Jellyfish
Starring: Sarah Adler, Gera Sandler, Ma-nenita De Latorre, Noa Knoller
Directors: Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen
The film: Neither of Jellyfish's co-directors is a fully fledged filmmaker. Etgar Keret is better known as a writer whose collections of short stories have made him one of the brightest lights of Israeli literature. And the bulk of Shira Geffen's work lies with the theatre.
Their innocence has proved to be an enormous asset, however. Their feature film debut, comprising three tenuously interweaving tales, is filled with lyrical moments, their observations about relationships conveyed with visual panache.
Geffen, who wrote the screenplay, and Keret are artful in their vision, but Jellyfish never feels contrived. That there's no grand convergence of the three strands speaks volumes of their audacity.