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A young woman is leading a very sheltered life. In her daily routine, her defenses, which she has put around her in order to get on in the world, are compromised. This even sends her world into an unexpected spin only to emerge at the other end, shaken up but with some personal triumph.
A film about the late Stalinist anti-Semitic campaigns (the murder of Mikhoels, the doctors' case) through the prism of today's politics: eyewitness accounts, opinions of historians, politicians, representatives of art and religion.
Firsthand testimonies and unique archival footage tell the history of the Jewish Ethiopian community and the efforts made to bring them to Israel.
tamara has no idea if to stop or continue her unplanned pregnancy. An odd coach directs her to stay for 3 days alone in the wilderness in order to get the right descition. will Tamara succeed to solve her dilemma? is the coach an idiot or wize instru tor? when things take a twist or two, these questiones are answered 'with a grain of salt'...
Teenage girl is coping with her sexuality due to a relationship with a girl. This happens in the background of her living with her father that her mother left years ago for another woman.
Uri lives on his own. When a single mom and her young son move in next door, things become very strange.
The film presents a free interpretation of ‘Daniel’s vision’ – an ancient Jewish prophecy describing the reign of a mysterious metal beast. In the film, the beast becomes a hybrid creature, representing an extensive system of historical and contemporary subjects – such as Jerusalem Syndrome, religion, prophecy, disease, photography, media, virtual existence, and public space policing.
Workers from different jobs in Tel Aviv taking their lunch breaks
A group of fathers to children with cancer set out on a journey in Romania. For the first time in their lives, they are forced to admit their vulnerability. Golan Rise, the film's director, is one of those fathers. His son has a tumour that makes it difficult for him to see. Golan hides behind the camera and is not really willing to admit that his son is ill and that the one who has a hard time seeing is actually he himself.
Cleo fulfilled his dream: to leave the big city with his wife and fifteen children, to establish a family commune on a farm in Brazil. Exploring their family-roots leads the children to discover their surprising heritage, which undermines the existence of the communal paradise.
The story of Ola Kravchenko who has been accused by her ex-boyfriend and by a documentary show to have been the murderer of Tair Rada but acquitted by Israel's state attorney office.
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
"Cosmos" is the story of cosmonaut Mark, whose spaceship on the way to Earth collided with a school of giant electric fish. The fish de-energized the ship, and there was a crash. Throughout the cartoon, Mark tries to fix the ship, balancing between despair and hope. He really wants to go home to his son.
2014. Israel is at war in Gaza again. Inside an Israeli hospital, hundreds gather to boost national morale, and Uri, a wounded Israeli soldier, finds himself unwillingly turned into a war hero. A private family hardship turned public spectacle, offers an inside critical look into Israeli society and the way war as a state of mind is shaping it as a nation.
3 stories revolving the Usher family. An elderly man seeks redemption by returning a dead friend's watch. A straight arrow, fights her brothers' desire to give their dying sister a falsified Ph.D. A Rabbi struggles with a congregant's secret or losing the woman he loves.
Tom adopts a dog with a hereditary skin disease. The special bond between them leads Tom to discover her hidden identity – she is a he, a transgender man
In this total creation, the artist takes upon himself all roles of filmmaking, to create a personal retrospective view of the traumatic scenes he went through during his military service. The artist raises questions about gender, masculinity, sexuality and violence while reconstructing and intensifying his military experience as a homosexual.
Nina is a street prostitute who is captive in a reality where her pimp and the male world rule her. After discovering that her life is about to change, she tries to do everything to get out of the prison world where she has lived all her life.
Nitzan (16) is an introverted teenager that has always felt invisible to society. One day Neomi (20) the girlfriend of Nitzan’s brother Erez (20), invites her to join them for an overnight trip, an invitation that leads Nitzan down a path of self-discovery.
Roni surprises Ellie on her birthday at the Dead Sea with her friends. The attempts to make Ellie happy only deepen the gaps, and just before the lowest place on earth she’ll have to decide.
Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula.
Young filmmaker Timor David is following his friends around in this 50 minute movie filmed in the span of one night.
Two men, one woman and a baby is the formula for this alternative family. Dafna, a straight single woman, teamed up to have a baby with Itamar, a gay lawyer, and Kai, his German partner. Tensions grow throughout the pregnancy, and eventually erupt after the child is born - causing confrontation and separation. For over two years the film follows the characters as this fascinating story unveils.
During Memorial Day, a young girl is swallowed by the sea and starts to envision the deteriorating political and social reality of Israel.
For the last 24 years, I have been documenting my life obsessively. My journey started in Tel Aviv in 1996, when extra-terrestrials abducted me from my bedroom. The event left me in shock. I closed my production company and hit the road, searching for an answer. I went to Roswell, New York, Paris, and Cuba. I filmed people who were abducted and got implants in their bodies. Suddenly, a Mossad agent shows up, trying to sabotage the production. Then my mom dies, and I find out I was adopted. My father turns out to be a dangerous criminal. My kids and their mom leave for California. I drink and fuck all the time. I hear voices in my head. My name Is Ariel Semmel and Parano is my crazy true story.
The film follows a dialogue between the filmmaker and his Saba (Hebrew for Grandpa) at the last chapter of his life. Saba Beno tells his life story in his own words while trying to find the meaning of it all.
