Tantura

When the State of Israel was established in 1948, war broke out and hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated in its aftermath. Israelis know this as the War of Independence while Palestinians call it “Al Nakba” (the Catastrophe). This is a story about one such village: Tantura. The film examines why the Nakba is taboo […] >>

Watermarks

Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. Hakoah (”Strength” in Hebrew) was founded in 1909, in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which most Austrian sports clubs adopted forbidding the acceptance of Jewish athletes as their members. Its founders were eager to popularize sport among […] >>

Kosher Test

Tamar, an ultra-Orthodox girl from an extremist community, is taken to the hospital by her beloved father, who thinks she has had sex. Her relationship with her father and her virginity are tested. >>

A Letter to David – The Complete Version

A Letter to David is a personal cinematic letter from filmmaker Tom Shoval to David Cunio, who was abducted by Hamas from kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, and was released after 738 days in captivity. Ten years ago, David and his twin brother Eitan starred in Shoval’s award-winning debut feature film Youth (Berlinale […] >>

Hill 314

My childhood’s landscapes – the hills of Latrun. The village “Oasis of Peace”, was established on hill 314, and founded on values of coexistence, understanding and acknowledging the Other. Ibrahim, a Bedouin shepherd, has lived there with his family for 51 years. In a settlement signed in 1999 between the village and the nearby Monastery […] >>

Bear Hug

Omer is post a breakup. Trying to free himself from the memories. It is Purim Eve, Omer is wearing a bear costume. Hila, frustrated by the holiday and the people around her, tells him of her breakup. Omer stops her and says that they’re going to burn all the memories of her ex. In a […] >>

Deep Water

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 […] >>

Not a Hero

Yam doesn’t like when people tell him no. No, you can’t act on stage, no, you can’t fly with your family, no, you can’t go out with your friends for a beer. Especially not if the reason is his wheelchair. But when they tell him he can’t be drafted into the army, he sets out […] >>

Hourglass

Video-dance artwork by the poem “A man’s life is very long” From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>

Web Junkie

China is one of the first countries in the world to label overuse of the Internet a clinical condition. To combat what authorities deem the greatest social crisis for youth today, the Chinese government has created treatment facilities to detox and cure teenagers of their addictions to online life. But what starts out as an […] >>

One Eye Open

Inside the snowballing chaos of reality, a reservist soldier finds himself caught between the surrender of the self and a deepening inner crisis. A film about a widening fracture — the inner collapse of a reservist soldier caught in a war with no end in sight. Told from within, it follows the quiet voices of […] >>

Diffusion

Kinneret and Shahar, a young couple in a longtime relationship, find out that their memories and thoughts are mixed, and they do not know how to distinguish what had happened to whom. The film moves between past and present time showing the sources and results of this discovery. >>

Mirrors – A portrait of the town of Yeruham 2015

Four stories intertwine in the small town of Yeruham. Abraham the fisherman; Debi the hiardresser and a part time matchmaker; Boris and the teenagers from Mahsan 52; and Theila the blind singer.     >>

The Life and Death of Anna Lysis

Anna Lysis is a drag queen who meets different men over the course of one night. Some approach her; Some she flirts with. At the end of the night, all encounters unite and raise questions about trauma, identity, and repression. >>

Mussa

Twelve-year-old Mussa doesn’t speak, and no knows why. As African refugees, he and his parents have been living in Tel Aviv’s worst neighborhood for the past six years. In a strange stroke of luck, however, he is bussed to an uptown school every day. Leaving behind addicts and prostitutes each morning, he silently navigates to […] >>