Gonella Productions

LANGUAGE: Hebrew | SUBTITLES: English

Genre: Drama, LGBTQ, Jewish
Running Time: 15
Year of production: 2022

SYNOPSIS

The story of Hemi, a 15 year old teenager on his path to self discovery. The sad reality finds Hemi in swimming pool lessons, a world which he has zero interest in and other than peeking on men in the showers he feels alone and misunderstood. The person that encourages Hemi to maintain the swimming lessons is his father, Meir, a conservative mechanic technician that raises his son all by himself. The relationship between the two isn’t great and Hemi tried to find his own path without any support from his father. Hemi steals money from Meir and joins a dance studio where his heart is; There he meets Danny, a dancer around Hemi's age. When the father shows up at the studio to demand his money back, Hemi fells like his world crashed. Will he give up on pursuing his dreams forever?

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Chen Shahuda
Producer: Nir Assayag
Executive Producer: Eti Genis
Cinematographer: Mathias Zagoni
Editor: Rotem Gabay
Writer: Chen Shahuda
Cast: Omri Ilan, Udi Razzin, Eitan Gimelman
Music: Johanna Riethmueller
Sound Design: Rotem Dror

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Format – 4k
Camera – Sony f55
Audio – stereo

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

Oberhausen film festival (winner of Youth jury award)
Zlin fim festival
Chicago international children’s film festival
Ale kino!
Tlv fest
Giffoni Macedonia
Capri Hollywood
International fIlm festival Innsbruck