Like Falling Asleep
TITLE
Like Falling Asleep
DIRECTOR
Meitar Libi Flam
COUNTRY
Israel
YEAR
2022
DURATION
21′
GENRE
Fiction
Like Falling Asleep
In order not to ruin an upcoming family vacation, Tamar refuses to tell her 10-year-old son, Tal, that she has taken his sick cat to the vet to be put to sleep. But the cover-up costs Tamar more than she anticipated.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Meitar Libi Flam
Meitar Flam grew up in a religious hippy home, and was homeschooled till the age of twelve.. During high school she majored in Art at the Israel Museum. After completing two years’ National Service working with youth at risk, she volunteered in Ghana for three months, teaching science, art and theater at an African school. Meitar graduated from her four-year, full time studies at Maaleh Film School in 2022, having majored in scriptwriting and directing. Her third year graduating documentary, “As If I Am” was a semi-finalist in the Student Academy Awards of 2021. Her narrative short “Like Falling Asleep” is her graduating narrative short.. She is currently co-writing a TV- series "Apartment Tsabar" which won a development grant from "Yes" satellite TV.
- Director Meitar Libi Flam
- Screenplay Yotam Deshe
- Cinematography Daniel Dahan
- Editing Avital Simckes
- Cast Timor Straschnow, Yarin Oron, Igal Reznik
- Producer/s Yeshua Turgeman
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project Title Like Falling Asleep
- Project Type Fiction
- Completion Date August 1, 2022
- Country of origin Israel
- Country of filming Israel
- Language Hebrew
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project Yes
Meitar Libi Flam
Meitar Flam grew up in a religious hippy home, and was homeschooled till the age of twelve.. During high school she majored in Art at the Israel Museum. After completing two years’ National Service working with youth at risk, she volunteered in Ghana for three months, teaching science, art and theater at an African school. Meitar graduated from her four-year, full time studies at Maaleh Film School in 2022, having majored in scriptwriting and directing. Her third year graduating documentary, “As If I Am” was a semi-finalist in the Student Academy Awards of 2021. Her narrative short “Like Falling Asleep” is her graduating narrative short.. She is currently co-writing a TV- series "Apartment Tsabar" which won a development grant from "Yes" satellite TV.
Tirana International Film Festival
KIDs +11, Panorama Competition, 2022
