Guy Davidi, an Israeli filmmaker, received a $5,000 award for his project Mixed Feelings

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

When Israel starts the attack on Gaza, Israeli acting guru Amir Orian can’t withhold his objections to the war. While performing on stage, his acting students’ deep emotions explode, yet their protest against him and his views threatens the existence of the theater he created in his own living room.

 Mixed Feelings  is a heartbreaking story about cultural resistance through theater and about the ungrateful mission of political education. The film starts in one war and ends 5 years later with another; the process captured through the relation between Amir and his students reveals the process of Israeli society in between the wars.