Oxygen

Netalie Braun

Producer

Adi Bar-Yossef

Lab Edition

2021

Production

Country

Israel

SYNOPSIS

Anat eagerly awaits her son Ido’s release from the army and their planned trip abroad. When his release is canceled and he's being sent for the new war, she sets out on a journey to bring him home.

DIRECTOR'S NOTE

I was asking myself, for many years, why Israeli parents, especially mothers, cooperate with the stark reality of conscription to the army – the potential sacrifice of your own children. The silence about it hovers across all socio-economic classes in Israel. All young men go to the Army. And it is still considered an honor to be a fighter, or a mother’s fighter. Even in our literature there are few critical references, and in our cinema, there are none at all. Into this vacuum enters my main character - a single mom, surrounded by men who are connected to the army in one way or another: Her father sufferers from PTSD from the Yom Kipur war; her son is an enthusiastic combat fighter; her Ex (her son’s dad) is also, at arms length, committed to the army; and her new lover lost one leg in one of the Lebanon wars. My character, Khani, needs to find her own real voice, in order to keep her son alive. An organic voice that is connected to the first and very initial step of being a mother – which is to give life, and nurture it. This is a political film, a call for revolution. I want to expose the collective repression of mothers in Israel, as maybe, if they begin to refuse sacrificing their children, war will not be the main solution to our conflicts.

LOG LINE

Anat eagerly awaits her son Ido’s release from the army and their planned trip abroad. When his release is canceled and he's being sent for the new war, she sets out on a journey to bring him home.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

PRODUCER

Adi Bar-Yossef

Producer profile
Adi Bar Yossef, Producer Israel
Adi Bar Yossef is a graduate of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel School Film School. In 2019 Adi founded BARYO - a film and TV production house. As an independent producer she produced numerous films including both features and documentaries. As an executive producer at Endemolshine Israel, Adi produced TV drama series for public and cable TV.

PRODUCTION COMPANY PROFILE

BARYO is an emerging film and TV production company that emphasizes developing new voices, and based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. BARYO was founded recently (2019) by Adi Bar Yossef, a well experienced producer in the past 10 years, who worked on numerous large scale, award winning, Israeli productions, among other, The Little Things (2019) a documentary feature directed by Michal Aronzon, premiered at Docaviv film festival 2019 and Four Mothers (2020) a documentary feature directed by Rafael Levin and Dana Keidar for HOT cable TV, premiered at the Docaviv film festival in 2020. Between the years 2016 to 2019 Adi was an associate producer to Greenproductions in several feature films; Cinema Sabaya by Orit Fouks Rotem, Shake your cares away by Tom Shoval, Scaffolding by Matan Yair, screened at the Cannes Film Festival and won the best film at the Jerusalem Film Festival and Voice Over directed by 5 Sam Spiegel School Alumnus.

BARYO specializes in art house feature films and documentaries, aiming for international co-productions, in all projects, working with countries across the world .
BARYO is looking to tell stories mostly based on character driven plot, with a strong and condensed drama mechanism, preferably stories about women and their place in society, stories that challenge social conventions.
The creative collaboration with the director/writer is at the heart of each project, which gives the process of development and production a sense of intimacy and genuinity. BARYO concentrates on a limited number of projects in order to give maximum attention to the creative process.

Production Company
Baryo film & TV productions, Tel Aviv, Israel
adibaryo@gmail.com
+972-50-7-348900

PRODUCTION BUDGET

Production Budget
$883,000
Secured funds
$305,000 Israeli Film Fund

LANGUAGE

Hebrew

Drama

GENRE

Back To Participants