How to Be Alone
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Eich Lihiyot Levad
Directed byErez Eisenstein
Written byErez Eisenstein
Based onHow To Be AloneOrna Coussin
Produced byErez Eisenstein
Starring
  • Nili Tserruya
  • Ofri Fuchs
  • Lia Friedman
  • Or Ilan-Cohen
Narrated byRami Baruch
CinematographyGleb Volkov
Edited byOz Mikulsky
Music byAriel Guez
Release date
  • April 16, 2016 (2016-04-16) (LGBT Film Festival)
Running time
22 minutes
CountryIsrael
LanguageHebrew

How to Be Alone (Hebrew: איך להיות לבד, romanized: Eich Lihiyot Levad) is a 2016 short Israeli student film, produced and directed by Erez Eisenstein.[1] The script is an adaptation of a short story of the same name by Orna Coussin, first published in 2006.[2]

The world premiere of the film took place in Palace of Culture and Science, on 16 April 2016, as part of Poland's LGBT Film Festival.[3]

Plot

A brokenhearted lesbian woman (Nili Tserruya) grapples with her lonely existence as a singleton. She decides to walk on a different path than the majority. Tired by the constant struggle to fit in a perfectly happy society, she chooses to explore herself and teach herself how to embrace solitude and transgress the mundane world.

Cast

Main cast
  • Nili Tserruya
  • Ofri Fuchs
  • Lia Friedman
  • Or Ilan-Cohen
  • Rami Baruch as the author
Extended cast
  • Shlomi BiBi
  • Addi Gefen
  • Batzion Rogozinsky
  • Mya Kaplan
  • Mor Granit
  • Maayan Shay

Festivals

Festivals
# Event name Date(s) Location(s) Ref.
1 7th LGBT Film Festival 2016 16 April 2016 Poland Warsaw, Łódź, Gdańsk, Poznań and Katowice [1][3]
2 QFest 27 April 2016 United States St. Louis [1][4]
3 31st Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 8 May 2016 Italy Turin [1][5]
4 OutlantaCon May 2016 United States Atlanta [6]
5 8th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival 27 May 2016 India Mumbai [1][7][8]
6 TLVFest #11 the 11th Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival 30 May 2016 Israel Tel Aviv [1][9]
7 Sun & Sand - The Mississippi Film & Music Festival June 2016 United States Biloxi [10]
8 5th Bangalore Shorts Film Festival 2016 12 June 2016 India Bangalore [11][12]
9 13th OutfestPeru 2016 27 June 2016 Peru Lima [1][13]
10 Montefeltro Film School Festival 19 July 2016 Italy Pennabilli [14]
11 Macon Film Festival 23 July 2016 United States Macon [15][16][17]
12 5th Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival 2016 24 July 2016 India Kolkata [18][19]
13 The 6th Annual Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 27 August 2016 South Africa Durban [1][20]
14 The Atlanta LGBT Film & Music Festival August 2016 United States Atlanta [21]
15 Verona International Film Festival September 2016 Italy Venice [22]
16 Great Lakes International Film Festival September 2016 United States Erie [23]
17 18th Thessaloniki International LGBTIQ Film Festival 24 September 2016 Greece Thessaloniki [1][24]
18 29th Girona Film Festival 29 September 2016 Spain Girona [1][25][26]
19 10th Iris Prize 15 October 2016 United Kingdom Cardiff [1][27]
20 The Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 22 October 2016 Spain Barcelona [28][29]
21 Perlen - Queer Film Festival Hannover 22 October 2016 Germany Hanover [1][30]
22 Festival de Cine Lesbico, Gay Bi Trans 29 October 2016 Chile Santiago [1][31]
23 LesGaiCineMad 4 November 2016 Spain Madrid [32]
24 St. Louis International Film Festival 6 November 2016 United States St. Louis [33][34]
25 Gay Film Nights 14 November 2016 Romania Cluj-Napoca [1][35]
26 TRANSITION International Queer Minorities Film Festival 15 November 2016 Austria Vienna [1][36]
27 UK Jewish Film Festival 19 November 2016 United Kingdom London [1][37][38]
28 Videodrunk 2 December 2016 Canada Toronto [1][39]
29 IMAGE+NATION Montreal lesbian gay bi trans film festival 3 December 2016 Canada Montreal [40][41]
30 9th OMOVIES - Lesbian Gay Transgender and Questioning Film Festival 15 December 2016 Italy Naples [42]
31 New Renaissance Film Festival 5 March 2017 Netherlands Amsterdam [43]
32 Indian World Film Festival 2017 19 March 2017 India Hyderabad [44][45]
33 LGBT Toronto Film Festival 27 June 2017 Canada Toronto [46]
34 Berlin Student Film Festival 25 January 2017 Germany Berlin [47]
35 Hyperfest - International Student Film Festival 28 October 2017 Romania Bucharest
36 LGBTQ Film Screening & Party (boombaframe) 12 June 2019 Israel Tel Aviv [48]

