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Israeli cultural icon Rivka Michaeli travels to America. Between the US where her family put down roots and the homeland she loves and hurts for – Rivka is walking a thin line, trying to find balance and hope within.
The fascinating life story of Gila Goldstein, one of the first Israeli transgender women and a Tel Aviv icon turned living legend. Gila was born as Avraham Goldstein in the 50’s in downtown Haifa. A soccer player in Maccabi Haifa in her youth, Gila always knew she was a woman. In her 20’s she moved to Tel Aviv and worked as a prostitute and exotic dancer. In 2003 she was proclaimed the community’s darling for her contribution and continued fight for social justice. The film, shot between 1997 and 2010, describes the world of a woman who is, despite many struggles, still happy, optimistic, and feeling forever young.
A bored boy named Boris accidentally smokes his own sperm and starts to trip on it. Boris discovers that his trip is even stronger than taking acid. He uploads a video of himself online, smoking his sperm. Getting high on sperm becomes a hit. It changes the world and might even destroy it.
Two hot Israeli hitmen are hired to kill each other, but will they let their work get in the way of budding love?
A musical documentary that brings for the first time the true story of the battle between the great female singers of the 1980s.
The relationship of a father and daughter throughout time reflected on their shared car rides.
“The Poetry of Non-Self” is a short animation film that deals with moments that hold beauty, with how the sense of self is absent from such moments, and with the notion that this is, in a way, what childhood is like.
A Modern Orthodox Jewish man, Hillel Rate turns the camera on his own quest for love. As his prospects improve, he finds himself reflecting on the tension between finding someone to spend your life with whilst losing the opportunity to love another. Love, he discovers, is full of bittersweet sacrifice.
Jerusalem is divided by a mysterious crack, pulling any metal object around it. Revital, a woman in advanced pregnancy, is trying to get to the crack in order to kill herself and the baby she carries.
In the center of [the installation] Butthash, there is an eight-minute video following my experience in making ‘Jenkem’: the transformation of raw sewage into psychedelic drugs. The phenomenon exists almost only as a rumor, in rural areas, when the user inhales reproduced gas emitted by his own body waste. This reproduced gas is actually methane, also known as swamp gas, one of the materials that largely contributes to ozone depletion. I filmed myself doing it in various ways with my own excrement on the side of the road, for three weeks. This action uses the body as a drug lab, and expresses an exaggerated form of ecological ideas, resulting in an animalistic perversion.
"Chasing a star" Was produced by the actor's school "empiro" and was produced by its students, alumni, and some of the teachers. Director Avi Malka is the school principal. He wrote the concept as a short sketch the school's final project. Taking this a a fact, we should judge the this project indulgently. All things considered, this is an excellent cinematic effort and very much worth the price of the ticket.
After the passing of his girlfriend, unwilling to move on, Daniel is left with recollection of his past memories, his last dance.
A girl’s home falls apart as a result of her parents’ divorce. Her buried memories are revealed through a sea of grains of sand.
A deep dive into this woman’s soul and an explosion of feminine power, painting the town with it’s sexuality.
Aya takes her parents and sister to the desert in order to film them for an additional scene in her film. But the day of filming turns into a never-ending family argument, and it becomes unclear whether they will even manage to cooperate and become a team
The filmmakers gather to sing in a unique position, in which the mouth of one envelops the nostrils of the other, as all three voices vibrate potently throughout the body cavities.
Itamar, Na’ama’s father, owns a ranch that raises cattle for slaughter. Ten-year-old Na’ama deals with a big philosophical question regarding life & death while working with her father. Together, they attempt to bridge their worldview regarding death: while Na’ama develops feelings for the cattle, Itamar sees death as an inevitable part of life.
Shlomo Bar is one of Israel’s most important and original musical artists. For forty years, together with his band “Natural Gathering” he has created music that expresses the complex heart and soul of the Israeli experience – a stirring blend of East and West that yields compositions of exceptional beauty, while also expressing social protest and pain.
A dark and twisted journey deep in the mind and soul of a young man sitting on a bench, wanting to talk to the woman sitting on the other side. He is filled with dread and falls into a dark place where ha faces his desires and fears.
