A chance encounter leads Aya to pick up a stranger at the airport—stirring an unexpected intimacy that unsettles her carefully ordered life and awakening a longing she neither fully understands nor knows how to fulfill. Nominated for 12 Israeli Academy Awards, DEAD LANGUAGE is a tender and quietly arresting romantic portrait of yearning, connection, and the fragile spaces between hope and desire. At the film’s center is Sarah Adler, whose luminous performance as Aya allows us to inhabit her inner life with rare immediacy as she searches for something meaningful beyond the familiar. With profound emotional clarity, DEAD LANGUAGE emerges as a stirring meditation on intimacy, chance, and the ache of longing.

Official Selection: Toronto International Film Festival, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, Miami Jewish Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival