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Portrait of a girl from a poor family, who takes care of her parents while serving in the army at the crossings of Tul-Karm. When something bad happens at home and she has to go back, she grabs Saila, a girl from Tul-Karm just to go home.
Long estranged from her father, an esteemed Israeli painter, the filmmaker visits an exhibition of his most stirring and revealing self-portraits in Tel Aviv. Hoping that the exhibition will deepen her understanding of him as a person and as an artist-and that it will serve as the catalyst that reignites the connection between them-she endeavors to capture it all on film. As she unearths a lifetime of her feelings of neglect through unguarded conversations with other members of her family, she begins to understand just how much his absence has eroded her sense of self. And though her father's love eludes her, she remains masterfully determined to make meaning out of the void.
A love story recounted not by them, but by their belongings and surroundings.
“Deadline” is a black comedy stop-motion short that explores the power balance between bureaucracy, death and feline devotion of the elderly
In 2000s Jerusalem, Arava reluctantly goes on a trip with her best friend, Tzipi. Along the way, they’re confronted with the intricacies of their individual identities, hopes, losses, and their relationship to one another.
Manar got locked up in a shack by her family. Her days are spent being nursed by her captors and attempting to escape and regain her freedom back.
382 Arab citizens have been murdered in Israel since 2019. The incompetence of the authorities in the face of violence in Arab society in Israel and his inability to provide his young family with basic security lead the director to consider moving to Jenin in the occupied territories, ater his attempts to live in nearby Jewish communities failed. The city is located not far from his native village, Deboria in the Lower Galilee, and it seems that life in the territories of the Palestinian Authority is much safer.
A Palestinian boy and an IDF soldier decide to play soccer, but a friendly game quickly turns into an armed conflict. This short film with no dialogue was hand-painted frame by frame on the West Bank barrier wall.
The story of several young Slovakian women who were taken in the first transports to Auschwitz in April 1942. The three survived three years of hell, torture, starvation, and daily fear of death. This is a story of heroism, astounding strength of survival, hope, faith in life, and above all, heaps of luck.
Twenty-five years after the death of actress Talia Shapira, her son begins a journey to retrace her life. He combs through the vast belongings his mother left behind – diaries, stories, films, audio tapes – as he peels his memories layer by layer, finally arriving at the most significant moment in their relationship: Talia’s last days. Seventeen chapters of observation constitute an abstract and emotional mosaic, an intense investigation into the essence and meaning of a dialogue between mother and son – a dialogue that transcends words and time. The unique way in which the director has chosen to describe this process of deciphering his mother’s life poignantly conveys both the need as well as the inherent difficulities to connect incidental moments of our lives into meaningful stories.
As a young ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman, Gila struggles to find her own way in the cramped apartment where her large family lives in a religious neighborhood of Jerusalem. A nightly pilgrimage to the tomb of Rachel the Matriarch, a sacred place in Judaism and a symbol of femininity, and a love affair with a deaf-mute man, will be her path to self-determination.
Bundaim explores the personal journey and opinion of the Israeli director Eran Torbiner, who examines the Bund alternative, why it was forgotten following the Holocaust, and how necessary it is today. Torbiner follows the last surviving comrades in Israel of the socialist and anti-Zionist Bund movement, the strongest Jewish movement in Poland and the main opponent of the Zionists before WWII.
Omer (21yo) is peer pressured to lose his virginity. When his encounter with a girl from Tinder ends in shame, he is motivated to confront his fears and meet a guy. The meeting is intense, but gives him a sense of belonging.
Marva (27) finds that on every item in her home there’s a note that reads “Belongs to Anat”. understanding that Anat has left her and that she is on her own, she goes on a journey asking people for guidance. That fails, so in a desperate attempt she sings Anat a love song in the lobby of her office building.
Three boys are growing up in Israel and the Palestinian territories, right next to each other, in completely different worlds. We follow them over the course of a year, through adolescence. We watch as they experience life in promiscuous Tel Aviv, in the religious ideology of a Jewish settlement and in the occupied city of Hebron, where Israeli soldiers are in control. One year of trials and tribulations of three sixteen year old boys. They try to fulfill their teenage dreams in an environment of violence and sometimes war.
Winemakers reveal the story of Israel wine and the challenges they face, only to realize there is an inner force among them, obstructing the worldwide reach of their critically acclaimed wines.
The wonderful journey of Noa Vandab from Grandfather's Grandma's house to the cocoa plantations in Brazil to find out how the chocolate was made - with a lot of original music, samba, carnival and fun.
A kind-hearted, liberal and person-loving orthopedic doctor is about to purchase a new apartment for his son and daughter-in-law. While visiting the building site, he steps on excrement left in the living room by the laborers locked up for the night. He can't get rid of the smell in any way and falls into the terrible crisis of his life...
A professional dancer finds herself at a significant crossroads, where she must choose between her childhood love and the dream of becoming an international dancer. This dilemma is compounded by the first COVID lockdown that reshuffles all the cards.
For her 30th birthday, Yaeli is planning a surprise party for herself. Ido, her best friend and roommate, is supposed to help her, but he is delayed and avoids the chores. He is hiding something that may ruin her day.
Three IDF soldiers on a routine patrol in the early 1980s in occupied Hebron.
Following an ordinary night of BDSM, a graffiti of a nude beheaded woman appears under Lady’s window. Lady needs to defend herself not only from her anonymous predator, but also from those who are looking out for her safety.
In a neglected house, a boy whose mother is coping with mental illness demands a cure from God. But the depression has its own divine source, and the boy struggles to keep his balance and his faith as begins the painful process of growing up.
