ONCE UPON A TIME IN ISRAEL

An animated documentary in the form of a travel journal. A girl in love with a Palestinian guy travels to Israel for the first time. Her simplified vision of the world and her desire to take sides in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is quickly confronted with the reality of living on the border of Sderot and the Gaza Strip.

WERONIKA SZYMA
Weronika Szyma was born in Warsaw in 1996. She is a third-year student of Animation at the Polish National Film School in Łódź. She is fascinated with analogue and classic animation. Her film “Bies i kat”, which screened at festivals in Poland and abroad, won the first prize in the animation competition at the Ars Independent Festival. She is also an illustrator and musician.