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The film follows Elroei and Dafna, a couple with cerebral palsy from birth, who have raised four beautiful healthy children. Through the publishing of Elroei’s book, his fulfillment of a lifelong dream and ten years of work, a courageous story spanning generations is revealed. One man’s “Sack of Talents”, and how he copes with life’s […] >>
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Alex has social difficulties, so writing academic essays for students is the perfect occupation for him. The outside world is strange and terrifying, and only the written word, within the realms of his home, provides him shelter. One day a young enigmatic student refuses to pay him for an essay he wrote for her, Alex […] >>
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Ella and Edik, two brothers from a traditional Bukhari family (Uzbek Jews), arrive early on the eve of a Jewish holiday, to their parents’ home in a small town in Israel. There they find their homophobic father dead and dressed in women’s clothes. While their mother is on her way home, they have to decide […] >>
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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 […] >>
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Black to Back deals with replication and imitation, as they are manifested in Youtube video comments. It is a 5 channel video installation, showing 5 women making an “Amy Winehouse Hairdo”. Together they keep spreading Winehouse’s figure through the internet, long after her 2011 physical death in. The women are “taken” out of the internet […] >>
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At birth we are tossed into a complex, demanding reality. This is our verdict. In our lives, do we get the chance to sweeten our sentence? From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>
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Inbal Perlmutter- If You Let Me Go
Many remember the evening of Rosh Ha’Shana 25 years ago, when the news announced that 26-year-old Inbal Perlmutter was killed in a car crash. Despite her young age, the rebellious rocker had already achieved fame as lead singer for Ha’Mechashefot. Her career, as well as her personal life, had been turbulent, up until the inevitable […] >>
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The Holocaust of the Jews in the former Soviet Union has remained a mystery even many decades after the war has ended. Due to ideological and political reasons, the Soviet regime did not recognize the unique and tragic nature of the extermination of Jews by the Nazis. It was only after the dismantling of the […] >>
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After being convicted of espionage, ostracized by her people, and marked as a traitor, Israeli whistleblower Anat Kamm tried to rebuild her life in NYC. She goes and graduates from Columbia University, but her past still haunts her. Unable to find employment and extend her visa, she is forced to return to Israel. In her […] >>
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The battle between rich and poor takes place on a grassy field. The town of Beit Shean’s soccer team is fighting for its life to stay in the National League. While grappling for control of the ball, the players are really engaged in a bitter class struggle. Beit Shean versus Tel Aviv, versus Haifa, and […] >>
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On a wild island live four women in harmony. A bra from different times, washed ashore on a stormy night, violates the balance of life on the island, causing chaos and destruction. The new object becomes the focus of a quarrel. “Carried away” is a parable of the immense power inherent in the female collective […] >>
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After Midnight, The City’s Darkest Secret
Alon Kastiel, a convicted sex offender, operated in Tel Aviv for a whole decade, unhindered. One Facebook post changed everything, opening up the floodgates. 17 women filed official complaints and for a moment it seemed like justice would be served, but Kastiel was convicted of lesser offenses in a plea bargain. He was sentenced to […] >>
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Rabbi Meir Kahane began his career in the USA, where he founded the Jewish Defense League. As the league’s violent activities turned into terrorism, he was forced to leave America. In Israel, he became the most radical politician the state has ever known. He united the right and the left against him, and was banned […] >>
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The film follows a day in the life of three young teens living in a neglected ghost town in post-Soviet Europe. >>
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“Little Victories” is a dramatic-comic film that tells the story of Tamar and Michal, two Tel-Avivian mothers and members of a catch-ball team, and of “Coach Moodie”, a charismatic and somewhat odd man, who is determined to release them from their net of daily battles and make them fall in love with a completely different […] >>