TrailerA film by Cindy Gzaiel
Produced by Indy Eye Prod.
(99 min - France 2023)
Produced by Indy Eye Prod.
(99 min - France 2023)
Shot a few years before the October 7 attacks in Israel, the film delves into the heart of the youth movement targeted at a desert rave party in 2023.
At the age of 20, in 2018, French director Cindy Gzaiel embarks on a journey to the Golan Heights, the no-man's land between Lebanon, Syria and Israel. During this time, she becomes a war reporter and meets a pacifist generation of young Middle Easterners who seek solace in rave parties. Between recklessness and violence, war and dreams of peace, these young people suffer from a generational anxiety. They are escaping the trauma of war. Cindy is fleeing something else: the trauma of rape. Together they create their own therapy through dance, trance and intense living, as if every day were their last.
Over the course of five years, the young filmmaker meticulously documented her life experiences, resulting in this incredible cinematic odyssey and seismograph of life.
“ TRANCE THERAPY IS THE ROAD-MOVIE OF MY YOUTH, FILMED LIVE FROM
THE AGE OF 20 TO 25.
THE STAKES: THE FILM OF MY LIFE - NO FILTERS, NO EDITS. „
It is a travel diary filmed by an anonymous narrator who is only revealed at the end of the film. „
“ Shot day by day over 4 years, Trance Therapy is a feature film which captures my crazy road- trip through Israel in 2016 at the age of 20, and which ends in the semi-apocalyptic setting of Paris hit by the pandemic in 2020.
It is a travel diary filmed by an anonymous narrator who is only revealed at the end of the film. „
THE DIRECTOR
Cindy Gzaiel studied filmmaking at the New York Film Academy and the ESRA in Paris. She has directed three short films, including Le Syndrome du Plongeur, which won the Best Director and Best Cinematography awards at London's GNIFF. She has also worked as a war reporter on the Israeli border with Lebanon and Syria. At the age of 20, on the frontier of these different worlds, Cindy began filming and producing Trance Therapy, her first feature-length film. Trance Therapy was shot over the course of 5 years. The film was selected for the Miami Jewish Film Festival (Official Selection 2024). Today, she's writing a new original series : "Jnoun", which is currently in development.
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