Part of a Director Spotlight on Netalie Braun, along with Oxygen
Director Netalie Braun expected to attend
In this visually arresting and provocative triptych, award-winning poet and filmmaker Netalie Braun examines the blurred boundaries between war, media, and entertainment. Revisiting the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, Braun probes the creation of images glorifying Israel’s military triumphs, including a staged battle so convincing it traumatized an entire Arab village. In an even more ethically unsettling chapter, an unsuspecting Arab family becomes the subject of an Israeli reality television production. The film’s haunting final movement follows a psychologically scarred war veteran whose lifelong obsession with guns leads him to become the film industry’s go-to military props supplier.
Surreal, unsettling, and darkly ironic, Braun’s remarkable work exposes how performance, propaganda, and violence become inseparably entwined. Known for her fearless blending of documentary inquiry, poetic sensibility, and political critique, Braun challenges audiences to confront the emotional and psychological aftershocks of living in a militarized society. —Janis Plotkin
West Coast Premiere
Netalie Braun is a director, screenwriter, and producer working across fiction and documentary film. Her feature Oxygen (2025) won Best Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival, and her documentary Shooting (2025) premiered at Telluride and received the Jury Award at DocAviv. Her films have screened at major international festivals including the Berlinale and IDFA. She heads the MFA Program at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University.
Sponsored by Linda and Sanford Gallanter