Two Shot

Naomi Golan, daughter of producer and filmmaker Menachem Golan, travels to India following her father while he shoots “The Return from India” in hopes of repairing their troubled relationship. After many years of failed attempts, Naomi decides to talk to her father in the only language he understands – the language of film. She puts […] >>

The Players

27-year-old Svetlana is a married woman, a mother, and a registered nurse. 17-year-old Vadim works as a garbage man. Though seemingly very different, the two have a unique passion in common: They participate in a live-action, interactive role playing game set in a forest.  Players dress up in medieval costumes and infuse magic into an […] >>

Tapes of Revolution

The story of Yamin Masika, the “Don Quixote” of Israeli cinema — a director, social activist, and cultural entrepreneur who played a pivotal role in transforming Mizrahi culture from the margins to the mainstream. In the 1990s, after repeated rejections by the Israeli film industry, Masika began creating underground, low-budget films and music videos featuring […] >>

Lice

Dalia gives her little daughter Ela a head lice treatment in the bathroom. When Ela’s father surprisingly arrives to pick her up for a Saturday hangout, the intimate lice treatment becomes a divorce fight >>

The Captains (Hakbarnitim)

A six-part series about six Israeli Prime Ministers, who try to look back on and examine the biggest decisions they made in office, how justified they were in real time and whether their outcomes stand the test of time. The series deals with Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion, Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, Shimon Peres […] >>

Mirrors – A portrait of the town of Yeruham 2015

Four stories intertwine in the small town of Yeruham. Abraham the fisherman; Debi the hiardresser and a part time matchmaker; Boris and the teenagers from Mahsan 52; and Theila the blind singer.     >>

Life in a Plate

In Efim Graboy & Daria Turetski’s film, Life in a plate, a bored youg girl creates an imaginary world of her own from the veggies on her luncheon plate. Her wandering thoughts and daydreaming shift us to another world made entirely of animated vegetables, fruits and other foodstuffs: the girl is made of a potato […] >>

Raging Dove

Boxer Johar Abu Lashin dreams of winning a world title in Nazareth and then in his hometown of Gaza, but faces challenges amidst the political situation in the Middle East. Can his journey to winning a title prize in the ring make him a hero in the eyes of both Israelis and Palestinians? >>

Survival and the Art of the Joystick

Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: When I go to my parents’ house in Beit-El, I take my fear with me, as well as my love and many question marks. The drive there is like a video game – you either make it through or you don’t… Just close your eyes until the nightmare is over. >>

Panicutopia-Desertark

On October 2015  Yael Gotman and Safi Hosh created the Desert Ark Community – a community that isn’t connected to the national infrastructures, thus creating an alternative way of life and a new vision of security, in the shape of a rock. Due to their extreme measures of security, this Utopian home soon turns into an […] >>

A Unicorn in Tel Aviv

Alonna (28), a romantic who clings to old habits, tries to beat Tel Aviv. The city fights back with cyclists, parking inspectors, and guys who don’t believe in love. Losing hope, she downloads a dating app. Her date with “Mr. Perfect” seems promising, but an unexpected incident changes everything. >>

The Kozalchik Affair

When the son of the Kapo of the death block in Auschwitz arrives to the place his father ruled unrestricted, bribed the Nazis to save the prisoners from certain death, he meets, in the very same dark rooms, the lives of those saved by his father, but also listens in pain to those willing to […] >>

Purity

Purity tells the story of a subtle female rebellion within the religious world, expressed through the personal viewpoint of the director Anat Zuria and three of her friends. Their openness to the camera breaks a profound taboo of silence rooted in two thousand-year-old laws and contemporary social pressures and provides a rare and special look […] >>

In Her Footsteps وَراءكِ

In the dead of night, my parents left the house my father had built in the Bedouin village, Tal-a-Sabeh, and moved, perhaps “fled,” to Omer, a Jewish town, very bourgeois, located only 5 km away. For 10 years of dealing with breast cancer, my mother’s only wish was to be buried in Omer. The town […] >>

The Settlers

Seven families live in Tel Rumeidah, or “Jesse’s Land,” in a controversial settlement in Hebron. They have been struggling for fourteen years to hold on to this small hill in the center of the town which they believe they hold the right to, and in doing so have stirred much political debate in Israeli society. […] >>