Birthday Present

SHORT FILM
2014, IL/AT, 25min, 2K DCP 2,35:1
RED MX, Moviecam High Speeds

Produced at Filmacademy Vienna, MDW

with Nitai Gvritz, Almuth Hattwich & Lana Ettinger

Festival Selection

26^th Festival Premiers Plans Angers / FR 2014
*** World premiere
28^th Leeds International Film Festival / UK 2014
17^th Brussels Short Film Festival / BE 2014
11^st Vienna Independent Shorts / AT 2014
30^th Haifa International Film Festival / IL 2014
11^st Jameson CineFest Miskolc / HU 2014
*** Best short film
04^th Aesthetica Short Film Festival / UK 2014
09^th Filofest Ljubliana / SI 2014
04^th Ascona Film Festival / CH 2015
16^th Landshuter Int. Short Film Festival / DE 2015
04^th Kyiv Int. Short Film Festival / UA 2015
08^th Lviv Int. Short Film Festival / UA 2015
22^nd OpenEyes Film Festival Marburg / DE 2015
08^th Localize Berlin Potsdam / DE 2015
03^rd Ariano Int. Film Festival / IT 2015
06^th New York Independent Film Festival / USA 2015
19^th UK Jewish Film Festival / UK 2015
15^th Nice Film Festival / FR 2015 2015
07^th Santa Fe Independent Film Festival / USA 2015
16^th Ojai Film Festival California /USA 2015
04^th Cinemaiubit Bukarest / RO 2015
*** Jury Spezial Preis

It is Tomer’s Birthday and Clara’s last night in Jerusalem when their short affair takes an unexpected turn. On their last night together Clara, a young Austrian tourist, and Tomer, an Israeli student, find themselves on an unexpected search for the “morning after pill”. Cultural and personal gaps create distance between them. Tomer and Clara try to open up to each other, but every opportunity for closeness is interrupted by the outside world. With multicultural Jerusalem as a backdrop, they are confronted with the realities of two worlds apart. (Guy Lichtenstein)

Written & directed by	Guy Lichtenstein
Cinematographer	Georg Geutebrueck
Production designer	Ortal Shotland
Production sound mixer	Laura Endres
Editor	Alexander Rauscher
Music composer	Alon Lotringer

Executive Producers	Simon Baumgartner, Paul Stren & Uli Müller-Uri
Line producers	Simon Baumgartner & Paul Stren
Production manager	Kobi Azran
Assistant director	Simon Baumgartner
World sales	Aug&Ohr Medien

1st assistant camera	Anna Baltl
Gaffer	Matthias Ganster
Electrician	Peter Pejanovic
Key grip	Peter Pejanovic
VFX supervisors	Andi Daxer & David Teichert
Digital colorist	Andi Winter
Camera rentals	Arri Rental Austria, Bobo.at & IEG
Lighting rentals	Movie Mobile Israel & Filmakademie Wien