Israel Film Center

While waiting at the airport for her husband, Aya is mistaken for someone else. Rather than correct the error, she follows an impulse to pick up a complete stranger, leading to an unexpected intimacy that unsettles Aya’s carefully ordered life. Nominated for 12 Israeli Academy Awards, Dead Language is a tender and quietly arresting portrait of yearning, connection, and the fragile space between hope and desire.

JCC Manhattan screening followed by Q+A with co-director Mihal Brezis.