The French Revolution

Noni and Tamar live a quiet life with their little girl. One evening, they hear screams in the street and Noni opens the window and asks for silence. After a brief moment, they hear someone knocking at their door. Two young men, drunk and nervous, enter the room. >>

Don’t Touch My Holocaust

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  […] >>

To Die in Jerusalem

Ever since 17-year-old Rachel Levy, an Israeli, was killed four years ago in Jerusalem by a Palestinian suicide bomber, her mother, Abigail, has hardly found a moment’s peace. Levy’s killer was Ayat al-Akhras, also 17, a schoolgirl from a Palestinian refugee camp several miles away. The two young women looked remarkably alike. Through the personal […] >>

Songs for a Woman

A story of love and friendship that could only take place in the social and political reality of Israel 2005.  A surprising relationship forms between Chaim- a 90 year old jew of German descent with a speech impediment, and Sally, A transsexual woman from The Philippines, Fueled by their passion for the Hebrew language. From the Project: “A […] >>

Photonovela

A 12 year old girl, must complete a family history assignment for school. The boring task slowly becomes a sweeping drama embodying many secrets during three generations of one family, beginning before the Second World War, continuing as Holocaust refugees and ending with the fall of the collective kibbutz idealism. What does this heavy historical […] >>

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 […] >>

Three Minutes to Four

Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: Until now, only the Palestinian suicide bombers are filmed before carrying out their attacks. Here is an opportunity to meet the Israeli casualties before they die. >>

The Autopsy of Sven Svensson

A patholog’s daily routine is being interrupted when he encounters a body in his image. >>

The Garden

From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to Drifting – 1983. Robie, a gay film director, is asked by the Gay Association to direct a vampire musical in Independence Park (an old cruising site in Tel Aviv). When betrayal and lust on the set takes over, Robie’s attempt to direct the musical […] >>

Status Quo

Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: Life as a banal game; our leaders are children; the ability to press “pause” has not yet been proven, but nor has it been entirely ruled out; we hope that the ending will be pastoral. >>

After Mondrian Kandinsky & Klee

Ori Drumer’s three films, After Mondrian, After Kandinsky and After Klee present adaptations of three abstract artworks: Transverse Line (1923) by Wassily Kandinsky, Fugue in Red (1921) by Paul Klee, and Composition in Lines (1917) by Piet Mondrian. Drumer breathes motion into these paintings using 3D animation. Already in the original work, the painters attempted […] >>

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 Patriarch’s Room

“Jaffa Gate Is Ours!” screamed the headlines in 2005. Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos was accused of selling church property to Jewish settlers. He denied all the accusations. But for the first time in the church’s 2000-year history, its leader was ousted. For 11 long years, Irineos was imprisoned in his chambers. In this first-person account, […] >>

The Last Transfer

Decades after the Holocaust, many survivors still bear vivid memories of the trauma they experienced. This film follows the lives of a group of survivors who have stayed long-term in the Psycho-Geriatric Ward of the Abarbanel Mental Health Center. G. is like a robot, unable to stop working; H. continues to clean the bathrooms and […] >>

Elish’s Notebooks

82-year-old Elisheva Rise passed away. After her death, her children clear out her home, and find some journals she secretly wrote to each of her seven children, documenting 57 years from their birth to the day she died. It was her life’s work. Every evening she would sit in her home in Kibbutz Ein Tzurim […] >>