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The true story of an Israeli Jewish woman who left the country after being forced, by tragic circumstances, to give her only daughter up for adoption, her child from a Muslim-Bedouin man. Driven by her guilt and low self-esteem, the heroin allows abuse by the men in her life and goes through her own "Via Delorosa".
Hagar comes to visit her father who lives in a nursing home in Jerusalem. Unable to deal with his condition she looks at him and turns away, but a series of incidents forces her to spend the day in the building. First a mishap which makes her change her clothes, then an old woman stuck with her wheelchair in the hallway and then the head nurse that thinks Hagar is a Russian caretaker. She gets swallowed up in the work and slowly becomes part of the staff. The short visit turns into a journey between the narrow corridors of society.
The Journey of Roy, a 17-year-old Israeli teenager, trying to win the affection of a girl from his class while they both travel in Poland with their school between Holocaust memorials and death camps.
Zalman Shoshi, born in Haifa to Holocaust survivors, grew up in a home marked by violence and trauma. As a teenager, Zalman ran away from home and survived by working as a sex worker. Later, Zalman reinvented himself as Shoshi, Israel's first transgender celebrity, who was both revered and feared. Their path also led to Berlin: a divided city where Holocaust survivors reopened bars, brothels, and peep shows, and where Israeli trans women found both refuge and danger.
During a family dinner, a young woman is forced to tell her parents about her new job—but she is not prepared for it at all...
Aya misses her last bus home and is stuck in Jerusalem for the weekend. Her plans of staying home, watching Master Chef and munching on dry Cornflakes change when she gets a surprising call from a fellow student, Itamar.
In her own domestic Garden of Eden, a young writer gets tangled up in an imaginary love triangle with her steady boyfriend and his younger famous brother, who is sleeping on their couch following a breakup.
Yair, returns home from military service in the West Bank. He invites Yaara to his family’s bourgeois Jerusalem home. They play piano and open a bottle of wine. What seems to start as peaceful weekend together, is interrupted by a story about an innocent family whose house he invaded on the previous evening.
In a fantastical world, where all good stories commence, a young girl is declared “The Chosen One” by the angels, destined to face challenges and confront monsters.
With immigration forces in pursuit, Mary, an illegal foreign worker living in Israel, must decide between uprooting her son from the only place he calls home or risk being deported.
A 35-year-old architect returns from America to his native home in Israel to visit his ageing parents. He watches as a young Russian woman fills the void he has left in his parents' life.
The story of Israel's "development towns" in a chilling documentary, as never told before: Testimonials and previously sealed transcripts reveal a method, an ideology and a cruel practice of law enforcement and decision makers behind the "population dispersal" policies in the first two decades of independence. The director's family, like others, was taken to Yeruham, a development town in the Negev desert. Their personal stories recount of the price immigrant-families pay and the price still paid by Israeli society, unwilling to deal head-on with those early years and forgotten towns.
Itzik Zaza is an amateur photographer who makes video portraits of random people he finds in the street and invite them to his place. Today's star is Tuti, a 16 year old street girl who dreams of being an actress. Itzik told her that she's going to be a star of a movie just about her, and she couldn't refuse. During the shooting Tuti doesn't understand what kind of a movie Itzik is making. She stands in his room, and he asks her to talk about herself. "It's like a picture with time" he tells her again and again. Slowly Itzik's questions become more and more invasive, and Tuti is starting to feel uncomfortable. She wants to leave, but Itzik is convincing her to stay while he shoots both of them. "You see, now I'm also in the movie" he tells her and ask if she wants to make a scene of the two of them.
Discovering casual sex in a cinema, a high-school student must reevaluate his own gay sexuality.
Clara, a polish born Jew, living in Tel Aviv of the 1970's, has her ideas about how people should behave, and runs everybody's life accordingly: her husband, her sisters, their husbands, their children, her brother who lives in London (probably because it was the only way to get away from her...). Whenever something "improper" does happen, Clara's way of handling it is simply to shove it under the carpet and ignore it completely, as if it never happened. 3 basic rules, are, of course: 1. Never marry some one "under" your class (Or the class you think you are). 2. Never become pregnant out of wedlock and 3. No Abortions. As one may expect, everything crumbles when her niece gives her no option, but to break at least one of those rules
A mockumentary film in which Bedouin girls are taught to swim in a waterless “pool”, Swimming Lesson aims to stimulate thought about the lack of swimming pools accessible to Bedouins in Israel, actually denying them swimming lessons and causing frequent cases of drowning in the sea. There are over 200,000 Arab-Bedouins living in the Negev region of Israel today, with access to one single swimming pool that was inaugurated in the Bedouin town of Rahat in 2017. Bedouins are not allowed to enter swimming pools in Jewish localities. The work deals with the lack of swimming pools due to discrimination, but in a future world, in a few years or a little more, there may be a shortage of water due to global warming, drought and evaporation as well.
