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Rushing from work to his parents' home, Omri is pulled into a family intervention when his mother denies stealing the neighbors' Bimba (tricycle), sending the family on a nighttime trip to the ER where he first faces her mental illness.
After 20 years of being a science teacher, Michael falls in love with Noa, his past student and current neighbor, who is in love with the married charismatic internet celebrity that spreads conspiracy theories online with great success, specifically the Flat Earth theory. After meeting the ghost of Galileo, Michael takes Noa on a journey to the end of the world(the edge) to prove the world is round.
During a family trip to the beach, 5-year-old Ido, feeling overlooked and restless, discovers an enchanting friend when his shadow unexpectedly springs to life.
Or, a photography student, struggles to find inspiration due to his obsession with a mysterious girl.
Zvi Elpeleg, the director's grandfather, was a military governor of the Arab citizens of Israel after the establishment of the State. The positive image Zvi presented slowly crumbles when the director reveals his true actions as a ruler in both his military and family life. As she uncovers a family secret, the personal and political merge, reflecting on one another. The film investigates the subject of control and draws a portrait of a country that has, and still is, constantly and obsessively, since its inception, dealing with controlling populations.
For his audio-visual recordings of both Das Lied von der Erde and the songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Leonard Bernstein turned to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, an ensemble with which he had a decades-long relationship. For this live recording made at the Frederick Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv of Mahler’s 1908 work – a part symphony, part song cycle setting fin-de-siècle German translations of Chinese poetry – the conductor is joined with two of the greatest singers of the time: tenor René Kollo and mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig, who features in the final song of the work, “Der Abschied” – a heartbreaking farewell that lasts as long as all five other movements put together.
Can intimacy exhaustion in a monogamous marriage be avoided? Love is no longer present in my parent’s relationship. Echoing my own marriage, the question arises if there is a way to keep the spark.
God's voice speaks to A. Having left religion, his home and his family, A. reflects on how good a person he is.
Avi and Asaf, a Tel Avivian couple, are about to break up. Avi suggests they try just one more thing. A rendezvous with Eden will shed light on their relationship, forcing Avi to decide if they still stand a chance.
A documentary about the lives of seven families in an Israeli settlement in the middle of Hebron.
During the 1948 Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine, a group of six Israeli soldiers -- including Rachel (Nehama Hendel), a female combatant -- is trapped in enemy territory. While trying to escape, the soldiers learn of an Arab plan to attack a nearby village. Fearing the worst, the group must now race home to warn their compatriots. The Palestinians, however, are hot on their tracks, and time is running out. As the group suffers a series of casualties, their chances for survival diminish.
Focusing on the relationship between an Israeli woman and the Ethiopian Christian illegal woman she hires as a housekeeper, this film depicts the heartbreaking lives of many of the 300,000 foreign workers in Israel today.
Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. Based on famous Amos Oz novel.
A philosophical tragicomedy about space, time, cinema, and wars, composed of six episodes, all together forming an absurdist footnote – somewhat divorced from reality – to the current events in the known universe.
A game of pretend between two girls quickly turns into a vicious battle between good and evil
Based on a novel by Yehoshua Kenaz.
Rachel is loosing her sight to the point she can't even call her daughter who is in labor on the other side of the world. Seeking for help, she opens her door to passersby. Strangers, striving for one moment of connection.
A pink swan floats across a turquoise pool, against the desert. It’s Dana’s bachelorette party. A chance encounter with Hamis, an African asylum seeker, will bring the girls face to face with an uncomfortable truth.
A distinctive and potent take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that feels divorced from larger political or cultural concerns. Instead, the film chronicles a small, surreal world detached from reality — a place where Palestinian homes were turned into soldiers’ party playgrounds — and a contemporary effort by those soldiers to make sense of their former selves.
Two friends go on a hike to the desert. In the desolate wilderness something hidden comes out in their friendship. From then on, the only way they manage to communicate is sexually and violently. While one of them wants more than the other is able to give, he expresses his frustration by making sure they get lost and have no water - anything to escape from awaiting reality.
The story of the wonderful transgender actress that never existed - Bebe Goldberg, in this surprising and often amusing Mockumentary/documentary film. 'Bebe' tells the story of the Holocaust survivor, wannabe actress, Chaim Goldberg. later known as Bebe. Having to survive and a young transgender, she had to be a sex worker and later on changed her gender. Performing in Cabarets in Europe, she later returned to Israel where she established her own cabaret. Her story is told by the spectacular Gila, Stephanie and Nancie, the oldest transgender in Israel, teling about Bebe but mostly drawing a collective biography of a generation.
The international World Pride event, planned for Jerusalem in 2006, is disrupted by orthodox Jews, evangelical Christians, and conservative Muslims, who are united by their dislike to LGBT events in the city they consider holy.
A History of Israeli Cinema is the result of years of researches, studies, documentation, screening, interviews, some recorded, some to learn, to understand, to unfold. Actors, thinkers, producers, filmmakers, professors, critics negotiated to build a narrative that remains fragile and incomplete. It is the process rather than the result that is shared here.
Based on the real-life death of Mike Brant, who reluctantly became a foreign singing sensation during the 1960s and '70s. Born in a displaced person's camp in Cyprus, the then-named Moshe Brand grew up in a working-class environment, occasionally making time to entertain at weddings, bar mitzvahs, and, eventually, nightclubs both at home and abroad. When Sylvie and Carlos Varton saw one of his performances, they whisked him off to Paris and saw to it that his career took off. Though he was an almost instant success, he is believed to have committed suicide at the age of 28. This film features rare interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, as well as footage from home movies, television appearances, and radio recordings.
