Eli (Michael Moshonov) is a former champion swimmer from Israel now giving swimming lessons in Chicago. When he learns his estranged father has died, he dutifully returns to Tel Aviv to sort out his father’s affairs. There he reconnects with his childhood friend and former swimming partner Yotam (Ofri Biterman) who lives with his Ethiopian fiancée Iris (Oshrat Ingadashet). There is a palpable attraction between the two men, an attraction they are loathe to discuss in this lyrical and understated love triangle. Ingedashet’s performance won her the Best Actress award at the Jerusalem Film Festival.

Braids blunt melodramatic storytelling with a softer, more searching look at conflicted identity, both cultural and sexual. If the film isn’t always narratively credible, it’s sincerely felt to the last. - Guy Lodge , Variety

A delicate, sensitive, and anguished melodrama where there are no heroes or villains, just flawed people searching for intimacy and fumbling their way through life's tribulations. Director Ofir Raul Graizer is the real deal. - Andrew Wyatt, The Take Up

It’s not a movie that is easy to categorize and just when you think you have figured out where it’s going, Graizer steers his characters in a different direction.-Hannah Brown, Jerusalem Post