Shadow of Truth: The Verdict

In the winter of 2006 13-year-old Tair Rada was found dead inside a locked toilet stall at her school on the northern tip of Israel. A week later the police arrested Roman Zdorov, a Ukrainian Immigrant, who had worked there as a temp, and eventually he confessed to the murder. But many still believed he […] >>

The Samaritan: A Biblical People

Good Samaritan laws protect do-gooders and Good Samaritan hospitals heal us. Samaritans appear in our holy texts— in the Bible, the Talmud, and the Quran. The Samaritan people today number 850 souls, down from a million in the time of Jesus. They are split between Israelis and Palestinians. The Samaritans may soon go extinct, a […] >>

Good Garbage

The Hebron Hills garbage dump serves the Israeli settlements in the area and is a source of an eked-out livelihood for 200 Palestinian families from in and around the Palestinian village of Yatta. The stories of eleven-year-old Harun, seventeen-year-old Ibrahim, forty-year-old Yusuf, and sixty-year-old Badawi, expose a daily struggle for subsistence in an inescapable reality […] >>

Six Lines

Young Max belongs to an Israeli neo-Nazi gang headed by its charismatic leader, Judah. While they are abusing an innocent black man, Max has to make a difficult decision. >>

Karaoke

The world of Meir and Tova, a middle class couple in their 60’s, is shaken up when Itsik – a pleasure seeking bachelor with a fondness for karaoke – moves into their building, causing a stir in their lives. >>

Nothing but a Jar of Oil

Tamara is 52 years old and stuck in a mediocre life. On the first night of Hannukah, she and her husband are helping their daughter prepare for her trip abroad. Throughout the night, Tamara understands just how estranged she is from her daughter and husband, and is forced to confront her menopause and the loss […] >>

Children

There are children, too, among the Palestinian insurgents. For some time now, the Israeli side has observed minors who take an active part in an Intifada, especially with knives. They are harshly dealt with: prison, hardly any judiciary support. Ada Ushpiz, filmmaker and journalist, comes surprisingly close to some of the Palestinian families concerned. She […] >>

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 […] >>

Credit for Murder

A shocking video of a double murder in Russia appeared on YouTube in 2007. The police investigation reached a dead end; two years later, director Vladi Antonevicz and his friend Dima “Shurabi” set off on a daring investigation of their own. Snooping around the darkest crevices of Russia’s neo-Nazi underground, they are determined to find […] >>

Diamonds and Rust

On the trawler, the Spirit of Namibia, moored off the coast, diamond mining goes on around the clock. The film follows the life of an international crew working in the service of a faceless mining conglomerate (De-Beers) that owns not only the ship but the surrounding waters as well. The men are drawn into contemplation […] >>

Think Popcorn

A tribute to the classic: “Man with a movie camera”/ Dziga Vertov (USSR 1929). A naïve documentary filmmaker, heavily armed with 3 cameras and a purple draped stage, sets out to roam his beloved country on his cheap motorcycle in order to bring to the screen the ultimate truth of his people. The racist and […] >>

Ahbla Espanol

The year is 2004. Fourteen-year-old Mor dreams of an unforgettable quincea?era, inspired by her favorite telenovela, “Rebelde Amor”. Her mother, Lucia, opposes it due to her traumatic past in Argentina. Mor insists and secretly organizes the celebration. When Lucia shows up unexpectedly, the fantasy blows up in her face. >>

Disco

Neri, a film student, skips school and goes to visit his father, a renowned Orthopedic Surgeon. There he finds out that his father is dying of cancer, and also sends him out to run some errands for him. During his quest, he realizes that he needs to find a way to get closer to his […] >>

A Word Required

I ran away from home last October, just when the war started. In this liminal time, I encountered both the beauty and grief of being connected and attached. >>

Debbie Was Here

Debbie Lasri celebrates her 51st birthday in a psychiatric ward. Riva, her partner, arrives at the ward with Michal, her video-therapy student, hired to make a personal video with Debbie. Michal is drawn into Debbie’s world, but her story is full of gaps. As curiosity and over-motivation become an obsession, Michal crosses the lines looking […] >>