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Sabrine, 32, hides her sexual identity from her mother, Souad. In the neighborhood hair salon, a casual conversation with a customer reveals her mother’s homophobic views, leaving Sabrine facing the painful possibility that this gap between them may be impossible to bridge >>

Yakantalisa

In May 1994, one of the most significant voices in the Israeli cultural scene was silenced abruptly. Hezi Laskaly, a poet, artist, choreographer, and critic, died of AIDS at the age of 42. In February 1996 a film crew set off on the trail of the words he left behind. “Yakantalisa” is a cinematic portrait […] >>

Kosher Rehab

In a Jerusalem suburb, fifteen young American drug addicts, abandoned by their Hassidic families, share both pain and great hope that Eric – another recovering addict – will save them from death. >>

Crazy

Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: The Holocaust is the central and most formative aspect of my life, and through it I am able to deal with our conflicted lives, here and now. The closer I go back to that time, the closer I come to myself, to my family, to us as a society. >>

The Interrogation

In 1946, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, the longest serving commander of Auschwitz concentration camp, is awaiting trial in a Polish prison. Albert, a young and successful Polish investigation judge, is appointed to interrogate Höss and get a perfect confession out of him. The encounter between the two men will unveil the frightening routine and banalization […] >>

Leftovers

Ruchama, an elderly and devoted wife, tries to maintain a normal life for her and her paralyzed husband in Tel Aviv. A French tourist by the name of Piere reminds her of all she has given up on for the sake of her marriage. She is swept away for a moment, but having re-discovered her […] >>

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

“Let Sleeping Dogs Lie” is a short animated dark comedy, set in a wild and crazy world where a little girl struggles to retrieve her lost dog. >>

We, People of Siemensstadt

Three characters produce a portrait of the Siemens workers’ neighborhood in Berlin, which became an open museum of the International Style buildings. A lonely worker who yearns for the good old Siemens days, a Jewish single mother who lives in a building from the Nazi regime, and a girl from a family of Ghanaian immigrants […] >>

Love Song

“people use each other as a cure for their pain…” A couple. Him and Her. One large bed. An option for attraction. He is special and beautiful, she is special and beautiful. An option for love Video dance from the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>

It Kinda Scares Me

Tomer wears two hats as both the manager of a trendy Tel Aviv coffee house and as the youth director for a group of teenagers in the small town of Azur. The film explores Tomer’s personal odyssey over a period of two years as he helps the jaded youth group members navigate moments of estrangement […] >>

Mythos

Driven by mysterious voices from the sky, Ohad breaks into his father’s house, kidnaps him at gunpoint, and drags him into a chaotic quest to fulfill the absurd fantasy he never got to realize – becoming a post-traumatic war hero. His father tries to have him hospitalized, but Ohad will do everything in his power […] >>

Believing in the Muse

For the first time ever, Zeruya Shalev, one of Israel’s most prolific writers, grants a documentary film crew access to her writing process, from concept sketches and character research, to the cover design and print release of her new book. In the course she reflects upon her writing habits, how her personal life and literary […] >>

A Working Mom

In  1990, 22-year-old Marisa Villozial left her two small children with  her parents in Bolivia and traveled overseas to look for a job in the  West. She spent fifteen years doing hard menial labor in Israel, sending  her pay home. In 2005, Marisa returned to Bolivia to reunite with her  children and family, but was […] >>

Like Our Bodies’ Imprint

A poem about love that has died. Banished without leaving a mark. But we saw it as a requiem for life. “The world closes behind us, the sand straightens itself”, these words we felt in our bodies, and not with our brains. From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems […] >>

In Her Own Home

For years Leah has been abused by her husband, who suffers PTSD (Shell Shock). One evening with the help of her little daughter she decides to change her life. >>