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The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev
Tajikistan’s answer to the Jackson Family. A modern-day Shakespearean tale about a famous Tajik musical family, controlled by their charismatic, funny, yet overbearing patriarch, Papa Alaev, who at the age of 80 is starting to lose his grip on the ‘family business’, sending the clan on a rocky and unsure transition from Monarchy to Democracy. >>
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Miriam (33), leaves her family home heavily pregnant, and moves in with Nevo (31), her terminally ill brother, in a village in the south of Israel. Their connection creates a charged, emotional reunion, during which she can’t decide whether to give in to the pressure and move him to a medical facility, or keep him […] >>
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Tamar’s daughters keep trying to tell her of a wonderous land they’ve found, but she is too overworked to hear them. When a strange recurring melody finally forces her to pay attention, she follows her daughters into the depths beneath the film, beyond the story itself. Venturing to the far end of an ancient liminal […] >>
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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. >>
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17-year-old Gil hates his life in the village he lives in. He lives with his Father, Avishai, and his 10-year-old brother, Yuval, who he blames for their parents’ divorce. He dreams of joining the army as a combatant, as an excuse to escape his life. One night, the brothers have an ugly fight about a […] >>
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Ancient Winds – Moroccan Chronicle
A new angle on the inner conflicts that plagued the Moroccan Jews in Israel throughout their efforts to assimilate, “Ancient Winds – Moroccan Chronicle” explores the historical identity of Moroccan Jews with an emphasis on questions of belonging, denial and animosity. Told through six fascinating characters from the second generation of immigrants, they tell the […] >>
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In 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, an Israeli paratroop company was ordered to guard hundreds of Lebanese war prisoners for 10 hours. #Schoolyard: An Untold Story is the anatomy of a murder – the step by step, blow by blow, memory by memory chronicle of a horrible moment in Israeli military history. >>
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“people use each other as a cure for their pain…” A couple. Him and Her. One large bed. An option for attraction. He is special and beautiful, she is special and beautiful. An option for love Video dance from the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>
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In 1955, a collection of contemporary artworks, including some made by the world’s leading artists of the time, was donated to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Thousands flocked to the museum to see the new collection; but how was it exactly that Eugen Kolb, then the museum’s director, managed to obtain such an impressive […] >>
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Listen to me: there is life without love. Loneliness is the soul’s forgotten desire. You don’t need anyone. Don’t search, don’t hope, don’t dream; and only then, perhaps, you too will learn how to be alone.” Based on Screenplay adapted from the short story” How To Be Alone” by Orna Coussin. >>
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After losing their former business, Gila and Motti resort to selling flowers and strawberries on the roadside to make a living. Motti is a 51-year-old man of honor with a checkered past and Gila is 39-year-old fiery red head divorcee with two kids. She is neurotic, sarcastic, a workaholic and toothless. The couple hopes to […] >>
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Twelve-year-old Mussa doesn’t speak, and no knows why. As African refugees, he and his parents have been living in Tel Aviv’s worst neighborhood for the past six years. In a strange stroke of luck, however, he is bussed to an uptown school every day. Leaving behind addicts and prostitutes each morning, he silently navigates to […] >>
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Decades after leaving the entertainment world to become an ultra-Orthodox Rabi, Uri Zohar, one of the founders of Israeli cinema, is once again directing a film. With the help of a group of young film school graduates, Zohar directs a film about a successful dancer discovering her faith who, much like Uri Zohar’s own personal […] >>