Festivals & Awards:
Best Live Action Short Film Award at Golden Goblet Awards Shanghai International Film Festival 2024: Jury's Statement:
''We follow the little girl's perspective and witness her parents wandering on the boundary of their strained relationship again and again. The strength of the film is its unique approach. The visual language and the editing is effortless and fluent. The little girl's performance is impressive, and the music perfectly sets off the overall atmosphere of the film.''
Best Independent Short Film Award at Haifa International Film Festival January 2025: Jury's Statement:
''The award for Best Short Film is given to "The Event Horizon" for its stunning cinematography, the remarkable performance of eight-year-old Emily Weiss and the talented cast alongside her, and for the unique artistic visual vision that transformed the film into a captivating and mesmerizing experience.''
Movie Reviews:
* « Using unconventional styles, filmmakers have produced “off the beaten path” works that reflect their diverse perspectives on the world. THE EVENT HORIZON observes changing parental relationships through the eyes of children. Israeli director Shira Geffen, known as a director, playwright, actor, and author of eight children’s books, narrates a story of a family’s desert trip. The film portrays both “highly dramatic plots” and “many subtle emotional connections”. Short Film of Golden Goblet Awards｜Short Form and Unconventional Expression / SIFF Shanghai International Film Festival
* « Shira Geffen’s latest movie, 'The Event Horizon', a live-action short film, was the only Israeli film accepted to the Shanghai International Film Festival, which is the largest in Asia. The film won the Golden Goblet award for Best Live Action Short Film in the festival. » Israeli filmmaker Shira Geffen wins prize at Shanghai International Film Festival / Hannah Brown / Jerusalem Post
* « "The Event Horizon", directed by Shira Geffen (production Stav Morag Meron), is the winner of the Haifa International Film Festival in the Israeli competition in the category of independent short narrative film, and it makes it eligible for a nomination for the the Academy Awards - the Oscar. »The independent short feature film award - "The Event Horizon" / Noga Carmi / Haipo
Director's Statement:
The film follows family dynamics through a girl's point of view. As a daughter of divorced parents, who used to involve me in everything, I'm interested in exploring the development of a girl alongside the breakdown of her parents' relationship. From a cinematic point of view, the arid and wide desert makes it possible to isolate the characters, cut off the outside world, and reach a distillation of emotional situations, in which the heroine can clearly observe the loop where her parents are, to choose not being there, and finding her independence. Shira Geffen