To the occasional onlooker, my childhood yard may appear like another shabby parking space in a Jerusalem ultra-orthodox neighborhood. To me, it is the first "outside" I encountered, the landscape of the only home I have ever known. I have been living in this yard for thirty-four years. As an adult, it continues to fascinate me with its ever-changing mood. It had embraced secular, religious, and ultra-orthodox atmospheres, but today, we are one of the last non-Ultra orthodox families living here. A film by Yochay Rosenberg
Ashdod. Summer. Very hot weather. The sea is polluted. One afternoon. Mother. Son. This film is a documentation of a city, of a neighborhood, of a summer- but more than all, of a dismantled internal world of a child. sad and frustrated child.
Anaphase is the performance of Ohad Naharin, the famous choreographer and artistic director of Batscheva Dance Company from Israel, which had a successful international tour in the 90s. By integrating dance, theatre, rock music and film in short fast scenes this choreography exceeds the limits of dance. ANAPHASE. THE FILM is an effect of a creative collaboration between Ohad Naharin and Levi Zini, film’s director who managed to bring the experience of watching a live show to the cinema audience. The film isn’t a registration of a performance, but an electrifying translation of the choreography to the film medium.
After her whirlwind appearance on the reality show “The Next Star”, Johnita, a young transgender singer, falls back into her reality. There she lives with her Orthodox father, then goes to the Pride Parade. She dreams of finding love while the realities of discrimination and hatred are a constant in her life and raise questions of eternal conflict.
Kibbutz Maoz Chaim children's house, 1943. A gunshot rings out, followed by silence.11-year-old Dvor'aleh is orphaned. She was told that her mother was killed by a stray bullet during weapons training, but soon begins hearing the word "suicide" whispered among the kibbutz members. Dvora is deeply troubled: was it an accident or was it suicide? If it was suicide, how could her mother leave her alone in the world like that? Only years later does Dvora discover the truth. Journeying to the past, her son, the filmmaker, revisits the childhood of a mother with "rain in her eyes", as she described herself - a mother whose tormented life story shaped her writing and her relationship with her children and family.
Naama is confident her partner, who unsuccessfully tries to conceive, wants a dick. When their relationship starts to crumble, Naama goes out to ask a radical and unrealistic solution.
It's party night, and volunteering at a youth hotline is Omer's typical excuse not to show up. When he finds out tonight may be his last chance with the girl he fancies, he decides to carry the call center into the night.
"Anusim" - They are everywhere - Ultra-Orthodox Jews. They cannot be identified. Within them there is a struggle between the inner truth and the outside world. How did they become "Anusim"? Why are they and not others? The common line is a basic requirement in Orthodox society. You have to be 'someone' to take a step that takes you out of the line you were born into. Anusim are talented people, often with a rebellious personality. Years of research often make us indifferent to human encounters, not in this case.
Jacob goes out, for the first time in his life, to a gay party, but discovers that his skin color prevents him from being accepted into the community.
The opera appeared at the "Tzavta" Theatre, and was concerned with real political subjects, such as the occupation of the territories of the West Bank and Gaza (which was then nearing its twentieth year), the unequal discrimination of the residents of southern Israel, and Israeli militarism.
The samaritans, a tiny religious sect, are dying out. But they still maintain extremely harsh rules against assimilation. Three sisters leave the sect, one by one. This is their story.
A week before Independence Day, Elad’s entire world is falling apart. A breakup urges him to move out and find a new place, On the balcony above “Occupiers Street,” While confronting traumatic memories from his past, He seeks to reconnect with the people close to him And with those observed who remain somehow distant. Feeling socially invisible, On the most patriotic week of the year, His feelings of guilt and social isolation reach a climax.
Even after his dad told him he is going to lose his hair, johnny refused to believe him, until the day when it hit him right in the face. He tried to fight it with everything he got, tried to hide, cure and ignore, but all he ever needed was to let go. When he did, he was free again to enjoy and live a confident and happy life.
In the idyllic world of Israeli kibbutzim everything has its own pace. There’s a time for work and for rest. There’s a time for fun too, which is when 9‑year‑old Tom and his friends play hide‑and‑seek or attack each other with a drone. Then there are moments when you have to hide and you only get 15 seconds. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, lose a life if you’re too slow. The film is a documentary observation of life in closed‑off settlements located in a military zone less than 5 kilometres from the Gaza strip.
During Memorial Day, a young girl is swallowed by the sea and starts to envision the deteriorating political and social reality of Israel.
