Tel Aviv Cinematheque is presenting Since, Still through October 10, a week of Israeli narrative films, documentaries and television episodes created since 2023 in response to October 7 and the war. Many screenings are followed by conversations with filmmakers.
The program considers trauma, protest and democracy, parents’ fear for their children, grief, music, and the ways filmmakers are trying to process events that are still unfolding.
Screenings and filmmaker talks
- October 5: Oxygen by Netaali Braun at 11:00 a.m., Hushniya: Secrets of War by Avi Maor Marzuk at 7:00 p.m. with the director, Missing Roster by Avida Livni at 8:30 p.m., and a parallel program of short films and a conversation with women filmmakers from southern Israel.
- October 6: Bye by Tommy Lang at 6:00 p.m. and Burning Man by Eyal Halfon at 8:30 p.m., both followed by director talks.
- October 7: Hushniya: Secrets of War at 11:30 a.m., episode 6 of Nir Oz: Heaven/Hell at 6:30 p.m. with director Yaron Zilberman and sound editor Yuval Bar-On, Good Morning Gaza at 7:00 p.m. with its creators, and Come and See at 8:00 p.m. with a talk by Ari Folman.
- October 8: Episodes 7 and 8 of Nir Oz: Heaven/Hell at 6:30 p.m., the Tel Aviv premiere of Whose Are You? at 7:00 p.m. with director Dotan Naveh, and Ritual at 8:45 p.m. with its creators.
- October 9 and 10: Additional screenings of Ritual on Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 8:45 p.m.
Two documentary projects at the center of the week
Yaron Zilberman’s Nir Oz: Heaven/Hell tells the story of a kibbutz where roughly one third of the residents were murdered or abducted. The selected episodes follow the Maor-Danzig, Wahab and Butler families and the battles they endured inside their homes and across the kibbutz.
One episode recounts Rachel Elgart-Danzig’s seven-hour struggle to hold shut the handle of a safe-room door and protect her granddaughters. The following episodes focus on Shahar Wahab, trapped in an exposed shelter as his father was killed, and Nir Oz security coordinator Shahar Butler, who was shot in his home.
Whose Are You? follows women who married into Kfar Aza and formed a WhatsApp group to help one another find their place in the kibbutz. After October 7, that group became a source of support, testimony and survival through displacement, bereavement, motherhood and uncertainty.
Trailers
Oxygen, winner of the 2025 Jerusalem Film Festival’s top film prize, follows a single mother trying to keep her son out of Lebanon while her combat-traumatized father’s condition deteriorates.
Missing Roster documents the Kfar Aza Foxes football team, whose members kept playing after friends and relatives were killed and fellow residents were abducted to Gaza.
Venue and full schedule
Tel Aviv Cinematheque: 5 HaArba’a Street. View the full schedule and ticket information.
