Two girls, one Israeli, one Palestinian, run toward each other in a world built to keep them apart.
At a girls’ running camp in northern Israel, Goni, an Israeli teenager, and Aisha, a Palestinian from the same city, meet for the first time. They run side by side. They exchange glances, gestures, small acts of care. What forms between them is unspoken and undeniable. But when Goni’s brother is killed in combat, the camp changes. Rumors spread. A note circulates. The girls are told to keep their distance. Still, they reach for each other — in secret, in defiance. Their bond becomes a quiet act of resistance in a place designed to keep them apart.
Sivan Levy Zakin is a filmmaker, composer, and actress. Her shorts Cherchez la Femme and Dina & Noel premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. Her recent short, LOSS, follows a girl navigating grief and gendered violence in a militarized landscape. Sivan scores her work with voice, piano and modular synths. She is currently developing her first narrative feature about how closeness becomes its own form of resistance, and a hybrid documentary exploring memory, absence, and matrilineal legacy.