She published her first book of poetry at the age of 53 and became a prominent figure in the field of Hebrew literature. Niece of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, living alone in Jerusalem, writing poems of pieces of paper, surrounded by a small court of lovers and admirers. Through never-seen berfore archival footage and meetigns with her loves and friends (Amos, Chava Alberstein), the film gently sketches a portrait of the first religious female poet.
Their first date unfolds in his imagination. He'll show her into the bowling alley. Tie the laces of her special bowling shoes. His eyes will guide her as she rolls the ball down the lane. But life disrupts his fantasies.
Struggling with personal and family problems, an Israeli customs officer ends up taking extreme actions.
Composed of two short films. The first one "Spring" is about a young couple falling in love. Almost dialogue free and shot in an experimental style. The second film "Fall" is a more traditional comedic love story between a lonely old Jewish-German lady and a lonely old Iraqi Falafel seller.
A lockdown is about to go into effect in a few hours, and nothing scares Niva more than being alone. When she embarks on a search for someone to stay with, the encounters with different people in her life will lead her to an unpredictable choice.
Tal finds the mobile phone of her older sister who died 6 months ago. She starts dialing the last numbers on the phone's memory, trying to piece together moments from her sister's last day. When she reaches a man who is sure he's speaking to her sister, she finds herself sinking deeper than expected.
In a not too far dystopian future, a couple is trying to obtain a foreign passport in order to leave Israel. It turns out that the price of emigrating will force them to make dramatic choices.
A Tel Aviv municipality has founded an elementary school in its southern region. It will have pupils from all walks of life - including refugee children.
An Israeli indie short that delves into themes of acceptance, love, and the complexities of relationships. It tells the heartfelt story of a quirky lesbian mom who discovers a love letter written by her 11-year-old son to another boy.
After Franz Kafka's passing, he left behind a trove of unpublished manuscripts with explicit instructions for his close friend Max Brod to destroy them. Despite Kafka's wishes, Brod chose to preserve and publish the works, introducing the world to one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. This act of benevolent betrayal set forth a multi-generational saga that spans a century and ends with a real-life Kafkaesque trial.
You’re a young and independent woman, you don’t need to be afraid walking out by yourself at night, but when you hear unknown footsteps behind you getting nearer – what would you do?
Ema and Gregori come from Ukraine. They were very excited about immigrating to Israel. New country, new opportunities. They cross paths with a wealthy ageing middle-class Israeli couple whose relationship is in crisis.
Attempting to look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a new perspective, documentarian and artist Udi Aloni returns to his native Israel to speak with scholars, activists and politicians on both sides. At the center of his investigation is the Temple Mount, a Jerusalem holy site sacred to both Jews and Arabs. Strongly influenced by the views of his activist mother, Shulamit Aloni, Udi argues for the creation of one state that accommodates both Palestinians and Israelis.
Wadi is a valley located east of Haifa. A former stone quarry, it is a sort of enclave where Eastern European immigrants, survivors of the camps, live in a state of fragile coexistence with Arabs who have also been expelled from their homes.
After Ivan lost a lot of money to the criminal boss Franco he must work for him. First task is to guard the apartment where young girl Nika from Ukraine is forced to work as a prostitute.
A film by Shalhin Productions – Children’s Educational Cinema, which follows a group of primary school children in the city of Rishon LeZion (outside Tel Aviv) during a student council election campaign. Guy, Batia, and Amir are all running for Student Council Leader, whilst simultaneously having to deal with the usual challenges, fears, and disappointments in and outside of school. Meanwhile, a professional gang of burglars and robbers goes on a crime spree that sends shockwaves through the lives of students, teachers, and parents alike. The children’s, parents’ and teachers’ storylines all intersect against the backdrop of a school gym break-in and the vandalising of the basketball court. When the children’s and criminals’ paths cross, a major fallout ensues which brings the various characters together.
Experimental docu-animation that examines Jerusalem's material and spiritual entity, divided between tangible and virtual realities.
At the age of 88, Geizi Tsafrir reflects on his early days in the SHABAK (The Israeli Security Agency) and his involvement in a targeted assassination operation carried out by Israel in the 1950’s Gaza Strip. He discovers that the target’s daughter, Nonie Darwish now lives in Los Angeles and decides to write to her without telling her about his role in the case. Thus begins Geizi’s reexamination of the first targeted assassination that Israel conducted. As he reunites with his partners in the operation, he uncovers new and unsettling information and decides to take action – to reveal to Nonie all he knows about her father's death, hoping it will ease his troubled conscience.
