Batim (Houses)
Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum
Sasha is situated somewhere in between: between genders, between hometowns, between identities. In the places of his past, he searches for a feeling of familiarity but only finds dust and long repressed memories. Only when his family dog Remi, formerly believed to be dead, and some old video cassettes appear, a door opens to a painful past and unexpected new connections. Batim revolves around the search for comfort and the things that makes a place a home. Told through poetic imagery, the film continuously casts a spell. The Hessian-Israeli co-production celebrated its premiere at the Berlinale.
24 April 2025
19:30 h, Mal Seh'n Kino
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| Direction | Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum |
| Country | Deutschland, Israel |
| Year | 2025 |
| Duration | 98 min |
| Language | Hebräisch, Russisch |
| Language Version | OV with English Subs |
| Genre | Drama |
| Production | Elad Gavish, Adi Navon, Anatol Schuster, Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum |
| Distribution | OmeU |
| Cast | Yael Eisenberg, Tali Sharon, Evgenia Dodina |
| Director of Photography | Yaniv Linton |
| Script | Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum |
| Montage | Avishai Sivan |
| Music | Rike Huy |
| Sound Design | Rotem Dror |
Co-production award Torino Feature Lab
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About the director
Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum is a filmmaker, photographer and actress. She was born in 1984 in the Ukraine and emigrated to Israel in 1990. As an alumni of the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, and the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem, her film Confessions (2019) won the Short Independent Film Price at the Cinema South Festival. She acted in Kedma by Amos Gitai and Andante by Assaf Tager. Her photography that concerns itself with identity and memory have been exhibited at the Nolobz Art Gallery in Tel Aviv in 2019, among other galleries. Batim is her first feature film.
Press reviews
“Tetelbaum fully relies on the visual power of her story, backed by peaceful images and a number of long sequences in which Sasha wanders through her former family home and its neighbourhood. [...] Houses is about a generation that wants to find closure from the past but can’t because the burden of memory is just too big.” (Rouven Linnarz, film-rezensionen.de)
IN ATTENDANCE OF THE PRODUCER
HESSIAN PREMIERE
Regional Feature Film Program
