| How to Be Alone | |
| Native Name: | Eich Lihiyot Levad |
| Director: | Erez Eisenstein |
| Producer: | Erez Eisenstein |
| Narrator: | Rami Baruch |
| Music: | Ariel Guez |
| Cinematography: | Gleb Volkov |
| Editing: | Oz Mikulsky |
| Runtime: | 22 minutes |
| Country: | Israel |
| Language: | Hebrew |
How to Be Alone (Hebrew: איך להיות לבד|'''Eich Lihiyot Levad''') is a 2016 short Israeli student film, produced and directed by Erez Eisenstein. The script is an adaptation of a short story of the same name by Orna Coussin, first published in 2006.[1]
The world premiere of the film took place in Palace of Culture and Science, on 16 April 2016, as part of Poland's LGBT Film Festival.
A brokenhearted lesbian woman (Nili Tserruya) grapples with her lonely existence as a singleton. She decides to walk on a different path than the majority. Tired by the constant struggle to fit in a perfectly happy society, she chooses to explore herself and teach herself how to embrace solitude and transgress the mundane world.
| Festivals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event name | Date(s) | Location(s) | Ref. | |
| 1 | 7th LGBT Film Festival 2016 | 16 April 2016 |  Warsaw, Łódź, Gdańsk, Poznań and Katowice | [2] |
| 2 | QFest | 27 April 2016 |  St. Louis | [3] |
| 3 | 31st Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival | 8 May 2016 |  Turin | [4] |
| 4 | OutlantaCon | May 2016 | [5] | |
| 5 | 8th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival | 27 May 2016 |  Mumbai | [6] [7] |
| 6 | TLVFest #11 the 11th Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival | 30 May 2016 |  Tel Aviv | [8] |
| 7 | Sun & Sand - The Mississippi Film & Music Festival | June 2016 | Biloxi | [9] |
| 8 | 5th Bangalore Shorts Film Festival 2016 | 12 June 2016 | Bangalore | [10] [11] |
| 9 | 13th OutfestPeru 2016 | 27 June 2016 |  Lima | [12] |
| 10 | Montefeltro Film School Festival | 19 July 2016 | Pennabilli | [13] |
| 11 | Macon Film Festival | 23 July 2016 | Macon | [14] [15] [16] |
| 12 | 5th Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival 2016 | 24 July 2016 | Kolkata | [17] [18] |
| 13 | The 6th Annual Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival | 27 August 2016 |  Durban | [19] |
| 14 | The Atlanta LGBT Film & Music Festival | August 2016 | Atlanta | [20] |
| 15 | Verona International Film Festival | September 2016 | Venice | [21] |
| 16 | Great Lakes International Film Festival | September 2016 | Erie | [22] |
| 17 | 18th Thessaloniki International LGBTIQ Film Festival | 24 September 2016 |  Thessaloniki | [23] |
| 18 | 29th Girona Film Festival | 29 September 2016 |  Girona | [24] [25] |
| 19 | 10th Iris Prize | 15 October 2016 | Cardiff | [26] |
| 20 | The Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival | 22 October 2016 | Barcelona | [27] [28] |
| 21 | Perlen - Queer Film Festival Hannover | 22 October 2016 |  Hanover | [29] |
| 22 | Festival de Cine Lesbico, Gay Bi Trans | 29 October 2016 |  Santiago | [30] |
| 23 | 4 November 2016 | Madrid | [31] | |
| 24 | St. Louis International Film Festival | 6 November 2016 | St. Louis | [32] [33] |
| 25 | 14 November 2016 |  Cluj-Napoca | [34] | |
| 26 | TRANSITION International Queer Minorities Film Festival | 15 November 2016 |  Vienna | [35] |
| 27 | 19 November 2016 | London | [36] [37] | |
| 28 | Videodrunk | 2 December 2016 |  Toronto | [38] |
| 29 | IMAGE+NATION Montreal lesbian gay bi trans film festival | 3 December 2016 | Montreal | [39] [40] |
| 30 | 9th OMOVIES - Lesbian Gay Transgender and Questioning Film Festival | 15 December 2016 | Naples | [41] |
| 31 | New Renaissance Film Festival | 5 March 2017 |  Amsterdam | [42] |
| 32 | Indian World Film Festival 2017 | 19 March 2017 | Hyderabad | [43] [44] |
| 33 | LGBT Toronto Film Festival | 27 June 2017 | Toronto | [45] |
| 34 | Berlin Student Film Festival | 25 January 2017 | Berlin | [46] |
| 35 | Hyperfest - International Student Film Festival | 28 October 2017 | Bucharest | |
| 36 | LGBTQ Film Screening & Party (boombaframe) | 12 June 2019 | Tel Aviv | [47] |
| Year | Event | Category | Recipient(s) / Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | OutlantaCon | Best Student Film | How To Be Alone | ||
| Best Director | Erez Eisenstein | ||||
| Best Cinematography | How To Be Alone | ||||
| Best Performance | Nili Tserruya | ||||
| 2016 | TLVFest | Best Israeli Short Film | How To Be Alone Erez Eisenstein | [48] [49] [50] [51] | |
| 2016 | Bangalore Shorts Film Festival | Best Cinematography | How To Be Alone Gleb Volkov (DOP) Erez Eisenstein (producer) | [52] | |
| 2016 | Macon Film Festival | Best of 'LGBT' Category | How To Be Alone Erez Eisenstein (director) | ||
| 2016 | Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival | Best Director (Student) | Erez Eisenstein | [53] | |
| 2016 | Girona Film Festival | Best Jewish Film | How To Be Alone | [54] [55] | |
| 2017 | Indian World Film Festival | Best Film (Student) | How To Be Alone | [56] | |
| 2017 | LGBT Toronto Film Festival | Best Performances | How To Be Alone | [57] | |