Earth Mother

Avital, a mother of five, moves into a converted truck on South Mt. Hebron to establish a farm. However, the physical and emotional hardships make her question whether she and her children can continue to pay the price for her dream. >>

Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi

Avi Mograbi, a documentary filmmaker whose birthday coincides with Israel’s Independence Day, is hired by an Israeli producer to direct a film about Israel’s 50th anniversary. He is also asked by a Palestinian producer to direct a film about the 50th year since the Nakaba – the catastrophe of the Palestinian people. >>

On Hold

This  film deals with me and my partner’s decision to leave Israel. It is the  physical and emotional journey of a young Arab couple, who decide that  Israel is not the right place for them, caught between rational  considerations and emotional ones. Our story is intertwined with the  stories of other people, similarly disappointed by […] >>

The Bunker

Pinchas Cohen-Gan is an Israeli artist of Moroccan descent and extensive Western education who chose to live in Israel “because here I am a refugee only once and not twice.” In order to examine his identity and position in Israel as an oriental immigrant, Cohen-Gan plans a journey to Germany and an installation of his […] >>

The Life and Death of Anna Lysis

Anna Lysis is a drag queen who meets different men over the course of one night. Some approach her; Some she flirts with. At the end of the night, all encounters unite and raise questions about trauma, identity, and repression. >>

Honey Trap

The Kiryat Moshe neighborhood on the outskirts of Rehovot is home to a large Jewish Ethiopian community. Nowadays a national priority construction evacuation project guarantees the residents a safe exit from the neglected and poor ghetto. Hana, a single mother who is worried about her teenage son, jumps at the opportunity for a change that […] >>

Digital Diary

18-year-old Anton hangs out with thugs who steal cell phones in order to blackmail their owners. But when Anton pinches Meitar’s phone, he becomes obsessed with the world she has compulsively been recording on her phone. >>

Cherry

Anna has created a world of her own – a free, impulsive and sexual world, in which she controls everything, even time itself. Aware of the difficulties it may cause, she decides to take into her home her schizophrenic mother. The encounter between them destabilizes Anna’s world and forces her to reexamine their relationship. >>

Intifada

Ben Shani and Shai Lahav, two young soldiers at the time, go back to the first Intifada, which we all wish to forget. >>

Gruf and Me

Gruf is a graffiti character that comes to life in animation. Gruf falls in love with the street artist who created him. He desperately tries to find her in the shabby streets of Tel Aviv and discovers that inter-dimensional love is not easy. >>

Pole, Dancer and a Movie

Pole dancing may have started in strip clubs, but over the past few years it has won international recognition as an art form, a sport and a means of empowering women. Director Isri Halpern follows Neta Lee Levy, the founder of Israel’s first pole dancing studio, as she competes for the European title. He discovers […] >>

Congratulations

Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: When concerned people living abroad ask me what will be, I tell them I’m about to have a son, and that they should ask him when he grows up. Although he’ll probably tell them to ask the next generation. A sort of cautious optimism for the coming fifty years. >>

Children’s Talk

“It was all as if a childlike picture, the mood wore an opera hat that eight reflections ricoheted off across the surface of ponds. The ghost dressed in a natty shroud, Was smoking a cigar at the window of his room, At the castlekeep’s top story, Where the sagacious crow told the cats their fortunes. There was […] >>

Israel: A Home Movie

Israel: A Home Movie tells the story of Israel and Palestine from the start of the 20th century up to the late seventies by means of personal home movie footage alone, filmed solely by amateur photographers; private citizens who owned cameras in 16mm, 8mm or Super 8mm format, as well as any unprofessional format from before […] >>

Alex & Nadia Forever

Drenched in guilt and longing to his beloved Nadia, who was murdered by an unknown killer, Alex slowly takes on her identity one step at a time. While her family mourns, Alex estranges himself from them, becoming a loner in his home which is slowly becoming an absurd temple to commemorate Nadia. After a failed […] >>