Awards

Year Event Category Recipient(s) / Nominee(s) Result Ref.
2016 OutlantaCon Best Student Film How To Be Alone Won [6]
Best Director Erez Eisenstein Nominated
Best Cinematography How To Be Alone Won
Best Performance Nili Tserruya Nominated
2016 TLVFest Best Israeli Short Film How To Be Alone
Erez Eisenstein		 Won [49][50][51][52]
2016 Bangalore Shorts Film Festival Best Cinematography How To Be Alone
Gleb Volkov (DOP)
Erez Eisenstein (producer)		 Won [53]
2016 Macon Film Festival Best of 'LGBT' Category How To Be Alone
Erez Eisenstein (director)		 Won [15]
2016 Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival Best Director (Student) Erez Eisenstein Won [54]
2016 Girona Film Festival Best Jewish Film How To Be Alone Won [55][56]
2017 Indian World Film Festival Best Film (Student) How To Be Alone Won [57]
2017 LGBT Toronto Film Festival Best Performances How To Be Alone Won [58]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 How To Be Alone at IMDb
  2. ↑ Orna Coussin official website
  3. 1 2 LGBT Film Festival (Poland)
  4. ↑ Queer Voices Shorts | Cinema St. Louis
  5. ↑ How To Be Alone - TGLFF
  6. 1 2 OutlantaCon Film Festival
  7. ↑ Lesbian/Bi/Trans* Films At Kashish 2016 - KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival
  8. ↑ Film Schedule - KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival
  9. ↑ ISRAELI COLLECTION B | TLVFest
  10. ↑ Sun & Sand
  11. ↑ Official Selection List-2: 5th BSFF-16 - Bangalore Shorts Film Festival
  12. ↑ Festival Schedule: 5th BSFF-16 - Bangalore Shorts Film Festival
  13. ↑ "2016 OutfestLima Schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
  14. ↑ Montefeltro Film School Festival
  15. 1 2 Macon Film Festival
  16. ↑ Official Selections in Documentary & LGBT Competition | Macon Film Festival
  17. ↑ 2016 MFF program
  18. ↑ Official Selection List-1: 5th Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival-16
  19. ↑ Festival Schedule: 5th Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival-16
  20. ↑ DGLFF 2016 Festival Schedule
  21. ↑ The Atlanta LGBT Film & Music Festival
  22. ↑ The Verona International Film Festival
  23. ↑ 2016 Film Selections | Great Lakes International Film Festival
  24. ↑ 18th LGBTQ Film Festival | Thessaloniki International LGBTQ Film Festival
  25. ↑ Jewish Film Festival | 29th Girona Film Festival
  26. ↑ Program | 29th Girona Film Festival
  27. ↑ How To Be Alone - Iris Prize
  28. ↑ EICH LIHIYOT LEVAD (HOW TO BE ALONE) - FICGLB 2016
  29. ↑ SATURDAY 22 - FICGLB 2016
  30. ↑ Download the Perlen Program 2016
  31. ↑ Programación | Cine Movilh 2016 / Festival de cine Gay, Lésbico, Bisexual y Transexual / @Movilh
  32. ↑ PROGRAMA DE MANO LESGAICINEMAD 2016
  33. ↑ Narrative Shorts: Drama 1 | STLFilmFest Nov. 3-13
  34. ↑ The program book PDF | Cinema St. Louis
  35. ↑ How To Be Alone - GAY FILM NIGHTS International Film Festival
  36. ↑ TRANSITION Shorts
  37. ↑ How to Be Alone (Short) - UK Jewish Film
  38. ↑ Mountain - UK Jewish Film
  39. ↑ 2016 festival - videodrunk
  40. ↑ How to be Alone | IMAGE+NATION
  41. ↑ lesbomundo 2 | IMAGE+NATION
  42. ↑ PROGRAMMA - OMOVIES 9|2016
  43. ↑ Block M - New Renaissance Film Festival
  44. ↑ Official Selection List-1: Indian World Film Festival-17
  45. ↑ Festival Schedule: Indian World Film Festival-17
  46. ↑ Get to know the short film: HOW TO BE ALONE, 22min, Israel, LGBT, Drama
  47. ↑ How To Be Alone - BSFF 2017 Official Selection
  48. ↑ בוםבפריים - LGBTQ Film Screening & Party
  49. ↑ "TLVFEST AWARDS 2016". TLVFEST. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  50. ↑ Anderman, Nirit (6 June 2016). ""איך להיות לבד" ו"לעולם לא תהיה לבד" בין זוכי פסטיבל הקולנוע הגאה בתל אביב". Haaretz.
  51. ↑ "הזוכים בפסטיבל הקולנוע הגאה" (in Hebrew). June 6, 2016. Archived from the original on March 28, 2017.
  52. ↑ פרסי פסטיבל הקולנוע הגאה ה-11 – כל הזוכים
  53. ↑ Result: 5th BSFF-16 - Bangalore Shorts Film Festival
  54. ↑ Result: 5th Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival-16
  55. ↑ Festival de Cinema de Girona - Awards
  56. ↑ ‘Destino', de la besaluenca Marta Juanola, guanya el Festival de Cine de Girona, El Punt Avui (2 October 2016).
  57. ↑ "Result Shorts Section: Indian World Film Festival-17". 6th Indian World Film Festival - 22. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  58. ↑ HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: June 2017 LGBT FEEDBACK Film Festival
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