The creators of Ancestral Sin (TJFF 2018) continue their exploration of discriminatory policies through which Mizrahi immigrants were systemically sidelined by Israeli leadership. Through personal testimonials and recently unsealed transcripts, the filmmakers reveal how newcomers from North Africa were settled into peripheral “development” towns and their children were streamed into vocational schools to provide cheap labour for the state. Despite a concerted effort to keep these newcomers at the bottom of the social strata, the second generation of Mizrahim created a powerful grassroots movement to protest these policies. By aligning with Menachem Begin and the Likud party, they initiated sweeping political change. (Creators: David Deri, Ruth Yuval, Doron Galezer)
A Private Death tells of the great love story between Haya Schreiber, a sixth-generation Jaffa-born Jew and Tewfic Hanania, a Christian Orthodox Jerusalem-born Arab that began in 1930s Jerusalem. Tewfic Hanania was a wealthy man who came from Jerusalem's Arab aristocracy. Haya was a kindergarten teacher from an orthodox Jewish family. Making use of rare archival footage alongside excerpts from films made by Hanania during the 1930s and interviews with historians and family members, the film portrays life in Jerusalem during the British Mandate. The wealth of materials and this intimate story show how history can ultimately impact a private story and private death.
A journey between moments, moods and consciousness, which produce a portrait of a romantic relationship.
Striving for the Present - Part A is an experimental film that combines a fictional character in a documentary setting.
Shlomo Slutzky, an Argentinian immigrant to Israel, tries to discover what happened to his cousin Samuel after he was disappeared by the state during the Argentinian military regime of the 1970s. Shlomo's journey within Israel takes a sharp turn after he locates Interpol fugitive Anibal Teodoro Gauto, suspected of being one of Samuel’s murderers. Shlomo decides to fight for Gauto’s extradition to Argentina for trial. To his surprise, he meets fierce opposition from the state, determined to keep Gauto protected and prevent the unveiling of dark secrets from the past. Tomer Slutzky, Shlomo’s son, follows his father’s fight for justice against this alleged murderer of his cousin. What began as a father and son's discovery of a family secret turns into an investigative drama and public affair both in Israel and Argentina.
An old man finds the act of simply sitting on the toilet is fraught with peril.
Lihi (50) is a mother to Nadav (15) a teenager boy who wants to decide everything on his own, but when the cancer comes back to their life, they once again have to find the way to decide together.
After dropping out of college and losing his job, Tom's relationship with Shahar is all he got. When she leaves him for an old friend, Tom gradually becomes obsessed with the two and bursts into his house, just to face the grim truth.
In the middle of a tense meeting with his friends and family, Doovie decides to get up and leave. He takes a ride with the first car he sees outside of his kibbutz. an ice cream truck driven by erez, a druze ice cream seller. together they roam around the golan heights. a meeting from the past will reflect doovie’s current state of being.
The Angel of History deals with the troubling presence of unsolved past events in actual and imagined realities. It takes place in various public and private arenas like the artist's studio, the arena of murder, the photographic frame, the museum, the body or the cemetery. The Angel of History offers new perspectives for understanding the complex relations which are spun around the museal space. The movie probes beyond the standard and limited museal relationships between artist and work or viewer and work, exposing the fragile, troubled and intimate relations between the various protagonists who participate in the becoming-public of the work of art: between a daughter and her mother, between an analyst and his patient, between father and son, between photographer and photographic subject, between a ghost from the past and contemporary figures, and between hangman and victim.
The story of Mundek Lukawiecki and his wife Hannah Bern, who fought the Nazis with the Polish partisans and hid in the forests. Mundek not only employed his bravery and cunning, but also his Leica camera, giving a rare glimpse into the life of the partisans.
Director Amir Stolar tries to recall the event of the day when his father abandoned him and fled the country, 12 years ago. His digging into this old wound blends with the inter-continental relationship he has with Victor, his Swedish partner. Gradually, things turn into a bureaucratic struggle intended to get Amir’s father to attend the wedding of Amir’s brother, Roni.
a teen is preparing to sleep but he starts to think about tomorrow
One street in southern Tel Aviv - doomed to be a home for refugees ever since it was planned - brings forth a mosaic of characters living in a hallucinatory reality of a cityscape that has its charms, but is not always kind and merciful.
The Artichoke Season follows the fantastic childhood memories of 10-year-old Rosalie in a Jerusalem slum, after her father leaves home.
Israel and Palestine, two entities competing over their one beating heart. Will they both survive?
The movie brings fourth a personal childhood memory in the north of the country. Blending Bomb shelters and rocket thunder flowing with the Dan river.
Suspense and romance between Jewish and Druze ranchers in the Golan Heights.
Documenting brief moments in the daily lives of three teenagers, and the dynamics with the environment in which they live.
A gay man and his estranged brother rebel against their upbringing in an Israeli occupied West Bank Jewish settlement. Dan now lives with his male partner in Brussels as the speechwriter of the European Commission's Vice President and a co-founder of an organization which fights against nationalism. Noam works as a model and filmmaker in Tel Aviv. In this debut film, Noam attempts to understand his older brother's transition and what made run so far away.
The adventures and sexual encounters of youth coming age.
For some people home is a place where they feel the ground slipping underneath their feet, where the walls seem to be transparent, allowing no personal space for intimacy or privacy which they so badly need, like the air that they breath. “Anywhere but home”, is a film dedicated to all those who flee such homes or alter-natively, those of us who search for cosolation anywhere that feels like home.
Assaf and Yotam. 26 year-old gay lovers, wake up one day to discover they're 18 again and back in high-school, on the legendary day in which they became a couple.