Elevation

From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to Lovesick on Nana Street – 1995. The Sabbath is a few hours away. Victor, a confirmed ultra-Orthodox Jew, is stuck in cosmopolitan Tel Aviv after missing the last bus home. Seeking to find his way out, he encounters a different everyday reality that evokes […] >>

End of Love Season

At the age of 75, Geula breaks up with her husband Arik, 77. A contractor is hired to build a wall that divides the family house in two, and each of them now lives in their own half. Director Shai Gal points his camera to his parents in an attempt to find out what happened […] >>

Fresh Meat

In a deserted military company, far from any jurisdiction, the midget digit is all that matters! Shechter, a newbie soldier tries every way to earn his long waited seniority. But when Levi, his company “buddy”, gets the title before he does, Shechter enters a demonic race of washing dishes to prove his justify eligibility. In […] >>

The House on Fin Street

Dina falls in love with Avinoam. She decides to abandon her mother, leave her job and relocate from the southern town of Be’er Sheba to Tel Aviv, to live with him. However, underneath the veil of what seems to be a love story, reality slowly reveals itself as a horrific play in which she must […] >>

Don’t Call Me Cute

He calls himself TRA. He is 13, and he always was a little different. People tried to tame him. They hurt him quite a bit. “I was a fat kid who loved to daydream and draw fairies instead of playing soccer, and no one wanted to play with me. They bullied me, and then the […] >>

A Love Beyond Words

Through the striking cinematography of Nurit Aviv and a soundtrack composed of beautiful chanting and haunting silence, this film explores the mystery and discretion of forty silent nuns living at the Beit Jamal monastery near Jerusalem. The film attempts to deal with the cinematic challenge posed by their very silence and incorporates texts from the […] >>

Shalal. A Reel War

While researching footage for a documentary, an Israeli archive researcher comes across a few tapes titled “Loot.” Why are they there? To whom do they belong? In 1982, The Israeli army invaded Beirut. A film archive of  the PLO’s filming unit, containing hundreds of hours of raw materials, disappeared. “SHALAL” is a story of a […] >>

Seven Double Limited

Rafi is a compulsive gambler at a crossroads. He must choose between his beloved wife and daughter and the football lottery, his life’s obsession. He is overtaken by all too familiar fantasies of wealth, the possibility of answering only to oneself and the joy of commanding the respect of others. >>

Murky Skies

In 1992 a Boeing 747 cargo flight from JFK to Tel Aviv, on a stop off in Amsterdam, crashed into an apartment block in the Bijlmer, an immigrants’ neighborhood, shortly after take-off, claiming dozens of lives and injuring many others. The official story is that a technical failure occurred after take-off. But in the weeks […] >>

LAISHA – The Story of a Women’s Magazine

Since 1947, “La’Isha” has been Israel’s top women’s weekly. This film explores the 78-year bond between the magazine and its readers. From its male-led early years and beauty pageants to its feminist evolution, the magazine provided a “room of one’s own” while fueling body image debates. Through interviews, letters, and rare archives, the film reveals […] >>

Residual Noise

A young woman’s life is forever changed as a result of a traumatic event. She loses control of her life, and begins to lose distinction between reality and illusion; until she reaches a breaking point, looking down and trying to decide whether to jump or continue living with her scars. >>

The Poetry of Non-Self

“The Poetry of Non-Self” is a short animation film that deals with moments that hold beauty, from which the sense of self is absent. It portrays the notion that this is, in a way, what childhood is like – a beautiful, moonstruck stare, which is lived moment by moment and passes in a blink of […] >>

The Prophet

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 […] >>

We Wept Without Tears

On September 1993 Israeli Holocaust historian and Auschwitz expert, Prof. Gideon Greif, arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, accompanied by six of the last Israeli survivors of the “Sonderkommando” (‘The special squad’) – the squad of Jews forced by the Germans to serve as slaves at their killing installations in Auschwitz. At the camp, these ex-prisoners reconstruct the […] >>

A Silly Song for Lia

16-year-old Jonathan, a daydreaming musician, arrives at his best friend Lia’s house to finally declare his love for her. Instead, he finds her older sister on a bad psychedelic trip caused by a broken heart. >>