'Oxygen' was the best Israeli movie of 2025, a targeted torpedo about the value of human life

Oron Shamir

Jan 1, 2026

It's rare for filmmakers to release two films in the same year, and even rarer for both to be excellent. Netalie Braun demonstrated how to do it right in 2025. Her documentary "Shooting," which won the Jury Award at Docaviv – the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival – is a masterful work of documentary cinema that deconstructs the myth of heroism as reflected in Israeli film and television.

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'Oxygen' was the best Israeli movie of 2025, a targeted torpedo about the value of human life

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