The festival celebrates 30 years since its establishment in a variety of events, including a tribute to the film “Blue Velvet”, which also marks three decades since its release. Thousands of miles away, director David Lynch participates via Skype call and answers the students' questions. Among the important guests honoring the festival by their presence are Oscar-winning French director Michel Hazanavicius, and esteemed American director David Gordon Green. The “Pop-Up Cinema” project penetrates the urban space and seeks to spread among the public the short film bug, by putting up a free film-screening point at the Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv.