In it’s 26th edition, and in light of the situation, the Tel-Aviv International Student Film Festival will have a diverse program full of films and events dealing and facing the new reality through the lens of cinema. This year, for the first time, the festival will hold a screening of all winners from all competitions on it’s last day.

The festival will be held on August for the first time, according to the current academic year which has changed due to the war.

Also this year the festival will host a number of highly regarded and accomplished creators from all around the world as guests of honor, conduct masterclasses and screen their films, some of them for the first time in front of an Israeli audience. Amongst the festival’s guests is the esteemed screenwriter, director and playwright David Mamet (“The Untouchables”, “Glengarry Glen Ross”), The Ugandan Creator Isaac Nabwana (“Who Killed Captain Alex?”), the Oscar nominated and César Award winning editor Juliette Welfling (“Emilia Pérez”, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”) and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen director Lars Henrik Gass.