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Dado Beach

Or Engel

Producer

Asaf Nawi

Lab Edition

13

,

2025

Production

Nawi Pro LTD

Country

Israel

SYNOPSIS

In Haifa, Sergeant Elia Bitton shares a tense home with her religious mother while investigating a lifeguard’s disappearance. The case pulls her into crime, past scars, and her first love- a world she knows well from her father’s ties to the underworld. Caught between duty, desire, and her mother’s warnings, a raid ends her career and finally reveals the true story of her family that she’s been seeking all along.

DIRECTOR'S NOTE

I return to Dado Beach, where my father died when I was 17, to explore loss, truth, and memory. The missing lifeguard mirrors my search for my vanished father. Elia’s journey uncovers buried family secrets, dismantles her idealization of her father, and confronts the shadow of masculinity. The story reveals how women navigate the ruins men leave behind, and the cost of freedom.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Or Engel is a graduate of the Film and Television Department at Tel Aviv University. Her short films explore themes like body, alienation, and loss through an intimate female perspective. She has received development grants from the Rabinovich Foundation and Gesher Fund. Her film ”Real Beauty” screened at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque in the Women Directors Festival, and her short “Golem” was shown at the Off Courts Festival in France.

PRODUCER

Asaf Nawi

NAWI PRO Ltd. is a production house based in Tel Aviv, Israel, focused on the creation and production of original content for both local and international markets.
Together with our carefully built network of creatives, we develop and produce film and television projects—documentary, fiction, and entertainment formats—across a variety of genres and platforms.
Among the major projects we have been involved in are the Academy Award-winning “My Nephew from Hell” (YA series), “Shlomi Six” (crime drama series), “Whatever You Say” (weekly current affairs satire), the Israeli box office hit “Saving Shuli-San” (filmed in Japan), “One More Story “(comedy feature film), “Doubtful” (drama feature film), as well as “Homeland” (parts filmed in Israel), the pilot episode of “DIG”, and more.

​PRODUCTION COMPANY PROFILE

○ Nawi Pro Ltd. / Tel-Aviv
Nawipro@gmail.com

​PRODUCTION BUDGET

○ Total budget: 1,000,000 USD
○ No confirmed budget source yet

LANGUAGE

Hebrew

GENRE

Thriller Drama

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