Oxygen
Directed by: Netalie Braun
95 minutes, 2025, Drama; Israel Film Center Festival
Festival year: 2026
Anat, a schoolteacher shaped by language and imagination, awaits her son Ido’s army discharge. When a new war erupts, and she learns he has volunteered to fight, their bond fractures. Caught between a father destroyed by war and a son rushing toward it, Anat makes a radical maternal choice just before Ido crosses into Lebanon.
Screenings followed by Q+A with director Netalie Braun.
JCC MID-WESTCHESTER TICKETS TO OPEN SOON.
Full Synopsis
Anat, a schoolteacher shaped by language and imagination, awaits her son Ido’s army discharge. When a new war erupts, and she learns he has volunteered to fight, their bond fractures. Caught between a father destroyed by war and a son rushing toward it, Anat makes a radical maternal choice just before Ido crosses into Lebanon.
