The King of Ratings

This film explores Israel’s obsession with consumption and consumerism in the 1990s by following Doron Tsabari, a washed up television actor who rose to fame on the show “Harishon Babidur” (The First in Entertainment). During this time, Tsabari realized his dream of becoming not just a film star but the most popular man in Israel. […] >>

The Beetle

Yishai Orian, the director of the movie and the owner of an old Volkswagen Beetle, is about to become a father. His mechanic says that the car will not last long, while his wife complains that the car is not suitable for driving a baby. Trying to keep his beloved car, Yishai goes on a […] >>

Hitler’s Children

The Hoess family did everything they could to ignore the horror. The windows were boarded up so that they couldn’t see the chimneys and the gas chambers from their mansion. Family photos show children playing outside and other idyllic scenes that don’t betray the presence of the camp. The only things they couldn’t ignore, explains […] >>

1 Out of Three

Ricki divorced her husband three years ago. Together with her daughter Noor, she moved in with her elder brother Yakir and his partner Ran. That temporary living arrangement became an especially alternative family when Ricki, her brother and his partner decide to have a child together and become a parenting trio. They face many challenges […] >>

Shadow of Truth

Shadow of Truth is a 4-part documentary that deals with the murder of Tair Rada, a 13 year old girl whose body was found in the toilet of the school she attended in Katzrin. The series revolves around this murder, exploring the case in depth and breaking it apart. >>

Cast-Offs

What happened to the worn sofa we discarded after our visit to Ikea? What became of the kitchen dishes we left by the dumpster? Cast-Offs depicts the journey of discarded items from the heart of consumerist Israel to the periphery and the Palestinian Authority, where they come back to life. The film exposes an underworld […] >>

Al Jisr

A rare glimpse into the life of the residents of the village Jisr E-Zarqa, who cope with daily poverty, deprivation, discrimination and alienation. The film focuses on the stubborn struggle of a group of young, single women, trying to lead the village to a better place. These women struggle with tradition, family hierarchy and often […] >>

Since You Left

Following the involvement of two of his nephews in a terrorist attack, and the harsh reaction of the Israeli public to his new film, actor and director Mohammad Bakri visits the grave of Emil Habibi, a Palestinian politician and author and formerly Bakri’s mentor, to tell him about his life since Habibi’s death. Against the […] >>

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 […] >>

Out of Reach

Hagar works at a photo store where she converts old video tapes to new digital files. A lonely, quiet young woman, she finds herself fascinated by watching the videotapes people have forgotten to pick up. A young man she sees in one of these tapes haunts her, and when she tries to find him, the […] >>

Noise

This seemingly innocent bittersweet comedy tells the story of a man who suffers from hyper-acoustic sensitivity. His life in Tel Aviv, one of the noisiest urban locations on earth, becomes a living hell. In light of his revelation that according to science noise can kill en masse and that Nazis were secretly developing mass-destruction acoustic […] >>

The Jerusalem Dream

In the late 1970’s, after thousands of years of praying and longing for Jerusalem, the first Ethiopian Jews arrived in Israel. “Was it worth it?” their children now ask, for the first time. They are brave and direct and their words pierce through the heart. Words shifting between the great happiness of village life and […] >>

Cut to the Chase

A cinematic puzzle made up of hundreds of Israeli feature films from the 1960’s till this day. Fragments of shots, pieces of scenes, and short clips from different periods, styles, and colors, are assembled together to create a new narrative: the story of the Israeli man, as seen on screen, searching for love; between wars, […] >>

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 […] >>

La Femme Qui Cherche

The film evolves as a mysterious journey revealing a hidden matriarchal figure, inspired by my late grandmother and her memories of Oran, her native city on the northwestern Mediterranean coast of Algeria. The viewer experiences the journey through the perspective of a seeking figure, by passing along four miniature domestic spaces: the workplace, the shower, […] >>