| How to Be Alone | |
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 Movie Poster | |
| Eich Lihiyot Levad | |
| Directed by | Erez Eisenstein |
| Written by | Erez Eisenstein |
| Based on | How To Be AloneOrna Coussin |
| Produced by | Erez Eisenstein |
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| Narrated by | Rami Baruch |
| Cinematography | Gleb Volkov |
| Edited by | Oz Mikulsky |
| Music by | Ariel Guez |
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| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Country | Israel |
| Language | Hebrew |
How to Be Alone (Hebrew: איך להיות לבד, romanized: Eich Lihiyot Levad) is a 2016 short Israeli student film, produced and directed by Erez Eisenstein. The script is an adaptation of a short story of the same name by Orna Coussin, first published in 2006.
The world premiere of the film took place in Palace of Culture and Science, on 16 April 2016, as part of Poland's LGBT Film Festival.
Plot
A brokenhearted lesbian woman (Nili Tserruya) grapples with her lonely existence as a singleton. She decides to walk on a different path than the majority. Tired by the constant struggle to fit in a perfectly happy society, she chooses to explore herself and teach herself how to embrace solitude and transgress the mundane world.
Cast
- Main cast
- Nili Tserruya
- Ofri Fuchs
- Lia Friedman
- Or Ilan-Cohen
- Rami Baruch as the author
- Extended cast
- Shlomi BiBi
- Addi Gefen
- Batzion Rogozinsky
- Mya Kaplan
- Mor Granit
- Maayan Shay
Festivals
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| # | Event name | Date(s) | Location(s) | Ref. |
| 1 | 7th LGBT Film Festival 2016 | 16 April 2016 |  Warsaw, Łódź, Gdańsk, Poznań and Katowice
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| 2 | QFest | 27 April 2016 |  St. Louis
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| 3 | 31st Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival | 8 May 2016 |  Turin
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| 4 | OutlantaCon | May 2016 | Atlanta
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| 5 | 8th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival | 27 May 2016 |  Mumbai
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| 6 | TLVFest #11 the 11th Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival | 30 May 2016 |  Tel Aviv
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| 7 | Sun & Sand - The Mississippi Film & Music Festival | June 2016 | Biloxi
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| 8 | 5th Bangalore Shorts Film Festival 2016 | 12 June 2016 | Bangalore
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| 9 | 13th OutfestPeru 2016 | 27 June 2016 |  Lima
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| 10 | Montefeltro Film School Festival | 19 July 2016 | Pennabilli
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| 11 | Macon Film Festival | 23 July 2016 | Macon
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| 12 | 5th Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival 2016 | 24 July 2016 | Kolkata
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| 13 | The 6th Annual Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival | 27 August 2016 |  Durban
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| 14 | The Atlanta LGBT Film & Music Festival | August 2016 | Atlanta
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| 15 | Verona International Film Festival | September 2016 | Venice
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| 16 | Great Lakes International Film Festival | September 2016 | Erie
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| 17 | 18th Thessaloniki International LGBTIQ Film Festival | 24 September 2016 |  Thessaloniki
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| 18 | 29th Girona Film Festival | 29 September 2016 |  Girona
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| 19 | 10th Iris Prize | 15 October 2016 |  Cardiff
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| 20 | The Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival | 22 October 2016 | Barcelona
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| 21 | Perlen - Queer Film Festival Hannover | 22 October 2016 |  Hanover
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| 22 | Festival de Cine Lesbico, Gay Bi Trans | 29 October 2016 |  Santiago
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| 23 | LesGaiCineMad | 4 November 2016 | Madrid
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| 24 | St. Louis International Film Festival | 6 November 2016 | St. Louis
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| 25 | Gay Film Nights | 14 November 2016 |  Cluj-Napoca
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| 26 | TRANSITION International Queer Minorities Film Festival | 15 November 2016 |  Vienna
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| 27 | UK Jewish Film Festival | 19 November 2016 | London
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| 28 | Videodrunk | 2 December 2016 |  Toronto
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| 29 | IMAGE+NATION Montreal lesbian gay bi trans film festival | 3 December 2016 | Montreal
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| 30 | 9th OMOVIES - Lesbian Gay Transgender and Questioning Film Festival | 15 December 2016 | Naples
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| 31 | New Renaissance Film Festival | 5 March 2017 |  Amsterdam
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| 32 | Indian World Film Festival 2017 | 19 March 2017 | Hyderabad
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| 33 | LGBT Toronto Film Festival | 27 June 2017 | Toronto
