Avi Nesher's Our Loves Takes Off in Israel and Heads to US Cinemas
Avi Nesher's film Our Loves has taken off at the Israeli box office, and it now has a US distributor. Deadline reported the film on 10 November 2026 as part of its Global Breakouts strand, a fortnightly series spotlighting TV shows and films that are finding wide audiences in their home countries.
Gersh is the US distributor taking the film out in America. A distributor is the company that books a film into cinemas and sells it to the public. Other Angle Pictures handles international distribution, selling the film to buyers in markets outside Israel and the US.
The film is set in Israel on 6 and 7 October 2023. It was produced by United King Films, Sipur Studios, Fox Entertainment Studios, Access Entertainment, Moriah Media and Artomas Communications. It stars Hadas Yaron, Evelin Hagoel and Noa Cohen.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation. Toronto is one of the big festivals where sales agents and buyers meet, and where films often find their first deals. Deadline reports that several people who were at the Nova Music Festival on 7 October worked on the film.
Nesher has said the film is not an "October 7 movie". He describes it instead as a story about ordinary people facing adversity. According to Deadline, every character is based on a real person, and their names have been changed.
Nesher is best known outside Israel for Doppelganger, the 2003 comedy thriller starring Drew Barrymore. His Israeli films include Rage and Glory and Image of Victory.
Deadline also reports that Nesher and his wife lost their teenage son in a hit-and-run. The family's loss sits behind the making of this film, and it is part of why Nesher says he wanted to tell stories about everyday people.
No US release date or box-office total for the film has been reported yet. Further figures would come from the distributors and the Israeli box-office tallies.
