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Carmel (17) is asked to convey a message of reconciliation from his best friend Ido's recent ex-girlfriend. When he finds Ido heartbroken and in need of comfort, he clings to the last moments of closeness.
A brother and sister return to the Kibbutz where they grew up in order to bury their aunt - the last remaining member of the family in the Kibbutz. At the end of the poor funeral, they set to blackmail the Kibbutz's secretary, a closeted gay man, in attempt to receive money that was allegedly taken from their family by the Kibbutz.
Rinat, Guy, and friends sing the songs of Uzi Hitman
A short film following six episodes in the life and love of a young woman.
In a Jewish Orthodox village in Israel, Tamar, a twelve-year-old girl, prepares for her Bat-Mitzvah (confirmation), which will take place on Passover. Becoming convinced that she is impure, and growing increasingly scared and depressed, she forces herself into an endless ritual of cleaning, while attempting to silence the whispering inner obsessional thoughts that are detailing every inch of her relentless guilt, over and over again. To make matters worse, Tamar's only friend, Rachel, lures her into sinful mischief: peeping into the Mikveh (bath house), turning a light on during the Sabbath. The girls even dare to secretly bathe at the Mikveh when Tamar gets her first period. Will Tamar succumb to her fears? A dark and unflinching portrayal of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and the inner turmoil of an adolescent girl.
More than 400 frames, all drawn and painted by hand. Animation project, Wizo Academy, Israel.
A journey from the harbor town of Yaffa to the Jaffa orange, a fruit through which the Israeli filmmaker examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Shosho, who is secular, and Naama, who is religious, got divorced 2 years ago. Their four-year-old daughter has become dependent on her pacifier, and Shosho and Naama are trying to wean her off it. But Naama understands dependence. She cannot wean herself from the old dream of life with Shosho.
The biblical Samaritan community is fighting for its life and to save its language and faith from extinction.
A trilogy of gay rage and resistance consisting of "Boardwalk", "Playground" and "Home".
Yael and Melissa met 7 year ago, while working as strippers in Japan. Yael an, Israeli photographer, filmed their blooming friendship. During the filming Melissa reviled the story of her abusive father, the story of her 3 abounded kids, and mostly her feeling of being lost in the world. In 2009 after meeting the film director Limor Pinhasov, they decided to travel to the USA and see how Melissa is doing today. Yael became a respected artist she married and seems to be well. In the USA we found Mellissa struggling one day at the time. The heart of this film is the powerful reunion of two courageous, sincere women.
Nava, Miki, and Ilan live together while running Tmuna Theater. The film portrays an alternative family that built an alternative theater, navigating between institutional recognition and an ongoing struggle for survival.
Fantasia on Yemenite themes.
Eyal and Shani are close friends who wish to get closer, but their incapability to act on it leads them to a crazy adventure.
Gila Goldstein (1947-2017) was an actress, artist, and singer. She was one of the first Israeli transgender activists and also fed stray cats. “Gila Goldstein, Cat Lady” was shot in 1997 during research on the Tel Aviv cat-feeding community. Gila agreed to participate in the film as long as the focus stayed on the cats. But then her friend Ronit Maimon showed up, and the conversation went in a much more colorful direction. The film gives us a glimpse of the Israeli trans community and the lives of these two brave and unique women.
Have you noticed in life that only strong and smart people can laugh at themselves. This means there is hope - we will survive. In the last century, the idols of our fatherland were poets. There were questions of honor, and in our time: sorcerers, psychics, hypnotists and we, satirists. God willing, this time will end someday in Rus', the times of poets will come again. The only thing that’s a pity is that we won’t live to see this time with you. One thing is required of us: thinking. The rest must be completed by our descendants. Well, since we will not live to see this time, remember - a song helps us build and live, and humor helps us survive. If you laugh like you do today, you can live a long, long time. In our country there is enough stupidity for a long, joyful, wonderful life. Well, that's all for you AAAAAA.
