Your cute neighbor watches you sleep while nukes fall. Tel Aviv's worst dating scene.
A horror-love story that takes place in Tel Aviv under threat of a nuclear war, between Penny; a lonely young girl who spends her time glued to the screen and the disturbing news, eating or sleeping, and Izzy; her mysterious and shy neighbor who peeps at her through the window.
Practical Effects
Grotesque stop-motion that makes your skin crawl beautifully.
Direction
Hashiloni turns a 13-minute window into an entire apocalypse.
Sound
News drones and silence that eats you alive.
Director
Jonathan Hashiloni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The roach metaphor doubles as Israeli slang for unwanted Arab migrants, adding political venom to the body horror.
Hashiloni made this as a thesis film at Bezalel Academy, proving student projects can out-bleed most studio horror.
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