Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Prime Target
  • Fragments of Us
  • Sapir
  • Sandbag Dam
  • Rains Over Babel
  • Midnight in Bali
  • Gai(e), tu ne seras point
  • Elementary
  • Garbo: Where Did You Go?
  • Bikechess
  • Act Up Ou Le Chaos
  • One of Them Days
  • Presence
  • Clean Slate
  • Somewhere in Love
  • Endless
  • Halloween Ball (The)
  • In Ashes
  • Bad Reputation
  • Akin's Desert
  • Quir
  • Parque de diversões
  • Odd Fish
  • Moment for Love (A)
  • Love Me
  • Under the Southern Cross: The Art and Legacy of Henry L. Faulkner
  • Those Who Wait
  • Found Photo (The)
  • Surfacing
  • Armand
  • Bliss
  • Cheers to Life
  • Full Support
  • Who Wants to Marry an Astronaut?
  • Queer Church
  • Better Man
  • Fugue
  • Frikis (Los)
  • Blue for a Boy
  • Best Friend (The)

Arava

Country: Israel, Language: Hebrew, 27 mins

  • Director: Sarah Benjamin
  • Writer: Sarah Benjamin, Batèl Zaharaa Mann
  • Producer: Michael Uchenik

CGiii Comment

Arava, an introverted yet fierce teenage girl, returns home after spending six months in a secluded rehab facility. She immediately reunites with her old-time troublemaker friend, Tzipi. Despite Arava's will to keep out of trouble, Tzipi convinces her to embark on a spontaneous trip to a Northern Jewish sanctum in pursuit of a mystical tradition of redemption. The two runaways hitchhike through small-town Israel as they encounter characters and situations that hold a mirror to their lives, their inner conflicts, and their ambivalent relationship with one another. Arava is a story of friendship and unquenched passion between two young girls in an unsafe world, but beyond that, it is a portrait of the complexity, magic, pain and hope in the realities of at-risk youth in Israel.


Trailer...

Cast & Characters

Batèl Zaharaa Mann (as Arava)
Swell Ariel Or (as Tzipi)