"I was born in one childless peasant family... A cricket is a bit of a man, a bit of an insect." A heroic tale about a trickster from the point of view of ordinary people, with their everyday reaction to otherness, to a miracle... from rejection and annoyance, to love and spiritual transformation. This is the world of family chronicles. Therefore, all the pathetic events that occur with the main character from the moment he leaves his parents' house until his unusual return remain behind the scenes, and in the meantime, we are watching the family...
Orit Ziv and her "Pink Lionesses", a unique women sports group, consisting of breast cancer survivors, that paddle on Dragon Boats, on the Sea of Galilee in Northern Israel. Their common goal is to recover, recuperate and combat their cancer. They have chosen optimism, action, caring for themselves despite the intense difficulties and fear they must rise from. "Getting up in the morning and going to practice, knowing that the disease was a surprise in the first round, I'm responsible for trying to make sure it does not return ..." About 200 women, between the ages of 29-79, from all walks of life, background and religions, are Pink Lionesses.
In this animated short, Layla has always been made to keep her long unruly hair tied up and out of the way. As she reflects on her life, she realizes that she can no longer keep up the charade of her conformity.
Iris Zaki embarks on an intimate journey with her father through the extraordinary story of her legendary grandmother, the Egyptian singer Souad Zaki. A cinematic project that spans generations and continents, unpacking the complex relationship of Jewish/Arab identity and culture.
Amit and Noa are life partners in their 30s. While in the hospital after the birth of their first daughter, the women finally tell the truth to each other.
A crazy journey into the night.
The story of a private eye named Sammy Molco who discovers his wife has a female lover, showing the struggles and attempts he experiences in order to keep her by his side.
A journalist decides to investigate the murder of his close friend, a playwright who had written a satirical political cabaret show that managed to anger several militant factions. The police detective in charge of the investigation is trying to cover the whole thing up under the guise of a robbery gone wrong; however, the journalist’s independent investigation leads him to a hard right underground organisation.
A Bedouin woman hides an Israeli pilot from Egyptian soldiers. While the Egyptian soldiers torture her to get information, the Israeli soldiers rescue her.
In the spring of 2022, an international tourist group will make a day trip to Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank to visit religious sites. But something is wrong here - the whole city is on strike. The two tour guides, one Israeli, the other Palestinian, do not want to comment on the matter. A murmur goes around about an incident the day before…
On a cold night, a man entered the pen he owned and shot himself. During the commotion, three goats escaped the pen. That morning, Sabina Stein leaves the government office to the field, and together with Alik, an office clerk, they are required to find the three goats that went rogue.
A single father who shares an apartment with his mother, older brother, and daughter. His challenge is to let go of his daughter in order to protect her from the same destiny.
Saturday morning, Eden Yerushalmi and her best friend, Arbel, are dancing at the Nova Festival. Hours later, Eden is taken to Gaza while her sisters listen helplessly on the phone. What begins as a desperate hope for her return, becomes a journey through uncertainty, public struggle, and devastating loss. Through intimate access to Eden’s mother, sisters, and her best friend Arbel, Find Me, Okay?, follows the fight to bring Eden Yerushalmi home, the moment hope collapses, and the painful attempt to rebuild life afterward. A two-year portrait of love, grief, resilience, and the impossible task of moving forward after trauma.
On the life of the beloved poet David Avidan, his relatives and friends reflect on his challenging personality and the events that changed the man they once knew. A film by Yehuda Kaveh.
Gur and Gaia live in a small house. The relationship takes a turn when they discover that their house is slated for demolition. As doomsday approaches, the ground begins to crumble under their feet, exposes fractures in their relationship.
Rachel is a homicide investigator and a single mother to 16-year-old Sofia. Sofia is a raging teenager who will not rest until she gets an answer about her father's identity. The life of the two are about to change forever when a family secret is revealed.
