Documentary film “Noga,” which screened last week at the Jerusalem Film Festival, answers many of the questions fans may have had about Noga Erez and her partner in music and life, Ori Rousso, who perform together under Erez’s name.

The 95-minute film shares so much about Erez and Rousso — from their songwriting process and performances to the painful bumps in their 11-year relationship, including the last three years of war and national trauma — that following the screening, the duo asked the audience to help even the score.

“Now that you know all the intimate details and more about our life, we would be happy if everyone tells something about themselves,” they joked onstage after the film’s conclusion.

The film premiered in mid-June at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and was featured again at the Munich International Film Festival.

Austrian filmmakers and brothers Jono and Benji Bergmann, who began filming the couple five years ago, show intimate, revealing conversations between Erez and Rousso about their relationship, including their decision-making process about having a child (their daughter is now a toddler).

The Bergmanns noted on Friday that this was their first film made in real time, and the focus of “Noga” shifted over the five years it was made, particularly after the bloody October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion, in which some 1,200 people in southern Israel were killed and 251 taken hostage.

The documentary shows the duo’s emerging stardom before October 7, as they were praised by Billie Eilish, collaborated with Missy Elliot, opened for Florence ........

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