A young drag queen named Ramona Star has big dreams: to become a great and famous drag queen and to make the world a more tolerant place. A decade after making aliya from brazil, Ramon hopes that he can finally be himself without fear.
How former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert unexpectedly rose to power and how he dramatically fell from grace: from the most powerful position in the country to prison.
Itzik is a producer who pretends to produce Efrat an unforgettable night. She has different plans.
A cinematic journey into the world of Yona Wallach, an Israeli poet, whose radical life and poetry ended with her death at an early age, leaving behind a myth and a trail of admirers. More than 25 years after her death, seven recorded tapes from her last interview, which were made with Helit Yeshurun, are discovered. In these tapes, Wallach confesses to her attraction to madness, her experiments with drugs, her relationship with god and about the dangers of writing. The film weaves her testimony with interviews, with rare archival footage, with her poems and with animation that revives Wallach's thoughts, images and visions.
Yair Lev dealing with his relationship with his father, a survivor from Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps.
Adi wakes up to find that his girlfriend, Rona, has turned into an oversized bug overnight.
After two months of reserve duty in Gaza, Michael returns to Tel Aviv and immediately heads out to a party. A chance encounter with Alon stirs up conflicting emotions and reveals a trauma he didn't know existed.
Follow Netta: Queen of Eurovision through her celebrations after victory.
Aya is a trans girl who is frustrated by her love life and experiences with men. An accidental encounter with a man from her distant past causes her to reconnect with her identity.
Mrs. Lea Gottlieb is the legendary designer, founder and owner of the Gottex swimwear empire. The film follows her complex relationships with her two daughters, and her unbridled passion, for which she paid a heavy price.
An affecting 'talking heads' documentary which traces the stories of four Israelis: Yehuda Poliker and Ya'acov Gilad, two rock musicians bound together not only by their music, but also by their common experience as the offspring of survivors of the Nazi extermination camps; and those survivors themselves - Yehuda's father Jacko (from Salonika, taken to Treblinka), and Yaakov's mother Halina (from Warsaw, taken to Auschwitz as a teenager).
Journey to the Star The album of Yuval the Confused. A variety of songs by Yuval the Confused, join ... Journey to the Star. Don't forget to rejoice. A wish. Mother, I love you. And love your neighbor as yourself ...
A family of Iraqi-Israelis, each with his or her own weaknesses and determination, gathers for an Independence Day picnic. Their background stories are presented, reaching back as little as a few days or as far back as the War of Independence and the old country before that, and interlocking in ways that even they never realize.
Avinoam and Barak, father and son from a Kibbutz bordering the Gaza strip, are forced to deal with another round of rockets and combat, each in their own way. One night, Barak reaches a boiling point and Avinoam is forced to absorb the heat.
The child stars of Hope! Celebrating the birthday of Israel and especially with the songs of Yoram Gaon
"Fabric Stories", discovered in the Channel 1 archive, provides a snapshot of Israeli fashion — but more than that, it reveals the formative struggles of one of the most important filmmakers to emerge in Israeli cinema. Produced in 1978, five years before Gutman directed his first narrative feature, Drifting, the film appears at first glance to be a documentary about the Israeli fashion scene in the late 1970s. In reality, it is a work that uses the world of fashion as a kind of cinematic language, shifting styles from one scene to the next. This is not a conventional documentary where people speak alongside fashion show clips, but an almost surreal journey into what Gutman himself perceived as fashion. The film’s unique style irritated Channel 1 executives and TV critics, and after a single broadcast, it was shelved. In 2010, thanks to the efforts of Itay Yaakov, the film was rediscovered and restored.
Eric smokes a cigarette and suddenly his father confiscates it. But when Eric returns to school he catches his father smoking. Will the disbelief between them get solved?
Itamar, a chubby and depressed young man, moves back to live with his eccentric mother after suffering a mental breakdown. Old tensions about his sexual orientation arise after he meets Ronen, a handsome lifeguard who leads him to confront his body image issues.
In a bland, utilitarian world of order, one worker finds his inner jazz
Timmy is a look-out in the military. As a diversion from her tiring frame work, she creates an imaginative, childish world, which sets her apart in a mundane routine. When she has to deal with the real military world for the first time, her own world is shattered and undermined.
A filmmaker arrives at a remote farm in northern Canada, where an old school bus conceals a massive rock believed to be a priceless meteorite. The search for truth blurs the line between fact and fiction.