True Mother

After losing a custody case, Maya realizes that unless she commits an extreme act, her ex-wife will disappear along with their mutual daughter, Shai-Li. On that same day, Maya shows up at her daughter’s kindergarten and takes her for some “quality time” with no intention of bringing her back. >>

Panicutopia-Desertark

On October 2015  Yael Gotman and Safi Hosh created the Desert Ark Community – a community that isn’t connected to the national infrastructures, thus creating an alternative way of life and a new vision of security, in the shape of a rock. Due to their extreme measures of security, this Utopian home soon turns into an […] >>

Inside The Pipelines

Experimental documentary film that combines video and animation. The film documents wandering around Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station. >>

Yiddishe Mama

When Zina immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union, she envisioned her son settling down with a blonde-haired Jewish girl. Her vision is suddenly shattered when Gennady announces plans to marry his girlfriend of four years, Nurit, an immigrant from Ethiopia. Now Zina attempts to prevent her son from committing what she believes will […] >>

TAZOO

TAZOO was originally conceived in order to rediscover the Tel Aviv Zoo, which operated in the heart of Tel Aviv from 1938 to 1980 and is based on the stories of the local community. The Zoo re-creation is developed using location-based Augmented Reality (AR) technology. Through this technology, visitors in the gardens surrounding the mall […] >>

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 […] >>

Town On A Wire

The Romans called Lod “The City of God”. Today, however, this dilapidated town is central Israel’s forgotten backyard, a mere 10-minute drive from prosperous Tel Aviv. Acute poverty has helped to cultivate racism, bigotry, and violence, so that many of Lod’s 75,000 inhabitants – Jewish, Muslim, and Christian alike – live in a constant state […] >>

Mirror Image

When Naomi duplicates a key for her boyfriend without asking her roommate, a war of attrition ensues. They spare no means to destroy everything in the battle to win over the apartment. >>

Hostel Jabotinsky

In the heart of Tel Aviv, between crowded parking lots and behind a pink fence, stands Jabotinsky Hostel, home to 23 adults on the autism spectrum. Adi, a staff member at the hostel, documents their lives over the years, both within the hostel and beyond it. Through her lens, a mutual relationship of trust, openness, […] >>

Rain on the Battlefield

A cinematic delirium. “Even those who have survived find out they have died, eventually” From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>

Listen to My Voice

Mother and daughter try to renew a relationship that was broken in the shadow of childhood trauma. Armed with a camera, the director returns to her childhood home in search of recognition. Between bags of clothes that her mother has been collecting for her, the generation and memory gaps are revealed. Despite the mental distance […] >>

Black to Back

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 […] >>

Li-ad

The film will focus on 8 months in the life of Liad (13) a girl on the autistic spectrum. During which she and her parents are required to choose between secular high school studies in Hod Hasharon and a religious high school in Petah Tikva – both educational institutions adapted to the disabled. Liad’s family […] >>

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 […] >>

Be Happy Tonight

Shuli and Moti are a young ultra-Orthodox couple and parents of three children. One evening they decide to change their identities and travel to the other side of town for a night out. They want to feel the freedom and temptations that secular nightlife has to offer. Slowly they start to do things their religious beliefs […] >>