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A chronicle of a death unforetold. After his brain stroke a daughter tries to make her father into a filmmaker and a parent once again, while unknowingly documenting his last years. A film about the fragility of the father figure evolves into a story on the power of clinging to life through a shared act […] >>
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Hybrid film, combining both fiction and documentary. The story of three good friends, homelessness, from the suburbs of Israel, that decided to go to a trip to The big city Tel-Aviv in order to fulfill their dreams. >>
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Like many of those who survived the horrors of the Holocaust, Moshe Knebel has difficulty talking about his past with his children. They each have collected bits and pieces over the years, but none have the complete picture. Unlike other survivors, Moshe Knebel’s story is not just a story of survival, it is a story […] >>
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Yonatan is asked to come see his grandmother on her deathbed with his judgmental older brother. On their nightly train ride the two siblings turn against each other, as the looming encounter with death threatens to tear down Yonatan’s walls of apathy. >>
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Tzipporah longs to stretch her wings and fly but knows that without solid ground to return to, she will be lost. Caught between two seemingly incompatible worlds, the stable orthodox Judaic lifestyle that she lives and the soaring thrill of Aerial Acrobatics, she feels incomplete in either place and struggles to find her true identity. […] >>
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Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: What is the sound of fear? This short presents a cacophony of sounds related to Israel’s contstant state of alert. >>
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The film tells the story of Wilm Hosenfeld, a Nazi officer best remembered today for having saved “the Pianist” (Władysław Szpilman) in Roman Polanski’s remarkable film. Recent findings have revealed that over the course of the war he actually saved about sixty people, Jewish and Polish alike. Before joining the Wehrmacht, Hosenfeld was principal of […] >>
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Two women, an Israeli and a Palestinian, are trying to build a business partnership. Brought together by a shared business acumen and knowledge of the logistics industry, the two combine forces to help Palestinian businessmen navigate the everyday absurdities of Israeli control of the West Bank. But while they help their clients to overcome the […] >>
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Yair, a Yeshiva student, opens an electronics shop in “Geula”, a neighborhood that is the shopping epicenter for the entire Ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem. The religious character of the neighborhood is enforced by the “Geula Committee” and Yair strictly adheres to their rules. His shop is introducing a world of advanced technology that overnight becomes […] >>
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This film follows the Goren family over a period of 15 years as they are removed from the fishing village in the Israeli settlement of Dugit, located on the north of the Gaza Strip, near the Israeli border. In 1984 the Israeli government designated this area to establish a fishing village until it was dismantled […] >>
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Shlomo Bar – a Musical Documentary
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 […] >>
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In a Jerusalem suburb, fifteen young American drug addicts, abandoned by their Hassidic families, share both pain and great hope that Eric – another recovering addict – will save them from death. >>
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This cinematic adaptation of the award-winning play, “Arbeit Macht Frei”, accompanies the Acre Theater Group as it probes the innermost recesses of the Israeli psyche in the generation after the Holocaust. The film takes the viewer along the most difficult collective journey faced by Israeli society – the Holocaust – with an impact so sweeping […] >>
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Obsessed with the disappearance of his uncle Yisral some 65 years ago, filmmaker Eran Barak returns to his family’s old neighborhood. In his search he turns to his various relatives: Uncle Gavriel, who was just released after 35 years in prison; Uncle Aryeh, wallowing in thoughts while lounging on his mother’s sofa; and uncle Uri […] >>
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The West Bank and Gaza Strip have been under Israeli military authority since 1967, forcing over three million Palestinians to live under Israeli occupation. When traveling from one village or city to another to go to work, visit relatives, or seek medical care, they must pass through Israeli checkpoints. These checkpoints, acting as the first […] >>