A father has 18 minutes to stop his son from signing his life away.
Acting
Pnini's contained panic, Vital's wounded defiance.
Direction
Levari weaponizes runtime against the viewer.
Writing
Every silence lands like a gut punch.
Director
Naomi Levari
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the Second Intifada, the short captures a specific Israeli leftist crisis: parents who resisted occupation watching their children become its instruments. Naomi Levari later co-created 'Shtisel,' threading similar filial tension through religious rather than military frames.
Avi Pnini and Yedidia Vital had no prior scenes together; Levari cast real father-son pairs who'd auditioned separately, then withheld their first meeting until rolling camera. The raw unfamiliarity is genuine.
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