Fourth year student, Omer Sternberg’s film Listening In will compete in the 2020 Berlinale Shorts section.
The film follows a young soldier, who as part of his duties in the intelligence unit, starts to spy on a Palestinian gay couple. The complicated relationship between the two fascinates the soldier, and confronts his own sexual identity. But as his feelings conflict with his duty as a soldier, and he is faced with some hard decisions.
Omer, along with his producer Tamar Birger and DP Shiri Kuban will be attending the premiere in February.