Torch

Torch
Written and Directed by: Odeya Rosenak
Fiction. 17:00 min. 2017, Color
Production: The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School - Jerusalem (JSFS)
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles

Fifteen-year-old Jerusalem resident Noga, lost her father in a terror attack. On Memorial Day, she and her mother go on a journey, which ends up at the annual torch-lighting ceremony at the local community center. The torch that she lights will be her voice, and her rebellion.


FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS:
Haifa International Film Festival, 2017
The International Tel Aviv Student Film Festival, 2018
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF), USA, 2018
International Festival of Film schools Munich, Germany, 2018
Camerimage Film Festival, Torun, Poland, 2018
Israel's International Fantastic Film Festival-Utopiafest, Tel Aviv, 2018
New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF),  2018

• San Francisco JFF 2019
* Summer Shorts Film Festival, Chester County 2019
• Philadelphia JFF 2019
• Tucson JFF 2020
• Sacramento JFF 2020
• Greater Phoenix JFF 2020
• Honolulu JFF 2020                                                                                                                                    •Cincinnati JFF 2020

AWARDS:
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF), USA, 2018, 2^nd Prize- Youth Jury: Best Live-Action Short.