LOGLINE
An intimate portrait of filmmaker Michal Bat-Adam struggling to keep creating in an industry that no longer makes room for her.

SYNOPSIS
I follow Michal Bat-Adam as she fights to make a new film while caring for her partner, director Moshe Mizrahi, and confronting aging, love, artistic erasure, and the cost of persistence.

AWARDS

• Israeli Academy (Ophir) Award for Best Documentary (Mid-Length) — 2017

• Jury Award, DocAviv International Film Festival — 2017

• First Award, Master of Art International Film Festival, Sofia — 2018

FESTIVALS (selected)

• DocAviv International Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel — 2017

• Syracuse International Film Festival, USA — 2017 (Opening Film)

• Los Angeles Israeli Film Festival, USA — 2017

• Master of Art International Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria — 2018

• Filmmor International Women’s Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey — 2018

• Chiayi Art Documentary Film Festival, Taiwan — 2018

• Shanghai TV International Festival, China — 2019

• Screening at the Consulate of Israel in Boston, USA — March 2021

The film was broadcast on Channel 8 (Israel).

DIRECTORS STATEMENT:
'Hope I’m in the Frame' is a portrait of artistic persistence in the face of erasure. Through filmmaker Michal Bat-Adam, the film examines what it means to continue creating when recognition fades and institutional support recedes. It is less a biography than an act of refusal—refusing disappearance, silence, and the narrowing of cultural memory.

CAST & CREW

• Director / Producer / Cinematography: Netalie Braun

• Editor: Gideon Latzman

• Music: Asher Goldschmidt

• Featuring: Michal Bat-Adam, Moshe Mizrahi

REVIEWS

• Nirit Anderman, Haaretz — praised the film’s intimacy and its quiet but political insistence on artistic presence.

SUPPORTED BY:

• New Fund for Cinema and Television (NFCT)

• Israel Film Council