On a lonely slanted roof, a hunched figure plays the fiddle. His soulful music finds its way into the simple homes of the people of Anatevka. But this fiddler did not always sit on the roof. Come to think of it, he didn't always have a fiddle to play either. Based on Sholem Aleichem's short story "The Fiddle", this is the story of Sholom, the boy that was destined to become the fiddler on the roof.
A mother's struggle to come to terms with her daughter's strange behavior.
Shirley is a new social NCO, turns up in a rugges, manly world. Assigned to a new IDF base, she's torn apart by her attraction to the authoritative Yaron, and the curious Daniel.
Two men are walking down the street holding each others hands. Using interviews held by the director with men of his hometown Tel Aviv, this animated short investigates an intimate yet very public gesture. Who's into it? Who avoid at all costs? And how come a public admission of your sexual nature can mean a whole different thing in another culture.
A murder takes place on the Israeli Independence day. An Israeli film noir.
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.
Ahead of his father's release from prison, the virtual reality of the Parkour world in which Avshalom is a super hero, starts to crack. The inevitable upcoming showdown with the man he testified against, is going to dictate his mother's fate.
A young guy's quest for love turns into a whole new reality.
A single cigarette is enough to bring back the fire of passion. Two lovers meet in the suburbs to “pick the fruit of love” again.
Weeks after Shachar, a Jerusalem-based Yeshiva student, gets married his wife falls pregnant. The wife soon discovers that Shachar is in fact gay and throws him out before he ever gets to meet his daughter. Now at 40, Shachar volunteers at a LGBTQ hot-line and at nights, transforms himself into his drag alter ego - Rabbi Falsch. After years of keeping his distance, Shachar decides to step back into the ultra-orthodox world for a long overdue confrontation and first-time reunion with his daughter.
A short film that follows Alice, an addled teenager, suffering from sleep paralysis due to the struggle of keeping her sexuality a secret from her family and society.
The film portrays the events of a single day in Cairo of 1954, as they unfold through the personal story of the now 97-years-old Jacques Motola. Through present-day conversations with his granddaughter, his memories of past reveal the story of an aging artist and still somewhat a man of mystery.
Route 60 – connecting Joseph’s Tomb, Temple Mount, and the Cave of the Patriarchs contains the beginning of history and the connection of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel. The film examines aspects of the “place,” which “illuminates” the political conflict.
The absurdist comedy-drama is centred around a Shmelky puppet (something like a Jewish version of the Muppet Show heroes), which experiences an identity crisis traditional for comedy actors: he thinks of himself as a grand dramatic artist and doesn’t want to sing songs about Shabbat and Mitzvahs in a children’s show anymore. Instead, he wants to perform in a hideous one-man show that he wrote. After his attempts to get rid of the role he is stuck in fail, Shmelky falls into despair - until the entire country, brought up on his simple shows, says to him: “In our complicated world the Chosen People very much need a purple puppet who tells them about Mitzvahs.”
Sixteen-year-old Eitan wants to live in Amona where he was born, but that territory is still disputed. The most persevering squatter, he builds a house out of stones there together with his friends, which without any fuss gets destroyed by the police. "Never Locked" - a film with that name eloquently describes Eitan’s dream house - explores the question of whether people can live where they want and are able to live in their own country, of what makes places home, and talks about the feeling of being at home itself.
It’s Sunday evening. The Eurofalsh performers take the stage, a familiar Eurovision song is heard, the choreography entertains, the audience is excited, and the magic begins. One song, then another, then another. But at night’s end, the stage is cleared, the familiar Eurovision song fades, the choreography is completed, the audience departs, and the magic disappears … to reveal a gray reality. Miki, a married teacher, wants to have a baby but fears growing up and giving up the stage. Eran, the group’s founder, struggles with bankruptcy, a life spent living with his mother, and repeated rejection in Tel Aviv’s gay bubble. His only comfort is the stage. Irit, an attractive 20-something and Eran’s best friend, soothes his loneliness. She is always there, but secretly knows she will never find herself a straight guy so long as she plays house with a gay one. And Ben, focused on finding a decent job, can’t help but be distracted by his real lifelong dream: seeing a Eurovision contest live!
Halit is very overweight. Still, she is a happy woman who has achieved professional success, has good friends and a loving life partner. At the age of 40 she begins to fear the future. The film follows the process of change Halit is going through and enables us to see her confronting her open wounds with courage in front of the camera. In a world where everyone wants to be thin, what will be Halit's choice? Her journey will change her world.
In Paris they were called "Jews", in Israel they are the "French": Marouane who was circumcised at the age of 18, dreams of becoming a shepherd in Jerusalem; Isabelle who follows her husband to Netanya, leaves her son behind; and Valerie, the television star, lives in Tel Aviv and misses a Paris that has long gone. Terror attacks in France, Terror attacks in Israel. Wandering Jews, arriving in Israel to discover its reality - tougher than they knew, beautiful and struggling, disintegrating. Five years of continuous cinematic observation of the French immigration, 100,000 people and one question left open: Why?
With the murders of over 50 gay men in the last 20 years Israel faces a serious problem. While many of the perpetrators have been caught and convicted on a case by case basis, this film looks at the underlying issues.
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.
When a documentarian filmmaker interviews young Israelis about their settlement in the West Bank, the results are an urgent film of revealing and sometimes challenging conversations.
When Ronen and his friends go to the beach, everyone is responsible of bringing something. But no one understands why, in addition to fruit, Ronen also brings a jar of pickles. A funny autobiographical film about friends, family and pickles.