Don't miss the third and final screening of the 3rd Annual Syracuse Jewish Film Festival!

Tel Aviv's iconic restaurant "Orna and Ella" closes after twenty-six years. Director Tomer Heymann captures its final week and the complex friendship of Orna and Ella, two groundbreaking women who shaped the city's culinary landscape.

Film: Orna and Ella
Director: Tomer Heymann
Cast: Orna Agmon, Ella Shein
Run Time: 56 min

Twenty-six years after the iconic “Orna and Ella” restaurant opened in Tel Aviv, having become a celebrated culinary institution, Orna Agmon and Ella Shein decided to close their shared life’s work. During the restaurant’s final week, director Tomer Heymann, who worked there for six years, documents the intense dynamics of the last days. Farewells to customers, recipes, and staff spark intimate and once-in-a-lifetime conversations. The film reveals the complex relationship between these two groundbreaking women through a spectrum of powerful emotions: love, dependence, conflicting desires, and fears. It boldly raises questions about self-fulfillment, the cost of freedom, and nostalgia for an era that will never return.

Watch the Trailer Here!