A photo shop owner and her grandson join forces to save the shop and the nearly one million negatives that document Israel's defining moments.
Claire was my childhood love. I heard Yonatan, a kibbutznik, lecturing on Marx and Tolstoy the day we both enlisted. Jacques was a painter; the sergeant major ordered him to smear the cannons with grease so they would shine in the parade. I met Hanoch after the army; every morning I would wake to the clatter of his typewriter—he was then writing "Solomon Grip." With Shmuel I played chess; I loved the quiet that accompanied the game. Era, the editor, was my cinematic conscience. My friends are no longer here. But I still speak to them through the memories.
When experienced psychologist Deborah Levin encounters horrifying tapes filmed by 17-year-old Emily, she knows she must save her from her family. Through interviews and encounters with the family members, she begins to uncover the unsettling truth hidden within Emily’s mind.
Dara Nevo, a devoted officer in the 8200 intel squadron is at a race against time when Hamas abducts an Israeli soldier and required 1000 Palestinian prisoners for his release, including the terrorist who has murdered her father in a terror attack 10 years prior.
A teenage boy and his grandmother each follow their own story — his shown through everyday moments, hers told through voice-over poetry. Their separate paths come together briefly before continuing on.
A stand up special about the sexual act called "wet flip flops"
On new year's eve, a known criminal takes his young wife to their favorite restaurant, after discovering that she is cheating on him. At the table next to them sits the woman's secret lover, with his opinionated wife
A documentary following Kaveret's last tour.
Nearly a decade after he passed, the daughter of one of Israel's most celebrated performers, Aric Lavie, sets out in search of the secret he tried to hide his whole life. His childhood and escape from ww2 Germany alone as a child. With her mother and sister they set out to Berlin in search of answers no one can really ever answer rather realise that love saved him and them throughout his life.
Isaac Zepel Yeshurun's debut film is a local tribute to European cinematic modernism, especially to Michelangelo Antonioni and Alain Resnais. An oldecouple and a young couple meet at a party. That's all reality has to offer, and from here begins a winding cinematic web of stream of consciousness, transitions between times, reality and fantasy.
The journey of the Angel of Death's emissary, who accompanies an adventurer whose fate is sealed on his final mission to deliver an orphaned child to the remnants of his family after a brutal attack that murdered the child’s parents. Along the way, while Death is meant only to escort and seal destinies, he begins to examine the meaning and limits of his role, asking for the first time whether there are moments in which death is not merely an inevitable end, but, paradoxically, something that can save a life.
Shlomo, a local Eilatian bachelor is in search of a bigger flat where he can conduct his experiments with a revolutionary cooling machine he had invented. Eilat, however, is in the grips of a housing crisis, meaning only couples are eligible to apply for bigger council flats. The only problem is, Eilat is also very much in short supply of single women. With that in mind, Shlomo decides to try his luck in Tel Aviv and heads to the big city.
A gay wedding creates jealousy between two brothers, an unexpected teen love forms at a jewish-arab summer camp, and Lea Goldberg tells a story never heard before.
A 7th stand up special by Yonatan Barak
A love story between two people of different religions.
Bill wakes up with a hangover in his honeymoon suite with a naked stranger next to him. He must find a way to save the situation when his fiancée is on the way with her mother and there are only two hours left until the wedding.
On 02.05.1998, the fateful match between Hapoel Beit Shean and Beitar Jerusalem took place, which received the nickname "the shoelace game". Over twenty years have passed, but many still remember it as the most scandalous event in the history of Israeli sports.
The story of the Holocaust survivors in Poland (1946-1949). Based on the films of Nathan Gross and Shaul Goskind: Akhar alpaim shana.
Gefen is about to become a mother. She walks around a baby store and accidentally runs into Irit, her mother, who was absent for years. The chance encounter opens up their broken relationship. Irit tries to tell her side of the story and Gefen allows the buried pain to come out.
From 1941 to 1944 tens of thousands of people, most of them Jewish, were shot in the killing pits in the Ponary Forest. The murders were documented in the diary of Kazimierz Sakowicz, a journalist from Vilnius who moved to the village of Ponary during the war.
A 1 min & 09 Sec long memorandum of a family dinner in a Seafood restaurant.
As her grandson helps her move to a retirement home, Hannah insists on visiting a housing complex that holds some very vivid memories for her. This journey creates a new bond between her and her grandson.
At the age of 72, Ilan and Oscar finally have the right to join in a holy matrimony underneath the chuppah in a synagogue in Sydney. Now, with identical rings and official recognition, Ilan and Oscar are preparing for a journey into the grim past which still pains and troubles them and which, despite the many years that have passed, they still bear within them. This is a story about an inspiring couple who managed to stay together against all odds.
A poetic story of letting go. Danny, a sensitive young woman, mourns the lost love to her ex-girlfriend, symbolized by a small plant. Danny's mother wants her daughter to bury the memories, but when the dust settles something more powerful remains, which will not die.
Do you need to suffer in the road to temporary joy?
An atmospheric and vague, painterly animated short that envisions a view upon an old house cat who bids farewell to his home in his final moments.
Avi Cohen has just been informed that he is the most average man who ever lived. Overnight, he reluctantly becomes a national icon and instant celebrity. With his wife’s enthusiastic urging, they translate the situation into a business venture that goes surprisingly awry.