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| 34 | Berlin Student Film Festival | 25 January 2017 | Berlin
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| 35 | Hyperfest - International Student Film Festival | 28 October 2017 | Bucharest
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| 36 | LGBTQ Film Screening & Party (boombaframe) | 12 June 2019 | Tel Aviv
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Awards
| Year | Event | Category | Recipient(s) / Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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| 2016 | OutlantaCon | Best Student Film | How To Be Alone | Won | |
| Best Director | Erez Eisenstein | Nominated | |||
| Best Cinematography | How To Be Alone | Won | |||
| Best Performance | Nili Tserruya | Nominated | |||
| 2016 | TLVFest | Best Israeli Short Film | How To Be Alone Erez Eisenstein |
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| 2016 | Bangalore Shorts Film Festival | Best Cinematography | How To Be Alone Gleb Volkov (DOP) Erez Eisenstein (producer) |
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| 2016 | Macon Film Festival | Best of 'LGBT' Category | How To Be Alone Erez Eisenstein (director) |
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| 2016 | Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival | Best Director (Student) | Erez Eisenstein | Won | |
| 2016 | Girona Film Festival | Best Jewish Film | How To Be Alone | Won | |
| 2017 | Indian World Film Festival | Best Film (Student) | How To Be Alone | Won | |
| 2017 | LGBT Toronto Film Festival | Best Performances | How To Be Alone | Won |
References
- ^ How To Be Alone at IMDb
- Orna Coussin official website
- ^ LGBT Film Festival (Poland)
- "Queer Voices Shorts | Cinema St. Louis". Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
- "How To Be Alone - TGLFF". Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
- ^ OutlantaCon Film Festival
- "Lesbian/Bi/Trans* Films At Kashish 2016 - KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
- "Film Schedule - KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
- ISRAELI COLLECTION B | TLVFest
- Sun & Sand
- Official Selection List-2: 5th BSFF-16 - Bangalore Shorts Film Festival
- Festival Schedule: 5th BSFF-16 - Bangalore Shorts Film Festival
- "2016 OutfestLima Schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
- Montefeltro Film School Festival
- ^ Macon Film Festival
- "Official Selections in Documentary & LGBT Competition | Macon Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
- 2016 MFF program
- Official Selection List-1: 5th Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival-16
- Festival Schedule: 5th Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival-16
- "DGLFF 2016 Festival Schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
- The Atlanta LGBT Film & Music Festival
- The Verona International Film Festival
- 2016 Film Selections | Great Lakes International Film Festival
- 18th LGBTQ Film Festival | Thessaloniki International LGBTQ Film Festival
- "Jewish Film Festival | 29th Girona Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2016-12-23. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
- "Program | 29th Girona Film Festival" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-23. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
- How To Be Alone - Iris Prize
- EICH LIHIYOT LEVAD (HOW TO BE ALONE) - FICGLB 2016
- "SATURDAY 22 - FICGLB 2016". Archived from the original on 2016-12-23. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
- Download the Perlen Program 2016
- Programación | Cine Movilh 2016 / Festival de cine Gay, Lésbico, Bisexual y Transexual / @Movilh
- PROGRAMA DE MANO LESGAICINEMAD 2016
- Narrative Shorts: Drama 1 | STLFilmFest Nov. 3-13
- The program book PDF | Cinema St. Louis
- How To Be Alone - GAY FILM NIGHTS International Film Festival
- TRANSITION Shorts
- How to Be Alone (Short) - UK Jewish Film
- Mountain - UK Jewish Film
- 2016 festival - videodrunk
- "How to be Alone | IMAGE+NATION". Archived from the original on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- "lesbomundo 2 | IMAGE+NATION". Archived from the original on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- "PROGRAMMA - OMOVIES 9|2016". Archived from the original on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- "Block M - New Renaissance Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- Official Selection List-1: Indian World Film Festival-17
- Festival Schedule: Indian World Film Festival-17
- Get to know the short film: HOW TO BE ALONE, 22min, Israel, LGBT, Drama
- How To Be Alone - BSFF 2017 Official Selection
- בוםבפריים - LGBTQ Film Screening & Party
- "TLVFEST AWARDS 2016". TLVFEST. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- Anderman, Nirit (6 June 2016). ""איך להיות לבד" ו"לעולם לא תהיה לבד" בין זוכי פסטיבל הקולנוע הגאה בתל אביב". Haaretz.
- "הזוכים בפסטיבל הקולנוע הגאה" (in Hebrew). June 6, 2016. Archived from the original on March 28, 2017.
- פרסי פסטיבל הקולנוע הגאה ה-11 – כל הזוכים
- Result: 5th BSFF-16 - Bangalore Shorts Film Festival
- Result: 5th Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival-16
- "Festival de Cinema de Girona - Awards". Archived from the original on 2016-12-23. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
- ‘Destino', de la besaluenca Marta Juanola, guanya el Festival de Cine de Girona, El Punt Avui (2 October 2016).
- "Result Shorts Section: Indian World Film Festival-17". 6th Indian World Film Festival - 22. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: June 2017 LGBT FEEDBACK Film Festival
External links
- How To Be Alone - official website
- How To Be Alone at IMDb
- How to Be Alone - trailer on YouTube