Gonella Productions

LANGUAGE: Hebrew | SUBTITLES: English

Genre: Drama, LGBT
Running Time: 22 min.
Year of production: 2016

SYNOPSIS

Relying on "How To Be Alone" – a self-improovment audio book – a heartbroken woman, struggling with her lonesome existence, decides to embrace solitude and to learn how to survive without love.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

CAST

Nili Tserruya (lead)
Ofri Fuchs
Lia Friedman
Or Ilan-Cohen
and Rami Baruch as The Author

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Erez Eisenstein
Screenwriter: Erez Eisenstein (based on a story by Orna Coussin)
Producer: Erez Eisenstein
Director of Photography: Gleb Volkov
Sound: Oni Elbar
Editing: Oz Mikulsky
Sound Editing: Roy Geva
Music Composer: Ariel Guez

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Drama, LGBT
Language: Hebrew
Country of origin: Israel
Year of production: 2016
Total running time: 22 min.

AWARDS

Best Israeli Short Film – TLVFest 2016
Best Student Film – OutlantaCon 2016
Best LGBT Film – Macon Film Festival 2016
Best Director (Student) – Kolkata Shorts Film Festival 2016
Best Cinematography – OutlantaCon 2016
Best Cinematography – Bangalore Shorts Film Festival 2016
Best Jewish Film – Girona Film Festival 2016
Best Film (Student) – Indian World Film Festival 2017
Best Performances – LGBT Toronto Film Festival 2017

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

7th LGBT Film Festival 2016 (Warsaw, Lodz, Gdansk, Poznan, Katowice – Poland)
QFest (St. Louis, MO - United States)
31st Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Turin – Italy)
OutlantaCon (Atlanta, GA - United States)
8th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival (Mumbai – India)
TLVFest #11 the 11th Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival (Tel Aviv - Israel)
Sun & Sand - The Mississippi Film & Music Festival (Biloxi, MS - United States)
5th Bangalore Shorts Film Festival 2016 (Bangalore – India)
13th OutfestPeru 2016 (Lima – Peru)
Montefeltro Film School Festival (Pennabilli – Italy)
Macon Film Festival (Macon, GA - United States)
5th Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival 2016 (Kolkata – India)
The 6th Annual Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Durban - South Africa)
The Atlanta LGBT Film & Music Festival (Atlanta, GA - United States)
Verona International Film Festival (Venice – Italy)
Great Lakes International Film Festival (Erie, PA - United States)
18th Thessaloniki International LGBTIQ Film Festival (Thessaloniki – Greece)
29th Girona Film Festival (Girona – Spain)
10th Iris Prize Festival (Cardiff - United Kingdom)
The Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (Barcelona – Spain)
Perlen - Queer Film Festival Hannover (Hanover - Germany)
Festival de Cine Lesbico, Gay Bi Trans (Santiago – Chile)
LesGaiCineMad (Madrid – Spain)
St. Louis International Film Festival (St. Louis, MO - United States)
Gay Film Nights (Cluj-Napoca – Romania)
TRANSITION International Queer Minorities Film Festival (Vienna – Austria)
UK Jewish Film Festival (London - United Kingdom)
Videodrunk (Toronto – Canada)
IMAGE+NATION Montreal lesbian gay bi trans film festival (Montreal – Canada)
9th OMOVIES - Lesbian Gay Transgender and Questioning Film Festival (Naples – Italy)
The New Renaissance Film Festival (Amsterdam – Netherlands)
Indian World Film Festival 2017 (Hyderabad – India)
LGBT Toronto Film Festival 2017 (Toronto – Canada)
Berlin Student Film Festival (Berlin – Germany)
Hyperfest - International Student Film Festival (Bucharest - Romania)
LGBTQ Film Screening & Party – boombaframe (Tel Aviv - Israel)