September, and an Israeli couple moves into a building located above a supermarket in the Meguro district of Tokyo. The apartment window overlooks a temple adjacent to a funeral home and a busy intersection. It’s raining and hot, and the air conditioner in apartment 905 can not beat the humidity, so this couple goes down and starts walking. And so every morning for the next three months, the two of them go down the elevator of the building, out into the street, and walk in ever-widening circles, talking and watching, and sometimes he takes out a small pocket camera, directing…
An activist couple finds a temporary shelter in a decaying flat at the verge of the city after taking part in an anarchist action. He's obsessively trying to make the place a safe haven while she longs back to the riots. The film was made after the Tel-Aviv riots for social justice and it shows the conflict between the will to fight for change and the need in a more quiet and bourgeois life. The conflict is represented by the two characters and by the tension between the shut interior and the chaotic urban exterior.
Manya, newly repatriated from Russia in accordance with the Israeli Law of Return, meets Erez, a native-born Israeli Jew. She soon learns that to be with Erez she must undergo an Orthodox conversion (known as Giyur), even though she and her family already identify as Jewish. The film follows her as she reevaluates her love and redefines her Jewish identity.
In 2007, the human rights organisation B’tselem launched a project consisting of providing video cameras and training to Palestinian volunteers in the West Bank to document their lives under Israeli occupation. Made up of many short films, Of Land and Bread is a film of painful eloquence.
The life of a dog, trained to act as human, changes when a pack of Hounds gathers around his house.
Amit finds out that Noam is going to a different junior high than they'd agree on. Amit wonders if he could win back his secret crush and for once dance with someone he loves.
A day before his wedding, Shai visits Tamar, his ex-girlfriend, for a tempestuous encounter prior to becoming established. Tamar leaves him a hickey, entangling the situation.
In Israeli director Gil Alkabetz's playful study in contrasts, a white bird and a black monster compete for common territory, but, as they soon find out, it's a zero-sum game.
At the edge of a silent religious town, Avigail tiptoes between duty and desire. Days before her arranged marriage, she spends her nights in the echoing synagogue halls, sweeping dust beside Hodaya, a girl whose gaze lingers too long. In the glow of candlelight and quiet prayers, a forbidden intimacy blooms.
The work is an extension of the director’s earlier film Mary Nightmares from 2007.
In a story reminiscent of the Biblical tale “The Binding of Isaac”, taking place in 1988 Kyiv, 8-year-old Max must make a fateful decision as his family prepares to immigrate to Israel.
IT ALL BEGINS AT SEA is a drama with a few comic relieves, that tells 3 stories of the same 3 characters. In the first story, a 6 years old, goes to the beach with his parents. In the second story he is already 12 and out with his classmates on a fieldtrip, and in the last story he is 14 and moves with his family to a new apartment. In each story, a dramatic incident makes a change in the plot. .
A short documentary, produced by the Israeli Film Service about the laying of the Trans Israel Pipeline. The film was produced under the auspices of the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company and TAHAL. After 18 months of work, one of the most important engineering projects in the history of Israel comes to a close: the laying of a 254 kilometer long pipeline between the Port of Eilat and the oil port in Ashkelon. The purpose: creating a landbridge to transport oil from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean – independently of the Suez Canal. This film follows the complex undertaking, which took place both in the desert and at sea.
A chaotic, hilarious, and satirical story about chess, men, women, and... dolphins. Or perhaps, people who identify as helicopters. This is the tale of Ariel Kako, who discovers that his girlfriend of two years (or three years and three months, depending on who's counting) is cheating on him with his best friend and the reigning chess champion: Ariel Chacha.
A popular radio show helps Nissim to win his girlfriend's heart again.
One day, Chanael leaves Maccabit, leaving her devastated and hurt, with their little curly twins. The problem is that Chanael and Maccabit don't really separate, they see each other every day at the girls' boarding school where they work, he as a janitor and she as a counselor. The trouble begins when Maccabit discovers that Chanael is dating one of the workers in the school, and in response, she starts going on matchmaking dates. Now Maccabit's new life is driving Chanael crazy. The little couple drama quickly shakes the entire teachers' room, which was not particularly stable to begin with.
Israeli musical adaptation of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves