Bad Nazi. Good Nazi

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 […] >>

HotHouse

Almost ten thousand Palestinians, designated by the Israeli government as “Security Prisoners,” are incarcerated in Israel today. Most Israelis consider them murderers and criminals, but most Palestinians regard them as freedom fighters. Granted rare permission to film inside the country’s highest security facilities, Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan shows everyday prison life, including biweekly family visits, […] >>

White Robes, Blue Jeans

The Samaritans, the world’s smallest and most ancient people, are caught between the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority. A religious community of less than 700 people, the Samaritans strive to maintain their traditions and rituals which date back to biblical times, including the Passover sacrifice. This film follows the lives of two young […] >>

Orphans of the Revolution

“A family’s story is the starting point for a discussion of the moral and political ideas (and clichés) that shook Europe and the Middle East throughout the 20th Century and still reverberate today. The story begins in the 1930s in the Warsaw Pawiak Prison where Igal Bursztyn’s mother was incarcerated for illegal Communist activities. It […] >>

Love is Blind and Deaf

Adam and Eve move in together. Only this time there’s no Garden of Eden No snake to blame and not much of a god to be afraid of.Just two people struggling to get along together, one apple and some fig leaves. Based on a new story by Jonathan Safran Foer, this short film is a […] >>

%#@!^ &*:)^%(,

Nadav Bin-Nun’s work, [%#@!^ &*:)^%(, presents an unstable world where the borders between reality and fiction, inside and outside, mother and son are blurred. Television infiltrates reality with recorded sound effects that pervade the living room, whereas the grey and bleak reality ominously and confusingly invades into the televised fiction. >>

Sonia Tsofia

Sonia meets the love of her life, Ariel, the Jewish Agency volunteer. She follows him to Israel and they start a secret relationship until Sonia has finally converted to Judaism. There are many obstacles in their path. Will Sonia find herself in Israel? The search for a Home begins. >>

One Two Home

The protagonist of the film is a girl whose home falls apart as a result of her parents’ divorce. Her buried memories are revealed through a sea of grains of sand. >>

Safecube

A documentary journey about friendship and madness in the digital age. The film follows real Facebook conversations between me and Ray over the years 2011-2012. The content of the conversations moves from a state of openness and closeness, to mutual accusations, while in the middle ,there’s a video clip for Dudu Tassa, which we must […] >>

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 […] >>

Dream

Anver Shahaf’s work, Dream, is based on a technique devised by the Surrealist Movement-the “exquisite corpse.” In this method, a group of people draws together an image of a person. Each member discreetly draws, in turn, a different part of the human body and then folds the paper over leaving only the edge of his […] >>

Mirrors

In his work, mirrors, of Shay-Lee Uziel hybridizes children’s instructional film and a film documenting an artistic action. The artist, wishing to illuminate his dark studio with a set of mirrors, shares with us his plan and dilemmas. Like many other activities, the mirror games he plays with his daughter stree the joint playful aspect […] >>

The Flat

The flat, on the third floor of a Bauhaus building in Tel Aviv, was where my grandparents lived since they immigrated to Palestine. Were it not for the view from the windows, one might have thought that the flat was in Berlin. There it was, furnished with heavy European pieces, with the best of German […] >>

My Terrorist

This is the story of a girl who dreamt of being an officer in the IDF, who was a great patriot and who was shot and wounded in a 1978 terrorist attack on an El Al flight crew in London. Now a grown woman with daughters of her own, this mother does not allow them […] >>

Nira and Sausan – Mothers

Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: “It has been a woman’s task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope. lf we are united, we may be able to produce a world in which our children and other people’s children will be safe.” (Margaret Mead) >>