If It Ain't Broke (Ma Shelo Nishbar)
2021 · 24m · Israel
Directed by Elinor Nechemya
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Two young women — Alona and Hagar — drift through the streets of Haifa on a winter's day: one fleeing her present life, the other avoiding her future. The film is a quiet study of their meandering friendship.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Nothing happens and that's the whole point — two women wander Haifa for 24 minutes and the film dares you to look away.
Semaine de la Critique selection in the Akerman-Hong Sang-soo tradition where stillness IS event — a 24-minute friendship film that refuses incident and builds entirely from glances and proximity. Demanding, real.
A Cannes Critics' Week selection that builds its 25 minutes from glances and proximity instead of plot — Haifa as weather, friendship as drift. The refusal of incident is the whole point and I'm here for it.
Festivals
- Cannes Film Festival – Semaine de la Critique 2021