Soul Traces
Documentary. Anthology Film. Israel.
53 min. 2026.
Creative Director: Rani Bleire Elkabetz
Mentoring & Editorial Consulting: Ofir Trainin, Dr. Iris Zaki
What’s Now My Love? | Creator: Guy Gabriel Bavel
Seeking Shade | Creator: Gal Rochwerger
Stubborn Root | Creator: Ella Hadar Lilian
Innocence | Creator: Shai Baskin
Color In Ash| Creator: Jonathan Dumosc
Production: Ronen Machlis-Balzam, Hila Guy-Avisar
Line Producer: Nava Yaari
Editing: Eran Yehezkel
Sound Designe & Mix: Dany Zernitsky
Production Company: Metaphor Ltd.
Supported by
Negev Film Fund, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (NFCT), The Old Jaffa Development Corporation, Beracha Foundation, The Jewish Community Foundation of Greater MetroWest NJ (JCF), Western Negev Municipal Cluster, JAR Old Jaffa Artists Residency.
A collection of documentary poetic films by five young filmmakers from the South of Israel, whose lives were fractured in a single day and are being rewritten. From the silence that followed emerge unanswerable questions: about a home abandoned, perhaps no longer standing; about land that promised and broke; about a body that remembers even as the heart longs to forget. Between destruction and longing, between separation and the possibility of return. Each film is a trace: of grief, of love, of a soul trying to mend itself from within.