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.
At the age of 80, Captain Meirson embarks on his last sail at open seas on his hand-made boat. Surrounded by the breaking waves and sounds of depths, he refuses to accept what is more frightening than the winds - growing old. - CODA FOR A CAPTAIN is a poetic interpretation of “The old man and the sea” - a cinematic journey of loneliness and senescence.
A boy’s delightful fantasy world collides with the harsh, grown-up realities he discovers at the refugee-aid centre where his mother works.
The rarely heard story of 300 Jews from pre-Israel Palestine who departed to fight fascism and joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War from 1936–1939. Their bravery is displayed in this documentary that features archival photographs and interviews with surviving members of this elite group.
Daniella Barak is a 30-year-old loser who works in the old and failed restaurant of her aunt, Leah. She can't stop thinking about the girl she met yesterday on the beach of Jaffa, Anat Tenenbaum, a specialist in architecture from New York.
Friday afternoon. Ella and Yaeli, best friends for years, return drunk and happily from the beach. On their way home, a Police-Officer stops the two on the side of the road to check whether Ella drives drunk. When Ella does not pass the test, the girls have to decide whether to obey the law rather than remain loyal to one another.
It took the letter 28 years to arrive from Berlin, East Germany to Tel-Aviv, Israel. But what troubles Menachem is the content of the letter. He's afraid to find out what the brother he lost contact with 40 years ago may have written in it. With the help of Moshe, his neighbor, Menachem dares to confront a secret that's been haunting him since his adolescence, a secret born out of a decision made during the dark days of the Second World War. That decision changed his life and now Menachem finds that an even more difficult one lies ahead.
This short film follows the ironic dating misadventures of Dahlia (30) and her lesbian sister Leah (29) in their search for their beshert ('soul mate' in Yiddish) in today's Berlin. The story challenges clichés and stereotypes about Jewish culture and identity in modern day Berlin from a variety of perspectives.
My Dearest Enemy tells the story of a friendship between two women, Alice, an Israeli Arab professor and Maya, a Jewish artist, who met at age 14 in Jerusalem. The film spans over 25 years as they struggle to keep their friendship in the midst of their communities' ever growing toxic conflict.
‘I was born here, so if they catch me, will I be forced to return?’ This is the question asked by Ryan, a 10-year-old Filipino boy whose father is arrested for being an illegal alien in Israel. Nato is Ryan's cousin and best friend, and his father has a legal work permit. Together, the children live their seemingly normal everyday lives in the shadow of the constant fear of deportation. The film focuses on the children of foreign workers. In addition to a typical childhood existence, these children are forced to deal with a complex reality that includes tough questions as to their identity. The film follows the children's dreams, their games and their yearnings in a reality where the future is forever frightening and unknown.
The Loser Takes it All tells the story of Israeli band Ping Pong. Their song "Be happy" (Sameach) was chosen to the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden. The band insists to raise Israeli and Syrian flags on stage in their song as a symbol to the peace Israeli and Syrians are wishing for. Head of the delegation and Israeli broadcast association threaten that the band will not perform.
Jonathan cruises the park for the first time looking for love. But will he find what he truly wants: to be held?
For more than 20 years, the journalist Gideon Levy brought horror stories from the occupied territories to Israeli readers. A play writer reads his article and writes a play, a theater director adapts it to the stage, actors play in it to the audience, which are now able to encounter on stage the not so distant horrible reality. A mediated encounter. And now, accessible for you, a film... 'Keywords' exists in times where info is a product. It casts doubt on the capability of Media and Arts to fulfill the role they once filled: actual contact between people.
The little orphan-girl who survived a harsh life and finally became the sculptor-poet Miriam Chalfi - refuses to let me, her daughter, make a film about her. I finally crack the taboo - and during 24 years of work the film tries to decipher the riddle of the Hidden Fountain.
Lonely Eitan works nights in painting road lines on the streets of Jerusalem. Seeking for another person's company on a dating-hotline makes him wonder about his own path.
'Eitan' is a young man who secretly desires Trans-genders. Eitan tries every possible way to suppress his attraction. The main way in which he represses his desire is to use of steroids and bodybuilding. Eitan begins a journey of mistakes towards meeting with Trans-gender that will bring him far from where he planned to be.