
Writer | Director
Elinor Nechemya
AWARDS
2021 - Cannes Film Festival
Nominated, Canal+ Award
2019 - Toronto International Film Festival
Nominated, IMDbPro Short Cuts
2020 - Busan International Short Film Festival
Nominated, Best Short Film

An alumna of the Berlinale Script Station, the Locarno Filmmakers Academy and lately also the Jerusalem International Film Lab, Her latest short film If It Ain’t Broke (2021) premiered at the Semaine de la Critique of Festival de Cannes. Her previous shorts Our Hearts Beat Like War (2020) and Everlasting Mom (2017) both premiered at TIFF and screened at Locarno, Sarajevo, and Palm Springs. Island, her debut feature film (currently in development), was selected for the upcoming 2021 NEXT STEP program of the Semaine de la Critique.

SHORT FILM 2021
If It Ain't Broke
Starring
Niv Ast
Svetlana Demidov
Hila Ruach
Rivka Wizenfeld
Written & Directed by
Elinor Nechemya

SHORT FILM 2021
Our Hearts Beat Like War
Starring
Laliv Sivan
Writer & Director
Elinor Nechemya