
Motherland
Synopsis
Masha, a young woman, dealing with a life altering crisis, seeks out her mother, Vera, at a quarry where she’s employed. Instead of finding comfort, she’s sucked into Vera’s passionate new life.
Режија / Director:
Hila Elena Royzenman
Сценарио / Screenplay:
Hila Elena Royzenman
Директор фотографије / Director of Photography:
May Abady Grebler
Монтажа / Film Editing:
Mattan Kedem
Филмска школа / Film School:
Sam Spiegel Film School
Продуценти / Producers:
Uria Kedem
Lian Avidan Izakson
Улоге / Cast:
Lena Fraifeld
Svetlana Demidov
Marek Rozenbaum
Трајање / Duration:
17’

Hila was born in 1988 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and immigrated to Israel with her parents in 1990. She graduated from the Sam Spiegel film school in Jerusalem in 2019 where she studied film directing. Her latest Independent short film, Motherland, was produced in collaboration with the Desert Shorts project, a short film program of the Arava Film Festival. Her graduate film, Cold frost; Sunshine, won 1st place at the Moscow VGIK International Film Festival in 2021, and also won Israel’s Film Critic’s Forum Award in 2020. She’s received her BA in Theater, Communications, and Journalism from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She’s currently working on her first TV series and full-length feature film.