Curated Programs of Student Films

DocuText Festival is proud to provide a platform for emerging filmmakers and invites you to discover two programs of documentary student films produced in recent years. An opportunity to see ourselves through the lens of a new generation of promising filmmakers.

Life Connections: Program #1

A program of student documentaries that courageously and compassionately explores personal crises threatening to tear families apart, putting to the test the invisible bonds that hold them together.

Labor Pains

2023 | 32 min | Hebrew
Ma'aleh School of Film and Television

Director: Nahar Cohen

After escaping her abusive partner, Liron (24) discovers she is pregnant with triplets. Now raising her three daughters on her own, she struggles with the temptation to return to her former partner and the hope of giving her children what she imagines could be a normal family.

Tzuriel Has Something in His Belly

2026 | 27 min | Hebrew
The Sam Spiegel Film and Television School

Director: Talia Tai Biton

Eleven-year-old Tzuriel looks six but has the soul of a sixty-year-old. Born with a rare medical condition that prevents him from eating, he lives under constant medical care while a life-threatening reality hangs over him. The film follows Tzuriel and his family as they navigate these daily challenges and accompanies him as he discovers the world.

Between Winter and Spring

2025 | 30 min | Hebrew
Kibbutzim College

Director: Evyatar Steiner

Aviv and Evyatar are about to become parents, but when Arbel is born, everything changes. The family they have just begun to build is suddenly confronted with a complex new reality, filled with uncertainty and difficult questions.

On Shifting Ground: Program #2

A program of student documentaries exploring, through intimate stories of faith, migration, and belonging, how national upheaval reshapes our sense of home, community, and the future.

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Another Oz

2026 | 18 min | Hebrew
Sapir College School of Audio and Visual Arts

Director: Reut Hamami

Reut, a religious young woman, moves to a secular kibbutz in the Negev, where she meets Amotz, a kibbutz member who has become religious. Another Oz chronicles the relationship between Reut, Amotz, and God - a journey of authenticity, belonging, faith, and inner strength in a place that does not always accept you, where sometimes you are the outsider.

Safe Haven?

2026 | 18 min | French | Hebrew subtitles
Tel Aviv University

Directors: Omer Tuib, Milena Dornano, Nina Wexler

A day-long journey to Sironit Beach in Netanya reveals the tensions between the dream of the Promised Land, the reality of war, and the complex experience of French Jews in Israel.

Reporting for Love

202? | 23 min | Hebrew
The Sam Spiegel Film and Television School

Director: Noa Ben Moshe

Twenty-five-year-old Noa is desperate to find love amid the routine of wartime, but keeps meeting men unable to open their hearts to a committed relationship. Despite the loneliness and disappointment, she embarks on her search surrounded by a family of lifelong single women. Will she be the one to break the family curse and find her knight on a dusty tank?