves and a warm home for countless other performers. Due to financial constraints, the theater will soon relocate to a slick high-rise. Without the familiar funk factor, will the show go on?

Freda’s Tapes

Chen Zausmer

In her radio studio, Chen uncovers a long-lost audio correspondence of her family, torn between South Africa and Israel, which ended abruptly with her grandmother’s murder. Piecing together home videos and recordings with live talks and interviews, she faces questions of identity, denial and the dark connection between her two wounded homelands.

The Park

Yael Danon

Park “Mini Israel” is a factory for stories. The park is a small empire, presenting hundreds of models, built to tell the “Israeli story”. The woman behind them is Tanya, who built the place with her bare hands. As Tanya prepares to leave, she relays the site’s history and laments the innumerable ways it has changed.

The Third Place

Jenya Maley

Three generations of women in one family torn between two massive wars: Russia's war in the Ukraine and Israel's war in Gaza. The geopolitical rift that the female members of the family find themselves in forces them to make a renewed choice regarding the place they call 'home' and to confront past decisions. They will reluctantly face questions of identity, ''Jewishness'', Israeli and Russian nationalism, and the roles of women in wars they did not start.