European premiere

Sand Flakes

Local title

Liivaterad

Original title

גרגירי חול

Director

Gitit Kabiri, Yahel Kabiri

Country

Israel

Year

2022

Programme

Children's Rights Programme

Genre

Drama

Subject

familial relationships, betrayal, disease

David, a sensitive, creative teenager, lives in Southern Israel with his ill mother, his father who gave up on his dreams, and his younger brother. He discovers an online writing forum and starts publishing his family stories under the fake identity of the rich kid “Nadav”. As he gets entangled in his lies, he is afraid of losing his new forum friends, and being exposed by his family. The situation undermines the delicate fabric of the family.

Age recommendation: 12+

Director

Gitit Kabiri, Yahel Kabiri

Screenwriter

Gitit Kabiri

Cast

Shani Cohen, Yossi Marshek, Ori Pfeffer, Lucy Aharish, Yonatan Lahav Weisberg, Shiraz Edri

Producer

Itai Tamir, Assaf Amir

Cinematographer

Boaz Yehonatan Yaakov

Composer