Daniel Auerbach

Section: Competition
Title: Daniel Auerbach
Director: David Volach
Cast: Gloria Bess, Lihi Kornowski, Roy Nik, David Volach
Duration: 1h 46m
Country: Israel
Language: he
Year: 2023

The hero of David Volach's second film is David himself - a film director on an endless journey towards the making of the second film of his life. Twelve years after his successful debut feature, his producers and the investors in his second film are losing their patience, as he is getting more and more lost in a world of obscure ideas which only keeps him from completing the script. What was supposed to be a personal and heart-warming script about his process of immigrating from ultra-orthodox Jerusalem to secular Tel Aviv turns into something else...