Year: 2016
Country: Israel
Director: Hadas Ben Aroya
Cast: Yonatan Bar-Or, Hadas Ben Aroya, Netser Charitt
Genre: drama, romance
Runtime: 80 min.
Age: 18+
Melodrama on the eternal theme - searching for oneself among the unity of the dissimilar
Joy can't let go of her ex, but doesn't seem to be able to fall for the new guy. In the meantime she keeps having casual sex with strangers.
Joy is a young woman living in Tel Aviv who has a love-hate relationship with its casual sex scene. Her entire world comes down to her apartment and the street where it is located, the same street where her ex lives, who refuses to keep in touch with her. Joy tries desperately to get him back, refusing to let him go until she runs into Nir, a chatty intellectual, who says and does whatever he wants. In her attempts to be free like him, Joy will be cruel to others and develop an obsessive hunger for touch.
Awards & Festivals:
Locarno International Film Festival – Official Selection
Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films – Grand Prix, ZINEBI First Film Award - Special Mention
Mar del Plata Film Festival – Best Film (International Competition)
Calgary Underground Film Festival – Jury Award (Best Narrative Feature)
Créteil International Women's Film Festival – participation
Taipei Film Festival – participation